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Shakira was scheduled to take the stage at Boston‘s Fenway Park today as part of her Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran tour. Leading up to the show, she shared Instagram Story posts expressing her excitement and teasing appearances from Will.i.am and Wyclef Jean. But hours before doors opened for the …

West Hollywood’s Outloud Music Festival is coming to the East Coast. Rolling Stone can officially reveal that Kim Petras and Trixie Mattel will headline the first-ever Outloud Music Festival in Boston on June 21 at the Stage at Suffolk Downs. “OUTLOUD understands the assignment: queer talent, great music, and hot …

I grew up in a bohemian household in Southern California where icons of the literary, film, and music worlds would often converge. On any given evening, there might be a noted author in our living room reading something they’d just written, or a titan of the fine arts drinking whiskey …

Think of the most iconic bands associated with the exploding U.S. indie-rock scene of the 1980s, and who comes to mind first? R.E.M., Dinosaur Jr., Sonic Youth, and the Pixies, perhaps? Salem 66 were peers to all four of those groups. They shared a label with Sonic Youth, a recording …

Ed Sheeran popped up at a Boston Irish pub to perform a surprise acoustic set in front of a celebratory St. Patrick’s Day crowd on Monday night. The British singer-songwriter was backed by a fiddle and an accordion, in addition to other band members of the Irish folk band Beoga …

Perhaps you’ve heard that Matt Damon is from the beautiful city of Boston. True story! So are his friends and professional colleagues the Affleck brothers — Casey and the other guy — and they seem to like to going back and filming in their hometown whenever possible. Watch these guys …

Boston Calling has responded to complains that certain areas of the festival seemed overcrowded this weekend. In a statement released on Tuesday, the festival assured attendees that while the official count was “several thousand” below capacity, they’d work to make sure people feel safe in the future. “We deeply appreciate …

Kids have always talked to their stuffed animals. In Ted, the bawdy teddy bear fantasy that has yielded two R-rated movies and now a new prequel series on Peacock, the furry beast talks back, often in a four-letter flourish, always with the delivery of some out-of-time Boston vaudevillian. He also …

In 1962, Loretta McLaughlin, a reporter at the Boston Record-American, noticed a small item buried on page five of a local paper. It detailed the murder of a woman who had been found strangled in her apartment. Something about this seems familiar to McLaughlin, who digs through some old clippings …