If there’s anything folk aficionados can count on, it’s for Americana lifer M. Ward to be consistently pleasant. The musician brought his homespun, tea-and-honey live act to the House of Blues on...

I have never been so happy to be out of middle school as I was when I exited the Paradise on Thursday night after Taylor Momsen’s Pretty Reckless show. It was (naturally) an all-ages show, so come 11:00,...

Portland, OR-based folk act Horse Feathers has never before made doomsday thoughts of grief and despair sound more appealing. “Every night we all go to a house we’ll never own / Every night we are...

The name Yann Tiersen may have become household material, not for music fans, but for film buffs, as the guy who composed the soundtrack to French indie favorite Amelie. His work in classical composition...

There is nothing hidden in The Five-Year Engagement. The title itself practically gives away what is going to happen in the end to Tom Solomon (Jason Segel) and Violet Barnes (Emily Blunt). Nicholas Stellar,...

While a common adage jokes that, “if you remember the 60’s, you weren’t there,” few today, both young and old, recognize the influence of the Cambridge, Massachusetts folk scene on the musical...

On Sunday night, Portugal. The Man brought their exhilarating live show to a packed House of Blues audience. Playing mostly cuts from their latest album—2010’s In The Mountain, In The Cloud—the...

It’s not often that a concert leaves me completely speechless anymore. After most shows, I tend to find myself rambling on about the drummer’s ability to keep time or the comprehensiveness of the...

Joss Whedon, the writer and director of Marvel’s upcoming Avengers movie, recently gave an interview for college papers around America, including The Daily Free Press. Whedon has a large indie following...

With her latest project only weeks away from release, Taylor Schilling was more than thrilled to sit down with the MUSE to talk about the film adaptation of Nicholas Sparks’ The Lucky One. Schilling...

Josh Hutcherson, most recently of The Hunger Games fame, recently gave me some of his time to talk about his new movie, Detention. Detention is a mash-up genre film that features horror, high school comedy,...

By Emilia Navarro Lately, Boston has seen a variety of electronic acts dominate clubs such as the Middle East Downstairs, Wonder Bar, and, just recently, the Magic Room. But none of these clubs have...