It has been more than four years since Phish last played a show, but next Wednesday their music will once again be bouncing around the room at the Cavern Club in Boston's Hard Rock Caf'eacute;.

In a time when celebrities are spinning their publicity for beneficial causes like finding a cure for AIDS or saving Darfur, Death Cab for Cutie is no exception '-'- using their influence on teenagers to promote political activism and encourage voter registration.

There are few people in the world who can control the emotion of a crowd '-'- from body-shaking elation to almost tearful captivation and back again '-'- all in two hours.

Oasis shoves their greatness into the faces of all the fans that gave up on them after their long string of mediocre albums with Dig Out Your Soul.

The Kings of Leon's latest release, 'Only by the Night,' in stores Sept. 23,' is, stylistically, miles away from their first album 'Youth & Young Manhood.'

'And my soul's been psychedlisized,'' read A Place To Bury Strangers frontman Oliver Ackermann's T-shirt, as he unassumingly sauntered on stage at the Paradise Lounge Tuesday night and began to tamper with his vast array of home-made distortion pedals.

All right, so she kissed a girl. Yeah, it's a little trashy and reeks of 2002, but as long as she doesn't have ink on her lower back, Katy Perry can't be written off just yet.

By Amy E. Greenberg From the depths of Boston University, the sounds of steel being shaped and welded can be discerned. The man behind the face shield and blow torch is Sergio Castillo, a visiting professor...

By Karen Berman Bodies, voices and drums blended and exploded with frenzied energy as the Boka N'deye Pan African Drum and Dance Company brought "Festival Africaine!" to Hayden Hall Saturday night. Performing...

By Paul Dobbs Hoping to set up what Steve Barboza called "a mirror in front of black people," about 35 students established the BU Black Drama Collective Monday night, in a meeting at the George Sherman...

By Shaik Fatima The "Dynamos Umoja Concert,'' composed of Black drama, music and poetry, which was held in the GSU Conference Auditorium Friday under the sponsorship of the M.L.K. Afro-American Center...