The Music Museum of New England

Nearly two decades before the The J. Geils Band, Aerosmith, 

In 2005, Anand Nayak of Acoustic Guitar called her “fearlessly emotive” and likened her songwriting skills to those of Leonard Cohen, Gillian Welch and Bob Dylan. In 2012, Nick Coleman of The Independent referred to her a...

For years, many music-loving Western Massachusetts residents considered the Green River Festival one of the area’s best-kept secrets. It certainly started out that way in 1986 when WRSI, a then-fledgling radio station with studios in downtown Greenfield, was approaching its five-year mark and some people there thought it’d be fun to mark the occasion with a public birthday pa...

Stephen Martin began his musical career as a singer-songwriter on the hard-nosed mid-’60s Worcester, Massachusetts folk scene. He wrote his first song, “When I Was Young,” at age 16 and his first instrument was the ukelele, from which he transitioned to baritone ukulele and guitar. “I enjoyed performing as part of Worcester’s great music scene,” he says. “There were [and stil...

Did they burn out or did they rust? Did they jump or were they pushed? Did they sell out by cashing in? When it comes to The Del Fuegos’ fast-forward rise and slow-motion fall, the answers to those questions are debatable, but one thing is not: During their 15 minutes of fame in the ‘80s, they were among the most rollickin’ examples of bare-bones power pop at its punchiest.