When Empty Bottle opened in 1992, the venue quickly earned a reputation as a “cat-ridden hole-in-the-wall bar.” While some things have stayed the same (there’s still cheap drinks and a house cat, Peg, ...

Back in 2020 — around the time the world went to shit, pandemic-style — former Cymbals Eat Guitars frontman Joseph D'Agostino released the self-titled debut from his new project Empty Country. The ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Country music's top entertainers kicked off the Academy of Country Music Awards with a medley of their hits from three empty music venues around Nashville after the show relocated ...

Making and hearing music in public is inherently social, and the mysterious alchemy of a live show — of sharing the same vibrating air — can’t be replicated at home. By Jon Pareles Empty rooms. Empty ...

This is a documentary about John Mellencamp that features no actual interviews with the supposed subject. It’s a concert film where the directors chose to leave the “sound guy” at home, as he would ...

The usually tourist-packed Berkshires confronts a season without the music festival that anchors its summers. By Melena Ryzik LENOX, Mass. — André Bernard was three months old when he attended his ...