Interview with Michael Franti, who specializes in eclectic mix of hip-hop, alternative rock, reggae, folk and jazz. He and band Spearhead play the Eastern on May 13.

London-based folk/Americana singer-songwriter Merrick Winter shares his long-awaited, poignant sophomore EP, The California Zephyr.

Jeff Bridges has had his share of epiphanies, but few arrived as accidentally as Slow Magic 1977–1978, a lost-and-found ...