Traveling to Minnesota with Pearl Jam and everyone along the way

Another year, another Pearl Jam road trip, with the band and the surroundings delivering once again.

CONCERT REPORTS

Springsteen and the E Street Band play for those here and gone at Gillette Stadium
Bruce Springsteen was his revelatory self in Foxboro, Mass., paying tribute to all those who have helped him take part in this journey through the years.

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss cement their unique musical path at Thompson’s Point
Plant and Krauss capped the U.S. leg of the Raise the Roof tour in the scenic surroundings of Portland's peninsula.

Reentering My Morning Jacket’s orbit in Boston
After too many years away, it was great to be blasted by a My Morning Jacket live show again.

Crossing borders and making connections with Pearl Jam in Québec
A spur-of-the-moment decision to venture north lead to a memorable night of music in Canada français.

VOICES

Back at the shack with Robbie and the Band
I can never overstate how much Robbie Robertson and the Band meant to all of us, just as we were trying to find our own voices.

Completing the experiment: Looking back at Pearl Jam’s massive Mansfield show, 20 years later
Twenty years later, the reverberations from Pearl Jam's four-hour marathon in Mansfield are still felt.

All the lightness and everlasting weight of Alice in Chains, unplugged
A belated and necessary tribute to an album that remains as important as any album could.

Marching through time with Led Zeppelin
An exercise in listening to nothing but this band for a few weeks. It was not a chore, I must stress.

REVIEWS

Queens of the Stone Age step out of the darkness with In Times New Roman...
Josh Homme and company have emerged from these troubled times with an absolute masterpiece of an album.

Council Skies is Noel Gallagher at his retrospective best
As if on cue, Gallagher looks back and delivers an album that shines a light on the path beyond all this.

Hitting a new peak with the Allman Brothers Band on Hittin’ the Note
In 2003, Gregg Allman and company went into the studio and pulled another classic record out of the air.

Sonic Youth moves from noise to atmospheric jams and back on In/Out/In
It's been too long without new music from Sonic Youth. And even if everything here is more than a decade old, it's still a thrilling listen.