Sound Check is the Globe’s weekly guide to concerts, tunes, and trends rooted in Boston and beyond. This column covers April 18-24. What’s a walking tour about Boston rock doing in the Back Bay Fens?

“I didn’t want it to be like, ‘Oh, let’s go down memory lane and stay there,’” says Straggas, whose résumé ranges from directing “Love Is Blind,” a documentary about an orphanage for visually impaired ...

In 1969, Boston’s Tom Scholz was holed up in a flooded basement in Watertown, Massachusetts, making music on equipment he engineered himself. Little did he know, the rough notes he was crafting on a ...

Jeff Conolly, frontman of The Lyres and DMZ, died at 69 after battling bladder cancer Conolly founded The Lyres in 1979, and the band released 11 albums over four decades of activity Fellow musicians ...