UpNext Boston

01/15/2023

There will be a soft opening on Saturday, followed by a more official reopening on Wednesday, Jan. 18.

09/07/2020

Boston restaurants that are closing forever...

08/21/2020

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When we mourn the death of Boston rock 'n' roll, we erase other musical histories -- and lose sight of what's happening right in our backyard.

06/29/2020

The Ladybug Festival begins tonight. Log in and support Women in Music!

The largest celebration of Women in Music goes digital on June 29th and June 30th with over fifty acts and so much more. Get your tickets and get involved!

06/19/2020

A crowd-sourced list of Black artists on Bandcamp.

06/09/2020

We're updating a list of live musical performances from around the world, categorized by date and genre.

06/09/2020

Legendary jazz pianist Bud Powell "met with a sad twist of fate that dramatically altered his life and career. Only 20 years old, Bud was brutally beaten by police” for being ‘drunk and disorderly.’ After the incident, Bud was neurologically damaged from the attack and was eventually institutionalized for several months.”
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Despite his mental instability, drinking and a habit of ‘wandering aimlessly, Bud was still able to play the piano and rose to fame and critical acclaim.
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But then Bud was hit on the head with a bottle in a bar fight in the 1940s. Because of his existent psych record he was sent to an institution for nearly a year and underwent 40 treatments of electro-convulsive therapy, which was new and unrefined at the time. As Jackie McLean recalls, "He was so messed up when he came out...I think they experimented on Bud."
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Per Psychologist Willie Garrett “Research studies have shown that even today, black patients seeking treatment for mental illness are often given more severe diagnoses than their white counterparts. And medical professionals have been accused — often accurately — of using psychiatric medications in an attempt to control behaviors that they deem threatening or difficult....Memories of historic abuse of trust in psychiatric relationships combined with modern rates of misdiagnosis and overmedication mean that many African-Americans have good reason to be suspicious of mental health care”
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Hospital psychiatry has made great progress to being more humanistic, culturally sensitive and trauma-informed. Yet at this moment of reckoning, Powell’s story reminds us of the work it needs to continue to do alongside the other societal systems in which it exists.
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Thank you to for some of this info.
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