Clockwise from top left: Tim Atlas and honeywhip, Ensemble Mik Nawooj, Skeggs, Lost Horizons, Pino Palladino and Blake Mills, Paul Leary and Thad Cockrell. It’s a new dawn, a new day, a new year and lots of new music. As outdoor dining and other businesses finally opens up in…

Ernest Hemingway’s 1927 short story “The Killers” is an understated, subtle and tense tale of two hitmen in a diner. Most of the story’s simmering emotion is buried in lines of clipped dialog coming from men with unreadable faces. Imploding the Mirage, the new album from The Killers, is…

Since his Grammy-winning 1986 debut, The Way It Is, Virginia pianist Bruce Hornsby has ridden the line between a musician’s musician and chart-topping songwriter. From his forays into bluegrass and gospel funk, to getting sampled by 2Pac and a stint in The Grateful Dead, Hornsby’s taste matches his technicality. On…