During the first weeks of 1993, Pixies frontman Black Francis unceremoniously ended his band via fax, leaving the mantle of Massachusetts’s most beloved college band temporarily vacant. The Kim ...

Conway, 65, passed away on Sunday (Dec. 19) after a long fight with cancer. By Gil Kaufman Billy Conway, former drummer for jazz-rock band Morphine and beloved Boston rockers Treat Her Right, died on ...

At a Morphine tour stop in New Orleans during the ’90s, sax player Dana Colley snapped a Polaroid of a busking Jeremy Lyons and tossed it in his guitar case. Years later, finding himself displaced by ...

Boston trio Morphine were a unique band, using the blues as a base but going in new directions thanks to their lineup of Mark Sandman’s one and two-string slide bass style, Dana Colley’s baritone ...

Where do musicians go after their popular bands cease to exist? More specifically, what are their choices when the key person in that band — the main singer-songwriter — is no longer part of the mix?

Twenty years after Morphine released Like Swimming, the Boston trio's major-label debut, a newly discovered show from the band's 1997 tour will commemorate the record's anniversary as a limited-run… ...

It’s been more than 17 years since the death of Mark Sandman and the end of the band he fronted, Morphine – one of the greats in Boston music history and an original for its much-described “low rock” ...

The Night is the last Morphine album, released in 2000, posthumously after the tragic on-stage death of frontman Mark Sandman. And in some ways, the album is the band’s most fully realized work. Like ...

MORPHINE drummer Billy Conway passed away at 65 after a long battle with cancer, 22 years after the band’s singer Mark Sandman died on stage. Conway’s bandmate Jeffrey Foucault confirmed the drummer’s ...