Three years is a perfectly respectable amount of time to wait between projects, but the announcement that Natalie Merchant is embarking on a summer tour still has the feel of a comeback. It'll be the ...

In all the ’90s retrospectives that have been going around lately, not too many people have been talking about 10,000 Maniacs, the hugely popular early-’90s college rockers, or about frontwoman ...

Being that we’re neck-deep in the Indie-Rock Reunion Era, I’m shocked that singer-songwriter Natalie Merchant hasn’t yet gotten back together with 10,000 Maniacs – the New York band she rose to fame ...

Natalie Merchant — the acclaimed folk artist who, for 12 years, was the lead singer of the 10,000 Maniacs — has long been inspired by her surroundings. When she joined the band in 1981, she was just ...

At the start of a recent interview I reminded Natalie Merchant it’s been 36 years since our last conversation. I’ll never forget the diminutive lead vocalist of 10,000 Maniacs grabbing my hand and ...

Natalie Merchant has been absent from 10,000 Maniacs for longer than she was a member. But when the band takes the stage at Rialto Theatre next Thursday, Oct. 11, it will seem like she never left. In ...

That lush, layered contralto voice can belong to only one person - Natalie Merchant, the one-time lead singer of 10,000 Maniacs, the multi-platinum creator of "Tigerlily," the environmentalist, film ...

After spine surgery left her unable to sing for 10 months, the Gen X icon is touring again with her first album of new music in nine years It’s an unseasonably cold day in upstate New York, and ...

Natalie Merchant performing outside on an extra-buggy night in Minnesota: What could go wrong? As she reached down the front of her dress to free an insect that had kamikazied down it Monday night at ...

This Dec. 8, 2018 photo shows Natalie Merchant performing at Cyndi Lauper’s 8th Annual “Home for the Holidays” benefit concert in New York. Merchant is the sixth recipient of the John Lennon Real Love ...

Watching Natalie Merchant perform, as she did as part of FUV’s Holiday Cheer benefit concert two years ago, is to witness a thing of beauty and grace. Merchant has complete control of the warm, ...

The Highwomen, James Brown and yes, the Cranberries. View million-dollar art for auction at one of New York’s auction houses, visit a minimalist retrospective upstate or relax to the new albums of ...