About two years ago, Ezra Furman gave up—first in her mind, and then, it seemed, in her body. The 38-year-old singer was nearly two decades into a prolific rock-and-roll career. Her nervy, poetic ...

Ezra Furman’s new record “Goodbye Small Head” is so detail-rich that its lyrics deserve to be printed out and annotated. Whether a listener is a longtime fan of the Somerville singer-songwriter — ...

“Everybody showed you a wall and you saw a doorway somehow,” says Ezra Furman like it’s magic or she’s a fairy godmother as she describes the ideas that informed “Strange Girl,” one of the more ...