Tom Madden and Chuck Garrett had just returned from Hawaii and were looking work as musicians in the Boston area when they got a call offering them a job. They were drinking coffee at the time, and ...

Up-and-coming rock stars once came and went from Bob’s Java Jive. Go-go dancers performed on a greased wooden stage, and macaque monkeys lived in the backroom. The monkeys have left, and the ...

Bob’s Java Jive is a bar — a dive bar, to be more specific — in the truest sense of the name. Shaped like a big coffee pot, and stained by decades of cheap spilled beer and long nights, the South ...

Bring a blanket or chairs, a picnic if you like, and come enjoy music under the stars* on Tuesday July 7, at 7 PM as the Norton Public Library starts its summer concert series with the Java Jive Band.