Companies like Sonicware produce competitively-priced hardware for other specific tastes – ambient, lo-fi, you name it – and sample-packed ROMplers from the likes of, well, ev ...

The Elovaters have a way of making even the coldest corners of the map feel a little warmer. Since breaking through in 2018 with their Billboard-topping reggae album Defy Gravity, ...

Now Hear This is a monthly A&R column that provides you with exciting new sounds we discovered through the innovative new ...

The city is once again getting ready to celebrate the start of a new year.  First Night Northampton will return to downtown Northampton this year on Wednesday, Dec. 31, from 12 p.m. to 12 a.m., with ...

Not All Travelers Walk Roads,” the 36th edition of the exhibition, sees art as a guide for connecting with one another and ...

From wellness workshops and creative pop-ups at The Yards’ Fresh Start Series to live music, art exhibits, pottery classes, ...

Everything old is new again. Dinosaurs walk the stage. A 15th-century yuletide pageant is the basis of a modern local church tradition. A classical instrument gets looped and sampled. Impersonators of ...

Some of the best music released in 2025 was put out by bands that are not well-known nationally. You may not have heard of ...

We’ve reached the finale of this year’s #1 hits ranking series, and we’re ending on one of the strongest Top 5s of the whole ...

Several notable talents in music, television, film and pop culture died in 2025. On the first day of the year, Wayne Osmond, ...

Sting kept the hit train rolling after leaving The Police. These are his five biggest smashes in the US as a solo act.

Think about the music pumping through your headphones right now. Where did it actually come from? Every beat, every guitar ...