There were nearly 250 entries from Massachusetts to this year's NPR Tiny Desk Contest. Five panelists — Alisa Amador, Noble, Scarlet Keys, Victoria Wasylak and Amelia Mason — were tasked with choosing ...

NPR’s staple live music segment Tiny Desk has found a way to cope with the pandemic. Rather than inviting musicians to their Washington, DC office to perform short sets amid crowded bookshelves and ...

Yamaha's CS-80 is one of the biggest synths ever -- whether in size, tone or resale price. Most notably remembered for being Vangelis' go-to instrument when composing the score for Blade Runner, the ...

But that’s OK as long as the raw material is strong, and this saga of post-punk, pre-New Romantic gadget-pop was often fascinating and sometimes even thought-provoking. Not that they didn’t try to ...