Author Tom Dillon

Boston’s hi-fi audio roots run deep. Companies like AR, KLH, Advent, EPI, Bose, Cizek, H.H.Scott, a/d/s/, Apogee Acoustics, Burhoe, Genesis, Snell, Cambridge SoundWorks and more have set up shop over the...

Public radio stations have long been the vanguard of organic music discovery. Beck, Lorde, Spoon, and Vampire Weekend are just a few who got their starts on public radio and have since gone on to have prolific...

In the late 1980’s and early 1990’s Boston suffered a spike in youth violence. In the summer of 1990, that violence hit its apex. The community sought various ways to curb the problem and one solution...

Editor's note: Tech Hub is a column that covers new technologies and mediums in music as an effort to encourage music-related innovation in Boston–a city with a booming tech scene. Sound of Boston aims to...

To say that the process of creating a custom set of Uvero earbuds was mind-bogglingly cool is truly an understatement. The Uvero’s are a new earbud line from Wakefield-based Lantos Technologies. The...

“We launched Amplitude way back in 2003 and not a lot of people bought that game, but the people that did, really liked it,” said the Creative Director at Harmonix, Alex Rigopulos, at the Amplitude Live...

Make music more accessible and share the love of music through education: These are the defining messages Nabi Music Center, a website and service connecting children (or anyone) with instructors throughout...

Groupmuse, the beloved Boston-startup that connects music lovers directly with musicians, classical musicians with a place to play and people to play for recently launched a Kickstarter campaign and they need...

No one wants to be tethered to the speakers at a party. Inevitably, the responsibility of playing music at a get-together falls on one or two people who spend their night making sure the music never...

Since I last spoke with the founders of the music-sharing app, Cymbal, a slew of things have changed: the app hit the app store; the team has gained funding, features, and personnel (Charlie Kaplan, the head...