Local All-In-One Vinyl and Stereo Player Redefines “All” Tom Dillon November 28, 2017 Featured, Tech Hub 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...
VuHaus Expands Reach of Public Radio Into Video Content; Adds WGBH’s Front Row Boston to its Ranks Tom Dillon December 19, 2016 Featured, Interview, News, Tech Hub 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...
Zumix: The Intersection of Youth Development and Music Tom Dillon November 9, 2016 Interview, News, Tech Hub 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...
Vote The Lineup: Crowdsourcing Live Music Tom Dillon August 15, 2016 Featured, Tech Hub 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...
Uvero Earbuds: Custom Earbuds Courtesy of MIT-developed 3D Printing Process Tom Dillon March 10, 2016 Featured, Tech Hub 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...
Harmonix Celebrates Launch of Amplitude, Remake of Original Cult Classic Video Game Tom Dillon March 2, 2016 Events, Featured, Tech Hub “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...
Nabi Music Center: Making Music Education More Accessible Tom Dillon February 12, 2016 Columns, Featured, Tech Hub 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 Kickstarter – Saving Classical Music One Get Together at a Time Tom Dillon December 2, 2015 Featured, News, Tech Hub 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...
Qup: Reinventing Playlist Collaboration Tom Dillon July 30, 2015 Featured, Local Spotlight, Tech Hub 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...
From Anthem to Cymbal: Three Months Can Change A Lot Tom Dillon July 24, 2015 Columns, Featured, News, Tech Hub 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...