On the cover of his latest album Magic, Nashville based singer-songwriter Ben Rector defies gravity with  a Juno keyboard in tow. What kind of keyboard? A heavy one. It’s a fitting portrait of the man currently hauling his piano around the co...

In 1998, Chris Macek and a friend made an album titled “Why?” on Chris’ computer in Rockport. They made some CDs and handed out copies of the homemade effort around their high school. The album’s liner notes said “Recorded at Barron Studios.” “The...

The Beans are back together. They are breaking up. Five years after releasing their self-titled debut album, they returned last week with their on the nose titled sophomore effort The Beans Breakup. A day after its arrival, band drummer Brendan Ha...

It’s a Thursday night in 2014. Downstairs at Fitzgerald’s, electro-pop trio BLSHS removes all vowels from their name and replaces them with an electrifying set filled with 808 drums, dark synthesizers, and keytar-playing, hair-flipping lead singer...