Buying headphones can be an investment, and cheap models can struggle with clarity, detail, and balance. Here's why your ...

Originally a resource for sheet music, Flute World expanded into a business and resource, concentrating on flutes.

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Ana Gonzalez and cellist Yo-Yo Ma about their new podcast Our Common Nature from WNYC, which ...

While many are aware the pacemaker is a WNY innovation, not everyone knows the kazoo has a local origin. The instrument just ...

High-end in-ear monitors often walk a fine line between technical ambition and emotional engagement, and the FlipEars Arion ...

Sound Check is the Globe’s weekly guide to concerts, tunes, and trends rooted in Boston and beyond. This column covers Nov. 28-Dec. 4. Jimmy Lim, an assistant professor at Berklee College of Music, ...

In 1956, Johan K. Louw, a missionary of the Dutch Reformed Mission School at Dowa in the then British African colony of Nyasaland (now Malawi), expressed one wish: to see his African flock praising ...

Labyrinth of the Demon King is one of my top games of the year, a first person survival horror delve into Feudal Japan. Part of its appeal lies in the oppressive, stressful music and sound design by ...

Dendê Macêdo plays a berimbau made from a broom, a bell, a coconut and a spring during a performance of his Recycled Sounds workshop at St. Edmond’s Home for Children. Dendê Macêdo drove his silver ...

The average American throws out almost 5 pounds of solid waste each day. One local musician aims to reduce waste by giving trash a second life. Dendê Macêdo plays a berimbau made from a broom, a bell, ...

The iconic shower scene in Psycho was originally supposed to play out without music. Instead composer Bernard Herrmann created “The Murder”: as the killing transpires, violins shriek and scream along ...