Ben Maitland-Lewis interviews Boston-area recording studio owner Dan Cardinal at the Jamaica Plain Music Festival. The Backbone Network’s control panel is on the computer screen. BOSTON — The Jamaica ...

A message from Editor-in-Chief Tom Finkel: This industry is changing, and we can no longer solely rely on advertising revenue to move us forward and accomplish our goals. If you value independent ...

Drum sampler plugins? There are loads. Drum synths? Almost as many. Drum resynthesizers, on the other hand, aren’t quite so common. That’s what Steinberg is giving us with Backbone, though; this new ...

They looked like rock 'n' roll Vikings, what with their long red beards and even longer hair. Either that or an Appalachian motorcycle gang. But who spells Thor with two r's? Apparently, Valient Thorr ...