The Music Museum of New England

The decades-long history of techno/punk group Count Zero includes almost 20 former members, many of whom were at the band’s 30th-anniversary show in April 2026, but at its core are two performers who’ve been on a musical journey together for over 40 years: Will Ragano and Peter Moore. The Boston transplants embody the city’s artistic fertility and attraction for musicians, ma...

Third Rail stood tall in Boston’s protopunk scene even before The Ramones got their first album out in 1976. Conceived by its singer and main songwriter Richard Nolan, who earned a bachelor’s in finance from Boston College, studied mortuary and embalming services and was a professional mortician for much of his adult life, the band served as a vehicle for performing and recor...

He’s been one of the most in-demand engineers, mixers and producers for over 40 years, so you might think that Joe Chiccarelli’s discovered some “ghost in the machine” that only the most tech-obsessed studio wizards can summon. Actually, though, his approach is less about technology than it is about eliciting a certain gut reaction in listeners, he says. The key to getting a ...

Woo-woo! From the late 1950s through the mid-1960s, that sound meant one thing for radio listeners in and around Boston: It was time for Arnie Ginsburg’s Night Train show on WMEX. In addition to the train whistle sound that earned him his  nickname, not to mention t...

As one can deduce from their nearly identical names, Lowell Memorial Auditorium and Worcester Memorial Auditorium are alike in many ways. For example, both are in Massachusetts cities that helped the United States become a global economic powerhouse ...