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New Sounds: Through a new vortex of drum & bass, the Boston DJ and producer aims to deliver art without a login or a price tag.

The one-day festival aims to provide a platform for Boston-area rappers, DJs, and R&B acts, while also destigmatizing cannabis use.

A playful debate between Cudi and the genre-jumping Boston musician racked up more than a million impressions on X.

Nearly 40 musicians will perform in Salem this weekend to raise money for the North Shore non-profit NAGLY.

Local organization Save the Harbor/Save the Bay created a competition that merges environmental advocacy with racial justice. Using sounds recorded on the beach in Revere, local DJs will have a chance to produce mixes for cash prizes, studio equipment and exposure.

From Alisa Amador to Wayup Rui, the project fuses the original work of six DJs and 17 artists from Greater Boston.

The best local albums of 2020. (Courtesy of the artists) In 2020, nothing was as before. So we did what we always do in times of crisis: we sought solace in music, and escape. And while many Massachusetts artists struggled to make ends meet in an industry brought to its knees by the pandemic, it is reassuring to look back on the year and see that, amid so much loss, we gained some beautiful things. Here are our critics’ favorite local albums to emerge from a year like no other. The tumultuous...