The Music Museum of New England

Meghan Trainor came of age in the thoroughly digital early 2000s but she’s likened to tunesmiths of the thoroughly analog early ‘60s for a thoroughly obvious reason: her songs are a hook-filled mix of melodic pop, bubblegum pop, doo-wop, R&B and blue-eyed soul reminiscent of tunes penned in the Brill Building. She’s a far cry from what you’d call a “retro act,” however, s...

For over three decades, the world’s most prestigious film festivals bore witness to a sonic revolution. As silent images flickered to life, a three-piece ensemble sat in the shadows beneath the screen, breathing modern vitality into century-old celluloid: Alloy Orchestra, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based trio that fundamentally transformed the art of live silent film accompan...

“Livin’ On My Hair.” “Walk With an Erection.” “Keep Your Glands to Yourself.” Ask most people to name who wrote and recorded those songs and they’d likely say “Weird Al” Yancovic, the singer-songwriter-accordionist whose parodic twists on popular tunes – “I Lost on Jeopardy,” “Like a Surgeon” and “Eat It,” among others – have cracked the Billboard Hot 100 on a regula...

Cornelius “Johnny” Hodges was born in 1907 at 137 Putnam Avenue in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the youngest of four children. Today, he’s generally regarded as the second most important alto saxophonist in jazz history, behind only Charlie Parker.

He moved with his family to Boston’s South End, where his father found jobs more plentiful at the Back Bay railroad station (...

Though it may come as a surprise to some, a number of artists from New England have made quite a name for themselves in the cradle of country music, Nashville, including Jim Rooney,