Each week Tom Whitwell of Music Thing highlights the best of the new music gear that's coming out, as well as noteworthy vintage equipment: The Williams Keytar V-1 was first shown at NAMM in January, ...

Rumor has it that the keyboard icon that folks saw at the end of the Green Day: Rock Band demo for Rock Band 3 is not for a keyboard but a keytar. Yeah, our mouths hit the f**king floor too, and not ...

There won’t actually be a keyboard peripheral sold with the game; instead there will be a keytar-like instrument supported. For those who didn’t listen to much ’80s music, a keytar is a sort of ...

Ahead of the National Association of Music Merchants show (NAMM), Alesis has announced the second generation of its legacy keytar, the Vortex Wireless 2. The MIDI keytar controller, which has 37 ...

Pianos and keyboards can be huge beasts, meaning that players are often set to one side of the stage behind the front line of guitarists, bass players and vocalists. Not always though. Edgar Winter ...

Keytars, almost by definition, are charmingly goofy. How could they not be? They're wearable pianos that lend themselves well to pageantry. Racks of meticulously prepped synths come with a sort of ...

All it took was an old keytar and a withered bear costume to launch one local man into underground celebrity stardom. If you have the Internet, ride the MBTA, or know people in Boston, then it’s ...

We knew that Keytar Bear, the unofficial musical mascot of the city, was going to hibernate for a while this summer, but we had hoped it would be on his own terms. According to the keytar-playing man ...

The late, great musician Prince, who died Thursday morning at the age of 57, was a multi-hyphenate performer -- a Grammy and Oscar-winning singer, songwriter, actor, and iconic rock performer who ...

On this week's All Songs Considered, we listen to some great new electronic music. These days, there's a flood of creative electronic sounds, both danceable and laid-back. We've seen this flood of new ...

WORCESTER — The keytar playing bear that has taken the streets of Boston by storm will be making the journey to Worcester in September to play at stArt on the Street. “The impact of Keytar Bear can be ...