Pile is the kind of band that inspires people to do crazy things, like start a record label or write a concept record about it. At least those are two of the more outlandish examples we have so far.

The genius oddballs of the Boston post-hardcore-ish band Pile practice in a labyrinthian brick building that takes up a full city block of a busy artery in Brighton. There are windows visible from the ...

Rick Maguire -- otherwise known as “Rick From Pile” -- has been spending a lot of time on his own. When I called the 31-year-old frontman last month, he answered from a cabin in Ellijay, GA, where ...

No two Pile albums are alike, and that’s what makes hitting play on a new one so exciting. Those first few notes open a door to a new world, one that could only be created by frontman Rick Maguire.

There are some bands that happen to be from Boston, and there are other bands that become so influential within a certain niche that their Boston-ness starts to seem like a defining feature. Over the ...