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Why your brain replays the same song nonstop, explained

Your brain’s habit of replaying the same song on a loop is not a glitch so much as a side effect of how memory, reward and ...
Louder

"I said, 'I think we should write the best song in the world.' Jack Black said, ‘You can’t do that!'" How Dave Grohl, Ben Stiller, Bob Odenkirk and Maynard James Keenan ...

You’d think so, but with the help of everyone from Dave Grohl and Maynard James Keenan to the bloke from Better Call Saul, ...
American Songwriter

4 Deep Grooves by The Stone Roses That Made Bassist Gary “Mani” Mounfield a Legend

Gary “Mani” Mounfield was central to the Madchester scene and, with The Stone Roses, forever transformed the sound of British rock music.

The Legendary Beatles Song That Quietly Predicted the Band’s Breakup

Glass Onion by The Beatles subtly hinted at the band’s breakup, making it one of their most intriguing and prophetic songs.

10 famous albums with hidden sounds locked into the record

One of the most famous examples of a locked groove unsurprisingly comes from one of the biggest bands of all time. UK releases of The Beatles ' 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band ...

A Gender-Bending, Jazz Age Comedy Once Banned by Franco Arrives in Vienna

MusikTheater an der Wien will stage Pablo Luna’s “Benamor,” a rarely seen example of the Spanish zarzuela genre from the ...

Switzerland’s yodeling tradition is changing. Here’s how to experience it.

Yodeling has been practiced probably for as long as humans have expressed themselves through song. But the singing style synonymous with Switzerland and its Alpine neighbors hasn’t always been a crowd ...
The Independent

Disabled Example fan gutted after musician mistakenly calls her out during gig

Singer and rapper Example suffered a blunder during a recent gig after telling a woman to “get up and dance”, apparently not realising she was pregnant and disabled. Footage of the awkward moment was ...
TechCrunch

Alexa+ comes to the Amazon Music app

Amazon announced on Tuesday that Alexa+, its upgraded assistant powered by AI, is coming to the Amazon Music app for iOS and Android devices. The feature is currently available across all Amazon Music ...
The Conversation

Art and music therapies can be ‘life changing’ for people with disability

Associate Professor in Music Therapy; Senior Academic Fellow at Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, The University of Melbourne Grace Thompson is a Registered Music Therapist. Grace ...
Wall Street Journal

Voice Startup ElevenLabs Launches AI Music Service

Startup ElevenLabs said it has launched a new service called Eleven Music that lets individuals and businesses generate their own music with its artificial intelligence model. Users enter a prompt in ...
Time

Music: The Rise of Stereo

“Now everyone gets the best seat in the house,” says Conductor Erich Leinsdorf. “That is proper for a democracy, is it not?” The “best seat” is a living room sofa facing a wall equipped with two ...