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Here’s a simple question with a complicated answer: Who invented music? The answer is “No one knows.” We don’t know who was the first to sing a song or the first to conjure music from some kind of ...
Gloria was originally recorded by Van Morrison and Them, A decade later, a poet caught up in the early days of NYC punk covered it for her Horses album in 1975. The provocative opening–“Jesus died for ...
Back from a week’s vacation to offer up another set of Five Songs You Must Hear to keep you ahead of your friends when it comes to music discovery. 1. Halsey, Amy Lee & Evanescence, Hand That Feeds ...
The benefits of music therapy are well-documented. Some new research also suggests that music may have anti-ageing properties. Because music gives the entire brain a workout, it seems to boost our ...
I don’t get a lot of submissions from Newfoundland, so I was interested to hear about Tunchelli from St. John’s. They describe themselves this way: “Tunchelli is an independent artist from St.
WATCH: Denzel Washington surprised with honorary Palme d'Or at Cannes film festival. A major power outage struck southeastern France on Saturday morning, threatening to jeopardize the Cannes Film ...
Everyone occasionally gets a song stuck in their head, but the frequency you suffer from them appears to depend on whether you’re male or female. Stuck Song Syndrome (also known as Involuntary Music ...
It’s right there at number eight on the list of commandments Moses had downloaded onto his tablets: “Thou shalt not steal.” If it’s not your stuff, leave it alone. You can’t just take something ...
Coming out of Cardiff and with a new self-titled album due on July 18, Panic Shack’s latest single was inspired by “the title of our inspiration playlist on Spotify when we first started the band.
Most of us probably go through a phase where we decide we want to make music for ourselves. Maybe we’ll do it alone, or perhaps we want to be part of a band. The first thing you need to do is decide ...
About ten years ago, a data scientist analyzed 222,623 songs by 7,364 metal bands. Using the techniques of natural language processing, he was able to identify the words most often used in metal songs ...
The best years of The Prodigy began on June 30, 1997, when they released the brilliant Fat of the Land album. When it rocketed up the charts and as The Prodigy began to dominate the newly christened ...