L-R: Mike Skinner, Ray Davies, James Smith of Yard Act and Lady Leshurr.
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Social and literary realism have long detailed people’s everyday lives – and they have been a staple in popular music for decades.
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Research suggests that music therapy can help support people before and after a loved one’s death.
Wax figures of the Beatles in Madame Tussauds Berlin represent the pop stars in their youth — the two surviving members, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, are in their 80s.
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Artificial intelligence helped produce the Beatles’ 2023 hit “Now and Then.” But despite the sophisticated technology, the song reveals our obsession with the past and our anxieties about the future.
Beyoncé and her husband, Jay-Z, at the 66th Grammy Awards on Feb. 4, 2024, in Los Angeles.
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Her new album, ‘Cowboy Carter,’ arrives at a moment when country music’s reputation as overwhelmingly white is finally starting to crack.
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Informal learning is linked with increased numbers of students choosing music at GCSE.
Bradley Cooper as composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein in ‘Maestro.’
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Mahler’s inventive modernism and highly expressive writing communicated emotions shaped by his fascinating late-19th century life.
Megan Thee Stallion, Freddie Mercury, Monie Love and Roxanne Shanté.
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Looking back at the history of the diss track, it is the strength of female emcees that stands out.
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As their debut album turns 50, we look back on Kiss’s larger-than-life career – and forward to what might come next.
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Groovin’ the Moo is the latest in a long line of Australian music festivals to be cancelled. It is the new normal in our age of ‘deep uncertainty’.
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With ticket prices rising alongside demand, live concerts can be a major investment.
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The best love songs strive to keep things as simple as possible.
It took George Gershwin just 10 days to pen the American classic.
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The work remains a crowd favorite. But more and more scholars are starting to see ‘Rhapsody’ as a whitewashed version of Harlem’s vibrant Black music scene.
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Thanks to algorithms, our music choices have gone from being informed by radio, music press, magazines and TV shows to a fine-grained level of personalisation.
Planets can gravitationally affect each other when their orbits line up.
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Orbital resonance is kind of like musical harmony, but systems that display it are far more rare than songs with harmonic melodies.
Joel performs at New York City’s Madison Square Garden in 2015.
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In 1993, Joel sang, ‘These are the last words I have to say.’ What changed?
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Listening to music, though, doesn’t have the same benefits.
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To understand the changing nature of music listening, I interviewed users of streaming services about how they listen to music.
The Cable Street Mural by Dave Binnington Savage, Paul Butler, Ray Walker and Desmond Rochfort (1979 – 1983).
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This is the story of how music became a battleground in the 1980s and 1990s, as antifascists fought fascism with guitars and microphones.
A crowd gathers around the organ at St. Burchardi Church in Halberstadt, Germany, to witness an October 2013 note change.
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The new note will be sustained for a relatively ‘brief’ two years.
Shakira en un concierto de Rock in Rio en septiembre de 2019.
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AI can predict the success of artist collaborations, with implications that could go far beyond the music world.