Thomas Raggi of the band Måneskin performs a concert that streamed live on TikTok in 2021.
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For some musical artists, TikTok has become a beacon in an otherwise dismal digital streaming landscape.
Listening to music from a device creates a protective bubble that can counteract a lack of personal space at school or home.
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In the past, adolescents’ musical palettes were dominated by the Top-40 artists, creating a widely shared – if perhaps narrow – repertoire of musical knowledge.
David Bowie on stage at Live Aid in 1985.
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Live Aid showed charities how much celebrity involvement could raise the profile of particular causes – but also the kind of problems that associations like this can bring.
Emma Stone as the irrepressible Bella Baxter in Poor Things.
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Composer Jerskin Fendrix’s first-time film score is a hoot.
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Across the program, I was struck by how it was often more in the act of putting on and performing the work, rather than their spoken content, that expressed political responses to our times.
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Zimmer creates a sound world full of texture, personality and new timbral possibilities.
The composer’s expressionism is often compared to paintings of his friend and fellow expressionist, Wassily Kandinsky. Kandinsky’s 1925 painting ‘Yellow-Red-Blue.’
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Though composers after Schoenberg used his technique to create atmospheric music in film, Schoenberg’s own ‘Accompaniment to a Film Scene’ was written for concert performance.
The score of ‘Poor Things,’ by composer Jerskin Fendrix, is one of several Oscar-nominated scores by a composer with solid credentials in popular music.
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Using a variety of instruments and playing live music on the film set are all part of how composer Jerskin Fendrix generated brilliant sonic accompaniment for ‘Poor Things.’
Composer John Williams conducts at the Walt Disney Concert Hall opening gala, Oct. 25, 2003, in Los Angeles, Calif.
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Composer and conductor John Williams has shown for more than 60 years how music can take movies to new heights.
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 songs are arriving 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.