music

Is Old Music Killing New Music? - The Atlantic Old songs now represent 70 percent of the U.S. music market, according to the latest numbers from MRC Data, a music-analytics firm. Those who make a living from new music—especially that endangered species known as the working musician—should look...

Music Aids Mental Health: Science Shows Why - Mad in America Peace, joy, healing. You can see it, plain and powerful, in the faces of those who make music on the path to recovery. You can hear it as they speak of music’s role in their journeys out of psychiatric darkness and into the light of...

It looks like a saxophone but plays 512 notes — many you’ve never heard before - Experience In 2017, Subhraag Singh was on a flight from his home in Stuttgart, Germany, to Atlanta, wondering if anyone else could hear the music in his head. It had come to him in his dreams — this amazing...

What was the best year for music? - BBC From the swinging 60s to punk, acid house to Britpop, everyone has a favourite era in music. But is there a single year where rock and pop peaked? Maybe it came with The Beatles' mould-breaking sonic experiments of 1968, or the mid-80s purple patch...

How to Really Listen to Music - The Paris Review During my hour-long commute home from work, when I’m too tired to even listen to podcasts, I listen to music. More often than might be healthy, I listen to Lana Del Rey, as she cycles through her doomy refrains about how her life is over, she’s...

A silent disco or silent rave is an event where people dance to music listened to on wireless headphones. Rather than using a speaker system, music is broadcast via a radio transmitter with the signal being picked up by wireless headphone receivers worn by the participants. Those without the...

How A Mongolian Heavy Metal Band Got Millions Of YouTube Views - NPR A band from Mongolia that blends the screaming guitars of heavy metal and traditional Mongolian guttural singing has picked up 7 million views for its two videos. Leather jackets, skull rings and bandannas alongside...

So we went to see the Red Hot Chili Peppers. They put on a great show.

Sabroso concert, taco, and beer festival on Doheny Beach, in Dana Point, CA. Wrestling Beer Concert, band Pennywise on stage