Sometimes my love of a film score is directly connected to my love of that film. For example, I was totally spellbound when I ...

Great minds, we’ve been led to believe, think alike. And cracking young artists, it would appear, hail from New South Wales’ Central Coast. Ninajirachi and Boy Soda are two of those cracking artists ...

“Music festival and summer tour planning season is upon us. To help you and your text group decide on where you want to go and who you want to see this summer, we hit up some of our favorite music and ...

This essay first appeared in the NPR Music newsletter. Sign up for early access to articles like this one, Tiny Desk exclusives, listening recommendations and more. Last week, as I mindlessly scrolled ...

If you enjoy guessing songs, challenging your friends, and making a party out of it, you probably know about SongCapsule Quiz. If you don't, it's my favorite music trivia app. With update 1.2, the ...

On Wednesday, Spotify announced new features designed to showcase the people behind users’ favorite music, including producers, engineers, songwriters, background vocalists, and more. The company will ...

A new study has found that listening to our favorite music and the emotional responses it produces, particularly if it’s bittersweet, is more effective at reducing our perception of pain than ...

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I was surprised that my favorite music streaming service has a playlist called Sad Songs. I wondered: Why would anyone want to listen to a bunch of sad songs? I assumed that sad songs make you sad, ...

In a study published in Frontiers in Pain Research, researchers showed that emotional responses to relaxing and favorite music predict hypoalgesia. Study: Emotional responses to favorite and relaxing ...