As Black History Month gets underway, let's take a moment to appreciate a very special group of artists who are being celebrated on sheshreds.com in a post titled "7 Guitars That Prove Black Women Were Pioneers In Music History."

NPR

Sérgio Santos Mendes is the man who brought Bossa Nova, Samba and Musica Popular Brasileira to the world. But this is only the simple version of a story that started exactly 80 years ago.

The Berlin Spectator

Much of what distinguishes New Orleans today from other American cities can be traced back to French and African influences from Haiti.

NPR

As expected, Diane Warren and the team of Trent Reznor. Atticus Ross & Jon Batiste won Golden Globes in the music categories.

Billboard

Qui sont les pays les plus influents, musicalement parlant ? C’est ce que révèle une étude allemande, qui vient de paraître.

France Musique

Last year, Victorian production manager Jenny Moon attended the funerals of half a dozen people from the music industry who took their own lives or died because of mental health-related issues.

ABC

In 1984, a mere 6,000 music albums were released in the UK. Today, streaming services make available a similar volume — 55,000 new songs — every single day.

Financial Times

Monetization of an artist’s craft has always been a tricky issue. It is also a bifurcated one: Very few top names earn big money and the vast majority just get by, if even that.

Arab News

Hundreds of K-pop releases have been removed from Spotify worldwide as the streaming platform continues to try and reach an agreement with distributor Kakao M.

NME

Les Daft Punk referment 28 années d’une carrière hors normes - artistiquement, mais aussi côté business. Plongée dans les comptes très secrets du duo mythique.

Capital

It’s never too early to start your child’s journey to music aficionado. These audio gems can help.

The New York Times

The Central European country of Hungary has long been famous for its musical achievements. And now, the Kodaly method, a music education system developed there, is gaining popularity in China.

CGTN

Music education is more important than many seem to think, and it is high time schools around the world recognize this fact.

The Daily Campus

Peut-on apprendre à faire du piano en autodidacte à l'aide des tutoriels ? Si l'on en juge par la multitude des dispositifs en ligne, et leur multiplication depuis les confinements, on peut même y arriver en 24 heures. Info ou intox ? Décryptage.

France Musique

Tocar este u otros instrumentos despierta la inteligencia y desarrolla capacidades cognitivas, según los expertos.

ABC Edu

A periodical devoted to the study of a long-dead European music theorist is an unlikely suspect to spark an explosive battle over race and free speech.

The New York Times

This year’s report documents an analysis of 978 acts of violations of artistic freedom in 2020 in 89 countries and online spaces. 17 artists were killed, 82 were imprisoned and 133 detained.

Freemuse

References to George Orwell and Aldous Huxley are not exactly what one expects to hear in a pop song, least of all in the Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan where the political scene has been dominated by one party for almost three decades.

Reuters

Le journaliste britannique Joe Muggs est un chroniqueur essentiel de la musique électronique de ces dernières années. Dans Bass, Mids, Tops, il revient à travers une série d’entretiens sur une histoire méconnue, celle des sound-systems au Royaume-Uni.

Libération

El dúo de Gente de Zona, los cantautores Descemer Bueno y Yotuel Romero del grupo Orishas, y los raperos Maykel Osorbo y El Funky, lanzan una canción que desafía al gobierno socialista cubano.

Semana

In this round-up, we recap the biggest and best news of February 2021, giving you a comprehensive overview of announcements, product releases and new freeware you might have missed.

Music Tech

Clubhouse is many things to musicians and music pros: a virtual music conference with endless panels, a marketplace for promoters of bands and brands, a jam session, musical theater for the ears, and a late-night hang.

Forbes

Spotify suggested that it could promote personalized content – presumably audio advertising content, but also perhaps music and podcast content – to users based on the personality traits it detected in them.

Music Business Worldwide

Quand l’absence de public permet un film aussi beau que "Quinte et Sens", on ne boude pas son plaisir. Mais pas sûr que cette réussite soit aisée à reproduire.

L'Echo

La producción musical actual no se explica sin el uso de ‘softwares’ específicos que permiten componer y plasmar en la música las ideas más creativas.

La Vanguardia

Certain musical tones and melodies have proven to elicit calming responses in animals. Learn how music therapy can benefit your pets and patients.

DVM360

When the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and screenwriter Suzan-Lori Parks was little and her parents put on Billie Holiday records, they often offered a vague editorial as accompaniment.

The Los Angeles Times

Une nouvelle étude australienne confirme, images à l'appui, comment la pratique du chant participe au risque de contamination. En pleine pandémie de Covid-19, chanter est-il encore possible ?

Diapason

Las personas tienden a ser extremadamente nostálgicas ante la música que escuchaban cuando eran jóvenes. Si usted fue adolescente en la década de 1970, es probable que le encanten Queen, Stevie Wonder o ABBA. Y si era joven en la década de 1990, seguro que Wannabe, de las Spice Girls, probablemente todavía le lleve a la pista de baile.

The Conversation

What we have here are seven 30-minute tracks consisting of nothing but the sounds of Lego bricks bashing into each other in a wonder cascade of noise.

A Journal of Musical Things