The Pointy End
Music Festivals Are Environmental Disasters
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- Monday, 26 August 2013
Beyond good vibes and heady memories, a primary export of U.S. music festivals is garbage.
Haven't I Heard This Song Before?
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- Monday, 26 August 2013
"Songwriters have borrowed from each other, played off each other. People have claimed the right to songs in the public domain,". This is part of the art of pop."
How Old Are Your Ears?
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- Wednesday, 21 August 2013
Most of us never could hear frequencies higher than what the MP3 file can play (20 kHz), and as we hear loud noises, we lose hearing.
In music, the eyes matter as much as the ears
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- Wednesday, 21 August 2013
A new university study about the importance of the eye in appreciating music shows that the classical music world has to stop believing in the fairy-tale that 'only the notes matter'.
Musicians Use Beta Blockers as Performance-Enabling Drugs
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- Tuesday, 20 August 2013
Anyone who has had to give a speech at a wedding or deliver a Powerpoint presentation at the office knows the symptoms: sweaty palms, racing heartbeat, even nausea.
Nigeria: The Rise and Rise of Porn Music Videos
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- Tuesday, 20 August 2013
Every day, scores of pornographic music videos by Nigerian artistes besiege the market, plague the airwaves and flood the internet.
Jazzbros: A Force for Jazzgood or Jazzevil?
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- Tuesday, 20 August 2013
Last month, the critic Nate Chinen wrote a column in JazzTimes that has roiled the jazz blogosphere.
Swiss launch competition to find new national anthem
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- Monday, 19 August 2013
Thousands of Swiss people will soon be racking their brains for words that rhyme with Alps, cuckoo clocks and chocolate, after the country launched a search for a new national anthem.
We don't like unfamiliar music, even though we claim we do, study finds
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- Tuesday, 23 July 2013
We are constantly bombarded with a seemingly limitless amount of new music in our daily lives. But why do we keep coming back to that one song or album we couldn't get enough of in college?
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