The Pointy End
How Pop Culture Wore Out Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’
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- Tuesday, 20 September 2016
Leonard Cohen’s ballad “Hallelujah” has become so inescapable that the songwriter once asked for a break from his own track. “I think it’s a good song, but too many people sing it,” he told the Guardian in 2009, agreeing with a critic who asked for “a moratorium on ‘Hallelujah’ in movies and television shows.”
Asteroid Freddiemercury and 12 other peculiar things named after pop stars
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- Tuesday, 20 September 2016
An asteroid has been named after the late great Queen singer Freddie Mercury to honour what would have been his 70th birthday on 5 September.
Careless whisker: Universal to release album for cats
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- Monday, 05 September 2016
They are a particularly tough audience – picky, moody, often impossible to please – but cats represent an untapped music market, according to one of the world’s biggest record labels.
Infographic: Musicians Killed by Guns
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- Monday, 05 September 2016
Guns. They’re the tragic link between John Lennon, Marvin Gaye, Kurt Cobain, Tupac and Biggie.
Is Pop Music Addicted to Hand Clapping?
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- Monday, 05 September 2016
Everyone knows how to clap their hands, but no one thinks clapping is cool.
What Killed the Jingle?
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- Monday, 05 September 2016
Marketing ditties once had a distinctive, hokey sound, but today’s advertisers have ditched them for standard pop songs.
Expo 2015 and the Choral World
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- Monday, 05 September 2016
This event, which is held every five years, is assigned to a different city each time and gathers together the best that the various countries of the world have to offer on a specific theme.
Music is Medicine: Using Art Therapy to Repair Pathways in the Brain
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- Monday, 05 September 2016
Christine Blue was not expected to survive. After a car accident left the Cleveland area clarinetist in a coma, her doctors weren’t sure she’d even wake up, much less return to her new job as an elementary school band director.
Music & Your Mind Are More Linked Than You Think
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- Tuesday, 23 August 2016
Is jazz for intellectuals? Punk for creative non-conformists? Country for hard-working, easygoing folk? How interwoven is our love for music with our personalities, really?
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