Jamming out at a concert puts music front and center in a person’s life, but only for a moment. Most of the time, music serves more as sonic wallpaper, spicing up the background while we go about the ...

In a study by two researchers at University College London, 10- and 11-year-olds were asked to write an “exciting” story. Some wrote while listening to exciting music—"I Spy, The Looking Glass" (a ...

Patrick Caoile is a freelance writer for Collider. While he calls New Jersey his home, he is now pursuing a Ph.D. in English--Creative Writing at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. When he's ...

Tracy Chapman is an American singer-songwriter with four Grammys under her belt. Her song "Fast Car" gained renewed popularity this year after Luke Combs' cover of the song went viral. Chapman is now ...

Sharing music used to be a lot harder (remember burning CDs?). In the age of streaming, though, sharing music is as easy as sending a text—and it’s implicit to the way Gen Z listens to music. Gone are ...

Every so often, Mike Isaac swerves from his Silicon Valley beat to write about bands. Credit...Mark Wang Supported by By Mike Isaac Mike Isaac is a technology correspondent for The Times based in San ...

"Accessible" can be a dirty word in contemporary classical music. For decades, composers have outfitted their works with gnarly tangles of complexity, and heaven forbid if there's a tune you can hum.