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23/04/2022

Dear Evan’s anthems: why the West End smash hit’s songs stir the soul

The breakout musical has won itself legions of fans in recent times. Here, the West End production’s musical director and one of its stars discuss why the show’s compositions have been such an important part of its success

12/04/2022

Keep Your Rhymes Interesting

Here are some tips you can use to avoid boing rhymes in your songwriting

12/04/2022

Singing in the Brain

Researchers have identified a population of neurons in the auditory cortex that responds to signing, but not any other type of music.

11/04/2022

Why do major and minor chords in music affect us the way they do?

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts

10/04/2022

PlayStation announces Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is getting a major collection of all its classic games that is coming to PlayStation consoles.

10/04/2022

Jackie Sibblies Drury on race, creativity and the legacy of Mary Seacole

The new play by the Pulitzer-winning writer of Fairview links the story of the pioneering Jamaican nurse in Crimea to female carers across history

09/04/2022

Great expectations - Music helps us understand how the brain works

In a new article - published in the leading international journal Nature Reviews Neuroscience - researchers at the Center for Music in the Brain at Aarhus University and the Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus/Aalborg, Denmark, have reviewed the past 20 years of research in music and the brain. In the ar...

09/04/2022

NFTs: The next major broadcast industry disruptor?

Tom Angell explains why he believes NFTs are well placed to usher in a new paradigm of content funding, creation and consumption

08/04/2022

'Triplets': A look behind the lens of the photographer who spent decades capturing the Dallas Cowboys

“It’s the most famous photograph in Cowboys history — they tell me that,” Ron St. Angelo said of the photo dubbed "The Triplets."

08/04/2022

Bill C-11 will ensure that Canadian creations and productions have an important place on our airwaves and screens. Please take a few minutes to support the future of Canadian content

Bill C-11 will ensure that Canadian creations and productions have an important place on our airwaves and screens. Let's do this!

08/04/2022

Is Jerusalem the play of the century? Top playwrights give their verdicts

As Mark Rylance returns to the West End stage as the rambunctious Rooster in Jez Butterworth’s shaggy state-of-the-nation play, six writers consider its power and legacy

08/04/2022

“The beginning of a new paradigm for understanding the brain”

In an article published in eNeuro, fifteen leading scientists of the European Human Brain Project (HBP) outline how a new culture of collaboration and an era of digitalization has transformed neuroscience research over the last decade.

08/04/2022

Music Production: You Are Smarter Than You Think

For everyone who seems interested in being a music producer and finds such a venture rather daunting and intimidating, this article has been curated just to help you navigate through its supposed difficulties and help you see, that you are smarter than you think.

07/04/2022

Vaccine Resistance Comes From Childhood Legacy of Mistrust

DURHAM, N.C. – Curious about why some people have been so passionately, often angrily, opposed to vaccination against the COVID-19 virus, a team of researchers with access to rare and unusual insights into the childhood forces that shape our adult lives thought they’d try to find out. “We had ...

07/04/2022

Tracking Trends: 'TikTokifcation' of female musicians causes controversy between fans, musicians

Some Phoebe Bridgers and Mitski fans discovered these artists’ music through TikTok, but some believe this has reduced their art into a “sad girl” stereotype.

05/04/2022

Jenny Hval: Classic Objects review – dreamlike songs and metaphysics

The Norwegian’s unshowy electronica and lush lyrics complement each other on this intriguing slow reveal of an album

04/04/2022

Araya's new album 'Ethos' meets at the intersection of R&B and electronic

03/04/2022

New Research by iStock Finds That Two Out of Every Three Women

Ahead of International Women’s Day, iStock, a leading ecommerce platform providing premium visual content to SMBs, SMEs, creatives and students everywhere, has released research revealing that two out of every three women globally (66%) are still experiencing bias, with the top reason being due to...