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Some people say there’s a decline in music video quality since both the significant sums of money and MTV moved away fro…

M.I.T. researchers have devised a radical approach to brain imaging that reveals what past studies missed about neural responses to music.

Kickstarter and other crowdfunding sites have become part of the standard financial circuit for musicians of all types, with releases edging closer to the mainstream.

Innovation isn’t all hard work or dumb luck: It’s about paying attention.

Frank Zappa's 1985 Senate Testimony In Defense Of The First Amendment

Podcasts hold the promise of a great new democratized medium. But how many blogs do you read now?

The past decade has rendered the music industry unrecognizable. Digital music is king and songs are purchased (and created) in the cloud. Faster computer processing and affordable hardware allow professional recording tools to be available to all. Artificial intelligence has produced albums, scored films, and generated mood music in games. So where does a historic recording studio like Abbey Road fit into this evolving industry?

The clever trick that some cord-cutters use to save even more money on streaming television.

The digital world has a downside, too.

British art-pop singer-songwriter Imogen Heap has signed a worldwide agreement with Downtown Music Publishing, as both parties to the deal explore new ways of administering royalties for all songwriters and artists.

Filtering what’s happening in music to save you time, money and effort.

When you listen to music, multiple areas of your brain become engaged and active. But when you actually play an instrument, that activity becomes more like a full-body brain workout. What’s going on? Anita Collins explains the fireworks that go off in musicians’ brains when they play, and examines some of the long-term positive effects of this mental workout.

What do Adele, Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran and Sam Smith have in common? Most of the buyers of their albums are female, according to an article by Hannah Karp in the Wall Street Journal based on data from a number of market research firms. While this info is probably no surprise [...]