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Hitting the Books: How music chords hack your brain to elicit emotion
In their new book "Every Brain Needs Music," Dr. Larry S Sherman and Dr. Dennis Plies, a music professor at Warner Pacific University, explore the fascinating interplay between our brains, our instruments, our audiences, and the music they make together.
Andrew Tarantola05.21.2023
Apple now helps you discover concerts in Maps and Music
Apple now helps you find hot concert venues in Maps, and find upcoming shows in Music.
Jon Fingas05.16.2023
Sonos is ending support for local file playback on Android
Sonos will soon end support for a feature that allows users to stream files stored locally on their Android devices directly to its speakers.
Kris Holt05.15.2023
Google opens up access to its text-to-music AI
Google is offering anyone the chance to try its text-to-music AI, which is called MusicLM.
Kris Holt05.10.2023
A robot puppet rolled through San Francisco singing Vanessa Carlton hits
In 2002, pop star Vanessa Carlton and her piano "made their way downtown" through Newbury Park in Los Angeles. Twenty-one years later, a team of hobbyist roboticists have brought Carlton’s music to the streets of San Francisco.
Andrew Tarantola05.09.2023
Spotify reaches more than half a billion users for the first time
Spotify added 26 million users in the first three months of 2023, 15 million more than it had expected.
Kris Holt04.25.2023
Boss' Gigcaster mixers are designed for live music streaming
Boss has unveiled audio mixers that are tailor-made for livestreaming music.
Jon Fingas04.20.2023
AI-generated Drake and The Weeknd song pulled from streaming platforms
Universal Music Group said the use of AI-generated voices mimicking Drake and The Weeknd on "Heart on My Sleeve" was a copyright violation, but things aren't so clear cut.
Igor Bonifacic04.19.2023
Spotify will shut down 'Heardle' on May 5th
Spotify has confirmed it will shut down 'Heardle' early next month.
Kris Holt04.14.2023
Lofi Girl is back and she made a synthwave friend
Lofi Girl is back with a new friend.
Igor Bonifacic04.14.2023
The Mario theme joins your old tweets in the Library of Congress
The Mario theme is one of 25 recordings joining the National Recording Registry this year.
Kris Holt04.13.2023
Apogee's latest Jam interface has a built-in analog compressor
The JamX has three three analog compression presets to help you shape your tone.
Kris Holt04.11.2023
Lofi Girl is at the center of a very relaxing mystery
Jade, the face of the Lofi Girl YouTube Channel, went missing on Monday.
Igor Bonifacic04.11.2023
YouTube will livestream all six Coachella stages this year
For the first time, YouTube will have live streams of all six Coachella stages this year.
Jon Fingas04.03.2023
Spotify's Niche Mixes let you generate personalized playlists for almost anything
Spotify already offers a host of personalized playlists, and now the company is giving users even more control over the generation of those mixes.
Igor Bonifacic03.28.2023
Apple Music Classical arrives on March 28th
Apple's standalone streaming option for classical music is coming this month, no additional subscription required.
Billy Steele03.09.2023
Aimi's app for listening to AI-generated beats arrives on Android and iOS
Following a beta that saw just 5,000 people get a chance to use the software, Aimi’s iOS and Android app is now available to all.
Igor Bonifacic03.09.2023
7710077100Bowers & Wilkins Pi7 S2 review: Excellent sound only goes so far
Bowers & Wilkins once again delivers the outstanding audio quality we’ve come to expect from the company, but the Pi7 S2 is far from perfect.
Billy Steele03.08.2023
Spotify debuts its TikTok-style music discovery feed
After months of testing, Spotify is officially debuting its vertical scrolling TikTok-style feeds for discovering new music, podcasts and audiobooks.
Billy Steele03.08.2023
Spotify is testing exclusive playlists for NFT owners
Spotify is experimenting with a feature that requires owning an NFT to listen to some playlists.
Jon Fingas02.23.2023