Music makes us enjoy exercise more, finds brain study

Study co-author Marcelo Bigliassi, from Brunel University London in the United Kingdom, and his colleagues came to their findings by using electroencephalography (EEG) technology to monitor the brain’s response to music while participants engaged in physical activity. The researchers recently reported …

For a songwriter, losing a lyric book can be as torturous as mislaying a laptop with music files on it. In 2008, as NME reported, Alex Turner’s bag was stolen and it contained the notebook he was using to sketch out the lyrics for Arctic Monkeys’ third album, Humbug. It was never returned, forcing Turner to “sit …

After making a bit of a wave earlier this week when he announced that he would be changing his stage name to “SEX,” Young Thug is grabbing headlines again with an announcement that he will not be making any new music in 2018. In a short interview with Hypebeast mainly about fashion, Thug briefly …

Years or even decades after our salad days plenty of us seek out music that helps us revisit the chemically enhanced adventures of our youth. A mild audio analogue of the ecstatic trance or acid excursion seems to be a well documented effect of very good psychedelic music. But what about amphetamines …

Music has long had a place in Olympic competition. Michael Phelps was known for wearing headphones until the final seconds before jumping in the water. At the 1998 Games in Nagano, the British bobsled team repeatedly listened to Whitney Houston’s anthem “One Moment in Time” to inspire them to a …

Paul Anka, the Ottawa born singer, songwriter, and actor – who transcended the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s with hit songs such as “Diana”, “Lonely Boy”, “Put Your Head on My Shoulder”, and “(You’re) Having My Baby” – is the latest and final inductee into the Canadian Music and Broadcast Industry Awards, …

How we can design the music of our emotions … Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under Creative Commons license. … allowed us to see the connection between her movement and the music — and to juxtapose the stillness of her body with the effort revealed by the intensity of her biomusic.

“We are falling behind on streaming,” warns a nonprofit fan site devoted to pushing music by the South Korean boy band BTS up the Billboard charts, explaining that “Shazam data [is] sent to radio stations to determine which song the public is into. Hence, we need to get as many Shazams in as possible for …

Such is the setting of Maceo Plex’s cinematic music video for the DNCN-featuring “Polygon Pulse,” a song that beats darkly throughout the dystopian play, perfectly brought to life by the steampunk visuals. Neither the song nor the video is devoid of hope, though. Music plays a key role in this uncertain future …

Reverend Jonathan Arnold, dean of divinity at Magdalen college, Oxford, has written about the “seeming paradox that, in today’s so-called secular society, sacred choral music is as powerful, compelling and popular as it has ever been”. But is this a paradox? Arguably the power of this music derives from …