Maggie Rogers had a breakthrough moment when she was a student at NYUâs Clive Davis Institute. Pharrell Williams visited to her class, and when he heard her song "Alaska," his reaction was dramatic, a...Show More
The quality of "cool" in music has deep roots in the evolution of the brain.
Beatboxing began as an imitation of a drum machine, but over the decades it has evolved as a means to emulate any number of percussive sounds. Now beatboxing is being studied by scientists who are fas...Show More
Four years ago, on November 24, 2014, the first episode of the podcast Reply All came out. Itâs a podcast about the internet hosted by Alex Goldman and PJ Vogt. And since then, theyâve put out 131 epi...Show More
Baby Shark is an megaviral YouTube video, an unstoppable earworm, a top 40 hit, a Eurodance smash, a decades old campfire song, and the center of an international copyright dispute. This month on Deco...Show More
How the muggle and wizarding worlds collide in the Harry Potter theme.
The song âClosing Timeâ by the American rock band Semisonic came out in March 1998. It hit #1 on the Alternative charts, and was nominated for a Grammy for Best Rock Song. It gets played in stadiums, ...Show More
In the U.S., paparazzi are pretty much synonymous with invasion of privacy. But today we travel to a place where the prying press create something more like a prison break. K-pop is a global juggerna...Show More
LANGLEY, VIRGINIA, 2011: The Scorpionsâ song âWind of Changeâ became the soundtrack to the end of the Cold War. But decades later, New Yorker investigative journalist Patrick Radden Keefe heard a rumo...Show More
There are few musical moments more well-worn than the first four notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. But in this short, we find out that Beethoven might have made a last-ditch effort to keep his musi...Show More
Lo-Fi hip-hop has emerged as a hugely popular genre and internet subculture. Its millions of loyal fans rely on curated lo-fi playlists and live-streams to write to, study to and even fall asleep to. ...Show More
Dr. Indre Viskontas uses her unique background in neuroscience and as an operatic vocalist to explore how some music can elicit a physical reaction. This talk was filmed at TEDxSanFrancisco. All TEDx ...Show More
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Highly highly highly recommend this episode. It was incredible to hear from Maggie Rogers how she created her song Alaska over years of cumulative life experiences. I had to rewatch the video of her ...Show More