Music! Understanding our emotional responses to songs, lyrics, and chords. Music is the shorthand of emotion. –Leo Tolstoy Music has the ability to evoke powerful emotional responses—both chills and thrills—in listeners. And this capacity is universal. Why are we moved by music? How does music evoke emotion and pleasure? The followings describe key features [...]
James CridlandFollow I am a radio futurologist, at https://james.cridland.net - and I run https://podnews.net — the daily podcast news website. May 27 A radio. Or a smart speaker. Or something. I rather like this tweet, from the UK industry group Radiocentre, which does a very good job of explaining radio’s multiplatform nature: It’s [...]
Thirty years after his death, the creator of the classic Pride anthem You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) is the subject of academic symposia. Not bad for a drag queen who was ‘just trying to get on to the radio’ On a sunny Thursday afternoon, the theatre at the University of Sussex is playing host to [...]
Like a modern version of a medieval minstrel, a singer named Jess Magic is helping A-list entrepreneurs get in touch with their inner child in private “songversations.” Jess Magic, far right, guides her spiritual disciples at Soul Salon. CreditZak Krevitt for The New York Times To Chad Mureta, a Silicon Valley app guru, the [...]
Bless this acid house: dancing in face masks and white gloves. Photograph: Matthew Smith/Rex/Shutterstock It was the year I got my first job, the year I broke up with my boyfriend, the year I flew to Barbados and met Imran Khan on a beach, but of all the crazy life-changing moments, none had more impact [...]
The luxurious 'Anything Can Happen Suite' at Ushuaïa Beach Hotel By Johnny Lee In the 2010's, the impact of higher quality hotels, led by Ushuaïa, changed the Ibizan landscape permanently. In this feature, Johnny Lee turns away from clubs and looks at how increasing accommodation standards might impact behavior. Last summer global travel [...]
ByJordan BassettMay 31, 2018 12:55 pm Concrete jungle where dreams are made of Credit: Rex Features story of the day The Big Apple, the city that never sleeps, the big place in America that’s not LA. Whatever you call New York, it’s sure produced its fair share of amazing records. Here are 13 of our [...]
EMI Music Publishing owns or administers more than two million songs, ranging from contemporary artists like Drake to classics by Queen, Carole King, and the Motown catalog.CreditRichard Perry/The New York Times By Ben Sisario Seven years ago, Sony entered a complex deal with Abu Dhabi for control of the EMI Music Publishing catalog, a trove of [...]
Vocalist Amanda Cruz during a project recording session for Bring Down the Walls. Photograph: César Martínez In 1986, British artist Phil Collins (not the singer, but the Turner prize-nominated artist) was 16 years old when he first attended his first acid house party, and he noticed two things upon stepping inside the Haçienda nightclub in Manchester – [...]
