As noisy and overwhelming as New York City can be, Tony Schwartz saw beauty in the chaos of his home, and turned its ...

As one of the most groundbreaking instruments ever created, the Fender Stratocaster was so far ahead of its time that nobody has yet caught up with it.

Sounds from the 1980s appear in modern pop songs all the time. Everyone from Lady Gaga to Taylor Swift has made hits with the vintage synths and drum machines that defined the neon decade. Chasing ...

Ever wonder what your dog is trying to say? Well, a University of Texas at Arlington researcher is aiming to turn barks, ...

For decades, ecologists have listened to the underwater world using sound recorders. These devices capture rich soundscapes ...

40 or so years after the genre’s creation, the many subgenres of house — piano, gospel, acid, progressive, future, Afro, etc.

By Jon Winkler Though F.W. Murnau’s film “Nosferatu” dates back to 1922, it still remains one of the most acclaimed and ...

A collection of quick thoughts on the many, many PC games I saw and played at Gamescom (but never managed to preview in full) ...

John Calvin Abney calls it “spiritual archaeology.” Every record he makes, he says, is a kind of excavation—digging into ...

When you’re birding by ear, you use the same skills as when you’re recognizing music; listening to sounds, patterns, changes in pitch, in tone and in volume, but in nature rather than in music. You ...

The absolute best songs by classic rock band Led Zeppelin include "Stairway to Heaven," "In My Time of Dying," and "Kashmir." ...

Does walking influence how people process sensory information, like sounds, from the environment? In a new JNeurosci paper, ...