The Hollywood Reporter's newest "Person of Interest" is the 31-year-old singer-songwriter who isn't looking to just make music but is hoping to create change in the country music space. By Carly ...

Are acoustic features of music and spoken language shared across cultures? Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen have contributed to a global study of music and ...

Among Nashville's many busy singer-songwriters, none may currently be going through as prodigious a process of making and releasing music as Kelsea Ballerini. The Grammy nominee and Country Music ...

For the better part of the past decade-and-a-half, Laura Marling has been releasing albums at a prolific pace, becoming one of the most acclaimed singer-songwriters from the British “nu-folk” scene in ...

It may be the mind’s function to create patterns out of chaos. And maybe I’m accustomed to chaos, because Hopscotch ’11 didn’t feel all that chaotic. Still, out of the 135 bands, I believe I caught ...

Would Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance or Debussy's Clair de Lune have sounded the same if the composers had been born in different countries? Probably not, according to researchers who have found that ...

Those saxophone lessons in second grade may still come in handy. Learning might come easier to those who understand music, according to Professor Emeritus Olin Parker, who teaches the Psychology of ...

Folk music is in Laura Marling’s blood. The English singer-songwriter’s mother taught music and her father, a guitarist, ran a recording studio and introduced her to his instrument in her first few ...

It’s easy to forget given the music’s room-rattling bluster, but dynamic variety is as impactful in metal as any other genre. Without quieter, more atmospheric moments to provide contrast, the violent ...

Are acoustic features of music and spoken language shared across cultures? Researchers recorded themselves performing traditional music and speaking in their native language. In all 50+ languages, the ...