It must have been so easy to write about rock back in the 1950s. Well, comparatively easy to today, I mean. Everything was so new that that’s all you had to pay attention
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There have been many, many studies showing that listening to metal can be good for your mental and physical health. But when it comes to the right music when you’re cramming for a
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Podcasting is still in growth mode as more people get into on-demand listening. But what are we listening to? Edison Research conducted a survey to determine the most popular genres of podcasts and
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It’s been a long, long time since there’s been anything normal about how music has been made, performed, recorded, and consumed. Chances are that we’ll feel the effects of COVID on music for
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[More summer encores. New shows begin the weekend after Labour Day. Rest assured, though, I’m already working on them, too. -AC] Humans have already tried to make sense of the universe by putting
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I’m trying to imagine what it might be like to design an Amazon warehouse. A typical fulfillment centre covers at least a million square feet and features zillions of kilometres of shelving. And
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A company called TickX commissioned a survey of 35,000 musicians from around the planet and compared their country of origins to the genre of music that comes from that country. The result was
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Secondary ticket seller VividSeats took a look at how the mix of music is changing at some of the big American events. If it seems as if rock acts are being supplanted by
Read MoreSince the birth of rock’n’roll in the 1950s, music has evolved, separated, stratified, and segmented into so many different streams. Today we’re faced by innumerable genres, sub-genres, sub-sub-genres, and sub-sub-sub-genres. Some, like metal, goth,
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In order to make sense of the universe, human beings have always needed to put things we encounter into neat piles. We do this with music, of course, by classifying songs by genre
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Streaming is changing everything about the way music is distributed and consumed. I find this new psychology of music fans fascinating because streaming shows what happens when everyone has complete autonomy to choose
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