Four more shopping weekends until Christmas. How’s your shopping going? Let’s move to music news for Saturday, December 1, 2018. Wait: Ozzy nearly died because of a bad manicure? Audio fun: Why you
Read MoreEveryone uses music to relax. But is there a way to maximize the amount of anxiety reduction? Yes, according to neuroscience. Fast Company reports that these ten songs as the best for reducing anxiety.
Read MoreAlthough there doesn’t seem to be an evolutionary reason for us to have music, it seems as if our brains are wired for it anyway. And when we listen, some interesting things happen.
Read MoreTake a close listen to Rage Against the Machine’s “Killing in the Name.” Here’s part of what you’ll hear: Killing in the name of Some of those that work forces, are the same
Read MoreA new paper on the brains of heavy metal fans that says that this music fosters “disorders of behavioral and emotional cognition” is (as you might guess) getting hammered after it was published
Read MoreI’m curious about this service called Brain.fm, which claims to offer a music stream that will help your brain do…stuff. I haven’t committed to it yet, but some people swear by it, saying
Read MoreTime for Canadian Music Week. No sleep ’til Sunday. And now, the music news for April 18. The music sales numbers for the week are out. Total album sales are down about 12%
Read MoreWhy do humans feel the need to sing? And why does singing seem to be so good for us? Tom points us to this article at UpLift: The science is in. Singing is
Read MoreStill in Western Australia, drinking a local whiskey called Limeburners. Dangerous. And now, some music news… Former Iron Maiden drummer Clive Burr has died at 56 as the result of complications of MS.
Read MoreThat headline looks like clickbait, but it actually points to some real science. In his book, This is Your Brain on Music, neuroscientist David Levitin speaks to how the brain reacts to pleasurable music
Read MoreI cannot get Twenty One Pilots’ “Heathens” out of my head. I don’t particularly like the song but it’s managed to lodge itself in my brain on a 20-second loop centering on the
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