People with musical anhedonia, a rare inability to enjoy music, are teaching scientists how the brain processes songs. In February, a pop-up science column, Annals of Inquiry, is appearing in place of ...

Though some of us prefer Apple Music and others prefer Spotify, we all have soft spots for the artists and genres that get us through our busy lives, accompanying the wide array of experiences we ...

Imagine a scene from the movie Jaws, with the great white shark closing in on another helpless victim. The iconic semi-tone ...

There are songs that can transport us to memorable moments from our past, especially from our adolescence. Those memories are often vivid, conjuring up intense feelings about a first love, a broken ...

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?

When I was a teenager, my dad wasn’t terribly interested in the music I liked. To him, it just sounded like “a lot of noise,” while he regularly referred to the music he listened to as “beautiful.” ...

While on her recent tour, Icelandic singer-songwriter Björk expressed her distaste for the current state of the music industry in an interview with Variety, claiming streaming culture has ruined the ...