The fires in Australia have been so devastating, so world-changing, that they demand our attention. Scenes of burned animals being taken for treatment, watching the flames burn out of control has made us all weep for the land down under. As with most tragedies — hunger, Hurricane Katrina, tsunamis, Darfur — music is always ready…
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Album Review – ‘1999’ (Remastered) – Prince
The vault creaks open a little more. Over the past two years, we’ve heard Prince by himself with a piano, experienced his original songs that he gave to others, and marveled at the unreleased songs we heard on the Purple Rain reissue. Now, it’s time to experience 1999 all over again. Prince’s estate is being less…
Science Says the Beatles Created the Perfect Pop Song
The Beatles continue to astound even science, 50 years after they broke up. The group’s song “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da” has been christened the “perfect pop song,” according to scientists at the Max Planck Institute in Germany. According to Consequence of Sound, researchers analyzed 80,000 different chord progressions from 745 songs recorded between 1958 and 1991. They…