Music is both a brain and a body experience—illness can impair this experience, while music can be a means to treat illness.

The simplest way to ensure your music streaming sounds as good as it can be is to enable the highest-quality format you can ...

Listening to a variety of musical styles is good, but not before you appreciate your roots, Colombian tropical-pop fusionist Carlos Vives said. "Actually, it's not always good to listen to so many ...

Complaints about the emerging genre may have to do with the discomfort with monoculture surrounding it. The first time I taught Music History I, a student came to my office worried about an upcoming ...

A fascinating new study has shed light on the phenomenon of using sound for pain relief. Using state-of-the-art brain-imaging techniques an international team of researchers has uncovered the neural ...

No historical evidence exists to tell us who sang the first song, or made the first rhythmic sounds that resembled music.

A lot of folks got a new set of Apple or Beats wireless headphones or earbuds for the holidays, only to discover that things don’t sound as good as expected when listening to Apple Music. If that’s ...