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Wired: 10 Essential David Bowie Songs to Remember the Iconoclast DAVID BOWIE, WHO died Sunday at the age of 69, released more than 20 ...

Tech Times: The Turntable Is Alive And Well: Sony Unveils Direct-Drive PS-HX500 To Battle Panasonic’s Technics SL-1200 The turntable i...

Why Rock Music 'Brings Out The Animal In Us' -- The Telegraph Rock music such as Jimi Hendrix-style electric guitar excites us becau...

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news , world news , and news about the economy Less than six years ago, Derek Amato had only mediocre guitar sk...

Looks like our earliest ancestors enjoyed music, too 42,000-Year-Old Mammoth Ivory And Bird Bone Flutes Are Oldest Instruments Ever Found --...

Seikilos Epitaph - Song of Seikilos -- Diana Hsieh The Seikilos epitaph is the oldest surviving example of a complete musical composition...

Stradivarius Violin. Photo: Wikimedia.org. Double-Blind Violin Test: Can You Pick The Strad? -- NPR In the world of violins, the names Strad...

Making Music Proves To Be Powerful Antidepressant -- Live Science Making music might help lift more depressed people out of the dumps than c...

Even as the wires used in pianos changed from iron to steel, sound quality has remained largely the same. Getty Images How Piano Wires Chang...

Image of the chip containing six mass-spring systems (i.e. six tones). (Credit: Image courtesy of University of Twente) From Science Daily: ...

From Scientific American: A survey of the cognitive benefits of music makes a valid case for its educational importance. But that's not ...

When tunes and lyrics diverge From The New Scientist: Your favourite song comes on the radio. You hum the tune; the lyrics remind you of som...

Right (and left) hand man ... Jimi Hendrix. Photograph: Marc Sharratt/Rex Features From The Guardian: Guitar hero's 'mixed-handednes...

From The BBC: Teaching stroke patients to sing "rewires" their brains, helping them recover their speech, say scientists. By singi...

Photo: Lady Gaga topped the digital download chart of 2009. From The BBC: Countries like Spain run the risk of becoming "cultural dese...

New research predicts that expectations about what is going to happen next in a piece of music should be different for people with different...

The organ at Christ Church, Episcopal, in Rochester. Stewart Cairns for The New York Times From The New York Times: ROCHESTER — The ceremoni...

From Live Science: Teens who listen to music that mentions marijuana are significantly more likely to use the drug, a new study finds. The r...

Spandau Ballet From Popular Science: This morning an odd story surfaced and began orbiting the Web: Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galacti...