You might have missed a great story that flared up once again on social media this week telling how school kids in Evanston, Illinois developed a highly unusual fund-raising technique. The school’s corridor…
- Head of School of Psychology and Speech Pathology, Curtin University
Research published today in the journal Cell Biology describes a new condition, musical anhedonia – the inability to experience pleasure from music. Specifically the researchers were able to identify a…
The latest shocking footage from Sochi shows members of the Pussy Riot collective being whipped, apparently for protesting at the Olympics. The incident occurred yesterday, Wednesday February 19, as they…
As Valentine’s Day approaches, we salute the therapeutic intervention of those countless musicians who bring justice to the joyless jilted. They range from the sad (Without You must have the most tragic…
Last week, Jude Kelly, artistic director of London’s prestigious Southbank Centre, was the most recent arts luminary to wonder in public why women in music are rarer than English cricket victories in Australia…
The ABC News web site reports today that, “Justin Bieber brings cheer to typhoon-hit Philippines”. Assuming that the ABC story is not a masterful piece of satire (and it can be read that way - one important…
As Aussie ex-pat and veteran British radio DJ Alan Freeman would have put it, greetings pop-pickers, and this weeks top of the shop in the United Kingdom album hit parade is Mr. Robbie Williams with Sinatra-pastiche…
Music psychologist and jazz pianist David Hargreaves of Roehampton University is probably the only professor to have opened the bill for Chuck Berry. But last week he beat even that. At a time when the…
The Velvet Underground began to take shape in 1964-5, at a time when The Beatles were still mop-tops and Bob Dylan was more commonly known as Bob Who? It was less than a decade since Elvis and a cultural…
On the fifth birthday of Spotify this month, Radiohead singer Thom Yorke described the music website as “the last desperate fart of a dying corpse”. I love Radiohead’s insistence that pop is art, and I…
In this week’s news from planet 21st century, the musicians who perform at Playbar, a small venue in the inner-city Sydney suburb of Surry Hills, have been silenced by Sydney’s “offensive noise” laws after…
As Jane Austen probably wanted to say, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good Black Sabbath CD must be in want of a shotgun. We are so encultured to believe that…
I spent the Christmas of 1988-89 stacking shelves in a liquor store. It paid $2 per hour (a pittance even way back then), and the boss made me mop the floor before vacuuming it, which continues to annoy…
US scientists have trained a seal to bob its head in time to music, in a study that the researchers say presents the first ever evidence that non-human mammals can keep a beat. It was previously thought…
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