"It's a human thing to think we invented music," says Yianni Kourmadas.  "But other animals practice it as well. The hermit thrush, for instance, has a sophisticated grasp on music, and uses complicated melodies, improvisation, dramatic pauses—things we as humans thought we made up."
Kourmadas acknowledges that notion, and that songbird, with his musical project, Hermit [...]

When second-wave emo legends Cap'n Jazz reunited earlier this year, music critics and fans rejoiced. It all seemed a little unexpected: After years of Warped-Tour banishment, emo was being celebrated again.
Chances are, a lot of those folks haven't noticed that a new emo scene that's more interested in '90s aggression and idiosyncracy than 2000s sheen [...]

Benoit Denizet-Lewis is so courageous. The author of America Anonymous: Eight Addicts in Search of a Life reveals his love for Dave Matthews in a piece at the Advocate, in which he doesn't attempt, not even a little bit, to redeem his affections with claims that DMB is good music.
Instead he quotes his therapist, whose [...]