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A new study from the University of Melbourne claims that when you don't understand music, you don't even really hear it. And the more you hear it — and understand it — the more you might love it.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK8mJJJvaesThe number one song in the country right now is "Thrift Shop" by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, a rap group out of…
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Thirty years after presenting its first concerts in San Francisco, the organization SFJAZZ has built a permanent home and performance venue. The SFJAZZ…
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This is the last week for a fixture in Seattle’s independent music culture, as Easy Street Records’ lower Queen Anne store prepares to shut its doors…
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Many experts call him the greatest iconoclast of 20th-century music.The avant-garde composer John Cage is perhaps best known for his pioneering use of…
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When it comes to musical preferences, the two genres act like lightning rods for scorn.
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The "Matriarch of the Blues" has died. Music legend Etta James died at Riverside Community Hospital in California from complications of leukemia. She was…
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The custom Les Paul that Peter Frampton wielded in his heyday — the one on the cover of Frampton Comes Alive! -- was lost in 1980 when the plane carrying it went down in South America. But last month, the rocker was reunited with the instrument he thought he'd never see again.
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http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/kplu/local-kplu-964427.mp3Some jazz singers excel at singing standards. Others excel at scat-singing…
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http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/kplu/local-kplu-960407.mp3KPLU was pleased to welcome ukulele virtuoso, Jake Shimabukuro, into our…