The Sound Barrier is a four-episode series where we explore the limits of hearing and the ways we can break through.

The Atomic Cluster might be teeny tiny but it's packing transformative energy for your guitar tone, with celestial synth ...

Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired instructor Dan Butler teaches his students how to make groovy tunes.

European starlings just beat parrots at their own game – copying complex sounds. In a new study by researchers in Amsterdam ...

On Friday November 14, a broad coalition of makers and musicians will kick off Common Circuits, Atlanta’s “festival for DIY ...

Madonna’s 1984 album remains arguably her greatest work, an era-defining record that changed pop music forever.

Are you one of those people who can hear a nice car from a few streets away and suddenly you’re no longer paying attention to ...

It was September 20, 1979, at the long-lost Glasgow Apollo, when Gary Numan first felt the full force of pop stardom. Cars had just hit number ...

Del Water Gap released his third studio album, Chasing the Chimera, this Friday—a demanding title for an underwhelming ...

These little earbuds want to make your music sound "as the artist intended" via a specialized head scan — but what does that ...

Yiddish music has always evolved — from the shtetl to the stage, and now to the synth. For some time now a new wave of ...

Johnson nods. “Yeah. Lockdown had a big effect on bands. It made us work differently.” Dillon recalls, “Our first song, ‘Mess ...