In our season two finale episode, we explore syncopation, one of the most playful elements of rhythm. There are specific syncopation patterns that lin...

Music has been used as tool of resistance efforts across the history, from the American Revolution to the anti-communist movement to #MeToo. In this e...

Jazz might be the musical genre that people think of the most when they hear the word improvisation, but it’s not just jazz musicians that make up thi...

Even though heavy metal and classical music might look different on the outside, they are made of very similar stuff on the inside. In this episode we...

What makes Dave Brubeck's "Unsquare Dance" so "un"-square? In this episode we dive into music that uses uneven meter. The effect can be unsettling, gr...

Just like visual art, music is often described as having certain colors, but unlike visual arts, we don’t have an agreed upon vocabulary to describe t...

Transcendence is sometimes defined as “collapsing the boundaries between the spiritual world and the human world through some sort of experience.” Lis...

Cognitive neuroscientists have argued that the most common scales used around the world are actually so similar to human speech patterns that our ears...

This season, we not only show you how to get more out of the music you love, but help you discover more music to love based on the music you already k...

Are you drawn to a song’s music or lyrics first? On this episode we’re looking at the relationship between text and music, and why they’re so powerful...