Meet The Fake Beatles (Cool Weird Awesome 286)
This month marks 50 years since the world learned The Beatles were calling it a day. So we're telling the story of the American Beetles - a knockoff band that [...]
Now That’s A Deep Cut: Music Scholars Bring Back “Lost” Songs From 1,000 Years Ago (Cool Weird Awesome 283)
Music scholars at Cambridge University studied musical manuscripts without modern notation and after years of detective work, reconstructed what they would have sounded like.
How To Perform Opera In American Sign Language (Cool Weird Awesome 281)
The University of Virginia's Disabilities Studies Symposium has produced a version of a 1950s opera called “Dialogues of the Carmelites" featuring both traditional opera singers and Deaf actors performing together and living up to the name of their workshop, "Breaking the Sound Barrier."
A new song to add to the playlist of songs about Dead Presidents
Everything is a surprise these days, but certainly I did not expect to wake up and hear that Bob Dylan had released a 17 minute track about the death of John F. Kennedy
In Which Four Guys With The Same Name Start A Band (Cool Weird Awesome 261)
The Atlantic just did an interview with some musicians called the Paul O’Sullivan Band. There are four guys in the group: Paul O’Sullivan, Paul O’Sullivan, Paul O’Sullivan and (wait for it) Paul O’Sullivan.
There’s Music For Cats And It’s Apparently Very Good For Them (Cool Weird Awesome 249)
Can music help cats relax during their visits to the vet? Apparently so - but would music specifically made for cats be even more helpful than music made for humans?
Do Chocolates Taste Better With The Right Music? (Cool Weird Awesome 243)
Washington State University has a Sensory Science Lab that tests all the ways we encounter what we eat and how that can affect how we think it tastes. Now they’re testing whether different kinds of music can affect how we think about chocolate.
That Time Cat Stevens Wrote A Dog Song (Cool Weird Awesome 61)
Yusuf Cat Stevens had hits with mostly acoustic songs like "Moonshadow," "Peace Train" and "Wild World." But he's also a pioneer in electronic music.
What A Time To Be A Hologram (Cool Weird Awesome 22)
Frank Zappa is back out on tour. Now if you’re scratching your saying, wait, isn’t Frank Zappa dead? Well, yes, but this is the era of hologram concert tours!
Break up with your pension, I’m bored (Cool Weird Awesome 21)
Everything is connected to everything else - and there's no better example of that than this week's news that a song by Ariana Grande is putting money into the state pension program in Michigan.