music

Jessica Edmondson visualized the history of rock music, from foundations in the pre-1900s…

When you hear “piracy data” and “music” in the same sentence, it usually…

I’m not entirely sure how to interpret this music video from Franz Ferdinand,…

Do singer-songwriters age well like a fine wine, or does quality decline with…

If you listen to the radio long enough, you’ve probably noticed that many…

You know those songs that you love so much that you cry because…

In 1979, Joy Division released their album Unknown Pleasures, and the cover was…

In something of an homage to the Genealogy of Pop & Rock Music…

Voice producer Kuk Harrell works with performers like Justin Bieber and Rihanna to…

Hooktheory, a system for learning to write music, analyzed 1,300 popular songs for…

Music visualization with stop motion board games. You can’t go wrong.

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By Reddit user depo_, this map showing metal bands per capita around the…

The New York Times, in collaboration with the New York University Movement Lab,…

Anyone who uses a social music service like Rdio or last.fm has probably…

Jon-Kyle Mohr visualizes the musical spectrum of a song in this mesmerizing video.…

Mashups, the art of mixing multiple songs into one continuous song, is a…

I almost never post about projects that aren’t released yet, but the previews…

A Visual Compendium of Notable Haircuts in Popular Music from Pop Chart Lab…

Need music data? Get all the data you want and more from the…

A Grammy win is worth way more than a little trophy and some…