For those unfamiliar, Apple acquired the classical music app Primephonic in 2021. At the time, the company said it would launch a standalone app focused on classical music. Now, according to Apple, ...

It isn’t often that a pop star releases a music video that aligns so well with my academic research. But that’s exactly what Lizzo did with her new song, “Rumors.” In the video, she and Cardi B dress ...

Laufey Lin, a 24-year-old Icelandic musician and songwriter (known by the mononym Laufey to her fans), never dreamed that her music, which she started writing while she was a college student in Boston ...

Apple Music already has a giant classical catalog, so why did Apple buy Primephonic and promise a separate app? This piece by my colleague Ben Lovejoy written two years before Apple bought Primephonic ...

For years, classical music fans have been left behind in the streaming revolution. Finding particular works and recordings has been hit or miss on the major platforms, which were basically built to ...

A 16 year old teenage girl playing the violin. She is performing in a black dress. She is looking down at her instrument with a serious expression on her face, concentrating as she plays. Many of the ...

It’s a jukebox of cute. The new animated film “Trolls World Tour,” out Friday on Amazon and iTunes, sees those lovable singing trolls, Poppy (voiced by Anna Kendrick) and Branch (Justin Timberlake), ...

But, counterintuitive though it might seem, I don’t think sound is always a helpful way to understand genre. I’m a composer and conductor in the field that’s broadly known as Western classical music, ...