Nemeton

Last week we went to see three productions, all about as different as could be, because friends were in them. On Wednesday, we went to see O...

A discussion about music over at The Expulsion of the Blatant Beast led me to think about my repertoire of songs that I like to sing, and w...

It has always amazed me that some art apparently has the power to suggest suicide to people. Goethe's novella Die Leiden des Jungen Wer...

As if monastic heavy metal dudes were not enough, now babies can get in on the act too, with rock anthems transformed into lullabies , whic...

BBC video: A Capuchin friar has taken up singing in a heavy metal band - not because he wants to convert people to Christianity, but becaus...

The BBC has just discovered an archive of recordings made by Delia Derbyshire , the woman who composed the classic Doctor Who theme music (...

Usability explained in a mellow rap from The Poetic Prophet (AKA The SEO Rapper).

I just finished watching the documentary Why Birds Sing on BBC4. David Rothenberg says they sing because they enjoy it (and a neurologist ...