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As always, it was a good year for music! I've completed my favorite song list of 2012 and  posted it on Spotify . The full list, in ...

As always, it was a good year for music! I've completed my favorite song list of 2011 and posted it on Spotify . The full list, in...

Here's a list of my favorite songs for this year. I added all but the Belle & Sebastian to a myspace playlist . Enjoy & support...

NPR.org/music has some terrific musical material! They have interviews with musical acts of all stripes: rock/pop/folk ; classical ; jazz ...

One of my usual end-of-year projects is to create a CD of my favorite songs which came out in the past year.  This year, thanks to cool tech...

Finally, a meme I can (want to) write about! Liam, over at Panorama of the Mountains, lists his Favorite Albums by Year , starting with the...

Time for a rare musical recommendation: the Aluminum Group. They cite the Carpenters, Sergio Mendes, and Brasil 66 as musical influences, ...

["... Now" is a short post of cog sci topics in the news] Oliver Sacks is plugging his new book, Musicophilia : Tales of Music and...

A few weeks ago, I blogged about Using Math to Predict Musical Hits . Turns out that before Mike McCready was on ScienceFriday, he was inte...

Last week's Science Friday asks Can a song's success be predicted ? Ira Flatow speaks with Mike McCready, co-founder and CEO of Plat...

Lots of chatter on the online radio waves about dramatically increased royalty rates for webcasters, due to go into effect on July 15 (retro...

Have you seen slacker.com ? It's another online music radio source (like Pandora or last.fm ) -- but it's more in the radio mode ...

Ok, I'll out myself on myspace . Want to be my friend? Ha! Anyway, I've decided to use my myspace to list the musical groups I like...

Some great interviews about music, DRM (Digital Rights Management), and eMusic on FutureTense radio, from American Public Media. eMusic C...

Daniel Levitin, neuroscientist at McGill University and professional musician, has been in the (science) news a lot lately. He just publis...

Last week, Future Tense had an episode about National Geographic's World Music site. From the Future Tense web site: "National G...

Heard these guys a few times on XM's fabulous music channel the Loft (which, frankly, is why I'm listening to fewer podcasts ...), ...

... is Entertainment Weekly's list of the 25 Best Music Websites . The CogSci Librarian likes music quite a bit, and this list includes...