MUSIC

We hear some songs so often on the radio that we automatically sing along with them, but how much of what we’re singing do we really understand?

But making videos wasn’t all glamour. Behind the scenes, the long days were filled with vomit, blood, and diarrhea. Here’s a brief look at the injuries and ailments behind some of the decade’s most iconic videos.

Kurt Cobain did a lot for thrift store sweaters.

Can you imagine a world without pianos and guitars? Few can, and fewer still would want to actually live in such a place. But history has shown that musical devices don't last forever.

We’ve seen how the “Generate Line” feature at rap lyric writing tool RapPad can bring about unexpected poetry when paired with famous first lines from literature, but these serendipitous paths through form and meaning can be found in hard sciences as well

This Frozen number has taken the internet by storm.

People love to complain about today’s music. All the lyrics are too bland, repetitive, and racy. So thank goodness we have a canon of treasured composers to fall back on! You know, guys like Mozart. He wrote songs with substance.

Classical music seems to have a reputation for being straight-laced, stuffy, and obsessed with rules. But over the centuries, hundreds of composers have tested the boundaries of musical expression in strange and unique ways. Here are ten prime examples.

In this week's episode of mental_floss on YouTube, The Gregory Brothers stop by to share a little music history.

Hey, want a 20-minute documentary from the '50s on how vinyl records are made? We've got one!

There are some Christmas songs that don't get a lot of attention because they're dark, even by non-holiday song standards.