Over the past few years, we've seen increasingly blurred boundaries between Caribou, Dan Snaith's main project, and Daphni, his dance music alter-ego. Last year, Caribou released the dance-focused ...

From internationally acclaimed piano virtuosa Andrea Lam and award-winning Australian composer Matthew Hindson comes an album of intimate, tender music that comes from the heart and goes straight to ...

Sadness is generally seen as a negative emotion, but we tend to find it pleasurable in an aesthetic context. What is the nature of pleasure that people experience from listening to sad music?

Come on; we’ve all ugly cried. And if you really haven’t, you should try it out sometime. We wouldn’t recommend doing this in public, but a hearty, full-out hysterical cry sesh can be cathartic. And ...

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When everything is going wrong, there’s nothing like listening to a few melancholy bars of your favorite sad song. Buy why do we find pleasure in sad music? If the goal is to stay upbeat, why would we ...