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Famed country music singer, philanthropist and businesswoman Dolly Parton is dead at 80. Her death was announced by nephew Brian Seaver on social media. "Dolly has lived in the light and is in the arms of Jesus, surely met by Carl, her parents and ...

Rack-01 is an web-based techno synth and sequencer where all the controls are right there on a single page. Despite being an extremely polished app, it's all right there in the View Source: you can download the HTML file and it'll run from wherever ...

At this point, new videos from Epic Rap Battles of History feel a bit like Halley's Comet. If you're lucky, you get two a year, which doesn't quite square with their average runtime of three minutes until you start thinking about all the work ...

A new acoustic study reveals why tracks from Minecraft and Animal Crossing provide the optimal tempo and sound profile for deep work and study sessions.

Roger Waters built the opening of Pink Floyd's "Money" in 1972 out of spliced tape: cash registers, torn paper, and coins. Open Culture posted a video of a German band that played those same sounds live at Abbey Road Studios, where Pink Floyd ...

Madonna has finally posted a tribute to late producer and collaborator William Orbit. She mentions his "crooked teeth." See below. Madonna fails to note ...

Two scholars reconstructed singing the Homeric epics, recording 100 lines of Odyssey book 8.

Legendary singer Barbra Streisand is publishing a new book. A couple of years ago she published a 900 page memoir. Now she's got a children's book called ...

The earliest polyphonic music, found in 2014, dates to about 900 and honors Saint Boniface.