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The Portsmouth Sinfonia let anyone join regardless of skill. Brian Eno played clarinet. They sold out Albert Hall in 1974.

I Feel Fantastic stars Tara, a $2,000 pop-star android. Its 2009 upload drew 6M views and murder theories.

Anthony Hopkins, famed for his Oscar-winning performance as serial killer Hannibal Lecter among many other movie and television roles, has his first album coming out at 88 years of age.

A federal judge in Florida dismissed with prejudice a copyright lawsuit brought against Taylor Swift by self-published poet Kimberly Marasco, ruling (not for the first time!) that the material Marasco ...

"Weird Al" Yankovic pulled out of his participation in a commercial for a business software company when he found out it is an artificial intelligence company. In Syracuse, NY for his "Bigger and Weirder" tour, he told Geoff Herbert of Syracuse.com -

What does a city sound like when you turn its transit system into a musical instrument? This clever web project answers that question by transforming the live movements of Los Angeles Metro trains and buses into an evolving ambient soundtrack. Every ...

In March 2014, the funk band Vulfpeck released Sleepify -- ten tracks of silence, each just over 30 seconds long. The band encouraged fans to stream it on a loop overnight. Every play earned about $0.007 in Spotify royalties; The Guardian estimated ...

When troops from Ohio's National Guard were deployed to Washington D.C. to menace locals as part of President Trump's crime "emergency" there, Sam O'Hara followed them around playing The Imperial March from John Williams' score to The Empire Strikes ...

EVB Studio's Ancient Loops is a free Playdate sound toy: no levels, no fail state, just a crank and 30-second loops.

Diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1989, Wesley Willis became a cult outsider musician known for 'Rock N Roll McDonald's.'