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A German study tested pain tolerance in metal fans at the Wacken Open Air festival, and found it rose over the show.

Belbury Poly's brilliant 2012 album The Belbury Tales (previously at Boing Boing) was a high point of hauntology, right at the point it wandered into folk horror and related aesthetics ...

Reason, the actually-fun digital audio workstation, now has a free edition, though you'll need a different DAW to enjoy it. "Reason Free" is immediately available for download at Reason Studios' website. The limitation is you only get the rack, with ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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