It was a blustery day in July when Pavla Teie thought her husband had finally lost it. David Teie walked into the living room of his Georgetown apartment taping a stethoscope to his forehead. Two ...

Cotton-top tamarin monkeys grew calmer after they heard music based on their own calm, friendly calls. But the monkeys became more agitated when researchers played music that contained elements of ...

Mike Nesmith had an upfront seat to the madness that was The Monkees. The band and its members, Nesmith, Davy Jones, Peter Tork, and Micky Dolenz, subsequently topped the Billboard charts and ...

A famous music supervisor discussed what he thought of The Monkees‘ “I’m a Believer.” Subsequently, he said many songwriters from the same era did not understand music. Notably, “I’m a Believer” and ...

I ENJOYED your recent article on the Monkees [“Hey, Hey, Hear the Fun, Kids” by Mike Boehm, July 27]. A lot of people don’t give the Monkees their due. Most every article seems to start with “At first ...

In 1967, The Monkees achieved a chart record that remains unbroken 58 years later. In 1967, the band created for the television series of the same name released four albums in just one year, and each ...

Adapted from "The Evolving Animal Orchestra: In Search of What Makes Us Musical", by Dr. Henkjan Honing, translated by Sherry Macdonald, The MIT PRESS, 2019. As a music cognition researcher interested ...

For all their stiff-upper-lip stoicism, the British go cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs over any native band that can gin up three chords and an attitude. The latest kings of England are the Arctic Monkeys, ...

Today marks the 10-year anniversary of one of the most influential indie rock albums of this century. A timeless compilation of lust-filled tracks, Arctic Monkeys’ AM solidified the band’s rockstar ...