Kris Shaffer, David Lonowski and Jordan Pyle talk via Skype to Stephen Rodgers as they begin their summer-long analysis of the words and melodies of Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin. When most of us ...

The best parts of many songs here are just wordless melodies, like the chorus of the rollicking "Rock City," Lowenstein and Cheng's peppy "woo-hoo-ooh-ooh" line stretched out almost like a long, slow ...

Over the past five years there has been a groundswell of new acts that revere the alternative rock of the ’90s. Many are solo artists or bands fronted by women. In terms of timing, it makes perfect ...

For a band still in their early days, Horsegirl has already garnered plenty of attention — much of it, for better or for worse, centered on their youth. The trio’s 2022 breakout album Versions of ...

For their second album, produced by Cate Le Bon, the New York-via-Chicago indie rockers adopt a spirit of linguistic playfulness and a newly pared-back sound. Phonetics On and On is a ...

In a Lingua Franca post a few weeks ago, I needed to use the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to represent the different pronunciations of the English word People still talk about speech sounds ...

Meow, miaou, yaong, nyan, näu: Humans say 'meow' in different ways, depending on what part of the world they're from, but do cats? This is the question researchers at Lund University in Sweden are ...

BENGALURU: When Tanuja watched her son, a kindergartner, struggling to read English she decided to enrol him for phonetics classes. “They would teach him the sound of each letter in the English ...