The charts suggest we are programmed to prefer melancholy music. But is this really the case? Greg Kot investigates. The charts suggest we are programmed to prefer melancholy music. But is this really ...

As both a disc jockey and a member of the Army reserves during what’s become known as the “Vietnam Era,” Mike Salardino is well qualified to select the songs that best defined that momentous, and ...

Where does sad music get its sadness from? And whom should you ask—a composer or a cognitive psychologist? Scientific American recently reported on a Tufts University study that purportedly lends ...

We can love a song despite it making us feel sad — and scientists don’t agree on why. Researchers have previously found that sad music might cause us to feel moved in an emotionally positive way, ...