Musical History
Long-Forgotten Opera About Tabasco Sauce Heats Up Stage Again After Almost 125 Years
Thanks to some musical sleuthing, George W. Chadwick's ode to the now ubiquitous hot sauce brand has been revitalized by the New Orleans Opera
How Graffiti Artists Used iPhones and Paint to Transform the Beatles’ Ashram
Miles Toland describes how he captured Indian street scenes on his phone and recreated them as giant murals that same day
Big Data Traces the World's Most Distinctive Musical Traditions
An analysis of 8,200 recordings from 137 nations shows nations in sub-Saharan Africa have the most unique rhythms and melodies
A Timeline of 1968: The Year That Shattered America
The nation is still reckoning with the changes that came in that fateful year
The Ashram Where the Beatles Sought Enlightenment
Beach Boys singer Mike Love recalls what it was like to be at the Indian locale, which remains a destination for fans of music and meditation
The Remarkable Rebirth of the Button Accordion
Musician Gilberto Reyes redesigned the instrument to meet the needs of Latino musicians
A Brief History of “Alice’s Restaurant”
The Arlo Guthrie classic starts off retelling the true story of what happened more than 50 years ago
Composer Kurt Weill's Long-Forgotten “Song of the White Cheese" Discovered in Berlin Archive
Listen to the 1931 ditty, which had gone unnoticed in the collection of a little-known actress
A Short History of the Crosswalk
Pedestrian crosswalks and roads have a complicated relationship
The Boston Public Library Is Digitizing 200,000 Vintage Recordings
With the help of the Internet Archive, the recordings from the Sound Archives Collection will one day be available for free streaming and download
This Ambitious Landmark Hip-Hop and Rap Anthology Was Successfully Funded
Smithsonian's nonprofit record label launched a Kickstarter for help and got it
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