Listening to music can be a highly pleasurable activity. Music communicates emotions, moods, or a state of mind that seems beneficial to our quality of life. How does music evoke emotions and pleasure ...

Everybody has musical guilty pleasures – songs we happily revisit in the comfort of our home, but wouldn’t dare admit we own or stream. We’ve previously looked back on some of the biggest guilty ...

We're all familiar with the concept of a "guilty pleasure"—those secret indulgences we guard closely, often too embarrassed to admit them publicly. Many of us cultivate an image of refined taste, ...

“The Doobie Brothers were a kickass rock and roll band, then Michael McDonald rolled in with his easy listening voice and ruined everything.” That comment appears on a community page for guitar ...

The pleasurable urge to move to music -- to groove -- appears to be a physiological response independent of how much we generally enjoy music, according to a new article. That groove response is so ...