A music researcher is revealing the songs most likely to make listeners feel happy -- and it all boils down to a simple formula. Getty Images/Westend61 Pick up on these good vibrations. A UK ...

Life doesn’t always go according to plan, but it’s up to you to push forward and inspire yourself to keep going. Music and music videos have the power to pick us up when we’re down and keep us on a ...

British composer and improvising-trombonist Alex Paxton seems to have been enjoying the life of a rising star. In the past few years he has managed to release two albums: Music for Bosch People in ...

Happy songs are hard to write. Most songwriters will agree that it’s much easier to craft a sad tune over minor chords. With upbeat numbers, it’s easier to slip into something cringe-inducing once you ...

One of the cool things about music is how artists can create songs that evoke feelings—and happiness is a common theme. Whether it's a song about sparking joy, looking forward to brighter days, or ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio- The Cure is not just the best-known of the 1970s and 1980s Goth bands. It is one of the most influential --and unquestionably the most commercially successful -- groups of the genre.

If you struggle to be productive while working from home, you're not alone. Staring at a laptop in silence makes it harder to stay on task than you might think. In the absence of coworkers, you might ...

Do you associate minor chords with sad music and major chords with happy music? If you do, you probably grew up surrounded by music that follows the basic rules of Western music theory. But not ...

Alex Edmans of London Business School and three coauthors gathered data on the average positivity of songs that people in 40 nations listened to on Spotify. The researchers then compared that data ...