Arts & Music stories

The true stories behind the world's most beloved music, revealing where great sounds really come from.

• Ten Keys in One Little Hand
• A Zoo Locked in a Drawer
• The Wrong Singer
• Apple Number Sixty-Three
• Going Back in Time with a Red Marker
• The Loophole in the Blue Snake's Rules
• The Trap in the Twelfth Measure
• The Enemy from Measure Twelve
• What the Phone Heard
• The Battle for Measure Fourteen
• The Fast Way to Get Stuck
• Five Notes and a Wall
• The Ambush in Measure Twelve
• Trumpet vs. The Sock Drawer
• We Are Not the Pepperoni Kids
• The Lost Coffee Echoes
• Distortion on Tiny Chairs
• A Blue Surfboard in the Stairwell
• Front Row, Third Floor
• The Wrong Side of the Stage
• The Floor Where the Power Ends
• The Linoleum Surfers
• Something Borrowed, Something Lost
• Six Days, Zero Songs
• The Most Unimportant Song in the World
• How to Hide a Goodbye in a Giant Hit
• The Sheet of Music That Refused to Be Polite
• The Song America Threw Away
• How Do You Spell a Song?
• Zero Chance of Going on Stage
• A Horse with a Dog's Neck
• The Girl in the Recording
• Paint Doesn't Fall Up
• Do, Re, Mi, Nothing
• The Teacher Who Fell on Purpose
• Fingers That See in the Dark
• How to Measure Words with a Pocket Watch
• Conquering Rest
• The Phantom Vibration Index
• The Laws of Motion of Stagnation
• Dopamine at the Central Station
• Six Hundred Seconds of Nothing
• The Two-and-a-Half-Minute Lie
• Rock and Roll at the Edge of the Solar System
• Two Voices in One Breath
• A Concert for Empty Chairs
• Who Needs Ten Fingers?
• A Melody Searching for Legs
• The Key That Swallowed Half a Song
• The Unseen Orchestra