I have a playlist called “I Heart Melancholy,” and I love listening to it so much it hurts. In a good way. And I know you know what I’m talking about, don’t you? Melancholy gets a bad rap. In music, ...

At age six Ralph Vaughan Williams began music studies with his aunt. He furthered his education at the Royal College of Music where he received lessons from two fine English composers of the previous ...

You stare out of the window, trying your very best to ignore all of the thoughts clouding your mind – the ones that have been there all week, all month and definitely present since the moment you ...

From the Midwest and Southeast to the East Coast, this winter has delivered some of the coldest and/or snowiest weather on record. What better way to prepare to say goodbye to this frigid, dark, ...

When one is beaten down, hard up, and down on their luck, there is no better place to find comfort than in music. Particularly melancholic piano ballads that sonically articulate the emotions that ...

When everything is going wrong, there’s nothing like listening to a few melancholy bars of your favorite sad song. Buy why do we find pleasure in sad music? If the goal is to stay upbeat, why would we ...

It's a perfectly gray winter Sunday in Brooklyn. The air is brisk but comfortable, and the streets are just shy of empty. Looking for a suitable soundtrack for my walk to the subway, I pull my phone ...

As one of pop music’s preeminent ministers of brood, Abel Tesfaye can lay claim to exerting a huge influence on the menacing tone that undergirds a large swath of contemporary R&B. And he knows it.