About 130 years ago, the job of pianist was automated when Edwin Votey created the first player piano. The machine worked by reading music that was encoded by holes punched into rolls of paper, which ...

A poignant scene occurs in the second act of “Two Sisters and a Piano,” Nilo Cruz’s 1999 play about the power of art to sustain and inspire, now running at Writers Theatre. It unfolds as an impromptu ...

A dozen days after Trent Reznor set the rock ‘n’ roll grapevine abuzz with an offhand comment that Nine Inch Nails might not tour again, he stayed silent on the subject at Honda Center in Anaheim on ...

We review the first Lego Smart Brick sets, including the $70 Darth Vader’s TIE Fighter, the $90 Luke’s Red Five X-Wing, and the $160 Throne Room Duel.

Sunderfolk has a new update, with significant new features in 2.0 Include mouse and keyboard controls and, after community requests, PC online multiplayer. There's also a new hero, new mission content ...

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Will Ferrell once said that before you marry a person, you should make them use a computer with slow internet to see who they really are. The Substack newsletter Curiosaday featured that line in ...

Ramsbottom United had the opportunity to show what they're made of as they travelled to the Atlantic Coast and the hinterland of the docks to ...

A piano prodigy, Miss A, a name her parents chose to keep their daughter's identity private, sat at a piano in a pink dress and a neat updo in March 2025, placed her hands on the keys, and played ...

Competitions are hardly renowned as relaxed environments, but Nemanja Radulović has nothing but warm memories of his triumph at the 2001 George Enescu International Competition. Wreathed in smiles on ...

Bonamassa says B.B. King’s The Thrill Is Gone is so perfect that he initially couldn’t find anyone to cover it on his tribute album. Here, he unpacks the tones and approaches of the King of the Blues ...

Musical Beings just launched a Kickstarter for a drum machine called Tembo. This is an extremely cute gadget that uses magnetic tokens to make beats.