Over the past five years there has been a groundswell of new acts that revere the alternative rock of the ’90s. Many are solo artists or bands fronted by women. In terms of timing, it makes perfect ...

The best parts of many songs here are just wordless melodies, like the chorus of the rollicking "Rock City," Lowenstein and Cheng's peppy "woo-hoo-ooh-ooh" line stretched out almost like a long, slow ...

Kris Shaffer, David Lonowski and Jordan Pyle talk via Skype to Stephen Rodgers as they begin their summer-long analysis of the words and melodies of Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin. When most of us ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Gigi Reece, Nora Cheng, and Penelope Lowenstein. They formed the band Horsegirl after meeting in the School of Rock. Their new album is "Phonetics On and On." Imagine ...

Discover the longest English word without a vowel, Rhythm. Learn its meaning, origin, pronunciation, and examples of other ...

For their second album, produced by Cate Le Bon, the New York-via-Chicago indie rockers adopt a spirit of linguistic playfulness and a newly pared-back sound. Phonetics On and On is a ...

Humans have become too accustomed to language. Our ears forget to listen to the musical and emotional intricacies holding words up. Horsegirl attempts to teach us this in its new album, “Phonetics On ...

Most modern attempts to decipher how portions of genetic code are translated into physical characteristics are akin to a first-grader trying to sound out a word letter by letter -- or, in this case, ...