We begin our discussion of phonetics, the study of speech sounds. The letters in a word don’t always match the sounds they represent, and people can pronounce words in different ways. We begin our ...

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 ...

H ere they come now, bustling down the street in Brooklyn, three young musicians wrapped in winter coats and chatting animatedly among themselves as they approach the diner on the corner. It’s a ...

Phonetics and speech science encompass the systematic study of the sounds produced by the human vocal apparatus and their subsequent transmission, perception and cognitive processing. Bridging the ...

On their second album, the Chicago band strip back the layers – sonically and lyrically – as they continue to discover their own sound and voice For this record, Horsegirl took inspiration from an ...

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 ...