hip hop "A septet of turntablists" — harbanger performs at the Library of Congress Clive Thompson

music Renaissance madrigal cover of "Birdhouse in Your Soul" is perfect Jennifer Sandlin

music Retrospective of the world-changing Yamaha DX7 synthesizer Rob Beschizza

boomer solutions Beach town in Finland had a rowdy youth problem — until it blasted classical music Carla Sinclair

experimental music Making music out of human speech Gareth Branwyn

music If you liked the music in 2001: A Space Odyssey listen to "Requiem, Apparitions & San Francisco Polyphony" Popkin

music Making chiptunes with a calculator Lux Sparks-Pescovitz

music Deeply freaky space-jazz-prog-fusion from The Visitors (1974) David Pescovitz