A phenomenon being dubbed Beetlemania is playing out in northern Arizona. As can be expected, it involves rock music. But instead of screaming fans, there are cheering scientists who have found a way to drive bark beetles crazy with sound. In a Northern Arizona University School of Forestry lab, researchers are listening to the sound of western [...]

A little over a year ago, the recording industry was surprised to learn that Madonna wasn’t signing a new record label contract, but instead was signing a deal with Live Nation, a big concert promoter, to handle pretty much everything having to do with her business, including releasing new CDs. The WSJ Magazine is running [...]

A new survey on Americans’ use of the Internet done by Pew Internet says that six in ten American adults are now wireless Internet users, and mobile data applications have grown more popular over the last year. Cell phone ownership has remained stable over the last year, but users are taking advantage of a much [...]

It’s not only the radio stations and the music channels that are hunting for good musicians, now it’s even NASA that has entered the music space. NASA astronauts are traditionally awakened each morning by songs chosen by their friends and family. But for the US space agency’s final space shuttle mission in next February, NASA is inviting [...]