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Here's some of the best stuff I've seen, heard, and read in recent days

A study of 44 heterosexual male metal guitarists indicates that “time spent playing chords predicted desire for casual sex with women.” In contrast, trying to play fast is apparently done to impress other men.

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Here’s one of the best music videos you will see this year.

Bach’s score for The Art of Fugue—perhaps his last work—does not specify the instrumentation, thus giving later musicians tremendous creative latitude. It’s based on this motif:

This new video performance, released last week by the Netherlands Bach Society, features an impressive range of settings—starting with solo voices, and working through combinations of a dozen other instruments.

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Janet Jackson may not have sold as many albums as her brother, but she somehow possessed the power to crash laptop computers.