Music: Musician Facts, Trivia, Quizzes, Brain Teasers & More

A Kickstarter is turning the only government-authorized alien playlist in history into a vinyl box set.

Digital music has a longer history than you'd expect.

Fats Domino's piano. Mike DelGaudio via Flickr // CC BY 2.0

From Mozart to Motown, celebrate National Piano Month by checking out some of these favored ivories.

And it's made from “everything from farm equipment, children’s toys, kitchen utensils and antique fire arms to chains, cogs, axes and wheels."

American pop group The Monkees performing in an MG sports car, circa 1967.

More than 50 years after its premiere on NBC—and subsequent cancellation following a measly two seasons—The Monkees are still a topic of never-ending fascination.

Dvořák was a bona fide trainspotter.

'Freddiemercury' is leaping through the sky 200 million miles from Earth.

Cash called the retreat “the center of my universe.”

The title was chosen to remind people of Romeo and Juliet, but the star-crossed lovers in Alex Cox's punk drama had worse problems than those teens from Verona.

It's been a good few years for "Wa-oh-wa-oh."

The musical icon would have turned 96 years old today.

The King of Pop once took some business advice from Paul McCartney—and used it to buy all of the Beatles song collection.

Doctors say a British man’s fatal lung infection was likely caused by daily use of his fungi-filled wind instrument.

Part of the album's appeal might just be a fire extinguisher and a pepper shaker.

Bastoszak, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

Think of it as the birthplace of the 'Birth of Cool.'

Where there's a will, there's a way to make music.

Queen's bestselling song was only released after Michael Jackson convinced the band it would be a hit.

The pops and crackles on these records are the entire point.

The perfect collectible for fans of the Thin White Duke and vintage 1970s science fiction.

The song would not have been written if not for a broken string.

fMRIs taken while the singer listened to music revealed previously overlooked connections between disparate works of music.

It’s hard to say exactly how many concert-goers attended Woodstock, but some low counts estimate at least 400,000 were there—which is great when it comes to peace and love, but a little less so when it comes to adequate food and drink for the masses.