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

From our file of "fun tricks you can do with a camera phone."

Suzanne Vega's a cappella track helped make the MP3...but what was lost in the process?

You might be surprised by who wrote those jingles that get stuck in your head.

Here are a few ways to take your music habits to the next level.

After a year-long study, researchers in the UK compiled a list of the catchiest songs of the last 75 years.

The researcher who successfully sneaks the most Dylan lyrics into papers before retirement wins a free lunch.

For music videos, just standing in front of a camera and pretending to play your hit single doesn’t cut it anymore. These amazing modern videos don’t just let fans watch and listen—they give the viewers control.

Musicians often get inspiration from their own record collections. Beyond musical style, on-stage persona, and look, some bands directly take their names from songs or lyrics from another band.

Beethoven-Haus, Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain

Stubborn and self-involved, dramatic yet loving of his friends, Ludwig van Beethoven was a virtuoso pianist and canonical composer of dozens of symphonies, concertos for piano, piano sonatas, and string quartets.

Examples of the times when we only wanted to move certain ways for a very brief period of time.

Whether it’s a large orchestral score or the hushed strumming of a lone guitar, the music in a film is an essential part of the whole. But sometimes, instead of a traditional score or multi-artist soundtrack, filmmakers choose a single act to provide the

Sometimes labels pay a very high price when artists earn their chance to make their music "perfect."

The Beatles in 'A Hard Day's Night' a Janus Films release (c) Bruce and Martha Karsh

Even if you know all the words, do you know what they were about?

We hear some songs so often on the radio that we automatically sing along with them, but how much of what we’re singing do we really understand?

But making videos wasn’t all glamour. Behind the scenes, the long days were filled with vomit, blood, and diarrhea. Here’s a brief look at the injuries and ailments behind some of the decade’s most iconic videos.