"Earworms" are songs that stick in your head. Here's what's behind them, and where to hear free concerts celebrating them.

In the winter of 1900, six-year-old Nicolas Slonimsky was introduced to the world of popular Russian ditties. “Little bird, what did you do? I drank vodka, so did you,” he would warble to enchanted ...

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For a couple months leading up to Christmas, we’re all infected with a pernicious scourge: earworms. Sounds like a bloodsucking parasite, but “earworm” (which comes from a translation of the German ...