A music researcher is revealing the songs most likely to make listeners feel happy -- and it all boils down to a simple formula. Getty Images/Westend61 Pick up on these good vibrations. A UK ...

Music is the language of emotions, arousing and regulating our feelings. For example, research has shown that college students listen to music 37% of the time, and it fills them with happiness, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some of the birthday songs are super upbeat party songs, others are purely romantic and some others are more reflective and somber ...

Happy songs are hard to write. Most songwriters will agree that it’s much easier to craft a sad tune over minor chords. With upbeat numbers, it’s easier to slip into something cringe-inducing once you ...

One of the cool things about music is how artists can create songs that evoke feelings—and happiness is a common theme. Whether it's a song about sparking joy, looking forward to brighter days, or ...

These upbeat, happy songs were major jams in the years they were released. However, when you read between the lines, it’s clear that these happy tunes are actually pretty lyrically devastating or ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio- The Cure is not just the best-known of the 1970s and 1980s Goth bands. It is one of the most influential --and unquestionably the most commercially successful -- groups of the genre.

Do you associate minor chords with sad music and major chords with happy music? If you do, you probably grew up surrounded by music that follows the basic rules of Western music theory. But not ...

Lane Moore + It Was Romance are back! It's been a full decade since the band – fronted by comedian, actress, writer and musician Lane Moore – released its self-titled debut and now its back with Final ...

British composer and improvising-trombonist Alex Paxton seems to have been enjoying the life of a rising star. In the past few years he has managed to release two albums: Music for Bosch People in ...

Eclectic fashion, tunes, bubbles and a sprawling venue welcomed thousands of attendees to the Finger Lakes’ 33rd annual Grassroots Festival of Music & Dance at the Trumansburg Fairgrounds from July 17 ...