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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/04/170412181341.htm

It doesn’t matter if it’s Bach, the Beatles, Brad Paisley or Bruno Mars. Your favorite music likely triggers a similar type of activity in your brain as other people’s favorites do in theirs.

That’s one of the things Jonathan Burdette, M.D., has found in researching music’s effects on the brain.

“Music is primal. It affects all of us, but in very personal, unique ways,” said Burdette, a neuroradiologist at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. “Your interaction with music is different than mine, but it’s still powerful.

“Your brain has a reaction when you like or don’t like something, including music. We’ve been able to take some baby steps into seeing that, and ‘dislike’ looks different than ‘like’ and much different than ‘favorite.'”

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by Coral Andrews Waterloo Region Record

Absolutely Free will be at the Jane Bond in Waterloo Sunday May 28. – Colin Medley

Absolutely Free has been described as many things — from “polyrhythmic berbere stew” to “astro-beat-existential-debris-psychedelic-post-proto-punk-cosmic overlings.”

“Ah. The next album is going to sound very different,” notes AF’s Moshe Rozenberg, one of three multi-instrumentalists in this Toronto-based trinity.

“We are making our way back. The angst and the rebellion are gone,” he notes. “Now there is the ability to embrace the counterculture — the weirdness that we were so into when we were younger — as well as the more satisfying elements that you find in “normalish music.”

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http://www.cbcmusic.ca/posts/18533/2017-cbc-music-festival-what-you-need-to-know

Festival time: Gates open at 1:30 p.m., festival ends at 11 p.m.

How to get tickets: Buy them here. And remember: children 12 years of age and under don’t require a ticket.

How to watch if you’re not in Toronto: Head to CBCMusic.ca for a full stream of the entire day, or CBC Music’ s Facebook page for Facebook Lives of individual sets.

How to watch after the event: Tune in to CBC-TV on Saturday, July 1, at 5 p.m. local for a one-hour special. You can also tune in to Canada Live for highlights on June 2 and 9 on Radio One (2 p.m. local, 2:30 p.m. NL) and June 5 and 12 on Radio 2 (7 p.m. local, 7:30 p.m. NL).

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/04/170404125029.htm

Remember those drawn-out, dramatic intros into the pop power ballads of the 80s? They’re all but gone in today’s chart toppers, according to new research, and listeners’ short attention spans may be to blame.

Intros that averaged more than 20 seconds in the mid-80s are now only about 5 seconds long, the study found.

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Born on this day 1958, Paul Weller, UK singer, guitarist, songwriter, The Jam (1980 UK No.1 single ‘Going Underground’ plus over 15 other UK Top 40 singles). Style Council, (1983 UK No.3 single ‘Long Hot Summer’, plus 14 other UK Top 40 singles). Solo (1995 UK No.7 single ‘The Changing Man’). Weller has received four Brit Awards, winning the award for Best British Male twice, and the 2006 Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music.