Music can heal you in many ways, but nothing comes close to the salve of sad songs when you’re at your lowest. Imagine Emma, who comes home after a long and stressful day at work, dealing with tight ...

The surefire way to kill a good party: Play depressing music. Throw Merle Haggard’s “My Favorite Memory” or Leonard Cohen’s “Suzanne” onto the turntable—or, worse yet, Townes Van Zandt’s “Tecumseh ...

Tear-jerkers such as Adele’s Someone Like You frequently top the charts these days, while gloomy classical compositions like Mozart’s Requiem have moved people for centuries. Both portray and bring ...

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I’ve had an intermittent relationship with podcasts. Over the past several years I’ve tended towards listening to epic audiobook stories on Audible. Books like Game of Thrones, the Harry Hole ...

“When all hope is gone, sad songs say so much.” It turns out that Elton John knew what he was talking about: Several studies have found that many people do choose to listen to sad music when they’re ...

When everything is going wrong, there’s nothing like listening to a few melancholy bars of your favorite sad song. Buy why do we find pleasure in sad music? If the goal is to stay upbeat, why would we ...

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Three members of one family who apparently didn't like the playlist at a Pittsburgh bar allegedly beat up a security guard, after the DJ wouldn't play the song they requested, CBS Pittsburgh reported.