It's New Year's Day, and Sea Giant looks like they had a rough night. The pair sits in a downtown Spokane coffee shop, where Conor Knowles nurses a cup of coffee and Kyler Ferguson props his head up ...

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 ...

Source: David S. Soriano, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Emotion, in particular sadness, has played an important role in art and music throughout human history and across human cultures. Music, ...

Country music is music that's aimed at the heart, and it covers a wide range of emotions for all occasions, whether you're happy or sad. Read on to discover the happiest and saddest songs in country ...

Kameron Marlowe is going against the grain. While artists are releasing party anthems and feel-good tunes, Marlowe is offering Sad Songs for the Soul—ten songs that dive deep into heartbreak and ...

In its first week of release in the U.S., Adele's latest album, 25, sold more than 3 million copies. An Adele song, as most of you undoubtedly know, can be a real tearjerker. So then what is the ...

Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. Listening to sad music can make you feel connected and ...

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 ...

If you’ve seen 7-month-old babies bouncing around to Beatles songs, you already know that infants go for upbeat tunes. But If you’ve seen 7-month-old babies bouncing around to Beatles songs, you ...