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10 Classical Pieces You Know but Don’t Know by Name

From Beethoven’s Fifth to Pachelbel’s Canon, classical music is everywhere. These ten famous pieces have appeared in films, advertisements, weddings and television so often that yo...

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1. The tiny economist on my shoulder. 2. Beethoven in Indian classical raga. 3. Too many books? (NYT) 4. Roon on slop. 5. MIE.  Taylor Swift. 6. Rolling Stones fact of the day. 7....

10 Easy Pieces: Clip-On Lights

Is there anything more versatile than the clip-on light? All of us on the editorial team use them in our houses for a quick and impermanent lighting solution. Here are our 10 favor...

The 10 Quince Pieces Our Team Actually Keeps Wearing

The Quince hall of fame.

Majesty, Melancholy and Musical Ping-Pong

Four new instalments take Step into “the 48” to 36 of Bach’s 48 Preludes and Fugues. Explore the contrasting worlds of C major, G-sharp minor, D major and C-sharp major, with perfo...

10 Weekend Reads

The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of Danish Blend coffee, grab a seat outside, and get ready for our longer-form weekend reads: • The Clocks on One Building: Four-Year Lease...

Finding the Goldilocks Piece

The piece you choose can shape the whole learning experience. Discover how to find music that inspires you, suits your level and gives you the right kind of challenge. The post Fin...

10 Easy Pieces: All-Wood Table Lamps

In our search for summery wooden table lamps, we found ourselves drawn to designs that take the material all the way through, shade included. From light-diffusing wood veneer to sc...

Boxes: Mass Market, Boutique, and Odd

Mike is swamped in Spain (with homework, not water), so Pat does an intermediary episode that is .5 by name, .5 by nature. He takes a look at five box sets in three completely made...

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10 Weekend Reads

The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of Danish Blend coffee, grab a seat outside, and get ready for our longer-form weekend reads: • On Quality: An ode to Pirsig: What quality...

10 Easy Pieces: Versatile Cake Stands

Few household objects seem quite so optimistic as a cake stand. Most days it’s home to fruit or pastries, lending a little height to the kitchen counter. Then, once or twice a year...

10 Easy Pieces: Built-In Refrigerators

Consider this: Most people purchase cars more frequently than they do refrigerators. So while a high-end refrigerator may seem like an extravagance, over time, it pays off. Here ar...

A Taste of Infinity

With his commitment to impractical and borderline impossible projects, the composer Dylan Mattingly has created a welcoming, abundant, sun-drenched musical landscape.

10 Easy Pieces: Checked Sofas for Summer

No other pattern says summer quite like gingham, or check, or the right plaid. Here are our favorite bold plaid sofas available to order directly—or to serve as inspiration for uph...

10 Easy Pieces: Our Editors’ Favorite Elegant, Everyday Drinking Glasses

An essential for any kitchen: well-proportioned all-purpose drinking glasses. Here’s what we’ve got on our shelves. N.B.: This post was originally published on July 27, 2011. We ha...

A master piece on masterpieces

“It’s surprising to discover how much we rely on patterns and shapes – and this can be at the expense of thinking melodi...

In this lesson, we are using just four notes to construct four blues examples that put expression first

A “12 Inch Pianist” Walks Into a Bar

Lucas Ansel’s stop-motion short reveals a few fellow-drinkers’ deepest desires in this reimagined Shouts & Murmurs classic.

The Beatles—Future Perfect, Part 10

Chapters 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 Wood The morning sun came up over the eastern rim of the Carson Range, turning the high Sierra air from cold sla...

"Puzzling, mould-breaking, occasionally very noisy and often terrifying." Nine King Crimson albums to listen to and one...

An exploration of the best albums by King Crimson, Robert Fripp's ever-rotating gang of idiosyncratic, brilliant musicians

Brian Bromberg: Top Down

One might not think there are many places to find a new wrinkle to instrumental guitar rock, but Brian Bromberg manages it on an interesting technicality: not using any guitars. Fo...

10 Easy Pieces: Design-Forward Pedestal and Tower Fans

A pedestal or tower fan occupies a useful middle ground: substantial enough to cool an entire room, but without asking you to rewire the ceiling or dedicate a surface to a table fa...