Over the past five years there has been a groundswell of new acts that revere the alternative rock of the ’90s. Many are solo artists or bands fronted by women. In terms of timing, it makes perfect ...

For their second album, produced by Cate Le Bon, the New York-via-Chicago indie rockers adopt a spirit of linguistic playfulness and a newly pared-back sound. Phonetics On and On is a ...

One of the greatest feats of songwriting—of any writing, really—is arranging words into combinations that no one else has ever constructed before. Contrarily, there’s also a challenge in taking a ...

The best parts of many songs here are just wordless melodies, like the chorus of the rollicking "Rock City," Lowenstein and Cheng's peppy "woo-hoo-ooh-ooh" line stretched out almost like a long, slow ...

To us, speaking and listening to speech comes so naturally. Have you ever consciously thought about what processes are involved in this? This is exactly what Phonetics aims to do. It aims to give a ...

Initiation: Setting air in motion through the vocal tract. Phonation: The modification of airflow as it passes through the larynx (related to voicing). Articulation: The shaping of airflow to generate ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Gigi Reece, Nora Cheng, and Penelope Lowenstein. They formed the band Horsegirl after meeting in the School of Rock. Their new album is "Phonetics On and On." Imagine ...

With Visual Phonetics, teachers at the Goethe-Instituts in East Asia have made phonetics topics attractively visible in a poster series. The accompanying brochure offers country-specific information ...

La Rumba x Phonetics bring Nubiyan Twist's NT Soundsystem and Aroop Roy to Sidney & Matilda on Saturday 18th October. One of La Rumba’s favourite and regular guests, Nubiyan Twist have built up a name ...

Humanity Public School, Bassi Kalan, Bari Brahmana organised an informative and engaging workshop on Phonetics and ...