Happy Music

Global collaborations, impromptu public performances, and the creators using their craft as a social force. This section covers the universal language of music and the uplifting moments that connect strangers across the world.

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Alicia Keys: Alicia Keys and Maren Morris Found Common Ground in Nashville Before a Single Note Was Played

August 18, 2026

Alicia Keys arrived in Nashville to learn six Maren Morris songs from scratch and left

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Alicia Keys: Alicia Keys' 'Girl on Fire' Is Still One of the Most Electrifying Anthems Ever Written

August 18, 2026

Alicia Keys built 'Girl on Fire' around a contradiction most anthems avoid: the brightest person

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Alicia Keys: Alicia Keys' 'Fallin'' Still Hits Differently 25 Years Later

August 18, 2026

Alicia Keys' debut single 'Fallin'' introduced a then-teenage songwriter more interested in emotional truth than

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: A Wild Fox Named Foxy Keeps Coming Back to Hear Banjo in the Boulder Foothills

August 17, 2026

In the Boulder Foothills, a wild fox named Foxy has been stopping by a family's

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Plumes: Plumes Sang Love Songs to Shelter Animals and the Results Are Impossible to Watch Dry-Eyed

August 17, 2026

Plumes brought a voice and a song into shelter kennels, performing directly to animals waiting

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THE STREAM - Movies and More: How Tool Went From a Hollywood Loft Party Band to One of Rock's Most Uncompromising Forces

August 17, 2026

In 1990, Maynard James Keenan was working at a pet store and sleeping in a

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Black Eyed Peas: Black Eyed Peas Bring the World Together for '#WHERESTHELOVE' and the Answer Is Still Needed

August 17, 2026

The Black Eyed Peas return with '#WHERESTHELOVE,' a song that names police violence, media toxicity,

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STREAM - Music and More: 'I Gotta Feeling' Still Knocks Speakers Off the Wall, and Here Is Why the Black Eyed Peas Built the Most Unstoppable Pop Machine of Their Generation

August 17, 2026

A DJ describes watching speakers physically collapse from the crowd energy when 'I Gotta Feeling'

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STREAM - Music and More: How Green Day Went From Playing Gilman Street to Selling 15 Million Records With American Idiot

August 17, 2026

Billie Joe Armstrong was a teenager playing all-ages shows at Gilman Street when Green Day

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STREAM - Music and More: How Hamburg's Red-Light District Turned Four Scruffy Liverpool Lads Into the Beatles

August 17, 2026

Before Beatlemania, four young Liverpudlians survived seven-hour nightly sets in Hamburg's red-light district, a disastrous

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STREAM - Music and More: How Woodstock Actually Happened: The Chaos, the Deals, and the Last-Minute Farm That Saved It All

August 17, 2026

Richie Havens was sent on stage at Woodstock because nobody else had arrived yet, and

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Mark Knopfler: Mark Knopfler Silences a Berlin Arena With 'Brothers in Arms' in 2007

August 17, 2026

In Berlin in 2007, Mark Knopfler performed 'Brothers in Arms' before an arena crowd in

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