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Don't beat yourself up about those dreadful karaoke outings and botched choir solos. If you're tone deaf, your brain might have faulty wiring. Today: the author of a new study explains how tone deafness is linked with nerve fibers inside your head. Later: the synth-pop outfit Chairlift turned heads when one of its songs appeared in an iPod Nano commercial. They join us to perform live in our studio.
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ChairliftIt's Not You, It's Your Brain
Tone deafness is the result of bad wiring in a person’s brain, according to a new study published in The Journal of Neuroscience. The study’s lead author, Psyche Loui, who studies music and the brain at Harvard Medical School, joins us to explain. And, we hear the boots-on-the-ground perspective from ...
Chairlift
Chairlift might be a business model for the band of the future. Formed in a college town (Boulder, Colo.), the synth-pop trio relocated to an indie-rock hotbed (Brooklyn), caught a huge break (iPod commercial) and impressed many with a sweet but spooky vocalist (Caroline Polachek). We attempt to find out ...
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