It's not all sex and drugs. Popular music has a long history of nerd-dom. Sometimes it's a style, other times it's substance, but here's an incomplete guide to some of music's greatest geeks, on a ...

The sophomore album from Pittsburgh’s The Nërd Hërdërs had been in the works for quite a while. “We started writing and ...

We tend to think of popes as people who are somehow elevated from the rest of us — a few steps up the ladder leading to God, perhaps. But Pope Francis, whose birth name was Jorge Mario Bergoglio, was ...

Orlando has long been a hotbed of nerd music, hosting internationally recognized festivals – like Nerdapalooza and Orlando Nerd Fest – devoted to the multigenre musical scene of geeks making music ...

Lizzo is one of music’s hottest performers. The flute-playing virtuoso first became famous with catchy tunes like “Truth Hurts.” In the years since her big debut on the pop music scene, her fame has ...

Rick Snyder may have made the “nerd” moniker a bit passé, but these songs prove it’s still possible to gleefully embrace the nerdier aspects of our experience. Though now considered a pillar of ...

Nerds come in many forms. Some build stuff, some like video games, and others sweat the tiny details of audio fidelity or salivate over vintage drum machines. That latter group can be difficult to ...

A child of Hollywood royalty explains how, in her childhood, one band opened her mind to "the mathematics of music." How Rashida Jones Found Her Inner Music Nerd This summer, All Things Considered has ...

Few things are more depressing for classical music lovers than the classical recording charts. Your eye roams despairingly down the endless lists of crossover and ambient pap, looking for something ...

NERD may have already revealed their album to the world nearly a month ago with their energetic performance/listening party at ComplexCon, but the retail rollout has been pretty standard anyway. They ...

NERD performed some of the band’s biggest hits at the NBA All-Star Game halftime show, including “Lapdance,” “Rock Star,” and “Lemon,” backed by an energetic cheer squad of dancers and mascots from ...

In one form or another, music has been part of Starbucks’ corporate DNA for decades. It might seem odd for a multinational company that makes $20 billion a year slinging coffee, but Starbucks has long ...