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 ...

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 ...

Alex Trebek may not understand what nerdcore is, but that doesn’t make it any less awesome. The music subgenre dedicated to everything geeky is just one of the many realms of music celebrating nerds.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What on Earth does Pharrell think he’s doing? Maybe that’s the wrong question to ask, though, as NERD gears up for the release of their latest album, No_One Ever Really Dies. Perhaps he left Earth ...

Welcome to 2025. Or, as the nerd in me is thinking, 3 4(5 2)which is 3 to the fourth power times 5 squared). It is not common among my musical friends to be this into mathematics. But, I did take ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Nerd Halen plays the music of Van Halen, a legendary band known for in-your-face ...

Nintendo may currently be struggling with financial loss in the midst of a continually competitive gaming industry inundated with button-mashing types flinging social media apps at Facebook walls and ...