When we begin to hear birdsong as language, and not as something they do for our amusement, we hear the intention of survival ...

“I loved bird watching when I was a kid, ’cause I like to be able to get out of the normal stream of life,” Paul McCartney once said. His love of birds is easy to see when you look at his songwriting ...

Jane Start's life is all over the place. The musician was once a star, albeit a brief one — she scored a hit single with "Can't You See I Want You," a cover of a song by a pop star named Jonesy. But ...

And their songs have been shaped by their environment, just as the rap musician of New York delivers a different "tune" to the yodeller in the Swiss mountains. The musical detail would have impressed ...