Last weekend I presented at my first virtual conference. It had its positives and its negatives. It was definitely the least nervous I...

When I taught piano lessons (circa 2005?), I was surprised to see "Funkytown" by Lipps Inc. in one of my students' piano books. I started...

This "Eleanor Rigby" remix started showing up in my social media feeds a couple of weeks ago. It's titled, "The Beatles - Eleanor Rigby...

Seven years ago, Marvin Gaye's estate sued Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke, claiming that they had infringed on copyright when they...

I found this mashups through a series of Google searches, and it starts with the familiar acoustic guitar sequence from Avicii's "Wake Me...

I know, I know the holiday season has passed. But while it was happening, boy, did Mariah Carey get good news! In 1994, she recorded a...

The 2010s are about to come to a close - and DJ Earworm decided to celebrate the decade by making a mashup! I've written about his...

A friend from graduate school sent me a link to this mashup by Bill McClintock recently: This is an example of a mashup that was...

In his 33 1/3 book about Céline Dion, Carl Wilson briefly mentions mashups as he writes about "ironic cover versions" of songs. If you've...

So, it turns out that one of my friends from graduate school, Jamie Freedman, works at Pandora (wow!) Because of this, I was given the...

"It's even more sweeter than it was before." That's what Richard Ashcroft of the Verve said about getting back royalties from his 1997...

My brother posted this article on Facebook a few weeks ago that asked,"Why is this viral image of unrecognizable objects so creepy?"...

It's not a first for me, but it is a rarity - today I'm writing about non-musical mashups! (See my first foray into the visual mashup...

Did you ring in 2019 by making a toast to all the new material that entered the public domain? You should have! This is a huge deal! On...

A couple of weeks ago, my friend and fellow music theorist, Brad Osborn, posted this link on my Facebook wall: I'd heard it before and...

There is finally an end to the long legal battle between Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke, and Marvin Gaye's estate. Five years ago,...

Last month, composer and music theorist Nolan Stolz made me aware of this mashup by DJ Cummerbund: The track starts out with the familiar...

When Drake released the double album Scorpion at the end of last month, I got a message from a former student of mine, William Hinson....

A couple of weeks ago, my friend Jacob sent me a link to this mashup: I could tell it was a mashup because the strings in the background...

Short post just to let people know that I had another article on mashups published! It's called "Gendered Power Relationships in...