Did you think The Hobbit‘s “Far Over the Misty Mountains Cold” couldn’t get any lower or more enchanting? Well, you thought wrong. Sometimes, the internet is a good place. And this is one of those ...

To find out how different aspects of music influence the body, researchers turned a live electronic music concert into a lab study. By introducing levels of bass over speakers that were too low to ...

Big news for DJs everywhere: scientists have figured out a surefire way to make people boogie. Surprisingly, it has little to do with audible sound, like a repetitive guitar lick or killer drum solo.

Sometimes, it really is all about that bass. A recent study in the journal Current Biology found that people danced 12% more when very low frequency bass was played. The study was done by scientists ...

LFE is a common term in home theater audio, but it doesn’t mean what you might think it does. The LFE channel is designed to deliver low-frequency information to supplement the overall bass content.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with neuroscientist Daniel Cameron, who found that inaudible, low-frequency bass appears to make people boogie nearly 12% more on the dancefloor. Sometimes it really is all ...