Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Disturbed’s “Sound of Silence” has been experiencing something of a ...

We used to use our culture to understand cancer. Now we use cancer to understand our culture.” (From NPR interview of Pulitzer Prize winning author of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. The Cyril remix of Disturbed's “The Sound Of Silence”—itself a ...

It was the sound of running water — not the sound of silence. That was the mundane muse behind the angelic ascension of “The Sound of Silence” — the chart-topping classic that had Simon & Garfunkel ...

One song has stuck with Julio Cuellar Gonzales for practically his entire life. Among his first memories of church in the 1970s in Villa Serrano, a town in the Bolivian region of Chuquisaca, Cuellar ...

Life today rarely gives us a break from noise. The constant notification sound from phones, endless conversations, and the hum of the city make it almost impossible to have quiet moments. However, ...