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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Orlando has long been a hotbed of nerd music, hosting internationally recognized festivals – like Nerdapalooza and Orlando Nerd Fest – devoted to the multigenre musical scene of geeks making music ...

Lizzo is one of music’s hottest performers. The flute-playing virtuoso first became famous with catchy tunes like “Truth Hurts.” In the years since her big debut on the pop music scene, her fame has ...

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 ...