Former LCD Soundsystem front man James Murphy wants to shake up the sounds of the underground -- specifically the New York City subway turnstiles. He gave WSJ an exclusive preview of his aural ...

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The sweet sounds of the subway never sounded so good. Well, most Metro riders may not feel the garbled announcements and rattling cars sound soothing, but a Google engineer has made the New York City ...

New York’s subway stations can be punishing on the human ear: the combined noise of sometimes several thunderous subway lines, attention-craving buskers, heaving swarms of human traffic and the busy ...

Hey, straphanger! You know that screeching, screaming sound of subways roaring down the track that makes your ears bleed if you get too close to the yellow line? It'll soon be mitigated by the ...

They should change the sounds that the subway makes. I’m talking about the prerecorded sound clips that play all of the time, the ones that straphangers can mimic the cadence of to a T because they’ve ...

If you spend much time in New York, you are probably among the the six million or so who ride one of the world’s largest and oldest subway systems each day. You may have the New Yorker’s classic ...

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. A month into quarantine in ...

It could have been Tuvan throat singers or Laura Dern's Jurassic Park scream, but the deconstructive elegance of a Fart makes for a successful parody of James Murphy's Subway Symphony project. "The ...

Steven Spielberg's much-anticipated remake of quintessential New York City musical West Side Story premiered this week to mostly ecstatic reactions, give-or-take the Ansel Elgort-sized hole where a ...

It was like I was sitting in some tucked away, smoky jazz club straight out of the '40s. Was it the Cotton Club? The Vanguard? I sighed, leaned back into my seat, savoring the sound of the plaintive ...