In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Plenty of the ...

There is some debate over the songwriting credits for “Incense and Peppermints.” The tune is credited with being co-written by producer/songwriter John S. Carter and Tim Gilbert, a singer/guitarist ...

The Strawberry Alarm Clock really shouldn’t be a band that people are talking about, much less writing about, in 2017. The psychedelic rock group formed in Los Angeles in 1967 and had a smash ...

Among the earliest clocks represented in the exhibit, she says, is a replica of a dragon-body incense clock, first used in China centuries ago. Metal balls would drop into a bowl with a pinging sound ...

The ancient Chinese developed a clock that told time by the burning of incense. The steady smoldering of an incense stick provides the periodic "motion" of the clock. As the stick slowly burns, the ...

Clocks have been used for millennia to keep and measure time. Ancient civilizations used sundials and water clocks; since then, there have been candle clocks, incense clocks, hourglasses, mechanical ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Imagine if, rather than the severity of a ticking hand, we marked time in gentle smoke trails. Consider the ...