It's 7 a.m. While most of campus is still quiet, Abi Urton is already awake, humming through warmups in the kitchen of her apartment. A graduate from Brigham Young University, Urton balances work, ...

The song is called “I Hate A Cappella,” and the joke is that it was composed and performed by an a cappella group, The Richter Scales. The group, comprised largely of Ivy League tech workers in San ...

Few people were aware of the 1994 single “Insomniac” by the rock duo Billy Pilgrim, and it quickly sank into obscurity. But a cappella groups can’t stop singing it. We set out to find an explanation.