In an era of postmodern, self-referential music, there’s something refreshing about the artist’s new album—short songs, big hooks, and a celebration of delight.

The buzziest indie album of the moment is a folder of files you can only get from a janky Geocities website. Drake is dropping new music on something called Krakenfiles.com. Chris Black wonders if the post-streaming era will look like Web 1.0.

Did streaming kill the quintessential online music magazine?

UMG, Capitol and Sony have filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the nonprofit Internet Archive worth over $400m in damages.

Since the launch of ChatGPT, generative AI has taken the world by storm. Text-to-image AI generators can create extraordinary images with just a text prompt, while ChatGPT promotes…

Deep, hypnotic techno from the Monday Off label head.

He leads a manic, exhausting life—but when he’s guiding clubbers through one of his marathon sets it feels like time has been suspended.

Kiana Mickles speaks to the Detroit techno legend about the intricacies of live improvisation, the artistic value in making mistakes and continuing Tony Allen's legacy with his ensemble, Tomorrow Comes The Harvest.

Ireland has a storied history of legendary parties and productions. Likewise, Buckfast and dance music, especially sounds on the harder end of the spectrum go together like slip matts and dubplates and there’s few places where this relationship is more implicitly intertwined. Andrew Moore took a virtual roadtrip to all corners of the country to explore the disparate thriving microscenes and get a snapshot of the sounds shaping their cities.

Here are the albums, mixes and EPs we were feeling in June.

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Richard King, owner of Cooper's Landing, reflects on his past experiences in Columbia's music scene.

Billions are flowing into the music industry—and barely a cent is going toward the creation of new music.

Negative reviews have been sidelined in an era of commercial pressures and microscenes that celebrate themselves, but criticism is sometimes the only way to reflect the full complexity of music. By Britt Brown

In the age of streaming, public libraries offer small-scale alternatives for local archiving.

Hypnotic, euphoric, dreamlike club anthems, handpicked by Arjan Rietveld, author of the upcoming trance encyclopedia Hypnotised.

"It's all about perseverance, knowing you're going to see your friends again, you're going to see that show again — it's going to be okay."

The enduring songcraft of Dolly Parton – Lindsay Zoladz

Inside the exuberant and empowering rise of the magnetic MC.

Inside music journalism post-2008 recession, and how media consumption in the 21st century offers a road map for the continuation of the once-robust medium.

The global pandemic is accelerating the collapse of independent music journalism.