Instrumental music, once relegated to being a background sound for certain activities, has evolved to become a key element of ...

Camila, a 16-year-old high school student in Los Angeles, holds her phone out, screen facing up, playing a grainy video of ...

A gifted Queens rapper (Lexa Gates), a noisy British band (Maruja), a Drake-approved emo songwriter (Julia Wolf), a lo-fi ...

Here’s our pick of the 10 best of 2025 overall, plus the three best Irish games of the year. There was a lot of 1990s ...

Spotify India’s sales head explains how India’s lo-fi, calm and spirituality listening habits are reshaping advertisers’ creative and mobile-first strategies ...

Valentina Magaletti drummed for her life, Sarz got hips swinging and Daniel Avery got slinky and serpentine: our writers pick their favourite unsung LPs from 2025 ...

Strangers unite online to resurrect forgotten music like Panchiko and FEX, connecting through art and nostalgia.

The fifth and final season of Stranger Things required a full calendar year of production in Atlanta, a marathon of 240 ...

Here is the third part of our playlist of the essential 100 (or so) tunes to come out of Scotland. It marks eleventh year of this rundown of the best Scots tracks of the year.   As ever, in 2025, ...

Disco collided with Punjabi weddings in 1982 when West London vocalist Mohinder Kaur Bhamra recorded Punjabi D ...

A totally biased opinion from a musical office By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff This year was a horrible, no good, very bad ...

Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday at Defector during the NFL season. Got something you wanna contribute? Email the Roo. You can also read Drew over at SFGATE, ...