Electronic music has never been particularly good at staying in one place. Sounds that begin in small clubs, independent labels…
Browsing: Sound & Evolution
Where the sounds we take for granted actually came from — instruments, rhythms, and traditions that quietly shaped the music we hear today.
There was a time when a hit song was almost impossible to escape. It came through the radio on the…
There is a particular kind of music that seems to belong to the hours when the rest of the world…
Some songs become so familiar that we forget how unusual their success really was. They arrive, take over the radio,…
There is a particular sound that belongs to the last days of October. A few notes played on a piano,…
Apple Music has a new visual identity, but the real story isn’t the thicker lettering or the move away from…
There was a time when finding new music was partly a matter of luck. You heard something on the radio…
For most of the history of recorded music, making a song involved some kind of obstacle. You needed to know…
There is something we have always assumed when we listen to a song, even when we know absolutely nothing about…
Watch any flamenco show today and there’s a wooden box sitting where you’d expect a drum kit. Someone straddles it,…
I found it the way most people find these things now — buried three tracks deep in a DJ set,…
Every few years, a handful of songs quietly change the atmosphere around music. Not just the charts. Not just production…
Sometimes songs land with sudden power like a storm, suddenly turning everything upside-down. Others slip in slow, with imprints that…