When you rip a CD in iTunes—or when you buy an album from the iTunes Store, Amazon, or other vendor—there are a number of tags you can set, such as the album name, artist name, and genre. But there’s ...

My mornings start the same way my nights end: lying on my bed, laptop propped up on my legs as I watch a series of different Vine compilations on YouTube. I’ve seen most of the compilations at least ...

Indie Basement is a weekly column on BrooklynVegan focusing on classic indie and alternative artists, “college rock,” and new and current acts who follow a similar path. There are reviews of new ...

Summer 2025 has been nothing if not the tipping point of the slow-burning streaming reckoning. More and more artists have pulled their music from Spotify (Hotline TNT, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard ...

There’s been a shake-up on the compilations chart. The Official Charts Company has changed the rules so that streaming data will count towards sales for compilations featuring original material. The ...

30 years on, is it time to say goodbye to the ‘Now That’s What I Call Music!’ compilations? How do the long-running CD compilations fit into a music industry dominated by streaming music, downloads ...