Streaming Music

The platform interface has gradually made it harder to find the music I want to listen to. With the latest app updates, I’d had enough.

As classical listeners shift to streaming, Apple’s bespoke app falls short of its smaller-scale competitors.

The return of Voxtrot evokes a longing for the vanished musical ecosystem of blogs and MP3s.

What does it mean that recorded music has become easy to change and revamp?

Dylan’s song, released on Friday, is the first evidence of original songwriting in eight years from one of the most original songwriters of our era.

“I felt compelled to make a pure, autonomous album . . . to hear outside of me an unadulterated representation of a music that I hear inside of me. I always need to be on the frontier where the freedom is, and that can be a lonely place.”

The singer’s devoted fan base urged listeners to buy the historically maligned album, prompting a ten-thousand-per-cent increase in sales—nearly two decades after it originally flopped.

A company that once seemed untenable, if not immoral—all of this music, for free, and it’s legal?—is now mainstream. On Tuesday, it will go public.

The ECM sound is a trademark of the times, crystalline and reverberant, conveying both the intimacy of live performance and the warmth of a concert space.

Four soundtracks worth a listen separate from their film counterparts.