Ambient music has been on the rise in the streaming era. But with royalty reform and the threat of AI-generated sounds, its future is still uncertain. By Kristin Robinson Senior Writer This analysis ...

Last year, the ambitious and funny pop-punk auteur Jeff Rosenstock released two really great albums. First, there was POST-, the massive surprise opus that he cranked out on New Years Day. Then there ...

William Basinski’s “Melancholia II” sounds like what might happen if despair itself walked into a studio and someone pressed the record button. Little pops poke through its smeared dreariness, like a ...

Finals season is approaching, which means numerous all-nighters, heavy study sessions and a lot of caffeine. For many students, it also means finding the right study playlist to help you get through ...

What exactly is ambient music? That’s not such a simple question to answer. While the genre of ‘ambient’ is fairly well established, the exact rules of what makes something ambient aren’t rigidly ...

Co-hosted by Editor-in-Chief Puja Patel and Reviews Editor Jeremy D. Larson, and featuring guest critics and contributors, our weekly podcast includes in-depth analysis of the new music we find ...

If you like working, sleeping, relaxing or meditating to ambient music — and you own an iPhone — you’re in luck. You can now play background tunes from Control Center on your iPhone. The feature is ad ...

Although best known for dance records like “Move” and “Bodyrock,” Moby‘s discography is also filled with low-key, downtempo releases like, most notably, 1993’s Ambient. “I first heard – and heard ...