8 Tracks is your antidote to the algorithm. Each week, NPR Music producer Lars Gotrich, with the help of his colleagues, makes connections between sounds across time. "In Metal," in particular, ...

Marvel operates under top secret protocols to protect the sanctity of movie magic. So when Black Panther began taking shape under the direction of Ryan Coogler, it wasn’t just the writers and actors ...

Originality is great and all, but in the grand scheme of things (that is, centuries of composing and recording music), there is very little music out there that isn’t at least a little derivative of ...

The number of tracks available on music streaming services is shooting further and further into the stratosphere. Another number is growing as well: tracks that are uploaded and then never played. A ...