Thirty years ago, Santa Cruz-based indie rock band The Ugly Mugs was looking to grow its fan base. “We were trying to publish a tape, get it out there into people’s hands so they could hear it,” ...

Legendary mixtape platform DatPiff has uploaded the entirety of its over 366,420-project catalog to the internet archive. Last March, the service which calls itself “The Authority In Mixtapes” ...

Napster, a free, online music-sharing platform was created 25 years ago. It didn't last long, but we look at how it made lasting changes to the way we consume music. Listening to music was radically ...

The Internet Underground Music Archive became a pioneering distribution platform for independent bands—and foreshadowed the music industry’s digital future. Pandora Boosts Its Desktop Music Streaming ...

I don’t remember the first time I saw an Anthony Fantano video. Also known as “The Needle Drop” and “The Internet’s Busiest Music Nerd,” Fantano just showed up one day, about a decade or so ago, in my ...

Verizon has floated a proposal that the firm says could break the digital music logjam: an across-the-board Internet tax that would be used to pay artists and record companies for online uses of their ...