Daily Newsletter, June 26, 2023

A century of recorded music has culminated in the infinite archive of streaming platforms. But is it really better for listeners?

Hip-hop has long been used to speak out against perceived social and political injustice – and now Indian rappers are continuing that legacy, writes Charukesi Ramadurai.

"In the summer of ‘73, Bruce and the E Street Band felt like our little secret, the soundtrack to the best time of our lives."

The Second Arrangement was accidentally wiped in the studio in 1979. Now a version found by the recording engineer’s family has the community ‘freaking out’

Without giving consideration to the future or lack-there-of, it’s safe to say that Squitch have made their best record to date with Tumbledown Mountain , a collection of songs both personal and inherently complex. It’s an album that deals with the finality of things but as the band know, “it’s not

A hip-hop artist and scholar says that while rap stresses the oral tradition, the music is also rife with references to a rich range of literature that spans the globe.

Some great choices.

What makes a summer novel? It might be set in during a summer (One Fateful or otherwise), or it might be, for one reason or another, particularly appealing to read during the summer, or it might si…

It asks us to hear the magic of what Carlos Santana did by reveling in the sonic texture, the Latin-gone-psychedelic moxie of those notes.

Naim’s separates sound quality in one neatly packaged box