The term "ambient" music was first coined in the late '70s by influential British artist Brian Eno, who described it as music created to "induce calm and space to think." Since then, the genre has ...

ANNA. Courtesy of Jacques Dequeker @jdequeker. Techno tastemaker ANNA is known for her distinct seductive, transfixing and hard-hitting sound. The Brazilian-bred artist graces the stages of famed ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

During the Super Bowl back in February, Bruce Springsteen starred in his first ever television commercial, a solemn clip called “The Middle” that found him driving a vintage Jeep through rural Kansas.