If you've been streaming nature videos and ambient mixes to unwind this week, you're part of a growing trend where long-form, non-intrusive audio is becoming essential for active recovery. In 2026, ...

I first discovered ambient music in college, when I was a late-night d.j. My show at the campus radio station started every Thursday at midnight and ran until five. From midnight through two-thirty, I ...

Rolling Stone described it as "a junkyard of busted tape machines crooning a melancholic lullaby," in 2016, when it declared Craig one of "ten new artists you need to know" — which works just as well ...

SUSS' Counting Sunsets turns ambient country into something spectral, patient, and haunting, drifting through desert light, ...

Apple has introduced a significant enhancement with the release of iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4, the integration of ambient music directly into the Control Center. This feature is designed to complement ...

Wizened ambient veterans and fresh-faced newbies alike have played a role in the music’s newfound visibility. In the former camp, there’s the man who is generally credited with coming up with the very ...

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 ...

I’m trying to focus on this record, Carter Thomas’ Sonoma—a mid-’80s UK pressing with a trilogy of early ’70s pieces, all done solely on Buchla and Serge equipment, all gorgeous. Deep, resonant ...

The upcoming iOS 18.4 update for the iPhone adds an Ambient Music feature to Control Center. Below, we take a closer look at how it works. iOS 18.4 is currently in beta, so the Ambient Music feature ...