Houston is the hometown of many a hip-hop legend, and that tightly-knit circle comes together to co-sign one of the city’s ...

Peter Quill's Awesome Mix Vol. 1 is just one of many great fictional mixtapes. Slate Some of the success of Guardians of the Galaxy’s hit soundtrack—which is the No. 1 album in the country as I write ...

Pusha T and Malice continue leaving their mark, with John Legend joining them at the Vatican to perform "Birds Don't Sing." "All my mentors have moved on in their respective careers using their real ...

For the bulk of the '90s, we didn't have iPods. Heck, we didn't even really have CD burning technology until the early 2000s. But you know what we did have? Ingenuity, a lot of patience, and the ...

Music has always been social, well before we had the Internet. We created mixtapes for every occasion; driving in the car, for when we get dumped, a new relationship, and the list goes on and on. A ...

We take our hip-hop series for a spin with one of today's hottest DJs, DJ Drama, and explore the art of mixing and the legal ramifications of it. Last week as part of our Hip-hop series, we examined ...

In 2007, music journalists fell all over themselves trying to predict the effects of Radiohead’s self-distributed, “pay what you will” release of its “In Rainbows” album, little realizing that the ...

When we heard the news about the death of Lou Ottens, the man who oversaw the creation of the audio cassette, it led us to reminisce about mixtapes. And we weren't alone. Readers responded on social ...