Audio Recordings, Downloads and Streaming
A 17-year-old from a small Georgia town built an audience as a rapper on TikTok and SoundCloud before pivoting to country music and inching his way into a notoriously cloistered industry. Source
In more than 60 years as a recording engineer, he worked with a wide range of artists. His most notable collaboration was with Mr. Jackson and the producer Quincy Jones. Source
It depends who’s selling. As some artists release records that feel like footnotes to bigger businesses, others double down on their value. Source
The Electric Recording Co. in London cuts albums the way they were made in the 1950s and ’60s — literally. Source
The Library of Congress designates 25 recordings for preservation, in what it is billing as “the ultimate ‘stay at home’ playlist.” Source
The record executive who made the leap to Silicon Valley looks back on the decade in the music business, and sees a major problem on the horizon. Source
The Carlyle Group, an investor in her catalog, has stepped in to encourage talks between Ms. Swift and Scooter Braun, who now controls her old label. Source
The Ohio musician, who died in 1977 at 24, was a member of the influential bands Rocket From the Tombs and Pere Ubu. A new boxed set collects his recordings. Source
Streaming and social networks took music out of the hands of the country’s cultural guardians and let a new generation of artists emerge. Source
