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The Best Albums of 2025

From Mavis Staples to the Kronos Quartet—these are our music critic’s favorite works from this years. David Hajdu The ...
As DEI battles and funding shifts roil campuses, music programs from UCLA to Juilliard continue to grow. THR ranks the 20 schools shaping the next generation of composers.
These days, every family moment ends up on a smartphone. Birthdays, ball games, first steps, last steps, and everything in ...
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Students are using computers to create music through coding rather than traditional instruments.
How much do Americans rely on podcasts? How have they changed the media industry? And why do we love them?
Under Neal Mohan’s leadership, the platform generated more than $36 billion in advertising revenue and $14 billion more from ...
One of the more colorful and fun people in gaming is Takenobu Mitsuyoshi, who has made a career of composing great game music ...
Boardroom sits down with the Task composer to unpack his path from Pitchfork’s Best New Music to shaping one of the year’s standout shows. Long before Dan Deacon landed his most recent gig, handling ...
Hundreds of UW-Madison students will be programming through the night for the university’s ‘MadHacks’ event.
Indiana University Fort Wayne students studying for a dental career will have access to new equipment thanks to a $174,000 ...
What was your most listened-to track of the year?