AI-generated playlists are undermining music discovery. Here's how owning your music helps escape filler, ads, and algorithm-driven streaming.

For many of us, listening to music is simply part of the driving routine – as ordinary as wearing a seatbelt. We build playlists for road trips, pick songs to stay awake, and even turn the volume up ...

What a professor has found about how we choose to listen or not listen to, and the effect on our moves behind the wheel.

A candy that makes you grove but not the psychedelic kind. It's got a scientific concept behind it and is also hitting the ...

A separate driving-simulator study on music as a countermeasure to fatigue found almost the same thing: fast, high-intensity tracks produce a short-term bump in alertness for about 15–25 minutes, then ...

Want to know when a friend is actively listening on Spotify? See how to use the new Spotify Listening Activity to see real-time activity.

The right music can define a holiday – so for 2026, we thought we’d do the hard work for you and curate five playlists to ...

Spotify's latest update adds real-time Listening Activity and new social tools that let you see what friends are playing, and ...

Reports of MTV’s death may have been premature, but it’s still a far cry from the Music Television of yore. Some of our elder ...

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“‘Help Me, Rhonda’ is my 16-month-old’s favorite song. A passing memory from our childhoods but it came to mind when my ...

For some YouTube Music users, the dead internet theory is slowly starting to become reality. This is primarily because the AI ...