With the 66th Grammy Awards in Los Angeles Sunday, Feb. 4, here’s a look at the modern world of music. The music business is doing well, according to the Recording Industry Association of America. The ...

From eight-tracks to iPods, these once-popular ways to listen to music eventually disappeared. Each format had its moment, but advances in technology—like streaming and smartphones—led to their ...

Agile Music means allowing music fans to customize their music experiences, and for those music experiences to be dynamic and ever changing, free of the stasis of physical media formats. But a vibrant ...

In the 1980s, programmers of rock-oriented radio stations began tinkering with their playlists. Instead of playing only contemporary hits, they added in songs from the 1960s and 70s to appeal to older ...

In a response to National Public Radio‘s submitted statistics in October 2010 (see below), the Federal Communications Commission wrote: “Looking at the same 505 public radio stations in 2001 and in ...