Keeping up with music news and resources like Spotify’s giant and regularly updated New Music Friday playlist are great ways to keep your listening habits from getting stale. Sometimes, though, you ...

Set in 2015, the coming-of-age comedy Dope is steeped in the sound of the ’90s: Malcolm, the protagonist (whose chance drug gain sets off the story), is obsessed with retro rap. But Rocky, in his ...

For Billboard's #TBT Mixtape series, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros frontman Alex Ebert went deep on a playlist from his youth, dubbed "'91-'94 - Otherness: A Hip-Hop Renaissance," and opened up… ...

From nostalgic ‘90s hip-hop to moody jazz night walks, AI-powered playlist tools are transforming how we discover and enjoy ...

The catch about Golden Eras is that we don't always know when we're living in one -- we only know when it's already over. The hip-hop Golden Era is generally recognized to have started in the late ...

Back in the day, the mixtape was the driving force behind hip-hop culture. But these days, fans don’t reach for C-90 cassettes when they want to spread the gospel – they make playlists. The biggest ...

This song, which hit no. 18 on the Billboard Hot 100, is all about the intense amorous feelings brought on by lust, specifically the kind that comes with the warm weather. Taking a look at the music ...

A Tom’s Guide test of Apple Music integration in ChatGPT found that the AI could create surprisingly well-matched playlists when given detailed, mood-specific prompts. The experiment included niche ...