Amazon Music is the ecommerce giant's music streaming platform. There are paid-for plans available, but you can listen to playlists and stations for free with no subscription or credit card ...

Ambient music events have been described as “a stew of a psychedelic collage.” They have a rich history going back to the 1960s and are again having a moment in Los Angeles. Why it matters ...

Dark Noise Easily the best ambient noise app for iOS, Dark Noise offers 50 background sounds and the ability to create your own mixes. It also has a home-screen widget and Siri support, so you can ...

A pioneer of Japanese ambient music, Yoshimura’s “Feel,” from his landmark 1986 album “Green,” uses synthetic sounds to construct an otherworldly landscape.

Instead of embracing ambient’s potential — its capacity to soften barriers and loosen ideas of sound, politics, temporality and space — the music has become instrumentalized, diminished into ...

In iOS 18.4, Apple added a new ambient music feature to Control Center. It does exactly what it sounds like, and provides a variety of options to play some ambient background music with the tap of ...

In this episode of the Pitchfork Review podcast, our critics talk about why seemingly everyone is listening to so much ambient music nowadays, and also answer a few burning questions from readers.