Dinwiddie dislikes what the current mixtape culture has done ...

After a weekend of holidays (4/20, Easter and Record Store Day all on the SAME WEEKEND?? Just throw in the Mayan Apocalypse why don'tcha...) you're going to need the perfect soundtrack to get over the ...

It only took ten years, but Travis Scott’s beloved mixtape Days Before Rodeo was finally added to streaming services today. The project arrived just a year before his official debut album Rodeo, and ...

Here’s a modern music quiz: What’s the difference between an album and a mixtape? Confused? You’re not alone. In fact, it’s simpler to name how they’re alike. Both are collections of songs by an ...

For the bulk of the '90s, we didn't have iPods. Heck, we didn't even really have CD burning technology until the early 2000s. But you know what we did have? Ingenuity, a lot of patience, and the ...

TDK, BASF, Maxell: once, these were among the most important words in the teenage lexicon. Generations of young romantics perfected their playlists, customised their cover art, and poured heart and ...

In every challenge there is opportunity. Over the last couple of years, the challenge for mixtape culture has been mainly existential: What exactly is a mixtape, and how can the format be preserved ...

In 2007, music journalists fell all over themselves trying to predict the effects of Radiohead’s self-distributed, “pay what you will” release of its “In Rainbows” album, little realizing that the ...

When we heard the news about the death of Lou Ottens, the man who oversaw the creation of the audio cassette, it led us to reminisce about mixtapes. And we weren't alone. Readers responded on social ...