The algorithms want you to listen to songs. And not even whole songs, but bits of songs that get chopped up and tumbled ...

In 2025, WMNF’s Song of the Day continues to demonstrate why community radio still matters. It sounds human because it is ...

Most independent rappers don’t fail because the music is bad. They fail because they don’t understand the first 24 hours.

For marketers, MTV’s UK sign-off is a clean line in the sand. There was a time when buying youth culture meant buying a slot ...

Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson are facing backlash from the family of the musician whose life story is dramatized in the new ...

Schroeder, who is 28 and lives in Fargo, North Dakota, texts Cole “all day, every day” on OpenAI’s app. In the morning, he ...

Posting your Wrapped is a small cultural performance, part taste, part humour, part self-awareness. Friends reply with theirs; brands join in. The ritual doubles as free global marketing. Each share ...

The ceremony, which included a Punjabi club singer and an indie singer-songwriter, was a masterclass in NYC cultural ...

Southern writer Sean Dietrich traces how smartphones, algorithms and outrage culture killed newspapers, gutted reading and ...

Cardi B didn’t win 2025 by accident. She campaigned and executed it like someone who understood the moment before it arrived.

In the late 2010s, so-called mumble rap took off. Critics lamented that the genre—and the styles it continues to ...

In this week’s edition of The Prototype we look at the biggest tech breakthroughs of 2025–and the year’s best music.