How Pirates and Factory Workers Changed Music Forever (and Made Eminem’s Life Miserable)
Posted in: Music Features
Filmmaker Alex Stapleton and writer Stephen Witt discuss their new documentary 'How Music Got Free' about the file-sharing era
Jewel-Box Heroes: Why the CD Revival Is Finally Here
Posted in: Music FeaturesCompact discs never had the romance of vinyl or the convenience of MP3s. But they’re still the ideal format for getting lost inside your music collection
Metallica’s Kirk Hammett on Napster: ‘We Didn’t Make a Difference’
Posted in: Music NewsGuitarist looks back on how the record industry changed since file-sharing reduced the value of compact discs
Napster, Spotify and the Fall of the ‘Middle-Class Musician’
Posted in: Culture NewsAn excerpt from Jonathan Taplin's 'Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy'.
