Longreads about music

For people with musical anhedonia, the auditory and reward regions of the brain may not interact in response to songs.

The story of a mysterious Florida musician, fake identities and the record-breaking sale of a rare album that might not actually exist.

White noise, touted as the key to productivity, calm, and sleep, is widely misunderstood.

Is dance music's growth as an industry squeezing out the people who throw parties?

The outdated practices of America’s most popular radio program perpetuate systemic musical segregation.

The most infamous ticket scalper of all time used bots to buy millions of tickets. Now he wants to stop them.

For decades, musicologists, cryptologists and music lovers have searched for the phantom melody of Edward Elgar’s "Enigma Variations."

Rain drop. Drop top. No. 1 hit.

Does he own a flour mill? Why hasn't anyone seen his movies? When Luaka Bop tried to track down this enigmatic Nigerian singer, they found more questions than answers

Twenty years after ‘Endtroducing …,’ the artist and his peers discuss crate digging in the digital age

To celebrate the reissues of her classic early albums, we asked six vocalists what it is about Yoko Ono that they find inspiring.

Indeed, it’s often hard to untangle the criticism and evaluation of Meg White: The Musician from Meg White: The Female Body. In the fan communities, on the forums and the message boards and blogs, the criticism is most unyielding and brutal.