They've been around almost as long as the Web, but lately they've made stunning gains in influence. Are they the new music labels? Greg Sandoval covers media and digital entertainment for CNET News.

This isn’t the ’90s anymore. People don’t actually buy music. We download it for free. Most blogs do their best to only post what they consider to be quality tracks. But let’s be real. Most electronic ...

Pitchfork is excited to announce the upcoming launch of Altered Zones, a new sister site that will focus on leftfield pop, experimental, and home-recorded sounds. In the last several years, there's ...

Near the end of September, Sam Levine, who manages the rising act Tom the Mail Man, noticed an unexpected bump in the singer-rapper’s streaming numbers. After some internet sleuthing, Levine traced ...