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 ...

We get a lot of mail at NPR Music, and amid the offers for bulk fast food on Super Bowl Sunday are many smart questions about how music fits into our lives — and, this week, humanity's role in ...

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 ...

For a certain group of us, they played a huge part of our lives, especially during our formative years. They acted as currency and foreplay; serving as insights into someone’s mind, as well as an ...

Peter Quill's Awesome Mix Vol. 1 is just one of many great fictional mixtapes. Slate Some of the success of Guardians of the Galaxy’s hit soundtrack—which is the No. 1 album in the country as I write ...

Music has always been social, well before we had the Internet. We created mixtapes for every occasion; driving in the car, for when we get dumped, a new relationship, and the list goes on and on. A ...

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 ...