All this month, NPR is looking at how the music business has changed over the past decade — one that's seen dramatic shifts in the ways we hear and make music. New York City used to be home to dozens ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Legendary Hip Hop recording studios are the hallowed grounds where many iconic tracks and albums in the genre were created. These ...

This story originally appeared in Issue #10 of Paste Magazine in June/July of 2004, republished in celebration of Paste’s 20th Anniversary. The greatest albums and singles don’t drop from the sky to ...

From the Grecian seaside to the Brazilian mountains to the Arctic Circle's edge, musicians have recorded in these far-flung spaces — and changed their creative outlooks in the process. By Billboard ...

Where you create music can be a sacred thing. Setting can be just as influential on the sound of a record as anything else. California has bred many blithe pop tunes while New York has inspired the ...

For musicians across the scale of ability and income levels, perhaps the ultimate dream home amenity is to have a recording studio of their very own—the more bells and whistles, the better. In ...

If you're familiar with the history of the Beatles then you almost certainly know about their connection with Badfinger, who ...