Bijan Stephen
Everybody started streaming Willy Wonka music after Gene Wilder's death
Streams of "Pure Imagination," a song Wilder sang in the 1971 movie "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory," shot up after his death — an effect often seen after musicians die.
The VMAs used to be dangerous
The VMAs are more anodyne than ever, and matter less than they ever have.
Key and Peele Are Improv'ing Their Way Through Four and a Half Hours of Super Bowl Coverage
All without saying the names of the players, teams, or the event itself, for legal reasons.
Production Music: The Songs You Almost Know By Heart
There's an entire industry devoted to creating the songs that sort of sound like other songs that you hear on TV.
Stranger in the Village No Longer
As hip-hop struggles to parse difference in its mainstream, it's experiencing growing pains—but healthy ones.
Social Media Is Dead, Long Live Social Media
How the Internet has accidentally reconfigured the way we think of music, and vice versa.