These iconic compilation albums matter just as much as the studio releases they borrowed from. They aren't just money grabs.

Fan bait, lazy cash grab, legit musical archive, or all three? All such claims are easy to levy at compilation albums, though they do serve as a good gateway to get people into a band's wider ...

The days of record collecting before the internet were days when you knew what you knew and you had what you had. Music spread from dealer to dealer by way of tapes—or it didn’t, in the case of ...

A good Vine compilation on YouTube is a thing of beauty, but it’s easy to miss how much work goes into the great ones. It was easy to snap myself out of a funk last night just by watching a ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Before the days when dance-music fans could experience unlimited recorded sets on SoundCloud, Mixify and YouTube— the mix CD reigned supreme. From the late 80s through the 90s, dance junkies heard ...