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.

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As we come to the end of the decade that's being called the "aughts," we're looking back at how those 10 years have changed music and culture. One of the biggest sources of delight — and concern — for ...

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 ...

Change is the only constant in the music business, and that goes double for the digital music business. Nonetheless, we've assembled a list of the 10 hottest digital music websites in the world.

Like so many good ideas, the venerable music website Gorilla vs. Bear started because Chris Cantalini spent a lot of time on the internet at work. The Plano native didn’t grow up obsessed with music; ...

Google's Blogger unit last week shut down six music blogs that had received multiple complaints of copyright infringement. What happened next showed just what a mess the whole process is: some of the ...

For the last six months, Oliver Wang, a thirty-two-year-old San Francisco DJ and freelance writer, has been transferring soul and hip-hop classics from vinyl to MP3 and posting them on the Internet.

While Spotify and Pandora are hugely popular options for discovering new tunes, music blog aggregation site The Hype Machine has a bit of a different spin on music discovery. The site keeps track of ...

Thanksgiving Day had barely begun when Kevin Hofman’s BlackBerry buzzed. It was one of the technical operators of OnSmash.com, Mr. Hofman’s popular hip-hop blog, telling him that the site had gone ...