Here are three tracks from a mix tape made by Thurston Moore. Trying to control sharing through music is like trying to control an affair of the heart — nothing will stop it. Before the iPod and the ...

It took hours to make: every free moment curled by the boombox, the local radio station's song-request line set to speed dial, the volume knob turned loud enough to hear, but quiet enough not to wake ...

In a move designed to fill the void created by the Recording Industry Association of America's crackdown on the formidable business of mix CDs, Universal Music Enterprises is trying its hand at legal ...

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 ...

Back in 1988, Kurt Cobain did what all the other cool kids were doing at the time: He made a mix tape. But instead of songs like "Never Gonna Give You Up," the tape the 21-year-old put together on a ...

I’ve been hearing rumors that the cassette tape is making a comeback. First vinyl, now this. Can 8-tracks be far behind? Probably not. 8-tracks are like Betamax and ET for Atari: things that newer ...

Just because we’re socially distant doesn’t mean we have to be emotionally distant — it’s a distinction we’ve been repeating a lot on Houston Matters lately. And we’ve been using music as a ...

Unrated, 57 minutes (spanning two episodes). The series debuted at the South by Southwest Film & TV Festival on March 9 and is currently in search of a distributor. AUSTIN — Mix Tape, a soulful ...