A dominant presence on the Pacific Northwest indie-rock scene for the better part of the past two decades, the Portland-based band STRFKR is well known for spacey pop songs like “Rawnald Gregory ...

Ambient music has been on the rise in the streaming era. But with royalty reform and the threat of AI-generated sounds, its future is still uncertain. By Kristin Robinson Senior Writer This analysis ...

Host Scott Detrow talks with Pitchfork editor Andy Cush about ambient music and the growth in popularity of marketing it as so-called mood music on streaming platforms. And finally today, to create a ...

What exactly is ambient music? That’s not such a simple question to answer. While the genre of ‘ambient’ is fairly well established, the exact rules of what makes something ambient aren’t rigidly ...

Modular synths are useful for many genres of music, but possibly none more so than ambient. The nature of modular means there are vast swathes of tools and options for creating everything from subtle ...

The term "ambient" music was first coined in the late '70s by influential British artist Brian Eno, who described it as music created to "induce calm and space to think." Since then, the genre has ...

Ambient music is a common tool people use to help themselves focus when working or studying. Its calming atmosphere makes it ...

I first discovered ambient music in college, when I was a late-night d.j. My show at the campus radio station started every Thursday at midnight and ran until five. From midnight through two-thirty, I ...

Lawrence English is the director of Room40. Brian Eno’s Music For Airports celebrates its 40th anniversary this month. This record is widely regarded as formalising ambient music as we know it today.