An ad used by Multnomah County (Ore.) Library to promote its Library Music Project. Image: Multnomah County (Ore.) Library In Portland, Oregon, the music of local freak-folk legends The Tree People is ...

Starter offers introductions to artists, scenes, styles, or labels of the past, plus a playlist. Typically relegated to crate-digger curiosities for their role as sample fodder, library music records ...

Back some time in the 1990s, David Hollander first discovered library music amongst the shelves of a shop called Record Supply in West Los Angeles. “While browsing the soundtrack section,” he writes ...

Library music was first produced in the 1920s for use with silent movies. Its golden age came during the 1960s and 1970s, when it provided off-the-shelf (and relatively low priced) incidental music ...

A recent graduate of the University of Minnesota, Nina started at CNET writing breaking news stories before shifting to covering Security Security and other government benefit programs. In her spare ...

The 1970s were an important era in the evolution of modern-day music. But there was one particular “genre” of music from that time period that inevitably influenced how music sounds today. And I’ll ...

More specifically, do you curate a music library in the streaming era? For the past few years, I’ve lived entirely in YouTube Music’s Home feed and rarely visit the dedicated Library tab. At this ...

The music industry is racing towards streamed distribution, but many of us have built up sizeable music collections. I certainly have, and I spent weeks ripping my old CD library a few years back (and ...

Over time, it’s not uncommon to build up a large library of music and media on your Mac. If you want to share that content with other people so that, for example, your family members can listen to ...