While Brian Eno didn’t invent the idea of music that becomes part of the environment, he was able to synthesise some of the disparate ideas around the form, and in 1978 he gave that form a name with ...

Hearts of Space began as a late night radio show out of San Francisco in 1973. Ten years later, the show went national via public radio. Now celebrating 25 years of national broadcast, the show has ...

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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 ...

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.

Co-hosted by Editor-in-Chief Puja Patel and Reviews Editor Jeremy D. Larson, and featuring guest critics and contributors, our weekly podcast includes in-depth analysis of the new music we find ...