With bedroom-produced DIY tracks topping the streaming charts and explosive distortion the new norm on TikTok, is sound quality becoming irrelevant in 2026?

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is an academic, critic and broadcaster The Louvre lost €88mn worth of jewellery in less than 10 ...

Steve Pink’s Terrestrial is a strange and charming little sci-fi of errors, one that feels both scrappy and effortless. But it’s held back by its rough edges, and while that can be fun, it ultimately ...

Founded in 2023 by composer Christian Henson (formerly of Spitfire Audio) The Crow Hill Company is an Edinburgh-based developer of software instruments and sample libraries. Launched in 2024, Crow ...

In the mid-2010s, when I was in high school, the genre known as lo-fi beats was like a brain cleanse for all my time spent mainlining Minecraft and YouTube. The music was tender, with drums sizzling ...

If that whole “acting” thing doesn’t work out for Finn Wolfhard, star of Stranger Things and director of recent slasher-comedy Hell of a Summer, then maybe he should give this whole “music” thing a ...

The flood of AI slop isn’t letting up. And it’s splashed into an online space where many seek solace and comfort, or simply a way of numbing the mind to the world in an attempt to accomplish anything ...

The Internet Archive, the digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts, has started livestreaming on YouTube from its scanning center in California for anyone to watch. Monday ...

Chill with You: Lo-Fi Story is a work-focused sound novel game where you work at your desk alongside Satone, an imaginative girl who loves writing novels. Customize the lo-fi music, ambient sounds, ...