A couple of times a week, I’ll get an email that begins, “I’m looking for a song but I don’t know the name of it,” followed by a vague description, lyrical fragments, an attempt to paint a picture of ...

Darius was a typical young music fan of the 1980s. He hit "record" on his tape deck when a song on the radio caught his fancy, took care to cut off the DJ's announcements, and catalogued the mixtapes ...

For years, a small but heavily engaged community has gathered online, entirely dedicated to the goal of identifying a single elusive song. On Monday, following an exhaustive search, they announced ...

The internet is a lonely place. Vast dunes of zeros and ones, gusted by the winds of hate speech, misinformation and meaningless noise. But among the endless glare of it all, trekking far enough leads ...