This is the story of the people who made music visible.

Infinite scroll through 80k Winamp skins with interactive previews.

Songs have a far more complex and concealed musical history, spanning genres, cultures, and even centuries.

Orchid’s synthesiser engine allows musicians to create sounds from retro keyboards to expansive textures. A beautiful PDP.

Music video by director Jon Rafman for James Blake nails the feeling of not knowing what's real anymore.

Collaborative database of creative-commons licensed sound for musicians and sound lovers.

Album art communicate visually the mood of the music. Here are the best album covers of all time, each one a piece of art in its own right.

A photoessay of my visit to SFMOMA’s Art of Noise exhibit.

The shift to music streaming has led to songs getting shorter, music getting less melodically diverse and lyrics getting more repetitive.

Music notation should be as accessible and as fluid as text is on the web. CSS Grid helps us get there.

Examining 30 years of Rolling Stone’s “Greatest Albums of All Time” Rankings

Album covers get all the praise, but the humble band logo has never quite got its full dues. Until now.

We compared each performer’s pitch to the standard to see who is the ultimate diva.

Every time someone visits, Sonic Garbage performs a YouTube search with randomly generated phrases.

An interactive AI-generated 3D music video taken from a single feed of video shot on an iPhone.

We worked with SimpleBits to create a unique typeface for the band.

A music listening experience.

Songwriting credits since 1958, broken down by gender

A spin through what makes the record-breaking star so popular.

Over five decades, hip-hop has grown from a new art form to a culture-defining superpower.