This post is part of Hard Refresh, a soothing weekly column where we try to cleanse your brain of whatever terrible thing you just witnessed on Twitter. After hours looking at a screen and dealing ...

And finally today, to create a certain mood, people may often turn to ambient music. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) DETROW: That's music, usually without words and curated in playlists, that's sometimes meant ...

The Montreal band Godspeed You! Black Emperor is famous for its collages of doomsaying street sermons and sad-eyed orchestrations. But the website You Are Listening to Los Angeles gives that formula a ...

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 ...