As any good music geek knows, YouTube is a treasure trove of isolated tracks — a single vocal or instrument lifted from a familiar song, sometimes from the master tapes, sometimes pulled out of the ...

In early 2010, audio of Kurt Cobain wincing through “Smells Like Teen Spirit”—Nirvana’s first charting hit, from 1991, and a foundational text for the next few decades of punk-rock bands—suddenly ...

If Sade didn’t exist, no one could have invented her. Over a career spanning six albums and 33 years, the art of the singer, backed by her band, has never been anything less than inimitable. Yet given ...