It was a chilly evening in 2006. My eighth-grade boyfriend and I were trading Christmas gifts in our local park by moonlight. We were shivering but dealing, because when you’re 13 and in search of ...

Emerson College entrepreneur Isabel Thottam is on a mission to soothe others through the power of music. Inspired by the lyrics of a Jonas Brothers song last August, the college junior founded Hold On ...

The mix is true to its name, starting softly, almost inaudibly, in the first Dan Deacon song and then building, well, voice. It rises and falls, with gentle, folky love songs and stronger, more ...

Produced and distributed monthly by “your favorite muthafuckin’ white boys,” this CD, available free with a purchase at Independent Records, is the hottest mix disc available anywhere in Mootown. DJ ...

Yeah. Sure. Great idea. If you guys still listen to CDs, which I’ll bet you don’t. Why does everyone feel the need to keep making mixtapes when we all have iPods and Pandora? I hate to rain on your ...

For years, the primary wooing device of young, socially awkward music fans has been the mix CD. Putting a bunch of great, romantic songs together in the perfect order, complete with handwritten notes ...

We love making holiday mix CDs here at the Scene office. Every year, everyone tries to come up with the biggest, baddest mix ever. But after so many years of putting together these things, you start ...

We get a lot of mail at NPR Music, and amid the shampoo samples we accidentally tossed into the fireplace is a slew of smart questions about how music fits into our lives — and, this week, the ...

This past year, when DJ Quote wasn’t mixing things up on the air with Troubleshooter Tom Martino, he was issuing CDs at a frenzied pace. Taking the game to a whole new level, Quote’s discs have been ...