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What Exactly is a Bootleg in Music?

Before the age of digital piracy, bootleggers found a variety of ways to steal unreleased musical recordings and sell them to the public.

The "Amen Break" has been used in over 2,200 songs since 1969. There's a good chance you've heard it before without even realizing it.

From behind a chicken mask, Berrigan weaves unique vignettes of hip hop, soul and electronic music, and this is some of his best work yet.

In the late 1980s, the concept of on-demand music was being pioneered by mixtape kiosks similar to Redbox. So why has no one heard of this?

Marvel's latest series features a delightful soundtrack packed with soul and hip hop music—a perfect fit for the show's Harlem setting.

Over the course of 33 years, Fred Rogers wrote over 200 songs that taught us some important lessons about life. Won't you be our neighbor?

What are the creative limitations of musical sampling? When used as the entire basis for a song, is it an "homage" or just laziness?

These two songs share fairly similar music videos and lyrical themes. Is this "just an illusion" or was there something else going on here?

When songs use the same music sample, does that mean one artist stole the idea from another? Does sampling even lend itself to "ownership"?

Whether leaked from the studio or officially released, early demo recordings of songs can offer interesting insight into their development.