From dazzling debuts to familiar faces, in 2020, musicians produced a treasure trove of awesome audibles. Recorded in late 2016, but not released until 2020, Nobody Cries Today, the brilliant debut by ...

Windows 10’s Groove Music app may have lost its companion Groove Music Pass service, but it still has a reason to live: so it can take care of your MP3 files. As cloud services turn away from ...

A music streaming service from Microsoft that was introduced in 2006 as Zune Music, along with the Zune music player hardware. Later rebranded as Xbox Music, in 2015 it was renamed once again as ...

If the name “Groove Music” rings absolutely no bells for you, don’t worry — you’re not alone. Microsoft’s attempt at a streaming music service was a valiant one but it was ultimately unsuccessful. In ...

More than a decade after Microsoft introduced the Zune, it gives its streaming music service the axe to partner with rival Spotify. Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering ...

is a senior correspondent and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft rebranded Xbox Music to Groove Music two years ago, in a bid to ...

Christian McBride joins us for a conversation ahead of his performance with Ursa Major at Orchestra Hall on Friday, June 5.