“I put a pitch-shifter on the master bus!”: In the era of lo-fi beats and bedroom recording, does sound quality even matter anymore?

With bedroom-produced DIY tracks topping the streaming charts and explosive distortion the new norm on TikTok, is sound quality becoming irrelevant in 2026?

Where every school day has a soundtrack: Inside Dorchester’s music-first charter school

At 8:30 a.m. on a Monday, the halls at Conservatory Lab Charter School‘s upper school are preternaturally quiet, with just the low hum of the overhead lights as your soundtrack. But the signs that ...