Websites offering up free — and not always legal — music flourished in the gap between the fall of the CD era and the rise of streaming. Keeping those archives intact is proving difficult. By Brian ...

Beloved mixtape service DatPiff is reinventing by pairing with Archive.com to make past music accessible. DatPiff is rolling out its “next generation.” After the mixtape service announced last month ...

Decades after they helped grow hip-hop into mainstream culture, mixtapes are now the raw material in a number of apps and websites that do not pay record labels or artists any money. DatPiff If you ...

After DatPiff’s servers crashed in mid March, operators of the beloved mixtape hub mitigated rumors of its demise by tweeting that the site was “still here” and would “still be supplying you with all ...

The site is experiencing technical issues. Before Apple Music and Spotify, there was a period when many rap fans listened to their favorite artists’ music via Datpiff. The 18-year-old audio platform ...

Online mixtape distribution platform DatPiff has put rumours of its demise to rest, assuring listeners, "we're still here." On Monday evening (March 13), a post in subreddit r/hiphop101 claimed that ...