Spotify Releases “Faster, Slicker, Better” Google Android App
Spotify has given it's Android app a complete top-to-bottom redesign and the music streamer is calling it their best mobile app yet. "We’ve rebuilt it from top to bottom, making. Continue reading
Hypebot Presents The Upward Spiral Podcast Episode 2 [LISTEN]
Hypebot presents the second episode of The Upward Spiral Podcast, which features Kyle Bylin of Live Nation Labs (and former Hypebot Editor), music industry consultant Jason Spitz (Former Director of. Continue reading
UK’s Amazing Media To Bring Indie Background Music To U.S.
Amazing Media is coming to the States. The Newcastle upon Tyne-based company began in digital music sales then developed a web radio station, Amazing Radio, that broadcast the music they. Continue reading
SoundExchange Expands Overseas Ties, Drops All Foreign Administrative Fees
SoundExchange is expanding its global reach with five new reciprocal agreements with record label collection societies in France, Spain, Sweden, Ireland and Jamaica bringing their total number of international agreements. Continue reading
An Indie Label Shares What Spotify, Streaming Music Services Paid Them
(UPDATED) The Trichordist ("Artists For An Ethical Internet") has shared what it says are the streaming service play and payment stats for an independent label catalog of 87 albums with. Continue reading
Gobbler & Box Unveil Partnership, Provides More Tools For Cloud-Based Collaboration
Recently at the AllThingsD’s D10 conference in Southern California, Los Angeles-based Gobbler announced that its cloud-based backup and collaboration tool for musicians would integrate with Box’s enterprise content sharing platform.. Continue reading
How Music Streaming Services Could Help Artists, Fans, Labels, Charities & The Music Industry
Guest post by Benji Rogers (@benjikrogers), Founder & CEO of PledgeMusic. I'm not into streaming. I've never really made a secret of that, and as such it occurred to me. Continue reading
Samsung’s New Music Hub Takes On Spotify, Pandora, iTunes & iCloud
Guest post by Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. One year ago this week, we wrote about a company called mSpot and its quest to dethrone music service titans like Spotify,. Continue reading
Internet Underground Music Archive Back Online With 680,000 Tracks
A unique chunk of digital music history is back online. Jason Scott has taken archived data from the Internet Underground Music Archive (IUMA) and uploaded as much as he could. Continue reading