Archival label will air fundraiser for MusiCares COVID-19 Relief Fund. Ben Gibbard, Jim James, Fred Armisen and more will participate in a livestreaming charity concert hosted by Light in the Attic today (Friday, April 3rd), on YouTube and Twitch at 4 p.m. PST/7 p.m. EST.
SoundCloud CEO Kerry Trainor announced a plan worth $15 million to support creators during the shutdown, as well as initiatives designed to bolster their careers.
As social media influencers continue to win more and more of the "war on attention" how do the songs they introduce to the world resonate with fans beyond a listen?
The Latin Grammys created three new categories.
Everybody, now, “right foot – up, left foot – slide; left foot – up, right foot – slide...”
Podcasts are becoming a bigger and bigger part of the American audio diet. Where are most of those new listeners coming from? AM/FM radio.
Sleep expert Sara Mednick and musician Lisa Mednick explore the relation between the science of sleep and the process of music making.
Spotify has open-sourced their Terraform module for running machine-learning pipeline software Kubeflow on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). By switching their in-house ML platform to Kubeflow, Spotify
Amazon Music For Artists launched just prior to the current craziness and we’ve just had the chance to spend a little time under the hood. The mobile app for artists and. Continue reading
Here are 12 tech advances that didn’t last the distance with music consumers.
In a time when conventional live performances are out of the question, other sources of revenue for musicians are more important than ever. In this excerpt we look at three.
Artists like Grimes and Kelly Lee Owens are pioneering an emerging field of environmental aesthetics with their pensive, ethereal symbolism.
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