Twitter and Music Discovery; Indie Musicians Should Focus On Podcasts, Playlists

In their company blog, Twitter announced that they've partnered up with French powerhouse music streaming service Deezer. But will you use it?

In this piece independent rapper Kosha Dillz shares explains the value and importance of focusing one's self-promotion in the direction of smaller more personal podcasts and playlists, rather than fruitlessly seeking the attention of larger media outlets.

The companies are planning to charge as little as $5 a month for new streaming music services, half the cost of the current pricing model.

New figures show money raised by streaming grew 49% in 2015 as live performance revenue fell.

With the emergence of affordable subscription fees and the growing divergence of free and paid content on music streaming platforms such as Spotify, Apple Music, Sirius XM and Pandora, it seems clear that the music streaming market is moving towards paid services going forward.

Forza Horizon 3 will allow Groove Music Pass subscribers to stream music from their Groove Music playlists directly into the game.

Spotify just updated its Linux app, but the streaming service has been without a Linux developer for more than a year.

Why a once vibrant from of expression is being lost.