Tag: spotify
Sounds of the Underground – Inside 5 Mag #209
Alinka on the cover, Laseech cover mix, Marco Lenzi on resuscitating Molecular Recordings and finding talent in a noisy world, Being on being there and more inside the new issue of 5 Mag, out now.
The AI music company shitting up your streams
A single AI music company claims it has created 14% of the world's recorded music and are flooding streaming platforms. Who, or what, is Boomy?
How to play hi rez audio on an iPhone
Want to listen to a wav or aiff file on your iPhone? Flacbox is a cheap, simple app that makes it easy.
EU might be taking on Spotify over artist payments again
An influential legislator in the European Parliament calls streaming platforms "unbalanced" when it comes to paying artists.
How Spotify turned dance music into dance muzak
Streaming has spawned a new format for dance music that's hostile to DJs, and seemingly unaware of what a DJ even does.
Should radio pay artists performance royalties?
Congress is rethinking radio broadcasters' longstanding exemption from paying them
Spotify cancels the “dumbest product in the world”
Dropped after just 5 months, Car Thing was another multi-million dollar swindle Spotify chased instead of paying musicians fairly
Outshine: Inside the New Issue of 5 Mag
Hugo LX, Worldship Music & the Return of the Teflon Dons, Cee ElAssaad and more inside the new issue of 5 Mag, out now.
The price of streaming music is going up
Apple announced a 10% to 12% increase, effective immediately. Spotify is going up in 2023, CEO Daniel Ek said less than 24 hours later.
Spotify promotes fan support for artists – to better target their...
The music streaming platform is luring livestreaming artists back from Twitch and YouTube by leveraging fan donations.
#Expansion – Inside the new 5 Mag
Louie Vega's love letter to NYC nightlife, the legend and Gil Scott-Heron collaborator Brian Jackson, Beretta Music and more inside the new issue of 5 Mag.
Spotify releases the dumbest product of the year
Did you want better royalties? How about a remote control for your phone instead? Meet "Car Thing," Spotify's latest proof of the Dunning-Kruger Effect.
Vinyl sales jump 61% in a single year
Vinyl jumps, CDs explode and your digital downloads are getting kinda bummed out. More revelations from the RIAA 2021 annual sales report for the record industry.
Bandcamp acquired by Fortnite’s Epic Games
Shocking the industry, Epic Games - publisher of Fortnite and Unreal Engine - has purchased Bandcamp, the leading independent artist platform. What now?
Spotify has made millionaires. Almost none of them are musicians.
Spotify's Serfs: A new report breaks down the Black Box of Streaming and the brutal financial realities of the music industry's streamonomics.
#Praise – Inside the new issue of 5 Mag
Live from Detroit with Norm Talley & Upstairs Asylum, Lea Lisa, Cratan and more inside the new issue of 5 Mag.
Spotify, which pays little, wants to pay artists even less
Spotify's last money-grab from artist royalties alarmed government investigators. Now they're grabbing even more.
Spotify defies expectations and disappoints everyone
Revenues from music subscribers continue to fund podcast spending at the world's largest streaming service.
The Root of the Issue: Inside the New 5 Mag
Monty Luke on BLM, Climate Change and Creating a Catalogue of Black Electronic Music, Brawther cover mix and more inside the latest issue of 5 Mag, out now.
SiriusXM Just Invested $75 Million in SoundCloud
SiriusXM - already the owner of streaming giant Pandora - has made a strategic $75 million investment in SoundCloud. It looks like either SoundCloud is doing great or SiriusXM is getting ready to eat them.
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Brutal layoffs at Bandcamp as new owner slashes 50% of staff
A week after promising to preserve many of the site's most beloved features, Bandcamp's new owner has gutted the company's staff. The writing team at Bandcamp Daily is reportedly down to just 3 people.
