I’m not particularly sold on Spotify’s user interface. I mean, the colours are pleasant but there’s just something about its operability that bugs me. I can’t say what, exactly, but then again, I’m
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Once music is released, copies flood the planet: CDs, vinyl, digital tracks and files, maybe a few tapes. But all those copies come from master recordings. Should anyone need to make more copies,
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Commercial terrestrial radio has been with us since the early 1920s when the governments made the then-cutting-edge technology available to civilians. AM was the first band we used. FM was introduced in the
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Everywhere you go, someone else is determining the kind of music you should hear: record labels, marketing companies, focus groups, streaming algorithms, radio stations—but it’s a lot better than it used to be.
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If you ever get a chance to listen to anything remixed in Dolby ATMOS on a proper sound system, do it. It’s…remarkable. Last year, I visited a study in the Sound City complex
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I’m not sure if the world really wants this, but Kulun Tech, a Chinese company, has launched Melodio. The company claims this is the first-ever streaming service that offers AI-created music based on
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AI may end up wiping out humanity, but for now it can be an interesting tool. Take what Billy Corgan has done to plug the new Smashing Pumpkins album, Aghori Mhori Mei. He
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Say goodbye to Google’s Chromecast. In its place is the Google TV Streamer, a 4K TV box that will also double as a smart home hub. That means if you have any Google
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The compact disc has been around for more than 40 years and although it’s giving way to digital downloads and streaming music services, it’s been a pretty tough customer, resisting and rebuffing all
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Although CD sales continue to fall, people are still buying them. And after almost 40 years, it’s still the format of choice for the physical sale of music. But it’s not like the
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There are an infinite number of reasons why I miss David Bowie. One is his intelligence, foresight, and prescience when it came to certain things. Here he is talking about the future impact
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