What kind of podcasts do you listen to? Someone did a survey.
Podcasting is still in growth mode as more people get into on-demand listening. But what are we listening to? Edison
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Genres
Which genres did best under COVID quarantine? (Hint: A Canadian rock band was a global success)
It’s been a long, long time since there’s been anything normal about how music has been made, performed, recorded, and
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The Ongoing History of New Music, encore presentation: A guide to genres, part 1
[More summer encores. New shows begin the weekend after Labour Day. Rest assured, though, I’m already working on them, too.
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The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 863: A guide to genres, part 2
I’m trying to imagine what it might be like to design an Amazon warehouse. A typical fulfillment centre covers at
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This interactive map shows which countries produce what kind of music
A company called TickX commissioned a survey of 35,000 musicians from around the planet and compared their country of origins
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How the balance of genres are changing at music festivals
Secondary ticket seller VividSeats took a look at how the mix of music is changing at some of the big
Read moreHow does Spotify keep track of all the new musical genres?
Since the birth of rock’n’roll in the 1950s, music has evolved, separated, stratified, and segmented into so many different streams.
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What genre is that song? New artificial intelligence program classifies music by style
In order to make sense of the universe, human beings have always needed to put things we encounter into neat
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Has rock benefited from the rise of streaming? (Spoiler: No.)
Streaming is changing everything about the way music is distributed and consumed. I find this new psychology of music fans
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Tuesday Timesuck: A Way to Explore Every Genre of Music Ever Created
In the Olden Days, it was easy to place popular music into nice, neat piles: pop, rock, country, R&B, jazz,
Read moreThe Guy Who Classifies Every Single Spotify Song into an Ultra-Specific Genre
How’s this for a cool gig: “Data Alchemist” for Spotify. It’s Glen McDonald’s job to classify all the songs on
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