Canadian Teens and Millennials Love Streaming Music
As a Canadian Millennial, I’ll be the first to admit that I frequently stream my music on apps like Spotify. It’s good for working out at the gym or when I just want
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Let’s Talk Millennials and Music for a Second
Millennials, the huge cohort of young people born between 1980 and 2000, looks at music differently than previous generations. They’ve never known a world without broadband Internet and smartphones. Music has always been
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If You Were to Build a Radio Station for Millennials, What Would It Sound Like?
This is the question that I’ve put to a number of broadcasting and media students over the last couple of months. For decades, it made sense to organize radio stations by music genre.
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Follow-Up: Why Aren’t Millennials Going to Dance Clubs Like Previous Generations?
Over the last week or so, I’ve been tracking a story on why Millennials don’t seem to be going to dance clubs in the same numbers of previous generations. What’s causing this shift?
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SURVEY RESULTS: Why Millennials Don’t Go Clubbing
There was a period in 1995 where I DJed and/or hosted at three clubs a week. It nearly killed me, but demand was high and the money was good. In fact, I was
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Geeks and Beats Podcast, Episode 135: The Nerd Awakens
I was on the sidelines for much of this week’s show because no self-respecting Star Trek fan would engage in the Star Wars geekery displayed by Michael and our guest, Matt Granger. I
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Why are Millennials so Uncool Musically?
Yeah, that’s a click-baity sort of headline, but it is the topic of this detailed post from POWERevolution. Why Are SO Many Millennials SO Uncool? *For the purpose of this writing, I’m defining “cool”
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Every time I speak to tech people, they seem dumbfounded that the terrestrial radio industry still exists. “You still listen to radio?” comes the wide-eyed exclamation. It’s as if I told them I
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Do You Stare at Your Smartphone During Concerts? You’re Not Alone.
We are all so terribly, terrible afraid of being bored, even for an instant. This Dilbert cartoon from earlier this week sums everything up nicely. Now comes this op-ed from the GM of
Read MoreHow to Get Millennials to Start Paying for Music: The Answer is a Bit Weird
There’s an entire generation which has never paid for recorded music. To them, music has always been free. Buy a CD, a record or a download? Why when everything is out there for
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Random Music News for Thursday, June 11, 2015
You know that photo on the cover of the first Rage Against the Machine album? That’s a real picture of the self-immolation of a Buddhist monk named Thích Quảng Đức. That happened on
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