YouTube was trying to keep something secret until a grand unveiling on Tuesday, but there was a leak. It has a new streaming service that bundles all the Google music services into one
Read MoreApril Fool’s Day is over for another year. Good. It’s a stupid tradition. Here’s some truthful and real msuic news. This is eye-opening: the difference between people who pay for streaming music services
Read MoreFor a couple of years, Songza was the most popular of all the streaming music services available in Canada. Some 3 million Canadians turned to the service each month. In a country late
Read MoreRdio died last night, the victim of takeover by Pandora. If you were a user–I was–I hope you managed to rescue your playlists before the site went dark. Next up: the death of
Read MoreWhen Songza, a music streaming service powered by human curated playlists, was purchased by Google about 18 months ago, there was much speculation on what would become of it. Would it be left
Read MoreWell, Scotland? What will it be? September 23 has been declared David Bowie Day in Chicago. Insert cliched “Let’s Dance” remark on your own time. A possible big deal for Babs. Metallica plans
Read MoreThis was a very, very bad week for album sales in the US. In fact, it was a bleak time for most of the major territories for two reasons: (a) all the labels
Read MoreThe biggest online source for music in this arm of the Milky Way is YouTube. Add together all the other services and you have only a fraction of YouTube’s reach. Google–YouTube’s overlords–know this.
Read MoreOkay, okay, I’m biased because I work for Songza. While the Songza Canada team are in New York getting Googlized (Google bought us last week), USA Today has this review on the service.
Read MoreOkay, the secret’s out. After the markets closed Tuesday, it was announced that Google has acquired Songza (Full disclosure: I work for Songza so I kinda have a dog in this one, which
Read MoreRAIN published this interview with Songza CEO Elias Roman yesterday. Yes, I work for the company as head of curation for Canada. Just flyin’ the flag, you know? Internet radio platform Songza has built its
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