Songza Archives - Alan Cross' A Journal of Musical Things

Streaming is about to get a lot more interesting with the new YouTube Music

YouTube was trying to keep something secret until a grand unveiling on Tuesday, but there was a leak. It has

April Fool’s Day is over for another year. Good. It’s a stupid tradition. Here’s some truthful and real msuic news.

For a couple of years, Songza was the most popular of all the streaming music services available in Canada. Some

Rdio died last night, the victim of takeover by Pandora. If you were a user–I was–I hope you managed to

When Songza, a music streaming service powered by human curated playlists, was purchased by Google about 18 months ago, there

Well, Scotland? What will it be? September 23 has been declared David Bowie Day in Chicago. Insert cliched “Let’s Dance”

This was a very, very bad week for album sales in the US. In fact, it was a bleak time

The biggest online source for music in this arm of the Milky Way is YouTube. Add together all the other

Okay, okay, I’m biased because I work for Songza. While the Songza Canada team are in New York getting Googlized

Okay, the secret’s out. After the markets closed Tuesday, it was announced that Google has acquired Songza (Full disclosure: I

RAIN published this interview with Songza CEO Elias Roman yesterday. Yes, I work for the company as head of curation