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

Intimate gatherings of sports fans and media personalities – Kevin Kennedy in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 012 November 25, 2020
No matter the sport, passionate fans and pundits have long debated the goings-on in the clubhouse or on the pitch of every pro sports team. For most of us, this dialogue and discord are limited to Twitter, or perhaps yelling at sports talk radio hosts in our cars. If you were paying slightly more attention, […]
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The Business of Independent Production – Don Young in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 011 November 18, 2020
Canadians have long heard about Canadian content, aka CanCon. What most outside of the broadcast business don’t generally realize is that much of that content is actually subsidized by the private broadcasters, such as Bell Media and Rogers Media. Many independent producers have made a career, and a lot of money, perfecting the art of […]
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Reaching new VR frontiers – Laura Mingail in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 010 November 10, 2020
Pushing boundaries and breaking with convention takes more than confidence, especially when you’re working inside a media giant. To do this in an authentic and meaningful way one needs to truly believe that they can make a difference, for the greater good. Laura Mingail has done just that in many of her roles, and as […]
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