‘Spotify for Artists’ Gets Upgraded; Online Music’s Coming MySpace Moment; Pandora On-Demand
Spotify Upgrades Fan Insights Feature to ‘Spotify for Artists’ — www.billboard.com
Spotify is upgrading Fan Insights and rebranding the initiative as Spotify for Artists, complete with new features and controls that allow all artists to not only peek under the hood at their data through the service, but also manage their artist presence within Spotify itself.
Online music is about to experience another MySpace moment — www.musicxtechxfuture.com
An emerging void signals new opportunity for innovation in digital music. The benefit of writing thoughts down is that you get to revisit them.
Pandora’s on-demand streaming service is available to everyone — www.engadget.com
It’s been just about a month since Pandora unveiled its attempt at building full-fledged, on-demand streaming music service.
The Next “Serial” Might Be A Podcast From Tinder Or Spotify — www.fastcompany.com
Why companies like eBay and Slack are putting their ad dollars into branded content podcasts.
Spotify to launch Facebook Messenger bot and will let you listen to song snippets inside Messenger — venturebeat.com
Spotify has announced a new Messenger bot to help users share and find music directly within Facebook’s omnipresent messaging app.
Prince ‘Deliverance’ EP Out Friday: Stream Title Track Now — www.billboard.com
To honor the one year anniversary of Prince’s death, a six song EP of previously unreleased material called ‘Deliverance’ will be released on Friday and the title track is available now on iTunes and Apple Music.
Dan Auerbach Confirms New York City Show & SiriusXM Simulcast — www.jambase.com
Look for Dan Auerbach to preview material from his upcoming solo album as part of a full-band show in New York City next month.
How to tell if your music distributor is ripping you off — news.distrokid.com
A lot music distributors will try to mislead you. Read this to find out how, so you can defend yourself.
High-End Audio Makes A Comeback — www.twice.com
Astell & Kern K380Astell & Kern’s top-of-the-line high-res portable audio player ($3,499) features 32-bit 384kHz playback, native DSD playback, parametric EQ with 20 bands 0.01dB, scalable amp, DNLA-based AK Connect app and a metal touch-sensor home button.
An elegant primer: Classical music, made easy — www.economist.com
The “classical” genre on Spotify comes some way down the list, and classical buffs have been fretting for ages that audiences are getting greyer and smaller. Even so, many people have at least a passing acquaintance with some of the superstars of the classical repertoire: Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, say, or Mozart’s “Eine kleine Nachtmusik”, or Handel’s “Messiah”.
Music streaming, simplified — www.livemint.com
How it’s possible to listen to millions of tracks without downloading a single one — and examining the best options for your daily soundtrack.
