Volume One

New Deadmau5 Radio Show

Looks like deadmau5 is getting his own radio show on Apple’s streaming service Beats 1. The show starts Friday the 18th at 3pm PST, though not much else is known yet.

From Macrumors:

Besides the announcement tweet via the Beats 1…

Hear This: Rostam — “Gravity Don’t Pull Me”

Here’s a new single from longtime member of Vampire Weekend, Rostam Batmanglij, as he breaks out on his own. No stranger to producing hits for Vampire Weekend and Carley Rae Jepsen, among others, Rostam mixes things up musically on “Gravity Don’t Pull Me…

Explore Audio With These Rad Music Experiments

From Google:

For Music In Our Schools month, we wanted to make learning music a bit more accessible to everyone by using technology that’s open to everyone: the web. Chrome Music Lab is a collection of experiments that let…

The Problem With (Truly) Wireless Earbuds

It’s not just the antiquated wires and tethering tiny speakers from my ears to a music…

How-To: Become A Spotify Master

Everyone should be able to figure out how to sign up for Spotify, download its app, and listen to music. It’s not crazy hard. Digital Trends has gone a step (or two) further, however, and created a 12-page guide detailing how to really use the service, inside and out.

The Constant ‘Man Vs. Machine’ Music Debate Rages On

This time from Pigeons And Planes in the context of Apple’s Beats1 compared to Spotify’s Discover Weekly:

But Beats 1 Radio made it feel as if music streaming and discovery finally had a human touch to it. The…

They Might Be Giants Offer New Album For ‘Pay What You Want’

‘Pay what you want’ has largely been abandoned in recent years as a sustainable monetization method for mainstream artists, but here’s what the band They Might Be Giants say about it for their new album ‘Phone Power’:

Record Store Day 2016 Releases

The official list of special vinyl releases for record store day 2016 has been announced. What’s record store day? A recent, yearly, tradition of supporting and shopping local record stores on a certain day — this year its April 16th. Click the link and find out more.

Google’s Phone Service, Project-Fi, Now Open To Everyone

In addition to Google opening its Project-Fi network (which uses T-Mobile, Sprint, and Wi-Fi) Google’s Nexus 5X is also on sale for $199.