Several weeks ago I gave a rather bad grade to SoundCloud’s “explore” classical channel, but I’ve been checking out other channels, and the service’s “world” stream is much better. A lot of really marvelous Japanese, South Korean, Chinese, Arabic, and Indian content there. Among the best tracks I’ve heard: Time and Fallen Leaves. A fine […]
College Broadcasters Inc. (CBI) has announced that it has reached a settlement with SoundExchange in regards to the fees paid by student webcasters. According to a press release from CBI, this tentative settlement will “freeze royalty payments for the next five years. It would also continue to allow student webcasters to continue to file proxy […]
Some quick twilight tweets from the Radio Survivor tweet-watch committee. Here’s what’s going on. From ARTxFM in Louisville: Midnight Locker now! http://t.co/bDYUdlNq4U — ARTxFM (@ARTxFM) October 7, 2014 From Radio Valencia in San Francisco: On Now: A Season in Hell with @JohnHell. Whether is’s punk, funk, or crunk, you’re sure to get an earful of […]
Last month the world’s #2 music stream service Deezer introduced itself to the US with a new high-fidelity, uncompressed service called Deezer Elite. Now the company is bringing its compressed Premium Plus service stateside. Like Elite, at launch Premium Plus is tied to specific hardware. The service is only available to users of Bose SoundTouch […]
YourEDM has an interesting piece on the thinking of DJ Producer Ryan Raddon, aka Kaskade, regarding radio and YouTube. Raddon sat on a recent Advertising Week panel in New York City. Raddon’s words: “On my [YouTube] channel I’m just sharing insight, I mean anything from ‘hey this is music that I’m listening to,’ to ‘this is […]
The RAIN newsletter has an interesting opinion post up by Mike Spinelli, formerly at SoundExchange, now in law school studying music licensing. Spinelli’s post is titled “The ‘me’ generation: why music curation isn’t the answer.” We are all individualists now, Spinelli says. Looking at various aspects of Beats Music, he contends that “human-curated playlist are not […]
SoundCloud has a variety of “Explore” channels. These are basically very long playlists of whatever has been recently posted. They include Folk, Rock, Deep House, Trip Hop, and a bunch of other genres about which I know nothing. The service also has a “classical” channel. The problem is that most of the content on the […]
I am an 8tracks.com discussion forums lurker. Here are the hottest conversations, and the offbeat ones. The One Song That You Could Listen to Forever. This forum has generated no less than 2.3 thousand views. Among the faves: “Feel Good” by The Gorillaz; Handsome Family’s “Far from Any Road,” “One Night With You,” by Thieves […]
One reason why many music enthusiasts and audiophiles have eschewed streaming music services is that they don’t want to be limited to the compressed files that platforms like Spotify and Rdio deliver. While compressed MP3 and AAC files have taken over digital music, there’s a growing segment of listeners who still prefer buying uncompressed files […]
Where even to start. It’s been awhile since an episode of Welcome to Night Vale has absolutely blindsided me like that and, if you’re anything like me, those of you that have heard it probably share my exhilaration. Released on Labor Day, Episode 53: The September Monologues provides a new and daunting depth to an […]
