Perhaps it’s true that there’s no such thing as a “Spotify holdout” — it’s just that it only makes sense for bands to put their music in certain places at certain times. In the film/video industry, and more recently in the music industry, this is called “windowing” releases. Pink Floyd is the latest of these…
Mother’s Day is fast approaching, and, typically, we can’t resist putting together another playlist to celebrate it. Let’s literally hear it for the moms. We wouldn’t be here without you. We’ve stocked this playlist with a few tunes to get the ball rolling, but the neat thing about these collaborative Spotify playlists is that you…
My old friends at We Are Hunted, the brains behind the much-heralded Twitter #music app – and their new friends at Twitter — have figured out what to do with the We Are Hunted Spotify app, now that the firm’s technology is being used exclusively to parse Twitter data and turn it into playable charts. To deal…
Soundrop, which builds group listening rooms that can exist all over the internet at the same time, offers plenty of rooms where you can hear someone’s idea of good music. Now, it’s harvesting charts of the most-starred music from all of its rooms in Spotify, and filtering them into genre charts designed to offer the…
Fans of forward-looking music have at least two things to be excited about this spring: new albums from Boards of Canada (which is teasing fans with the rarest vinyl released this year) and Daft Punk, whose Random Access Memories is set for a May 20th release. On Friday, Daft Punk dropped the “Get Lucky” single on Spotify,…
Another commemorative day, another collaborative playlist. That’s right – we just couldn’t resist putting together some jams for Valentine’s Day, as we tend to do for holidays and special events because we can’t really help it, and the technology to make one of these is now commonplace. We tried to include songs everyone can enjoy,…
Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day, which means that emotions will be flying high. Restaurants will be packed with couples vowing their undying love. Children will be hopped up on chocolate and chalky candy hearts. Some people will turn to friends (or liquor) for emotional support as they lament their singlehood. Others will turn to friends (or…
Paul Lamere, the man who brought us the Infinite Jukebox, Bohemian Rhapsichord, Bangarang Boomerang, and other fun stuff is at it again with Boil the Frog, a free web app that’s a little bit like “six degrees of separation.” Boil the Frog is a curiosity — a conversation piece of sorts, but it’s also a new way…
The year isn’t over yet (nor is the world, for that matter), and already, music publications are engaged in the annual ritual of deciding which songs and albums represent the very best the year had to offer. As ridiculous as it is for a publication to assert that one album was the objective best of the…
‘Tis not quite the season to lose one’s mind risking life and limb for winter holiday bargains, thankfully, but rather for Thanksgiving, which only requires some food shopping, and asks of us only that we stuff ourselves like turkeys and give thanks for whatever we have. By my calculations, this makes Thanksgiving the finest holiday…
For those of us in the Northeast, Halloween doesn’t come with the same scare factor as usual, considering the real-world fright of Hurricane Sandy. Whether you’re one of the millions stuck without power, huddled around a neighbor-charged laptop screen, or you’re somewhere else enjoying temperate weather, you will need some music to get you into…
As I sit 50 feet from the mandatory evacuation line here in New York City, wondering what to listen to, it occurs to me: Hey, why don’t we do another hurricane playlist, so our readers can listen along and add their own contributions? After all, it was so much fun last time. Luckily, this is…
Sitting in Brooklyn listening to freshly-released Bon Iver remixes, it comes as no surprise that, according to Spotify’s data about which tracks were shared by New Yorkers, we Brooklyn-dwelling hipsters adhere to “everything new and cool.” Our friends across the water in Manhattan will be pleased to note that their listening habits on Spotify are…
Celebrated indie folk crooner-fronted Bon Iver, music collaboration platform Indaba Music, and unlimited music service Spotify teamed up in August for a remix contest that gave everyone in the world unfettered access to every part on the 2012 Grammy Award-winning Bon Iver record. Remixers were to use Indaba to collaborate and submit remixes for voting by…
You might already know that Brooklyn, New York (a.k.a. Hipsterville, U.S.A.) is home to 523 technology firms, over 10,000 tech employees, and $3.1 billion in “total economic impact output” from the tech community, whatever that means. DUMBO, which is some real estate genius’s invented acronym for Down Under the Manhattan Brooklyn Overpass, is a particular…
