The Recording Academy, the people who put on the GRAMMY® Awards (and who sometimes get upset if you call them “Grammy Awards,” “The Grammies,” or even “GRAMMY Awards” without the “®”), want to give credit where credit is due. The organization’s “Give Fans the Credit” initiative promotes the noble goal of crediting all of the…
We think Soundrop, the group listening platform, is cool for a number of reasons: It just put listening rooms on Facebook. Its listening rooms apparently can scale like crazy due to the use of some arcane technology from Ericsson called Erlang. They can also exist concurrently in different places on the internet. Like, if you’re…
Spotify and Shazam released Grammy predictions before the big awards show last night, based on their music service and music ID apps, respectively. People use Spotify to listen to music, and Shazam to identify songs that are playing, or to show off to their friends that they are hearing that song, according to what Shazam…
Depending on when you tuned in to the 54th Grammy awards Sunday night, you may have seen one of four shows: One was stately and appropriately low-key in its remembrance of the late Whitney Houston; another was unabashedly celebratory; a third was full of the usual awkwardly-forced collaborations; and the fourth one had way too much…
Of all the hacks cobbled together at Music Hack Day San Francisco this past weekend, none were more timely than Paul Lamere’s, which attempted to predict Grammy Awards winners in 13 categories automatically, by analyzing what people were saying about the artists in question. Just hours before last night’s ceremony, Lamere revealed that his app…
The following interview with Spotify CEO Daniel Ek originally appeared on GRAMMY.com. Ek will give the keynote address at the GRAMMY Foundation’s Entertainment Law Initiative Luncheon & Scholarship Presentation on Feb. 10 in Beverly Hills, Calif. For more information on the GRAMMY Foundation, visit www.grammyfoundation.org. The 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards airs live on Sunday, Feb….
“Hey, it’s almost time for the Grammy Awards again!” These words normally lull us to sleep, because too often the “Grammys,” as they’re usually called, seem hopelessly out of touch. To some, a Grammy award can almost become a reason not to listen to something. But with this year’s nominees including Arcade Fire, Cee Lo,…
