In 13-plus years of writing about digital music all day, one of my favorite pieces remains “4 Reasons Music Needs One Big Database,” which argues that all of these MP3 blogs, music subscriptions, tweets, videos, streaming radio services, and so on are talking about the same set of music: the one that exists on planet…
Right now, if you want to try Spotify’s new app platform, you need to download a special preview version of the Spotify desktop application. However, Evolver.fm has learned, Spotify plans to roll out its app platform to all of Spotify’s 10-million-plus active users by the end of next week. [Update: we later learned that the launch…
Each year, hundreds of thousands of new recordings recordings emerge. It takes legions of music bloggers to keep track of it all so you don’t have to. The thing is, the job of keeping track of those music blogs themselves is almost as daunting as keeping tabs on the releases themselves. Joining the suite of…
What if Pitchfork wasn’t a blog? What if when you wanted to hear the newest song from labels like Ninja Tune Records, you went to a marketplace inside a social network dedicated to independent music? That’s the idea behind The New Record, a new venture from 17-year record label vet Bill Armstrong. The founder of LA’s Side One…
Love them, hate them, or simply don’t care, but just don’t deny that the tastemakers at Pitchfork and Drowned In Sound hold massive sway over the music scene. In an era when many music blogs are content simply to throw up an MP3 and a blurb, their reviewers stubbornly post relatively long-form music reviews, although…
