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Online music is about to experience another MySpace moment
An emerging void signals new opportunity for innovation in digital music.
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Streaming music
What happens to the legacy of artists who ditch streaming?
Jay Z has removed all of his music from streaming platforms besides Tidal — what happens to the legacy of artists like him who bail on the internet’s preferred music method?
Spotify’s VP of design on being data aware, debating your ideas and being heard
A discussion with some insightful moments on how to use data in the design-process, including talk about how it’s done at Spotify.
Beyond streaming
Tunecore starts offering artists online advances
DIY digital distribution and publishing admin company TuneCore has begun offering its clients automated advances based on their future distribution sales revenue.
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It’s not their pop idol, but a bot. Fans cheer anyway
About OctaneAI’s artist chatbots for fans. Other players in the space: POP (by Tim Heineke, who co-founded FUGA and Shuffler), and The Bot Platform (by Syd Lawrence).
TheWaveVR is a mesmerizing, trippy take on the future of music festivals
TheWaveVR has released a beta version on Steam and is planning to do weekly concerts in VR to build up its community.
Steve Lacy produced that hot Kendrick Lamar track using only his iPhone
Lacy’s smartphone has been his personal studio since he first started making music.
Wide view
The mastermind behind Coachella
How Paul Tollett wrangles the biggest artists in the world into performing in the California desert.
AI learns gender and racial biases from language
Machine learning algorithms that readily pick up cultural biases may pose ethical problems.
A new, more rigorous study confirms: the more you use Facebook, the worse you feel
Online social interactions are no substitute for the real thing.
Fun
Autocorrect for drawing, by Google.
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