Streaming platform’s new experiment hints at a very different future for playlisting The post Spotify is testing semi-personalized playlists. What might that mean for record labels? appeared first on Music Business Worldwide.
A meeting on the status of anti-piracy efforts at search engines has produced a collaborative approach to better addressing the issue of pirated works appearing in search results. An international collective of search giants thinking of creating a blacklist of all known pirated works, which will be compared with search results every five minutes and…
via Google and Yandex may collaborate on a real-time blacklist of all known pirated works — TechCrunch
Everyone’s favorite endless, serene snowboarding game just made the leap from mobile to the Mac App Store. Available now for $9.99, Alto’s Adventure for Mac is a desktop port of the side-scrolling snowscape game that’s won hearts and accolades since it first hit iOS in 2015. Earlier this year, the team behind Alto’s Adventure introduced…
via You can play Alto’s Adventure on your Mac now — TechCrunch
Cold synths, breakbeats and a Mike Tyson sample. Australian producer and DJ Mall Grab has released a new EP. How The Dogs Chill, Vol. 1 arrives via his new imprint Looking For Trouble. The label’s first release, How The Dogs Chill, Vol. 1 , comes from Mall Grab himself. The four-track release moves from chilly house on…
In her craft essay in Brevity’s September 2018 issue, Beth Kephart considers the ways that another artist’s work—her husband’s painting and photographs, to be specific—helped her see more clearly and further into her own writing. She explains the ways another’s art can inform how the writer sees what her words are trying to describe and […]
via On the Writing Craft: When Watercolors Become Words — BREVITY’s Nonfiction Blog
A former writer for Sesame Street said in a recent interview that he considered Bert and Ernie to be gay — but the show rebutted this claim, saying the puppets “do not have a sexual orientation.” The most recent back-and-forth over Bert and Ernie’s sexual orientation came after former Sesame Street writer Mark Saltzman, who…
Rock-n-Roll, Alive and Thriving There is no denying it. Rock n Roll is alive and thriving, just ask last night’s sold out crowd at the Fox Theater in Oakland. Rockers Greta Van Fleet kicked off night 1 of 3 Bay Area shows that we have dubbed, “Rock n Roll Bay Area Takeover”. The young fast…
Bill now awaits reconsideration by the House and signature by the President The post ‘A momentous day’ as US Senate passes Music Modernization Act appeared first on Music Business Worldwide.
via ‘A momentous day’ as US Senate passes Music Modernization Act — Music Business Worldwide
It’s been too long without any kind of outlandish news from any of Elon Musk’s companies, but SpaceX has filled the void with the announcement of a newly redesigned BFR spacecraft and the news that it will fly around the moon with a soon-to-be-named first passenger. Whenever they get around to actually engineering and building…
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