Google is finally getting serious about blocking annoying autoplay videos that start with the sound blaring. The next update to Chrome (version 66) will include changes to autoplay videos that mean the browser will only play them automatically if the sound isn’t playing by default, or if you click and interact with the site, or [...]
Napster, Tidal, Apple Music, and Amazon still have the highest per-play rates. And don’t expect to make much on Pandora, Spotify, and YouTube. How much should artists expect to receive on streaming music platforms? That’s a complicated question. Last year, Digital Music News published a list outlining the most popular streaming music platforms’ per-stream rates. [...]
The US house icon hits Melbourne and Sydney with Hot Since 82 in November House music heavyweight Kerri Chandler is heading to Australia for the first time in more than five years for Hot Since 82's 'Knee Deep in Sound' series. The deep house pioneer has just been announced alongside DJ J'Nett [...]
July 23, 201811:35 AM ET Kraftwerk performs with ISS astronaut Alexander Gerst. LARS GOTRICH TwitterFacebookTumblrInstagram First things first: Why hasn't this happened, yet? Kraftwerk, thinking about and making electronic sounds for the future since 1970, performed with an astronaut in-orbit live on Friday night. The collaboration, with German astronaut Alexander Gerst — currently on [...]
The industry giant said he longs for his "indie roots" and will be "back in action again soon." Music industry legend Seymour Stein has announced his departure from Warner Music after 42 years at the label group, saying he's eying a return to his "indie roots." By leaving WMG, Stein also is saying goodbye to Sire Records, [...]
Anne-Marie’s “2002,” Portugal. The Man’s “Feel It Still” and more – inside the new wave of pop interpolation Anne-Marie’s “2002” is the biggest solo release of her career, a multi-week Top Five single in the U.K. built around a simple, effective gimmick: cribbing lyrics from songs that were hits between 1998 [...]
Thirty years after his death, the creator of the classic Pride anthem You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) is the subject of academic symposia. Not bad for a drag queen who was ‘just trying to get on to the radio’ On a sunny Thursday afternoon, the theatre at the University of Sussex is playing host to [...]
https://youtu.be/d8Y9RLS9YQ4 This collection of recordings represent a segment of artists whose efforts, together and individually, cemented the city of Chicago as the locale where the era's most creative innovation in dance music was taking place. These producers, being cultural products of the initial House Music indoctrination of the '80s, show off many different sides [...]
Like a modern version of a medieval minstrel, a singer named Jess Magic is helping A-list entrepreneurs get in touch with their inner child in private “songversations.” Jess Magic, far right, guides her spiritual disciples at Soul Salon. CreditZak Krevitt for The New York Times To Chad Mureta, a Silicon Valley app guru, the [...]
Bless this acid house: dancing in face masks and white gloves. Photograph: Matthew Smith/Rex/Shutterstock It was the year I got my first job, the year I broke up with my boyfriend, the year I flew to Barbados and met Imran Khan on a beach, but of all the crazy life-changing moments, none had more impact [...]