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theverge.com May 26, 2017
It’s time for Spotify to stop capping how much music you can save

It’s a pretty good New Music Friday, everybody. But today, while adding some new releases to my Spotify library, I ran into one of the app’s most aggravating restrictions: I crossed the 10,000-song limit.
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nytimes.com May 28, 2017
Gregg Allman, Influential Force Behind the Allman Brothers Band, Dies at 69

Gregg Allman, a founding member of the Allman Brothers Band, the incendiary group that inspired and gave shape to both the Southern rock and jam-band movements, died on Saturday at his home in Savannah, Ga. He was 69. His publicist, Ken Weinstein, said the cause was complications of liver cancer.
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salon.com May 29, 2017
Against “Sgt. Pepper”: The Beatles classic made pop seem male, nerdy and “important” — and that wasn’t a good thing

For those who find Rolling Stone-style hagiography tiresome, last Friday was a rough day. “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” the most celebrated record by the most celebrated band in the history of pop music, turned 50 years old.
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theguardian.com May 27, 2017
Spotify hopes going public will cement streaming as music's future

As music industry celebrates second straight year of growth, service hopes to buck trend of tech industry disappointments on Wall Street As music industry celebrates second straight year of growth, service hopes to buck trend of tech industry disappointments on Wall Street 06.
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io9.gizmodo.com May 27, 2017
Harvard A Capella Group Honors John Williams With Medley of His Best Scores

GIF John Williams was recently presented with an honorary doctorate in music from Harvard University, and since they couldn’t sneak an entire orchestra onto the stage, one of the school’s most famous a cappella groups took it upon themselves to pay musical tribute to Hollywood’s most iconi
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npr.org May 29, 2017
For Video Soundtracks, Computers Are The New Composers

Tomas Villegas was looking for information about a product on YouTube, but couldn't find it. "So I thought, well, I'm sure there's other people looking for it. So I made a video."
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npr.org May 29, 2017
Encore: Jingle Writer Explores Decline Of Original Music In Advertising

Advertising jingle writer Steve Karmen wrote a number of famous jingles, including Budweiser Beer's, "When You Say Bud," the New York State song, "I Love New York", the Exxon Song and Wrigley Spearmint Gum's, "Carry The Big Fresh Flavor." This story originally aired on Dec.
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npr.org May 25, 2017
Ramen Rock: These Japanese Punk Legends Sing About Food

By night, they play gigs. By day, they sample ramen in cities across America. They're the three women of Shonen Knife, a legendary rock band from Japan. For over 35 years, the band has been serving up infectious punk songs with a delicious twist: Many of them are about food.
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medium.com October 11, 2015
The Devaluation of Music: It’s Worse Than You Think

In their many (justified) laments about the trajectory of their profession in the digital age, songwriters and musicians regularly assert that music has been “devalued.” Over the years they’ve pointed at two outstanding culprits.
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theverge.com November 12, 2015
YouTube Music is here, and it’s a game changer

YouTube is first and foremost a video portal, the world’s largest and most popular online collection of moving images. But it’s also a search engine, the world’s second largest, trailing only its parent company, Google.
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npr.org December 10, 2013
NPR Music's 50 Favorite Albums Of 2013

These are the albums we loved the most this year. In what we've written about each one below, you can see what we felt should be rewarded, what shook us up and what sucked us in over the 12 months of 2013.
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lifehacker.com May 3, 2014
The Best Sounds for Getting Work Done

The right kind of sound can relax your mind, hone your focus, drown out distractions, or get you pumped to kill your to-do list. We've assembled some research and free resources to help you create your own best workspace soundtrack.
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pitchfork.com February 16, 2017
A Conversation With Brian Eno About Ambient Music

Visiting Brian Eno’s studio in London’s Notting Hill neighborhood, there’s plenty to catch the eye. Shelves sag beneath books and records, a spiral staircase climbs up toward the rafters, and a kitchen table is filled with wine bottles in preparation for a party.
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spookyandthemetronome.wordpress.com July 5, 2016
Listening in an Age of Musical Plenty

There are over 30 million tracks available to stream on Spotify. That’s a lot of music to listen to, and most of it you’ve never heard before. How is one to make sense of all those sounds? Ben Ratliff has some ideas.
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Ed Sheeran - Thinking Out Loud [Official Video]

The official video for 'Thinking Out Loud', Ed learnt to dance! 'x', available to buy via iTunes here: http://smarturl.it/x-itunesdlxFeaturing and taught by @dance10Brittany and @dance10PaulSubscribe to my channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToEdSheeranGo behind the scenes of the video: http://bit.ly/Th
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Marconi Union - Weightless (Official Video)

Buy the album Weightless (Ambient Transmissions Vol 2):+ iTunes: http://found.ee/WeightlessAlbum+ Just Music Store http://found.ee/I3Rql+ Subscribe to the Most Relaxing Playlist on Spotify: http://bit.ly/MostRelaxingPlaylist+ Follow Just Music on Spotify http://bit.ly/JustMusicSpotify“An ethereal
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theguardian.com October 11, 2013
David Byrne: 'The internet will suck all creative content out of the world'

The boom in digital streaming may generate profits for record labels and free content for consumers, but it spells disaster for today's artists across the creative industries Awhile ago Thom Yorke and the rest of Radiohead got some attention when they pulled their recent record from Spotify.
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theguardian.com November 16, 2014
Steve Albini on the surprisingly sturdy state of the music industry – in full

The music producer, Shellac frontman and author of seminal 1993 essay, The Problem with Music, spoke in Melbourne about the advantages of the internet, the death of the major label system, copyright law and that ‘purple dwarf in assless chaps’• Steve Albini: the internet has solved music
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medium.com May 2, 2016
How Music Affects Your Productivity

It’s a question worth asking, since music has increasingly become a part of the modern-day workplace. Music has a strange temporal permanence; as art decorates space, so does music decorate time.
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youtube.com March 31, 2017
Kendrick Lamar - HUMBLE.

Music video by Kendrick Lamar performing HUMBLE.. (C) 2017 Aftermath/Interscope (Top Dawg Entertainment)http://vevo.ly/H8UJcZ
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theverge.com July 1, 2014
Shut up and spend: inside the electronic music money machine

There was a time, not many years ago, when people used to ask each other what type of music they liked as a way of finding common ground.
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Tame Impala - The Less I Know The Better

Music video by Tame Impala performing The Less I Know The Better. (C) 2015 Modular Recordingshttp://vevo.ly/qVS6Yo
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farnamstreetblog.com May 31, 2016
John Seabrook and the Modern Song Machine

Ever noticed a certain “sameness” to the pop songs you hear nowadays? A similarity in their structure, feel, and the voices you hear on the tunes? You're correctly clued in.
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mentalfloss.com January 5, 2016
15 Famous Songs With Misunderstood Meanings

Here's a look at some songs that got their meanings twisted and misconstrued—and the original intentions put forth by the artists who wrote them.
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music.hyperreal.org
ENO: VOYAGES IN TIME & PERCEPTION

Music theorist Brian Eno, who first came into prominence as a member of Roxy Music, has been a powerful bellwether of popular music for the past decade.
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thecreativeindependent.com October 10, 2016
Anohni on art, corporations, and the music industry

Do you see a connection between your music and visual art, or do you see them as separate modes of creative output? I do see them as quite separate. I’m obviously addressing some of the same themes in both bodies of work, albeit in different ways. Singing always necessitates a performance.
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nytimes.com October 8, 2015
The Creative Apocalypse That Wasn’t

In the digital economy, it was supposed to be impossible to make money by making art. Instead, creative careers are thriving — but in complicated and unexpected ways. By STEVEN JOHNSONAUG. 19, 2015
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medium.com May 9, 2017
I Got Rejected by Apple Music… So I Redesigned It

Earlier this year I applied and interviewed for a graphic design internship at Apple Music (an opportunity of a lifetime), and was turned down with a very kind letter stating that although they liked my work, they wanted to see more growth and training.
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theatlantic.com March 29, 2015
How Sufjan Stevens Subverts the Stigma of Christian Music

The genre has had a bad reputation since the 1960s, but the singer-songwriter succeeds by focusing on aesthetics over evangelism. In a 2003 episode of South Park, Eric Cartman sets out on a quest to make a platinum record, and decides the easiest route will be to start a Christian band.
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DIE ANTWOORD - UGLY BOY

DONKER MAG out now on iTunes: http://bzz.is/donkermag_it + Amazon: http://bzz.is/donkermag_amz.Website: http://dieantwoord.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/DieAntwoordTwitter: https://twitter.com/dieantwoordNINJA Instagram username: rotgot23¥O-LANDI Instagram username: prawn_star'UGLY BOY'Dire
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lifehacker.com September 26, 2016
Focusmusic.fm Is Simple, Minimal, and Streams Music to Work To

Music for productivity comes in various forms, but if you’re the type who enjoys non-vocal electronica in the background while you get stuff done, Focusmusic.fm delivers. Best of all, it’s in a simple, minimal interface with few controls and no playlists or other tools to distract you.
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vulture.com November 17, 2013
Platinum Underdog: Why Taylor Swift Is the Biggest Pop Star in the World

Taylor Swift worries a lot about security. It’s an understandable concern. This spring, a man was arrested in the wee hours of the morning near her estate in Watch Hill, Rhode Island.
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theverge.com September 30, 2015
Tastemaker

In the ‘90s, Aby Ngana Diop was the queen of taasu, a practice of ritual poetry performed by female griots in Senegal.
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buzzfeed.com
Inside Apple Music’s Second Act

Music streaming is a buyer’s market, and over the course of its first 14 months, Apple Music has pitched itself to customers in a few marquee ways.
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thenextweb.com March 10, 2017
Why Google Play Music All Access beats Spotify hands down

Ever since Spotify was launched I’ve been a subscriber and huge fan of the service. I’ve sworn by it for years and have built extremely large playlists on the service and synchronized them with all of my devices.
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thevinylfactory.com May 30, 2014
The greatest electronic albums of the 1950s and 1960s

Originally published on FACT. The great electronic albums of the 1970s get plenty of kudos – but what of their predecessors?
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nafme.org March 27, 2015
Why Students Really Quit Their Musical Instrument (and How Parents Can Prevent It)

Every year almost 100% of public school students begin an instrument through their school’s music program (if a program exists). One or two years later, more than 50% of students quit; unable to enjoy all that music education has to offer for the rest of their K-12 schooling, if not beyond.
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lifehacker.com February 13, 2015
Create Cross-Genre Music Playlists with Spotify's Sweet Spot Tool

If you find your taste in music at constant battle with other people's tastes in music, Spotify's new Sweet Spot tool attempts to build the perfect playlist that bridges the gap between them.
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mikemonday.com December 19, 2014
How to Finish a Track You’re Stuck On… FAST.

How much time have you spent on music you’ve never finished? How many hours have you wasted – simply because you didn’t get a track over the line? How many awesome ideas have you lost to boredom? So if you’re anything like I was before I discovered this method… It’ll be in the 1000s.
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gawker.com December 9, 2014
How Darude's "Sandstorm" Became the EDM Track Everyone on the Web Knows

Beep beep beep beep beep. Darude's "Sandstorm" turned 15 years old last month.
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nytimes.com April 13, 2014
The Ballad of Geeshie and Elvie

Photographs and video by LESLYE DAVIS Production by TOM GIRATIKANON In the world of early-20th-century African-American music and people obsessed by it, who can appear from one angle like a clique of pale and misanthropic scholar-gatherers and fr
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theverge.com December 30, 2014
'Take Me To Church' and the extremely earnest return of apocalypse pop

If there is such a thing as seasonal music for New Year's Eve, it is apocalypse pop.
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theatlantic.com January 4, 2015
In Music, Uniformity Sells

Even unapologetic Top 40 hit-lovers would have a hard time denying the claim that popular music, on the whole, tends to sound pretty repetitive. This assertion feels so intuitive, that even detailed scientific studies backing it up tend to be met with a shrug.
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brainpickings.org January 7, 2015
A Classical Guitarist’s Assuring Account of Creative Homecoming and Overcoming Impostor Syndrome

In her sublime memoir of the writing life, Dani Shapiro wrote: “The job — as well as the plight, and the unexpected joy — of the artist is to embrace uncertainty, to be sharpened and honed by it.
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lifehacker.com November 2, 2015
How to Craft the Perfect Playlist for Productivity

Nothing has more of a negative impact on my workday than forgetting my headphones. Like most people, music is a huge part of my life. I listen to the most music while I work, sifting through playlists, on what seems like a never-ending search for the perfect tunes to keep me in the zone.
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vox.com April 19, 2014
Vinyl's great, but it's not better than CDs

Happy Record Store Day! There are plenty of business-related grievances to be filed against the annual vinyl celebration, but it's hard to argue with the spirit of a day encouraging people to explore and buy new music.
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newyorker.com April 27, 2015
The Man Who Broke the Music Business

One Saturday in 1994, Bennie Lydell Glover, a temporary employee at the PolyGram compact-disk manufacturing plant in Kings Mountain, North Carolina, went to a party at the house of a co-worker. He was angling for a permanent position, and the party was a chance to network with his managers.
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aeon.co March 8, 2017
One more time

What is music? There’s no end to the parade of philosophers who have wondered about this, but most of us feel confident saying: ‘I know it when I hear it.’ Still, judgments of musicality are notoriously malleable.
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grantland.com May 28, 2015
The Pride of U2

A free album no one asked for. A massive tour millions will see. A legendary career. An army of haters. To be U2 is to be in contradiction with the culture, while trying to be the culture. Thirty-five years into its existence, what does the band mean now?
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npr.org December 7, 2015
NPR Music's 50 Favorite Albums Of 2015

This is how we listen: Take 12 months, a few thousand albums and pan for gold. We sift for works that are definitive and for sounds or songs that cross boundaries, make connections, teach us something new.
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theverge.com August 28, 2015
YouTube as you know it is about to change dramatically

The way you experience YouTube may be dramatically different before the end of the year.
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theverge.com September 11, 2015
Fall 2015 music guide: the 48 albums we can't wait to hear

It's never been easier to feel like you're drowning in a sea of new music.
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thevinylfactory.com November 22, 2013
15 jazz records for people who don’t like jazz

Busting the myth of jazz as a private island for the smug, middle-aged and lonely.
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fastcompany.com July 11, 2014
How Music Affects Your Productivity

It is for this reason (and many more) that music is regarded as one of the triumphs of human creativity–but does music itself help one to create? This is an important question to examine, because music has increasingly become apart of the modern-day work session.
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pitchfork.com April 16, 2015
How Much Is Music Really Worth?

The intricacies of the music industry recently stumped a Nobel Prize-winning economist.
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qz.com March 10, 2014
The complete guide to listening to music at work

If you’re reading this article at work, there’s a decent chance you’re wearing headphones. It has never been easier to tune in to your own customized soundtrack—or more necessary to tune out your open-office coworkers, cubicle mates, and fellow coffee-shop denizens.
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nytimes.com May 16, 2016
The Inside History of ‘Where Are Ü Now’

On the radio, where it has been ubiquitous all summer, the million-selling single “Where Are Ü Now” by Skrillex and Diplo with Justin Bieber is four minutes of high-tech bliss: a sweet-voiced mixture of longing and recrimination, a lonely plaint with a dance beat.
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nytimes.com January 31, 2015
Streaming Music Has Left Me Adrift

It’s hard to imagine now, but there once was a time when you could not play any song ever recorded, instantly, from your phone. I call this period adolescence. It lasted approximately 30 years, and it was galvanized by conflict.
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Major Lazer & DJ Snake - Lean On (feat. MØ) (Official Music Video)

WATCH OUR NEW LYRIC VIDEO FOR RUN UP FEAT. PARTYNEXTDOOR & NICKI MINAJ OUT NOW - http://vid.io/xcvtOFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO // MAJOR LAZER & DJ SNAKE - LEAN ON (FEAT. MØ) "India is special and its beauty absolutely humbled me. When we toured there as Major Lazer, it was mind blowing to see our fan-base
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nytimes.com November 2, 2016
Which Rock Star Will Historians of the Future Remember?

Classifying anyone as the “most successful” at anything tends to reflect more on the source than the subject. So keep that in mind when I make the following statement: John Philip Sousa is the most successful American musician of all time.
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3 Hour Relaxing Guitar Music: Meditation Music, Instrumental Music, Calming Music, Soft Music, ☯2432

3 Hour Relaxing Guitar Music: Meditation Music, Instrumental Music, Calming Music, Soft Music, ☯2432 – YellowBrickCinema’s Instrumental Music includes relaxing Guitar music, Piano music and Flute music. Our instrumental music can be used for relaxation, study, meditation and stress relief. Thi
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readwrite.com December 6, 2013
Get Ready For The Streaming-Music Die-Off

Streaming music gets one thing right. Services like Pandora, Rdio and Spotify are amazing for the consumer, and in that singular way, the music industry hasn’t been better in … probably ever. At long last, we have the celestial jukebox we dreamed of a decade and a half ago.
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sploid.gizmodo.com February 3, 2017
Fascinating break down explains why Taylor Swift songs are so catchy

If you existed in the year 2014, you have probably either cringed or sang along or cringed while singing along to Taylor Swift's oppressively catchy song Shake It Off. Just why the hell is it so catchy ? Well, for one it's pop.
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avclub.com January 7, 2014
Melvins’ Buzz Osborne picks songs by “bands that were good, but blew it”

In I Made You A Mixtape, we ask our favorite musicians, actors, writers, directors, or whatevers to strut their musical savvy: We pick a theme, they make us a mix.
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99u.com June 17, 2013
Turn It Up: How the Right Amount of Ambient Noise Increases Creativity

Finding the right space to do creative work can be difficult. Inside the office, there are constant interruptions, last-minute meetings, and an often unbearable amount of noise.
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npr.org February 16, 2014
First Listen: Beck, 'Morning Phase'

The thumbnail summary already circulating for Beck's 12th full-length album goes like this: It's a sequel to Sea Change, the brooding 2002 record frequently mentioned as his masterpiece. This is useful, to a point, for placing Morning Phase in a general neighborhood.
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aeon.co April 26, 2017
Now THAT was music

Some of us are more susceptible than others, but eventually it happens to us all. You know what I’m talking about: the inability to appreciate new music – or at least, to appreciate new music the way we once did.
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newyorker.com November 24, 2014
Revenue Streams

Daniel Ek, the C.E.O. of Spotify, is a rock star of the tech world, but he is not long on charisma. At thirty-one, he is pale, boyish, cerebral, and calm. Jantelagen, the Scandinavian code of humility and restraint, is strong in him.
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slate.com December 8, 2015
Prince’s Long-Hidden Cover of “Creep” Is Back Online and Incredible

As is well known by now, Prince doesn’t have a particularly high opinion of the Internet. In the past decade, he’s sued YouTube, kept his music off every streaming service but one, and made something of a second career in claiming copyright infringement.
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lifehacker.com October 21, 2014
Learn About Music Theory with This Easy to Understand Online Book

If you've always wanted to learn more about song writing and the structure of music, but don't know where to start, this free online book is filled to the brim with pages that make understanding music theory easy. Toby W.
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ideas.ted.com November 10, 2015
What making music does to your brain

What’s it like to have a song inside your head, itching to get out? A neuroscientist and a songwriter compare notes from the frontier of music and science. Music is the most complicated sound the brain can process.
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inc.com May 31, 2016
Want to Raise Your IQ? Neuroscience Says to Take Up This Easy Habit

Most of us think of IQ as a fixed thing, like an SAT score. You take a test, they tell you how smart you are, and that's that. Turns out that's wrong.
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newyorker.com February 17, 2016
How to Listen to Music

There’s a distinct possibility that I would never have been able to finish reading “Moby-Dick,” in my early twenties, had it not been for the Guns N’ Roses song “November Rain.
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theverge.com June 30, 2015
Here's how Apple Music compares to Spotify, Tidal, and other streaming services

One question immediately stands out when you start to compare the biggest music streaming services: where are the differences? The reality right now is that Apple Music and Google Play Music, Spotify and Rdio, and any other pair of other music streaming services sound pretty similar on the surface.
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grantland.com August 12, 2014
The American Band Championship Belt

When you decide that spending about 27 work hours determining the holders of the American Band Championship Belt going back to 1964 is a good, even noble idea, you quickly come up against two inconvenient facts.1 One, many of the best bands ever aren’t from the United States.
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lifehacker.com March 3, 2017
The Four Keys to Effective Practice

Practice is an important factor in mastering any skill. You want the hours you put in to be as effective as possible so you can improve steadily. Here are four keys to making sure your practice is effective. Learning a new skill, like playing an instrument or programming, isn’t easy.
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lifehacker.com August 27, 2015
Every iOS Setting You Should Check When You Get a New Phone

Once upon a time, iOS “just worked” out of the box. But over the years, Apple’s introduced all kinds of features to iOS that most of us don’t want to use.
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engadget.com
How a file format brought an industry to its knees

MP3. It's the format that revolutionized the way music's been consumed since the late '90s.
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ubu.com
History of Electronic / Electroacoustic Music (1937-2001)

When I started uploading the collection, in 2009, I was an undergraduate student of a composition class at the university's studio for electroacoustic music. Our professor made this collection, I believe, from his particular library, picking up some works that he found important.
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pitchfork.com September 26, 2016
The 50 Best Ambient Albums of All Time

“As ignorable as it is interesting.” That’s the classic definition of ambient music, stated by Brian Eno in 1978 on the sleeve notes to his album Ambient 1: Music for Airports. And he should know, since he basically invented the genre three years earlier with his album Discreet Music.
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theverge.com February 25, 2014
This is the most sampled song ever

Samples and remixes have become a staple of pop music today, with artists blending new and old in seemingly endless combinations. According to the BBC, though, one song has proven particularly popular among DJs and musicians: "Change the Beat," by Fab 5 Freddy.
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youtube.com
Lorde - Royals (US Version)

Download Lorde's album "Pure Heroine (Extended Edition)" featuring "Royals" now:iTunes: http://smarturl.it/PureHeroineExtendedAmazon: http://smarturl.it/PureHeroineExtendAZMusic video by Lorde performing Royals. (C) 2013 Universal Music NZ Ltd.
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nautil.us January 23, 2014
How Music Hijacks Our Perception of Time

One evening, some 40 years ago, I got lost in time. I was at a performance of Schubert’s String Quintet in C major. During the second movement I had the unnerving feeling that time was literally grinding to a halt. The sensation was powerful, visceral, overwhelming.
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Robin Thicke - Blurred Lines ft. T.I., Pharrell

Watch the UNRATED version only on VEVO: http://vevo.ly/W0OCcADownload the album in US now! http://smarturl.it/BlurredAlbumClick here for a special customized canvas of Blurred Lines: http://smarturl.it/CapThicke Watch him perform live on Interscope Introducing : http://smarturl.it/RTIntroducingMusic
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theatlantic.com July 28, 2015
The Tragedy of iTunes and Classical Music

The new version of Apple’s signature media software is a mess. What are people with large MP3 libraries to do? When the developer Erik Kemp designed the first metadata system for MP3s in 1996, he provided only three options for attaching text to the music.
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wired.com March 26, 2015
The Instrument That’s the Key to Electronic Music’s Future

Why does the music in Blade Runner resonate so deeply? Because Vangelis, the mad genius Greek who wrote and performed the score, relied primarily on one instrument: the Yamaha CS-80. The thing that made this ’70s-era synthesizer so special was an inspired feature called “Polyphonic Pressure.
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newyorker.com September 16, 2014
The Church of U2

A few years ago, I was caught up in a big research project about contemporary hymns (or “hymnody,” as they say in the trade). I listened to hundreds of hymns on Spotify; I interviewed a bunch of hymn experts.
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buzzfeed.com
The Secret History Of Britney Spears’ Lost Album

The KIIS-FM offices in Burbank, Calif., were nearly deserted the day Britney Spears called. It was December 2004, just before New Year’s Eve, and Jesse Lozano was filling in for the regular host, who was on vacation. “Britney Spears is on the phone,” he was told.
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themission.co June 19, 2015
8 Things Every Person Should Do Before 8 A.M.

Here is the Italian and French translations. Life is busy. It can feel impossible to move toward your dreams. If you have a full-time job and kids, it’s even harder.
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brainpickings.org April 5, 2016
Aldous Huxley on the Transcendent Power of Music and Why It Sings to Our Souls

Nietzsche proclaimed in 1889. But although a great many beloved writers have extolled the power of music with varying degrees of Nietzsche’s bombast, no one has captured its singular enchantment more beautifully than Aldous Huxley (July, 26 1894–November 22, 1963).
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nytimes.com May 8, 2017
How Do You Solve a Problem Like the Chainsmokers?

The Popcast is hosted by Jon Caramanica, a pop music critic for The New York Times. It covers the latest in pop music criticism, trends and news. The Chainsmokers’ path from dance-music pranksters into legitimate, if often reviled, pop hitmakers has been brief and uncomfortable.
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