This week on the Music Tectonics podcast, host Dmitri Vietze chats with Tristra Newyear Yeager, resident music tech deep thinker, about unex

June 16th - LA Times Does the fragmented music streaming landscape keep us from connecting with people through music? Sorry, I had my ear-buds in. June 17th - Vice An AI just completed an unfinished piece from composer Antonín Dvořák, 115 years after his death. June 17th - Music Business Worldwide Lover, Taylor Swift's seventh album, is the most pre-added album on Apple Music, with more than 222,400 pre-adds in four days. And its release date is two months away. June 18th - M

I see Spotify as the icebreaker, the nuclear ship that created a new path when the entire music industry froze over. Everyone in America was

SoundExchange CEO and president Mike Huppe digs into all the ways the organization works to make the music industry more fair and frictionle

This week on the Music Tectonics podcast, Vocalize.ai founder & CEO Joe Murphy rates the big music streaming services on their voice exp

Cherie Hu returns to Music Tectonics to delve into the week's news!  Cherie digs deeper into why Hip Hop doesn't dominate YouTube&#3

Warner signs an algorithm (sort of), Myspace loses a decade, and music discovery happens where you least expect it. Rock paper scissors'

The war of words over Spotify's recent actions made this no ordinary week for news. Instead of a headline roundup, we asked rock paper scissors' resident music tech expert Tristra Newyear Yeager for her analysis. Going public has changed the tone of Spotify’s interactions with the rest of the music industry, as this week’s news reveals all too clearly. The streaming service is ready to rumble. The first signs came earlier this month, with the “we’re launching in India anyway”

Forbes- January 28, 2019 Music industry pioneer Scott Cohen warns about the constantly shifting industry and the need to adapt to changing technology. Cohen stresses the relevance of Artificial Intelligence, and the importance of integrating this exciting technology into the music industry. Bloomberg- January 28, 2019 A proposed EU tax of 3% on the sale of tech companies has CEOs of major companies, including Spotify, Booking, and Zalando, worried about potential US retaliati

Spotify, which went public on April 3 via direct listing (rather than a classic IPO), acquired Loudr later that month. Billing themselves as

In MT’s 2018 Music Tech News Roundup, host Dmitri Vietze and regular guest Tristra Newyear Yeager explored some of the deep seismic shifts i

Cherie explores how music is merging more and more with other creative industries including e-sports, film and TV, social media filters, and

The Verge – October 20, 2017 Starting in 2018, Billboard announced that they will begin counting “hybrid paid/ad-supported platforms” such as Spotify and Apple Music the same as total ad platforms such as YouTube. As of today, Billboard counts all streaming music the same as “on-demand” streams. With this change to counting it means that artists and their labels are more likely to encourage fans to use online streaming options. All in all, it will be a win-win situation for s

It’s time to move on, folks. Sometimes it’s not about good and evil. We need to take the streaming music conversation to more nuanced places

TechCrunch – October 11, 2017 Mark Zuckerberg recently announced the launch of a virtual reality app “Venues,” which allows people to “watch live concerts, and live sports, and premieres of movies and TV shows, all around the world with friends.” Facebook plans to launch the app next year, along with the Oculus Go VR headset which has speakers built into the headset. Zuckerberg said that it is Facebook’s goal to get 1 billion people into VR. New York Times – October 14, 2017

Music x Tech x Future – October 8, 2017 With Amazon releasing a cheaper version of the Echo and Google upgrading Alexa, it seems as the voice controlled technology is here for the long haul. The problem, though, is that when listeners request playlists they are not being informed of the artist that is singing the song. Therefore, this becomes an even bigger issue for artists because they must figure out a way to stay memorable when they aren’t being recognized. Hypebot – Octo

Hypebot – September 19, 2017 Being first on the music streaming scene has certainly helped Spotify get the advantage against Apple Music. To date, Spotifty has over 65 million subscribers who are also influenced by the low prices and deals that Spotify offers to college students. Their latest partnership, with Hulu, targets college students and offers a $4.99 bundle for both each month. Digital Music News – September 21, 2017 After vowing to take down hate filled content, You

Digital Music News – September 11, 2017 According to financial projections, SoundCloud is going to have a rough few years ahead of themselves if they wish to remain profitable. The company has had to use $170 million in emergency funding to make up for ventures that have been less than profitable. Perhaps the most troubling about their situation is that they have decided to direct all efforts to enhancing SoundCloud premium “Go” program, which has also not been nearly as succ

Digital Music News – August 21, 2017 The music industry and YouTube have a long running war against each other when it comes to streaming. However, it is alleged that users may only get to experience free streaming for a little while longer. It would take a few years to reach a payout deal between streaming subscribers, but it is certainly something that is on the horizon in the music industry. Nielsen – August 21, 2017 Nearly 60 percent of millennials use two or more apps to

Digital Music News – August 20, 2017 How much does YouTube pay content creators? A musician debunks the claim that he is paid $3 for every 1,000 views and insists that he is making only 1/50th of that amount. Hypebot – August 15, 2017 Smart speakers, such as Amazon Echo and Google Home, are set to boost interest in music streaming services. Pandora reports that listening on smart speakers has increased 282% in just over a year. The Next Web – August 14, 2017 Spotify has taken