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BandWagon is a new music experience for Fediverse musicians, and offers much of what they're looking for from Bandcamp.

Inside Spotify’s emotional surveillance-driven quest for total ad domination.

Did streaming kill the quintessential online music magazine?

Find out details about the SongShift 6.0 update that just released to the App Store. SongShift 6.0 features an entire redesign, in addition to large SongShare updates, song recognition, tags, and more.

Marcos Tanaka’s Play has become the way I watch YouTube, which isn’t something I expected would happen as much as I’ve enjoyed the app since its launch early last year. The app, available on the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV, started as a way to save YouTube links to watch later. That made Play

A lot of musicians are looking for better, more resilient platforms for selling and distributing their work. Faircamp may be a good solution.

Exclusive content will appear on Spotify when a creator syncs accounts.

Bandcamp, an online music store and community where fans can discover, connect with, and directly support the independent musicians they love, is joining Epic Games!

As classical listeners shift to streaming, Apple’s bespoke app falls short of its smaller-scale competitors.

I’m excited to announce that Bandcamp is joining Epic Games, who you may know as the makers of Fortnite and Unreal Engine, and champions for a fair and open Internet. Bandcamp will keep operating a…

Amazon has pillaged the planet in its quest for world domination. Music has not been spared.

President Joe Biden had called out ticketing giants for their “junk fees” during his State of the Union address

The classic music player Winamp's revamp is part streaming aggregator, part Patreon alternative.

It’s an exciting moment for classical music, and Apple’s new dedicated music streaming app is the perfect way to experience it.

How one button redefined our relationship to music.

People unfamiliar with classical music who want to discover new music will find the Apple Music Classical app more than sufficient. Classical music fans familiar with the genre and looking for uncommon recordings will find it somewhat frustrating.

Spotify is launching a feed that will help you discover new artists, podcasts, and audiobooks.

Apple announced today that later this month, it will update its Music app with a new feature called Apple Music Sing. According to Apple’s Oliver Schusser, its vice president of Apple Music and Beats: Apple Music’s lyrics experience is consistently one of the most popular features on our service. We already know our users all

“People like to talk about music. This is a tool to easily see other people’s music taste.”

Today, Apple Music announced that Bad Bunny is its 2022 Artist of the Year. Un Verano Sin Ti, which Bad Bunny released in May, is the most streamed album on Apple Music and the biggest Latin album of all time. In Apple’s press release, Oliver Schusser, Apple’s vice president of Apple Music and Beats, said:

When Apple Music debuted last summer I switched to it from Spotify. I wasn’t on Spotify all that long, but I did have a few playlists I wanted to take with me, including a big one with all the songs I had favorited. At the time, I found a script that logged into both services,

For the better part of this year, I’ve been using both Spotify and Apple Music. In my opinion, each service does a few things exceptionally well, but, unfortunately, I can’t have all of them in a single music app. Spotify’s discovery tools for both old and new songs are simply unparalleled in the industry: Discover

In a recent video, an independent music producer outlines the differences between Apple Music and Spotify for artists.

Former streaming service subscribers on why they have ditched mod cons for MP3s, CDs and other DIY music formats

Maybe podcasts and audiobooks should not be in a music app.

Shazam — one of the most beloved and popular music discovery platforms in the world — turns 20 today.

The ongoing fight against tape hiss has proven a useful creative tension for the music industry—even if you’re not into lo-fi music recorded on a four-track.

Transsion, a China-based smartphone manufacturer, is outpacing Apple and Samsung in Africa. It sells devices that take better selfies of dark skin and have features like a keyboard in Swahili.