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Tuesday, October 1

• Pandora revamps app to surface all the ways it's more than radio now
  Post from CNET
• Urbano producers are becoming pop stars, too
  Post from Vice
• Nardwuar Day declared in Vancouver
  Post from Pitchfork
• Zen8 app adds AI music to Instagram and Snapchat stories
  Item from Music Ally
• Introducing the Rolling Stone Future 25
  List from Rolling Stone
• Jimmy Spicer, influential early rapper, is dead at 61
  Obituary from NY Times

Monday, September 30

• Sorry Google Play Music, YouTube Music is now Android's default player
  Post from Gizmodo
• Post Malone's 'Hollywood's Bleeding' nets third week at no. 1
  Column from Billboard
• FKA twigs: 'An incredible woman always in the shadow of a man? I can relate.'
  Profile from The Guardian
• Meet the makers of modular
  Story from TechCrunch
• New psychology research links conservative music but not rebellious music to maladaptive personality traits
  Post from Psy Post
• The music of 'Hustlers' and the soaring, stupid national mood of 2008
  Post from New Yorker

Friday, September 27

• 40 under 40: 2019 roster of young executives shaking up the music business
  List from Billboard
• Rob Stringer talks Sony's strategy, TenCent/Universal
  Interview from Music Business Worldwide
• The time is right for Apple to buy Sonos
  Post from TechCrunch
• The record industry gave everything away to Spotify. Could it change its mind?
  Column from Rolling Stone
• How the rise in streaming could turn Hollywood musicians into an endangered species
  Column from LA Times
• 'Art meets the devil via James Brown': The everlasting impact of Gang Of Four's 'Entertainment!'
  Review from AV Club

Thursday, September 26

• More than three-fourths of US internet users are now streaming music, says study
  Post from Billboard
• Spotify held an exclusive concert for listeners of a New Orleans playlist
  Post from Adweek
• Sony's immersive 360 Reality audio is coming to Amazon Music
  Post from Engadget
• Hologram tours are the future of the live concert experience...should we be concerned?
  Post from Okayplayer
• Keeping the beat
  Feature from Chicago Reader
• 23 of the most influential pictures from music history
  Post from Buzzfeed News

Wednesday, September 25

• New music platform Audius plans to capitalize on SoundCloud's faults
  Post from Engadget
• Jann Wenner stepping down as chairman of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation
  Post from Billboard
• Robert Fripp in dispute with David Bowie Estate over 'Heroes' and 'Scary Monsters' credits
  Item from Stereogum
• How posthumous albums become hot property
  Post from NME
• All hail Veruca Salt: The oral history of 'American Thighs'
  Feature from AV Club
• Robert Hunter, Grateful Dead collaborator and lyricist, dead at 78
  Obituary from Rolling Stone

Tuesday, September 24

• Entertainment is getting even shorter, and even longer. What about the 'purgatory' in the middle?
  Post from Music Business Worldwide
• Music listening in 2019: 10 takeaways from IFPI's new report
  Post from Music Ally
• Post Malone out-streams the Lumineers to repeat at no. 1
  Item from NY Times
• Vivian Girls on their return and boldest album yet
  Profile from Paste Magazine
• Apple Music launches 'Lyrics To Live By' video series as iOS 13 adds real-time lyrics feature
  Post from 9to5 Mac
• The best new rap music to have on your radar
  List from Uproxx

Monday, September 23

• Why The Black Keys shut out hundreds of fans, causing chaos at the Wiltern
  Story from LA Times
• YouTube music counters Spotify with its own 'Discover Mix'
  Item from Engadget
• 2019 US on-demand audio streams surpass half-trillion
  Post from Billboard
• Original or copied? 'Stairway To Heaven' is back in court
  Story from NY Times
• AEG takes full ownership of ticketing firm AXS
  Item from Music Business Worldwide
• Berry Gordy announces retirement, Motown founder bows out after 6 decades in showbiz
  Post from Detroit Free Press

Friday, September 20

• Mercury Prize winner Dave: Seven things you need to know
  Post from BBC News
• Generation Z is making music with anti-radical tones
  Post from Wired
• 10 new albums to stream today
  List from Paste Magazine
• How Neil Young's failed anti-streaming business helped the music industry
  Post from Quartz
• Ken Burns' new documentary is in love with country's myths, not its music
  Review from Pitchfork
• Sturgill Simpson leaves his old sound (and the spotlight) in the rearview
  Profile from NY Times

Thursday, September 19

• The case for Metallica as the world's biggest touring act
  Post from Pollstar
• Live Nation/Ticketmaster chief Michael Rapino talks Dept. of Justice inquiries
  Interview from Variety
• What does alternative rock radio sound like in the age of Spotify?
  Story from NY Times
• 'Most political in years': Critics hail Mercury Prize's return to protest music
  Post from The Guardian
• Tribe Of Noise acquires Free Music Archive
  Item from Hypebot
• Psychedelic Odin: William Blake's gift to musicians
  Post from The Quietus

Wednesday, September 18

• The music business wants to blow up copyright - and the Trump administration is on board
  Post from Bloomberg
• Will Tencent's hunger to own the music business stop at Universal and Spotify?
  Column from Rolling Stone
• Tegan and Sara: 'People never talk about women and drug use positively'
  Interview from The Guardian
• The making of an urbane cowboy
  Story from Texas Monthly
• Festicket enables group festival bookings with 'Pay With Friends'
  Item from TechCrunch
• My father was left out of Martin Scorsese's Bob Dylan movie
  Story from Vice

Tuesday, September 17

• Whitney Houston hologram tour plots first 2020 dates
  Post from Rolling Stone
• There's still money in plastics: Big sellers from Taylor Swift and Tool have labels rethinking CD strategies
  Story from Billboard
• The 6ix9ine Nine Trey trial: What we've learned so far
  Post from Complex
• Amazon Music gets an HD tier, starting in the US, UK, Japan and Germany
  Item from Music Ally
• 33 talented but underrated K-Pop groups you should be listening to
  List from Buzzfeed
• Beehives, farewells, and a Wu-Tang surprise made up the best of Riot Fest 2019
  Review from AV Club

Monday, September 16

• Ric Ocasek, new wave rock visionary and Cars co-founder, is dead
  Obituary from NY Times
• Eddie Money, 'Two Tickets To Paradise' singer, dies at 70
  Obituary from Variety
• Music publishers say Peleton stole even more music, ask for $300 million
  Post from The Verge
• The hardest song I ever chased
  Post from Vulture
• YouTube bans paid-for plays from contributing towards its music charts
  Post from Music Business Worldwide
• Post Malone scores second no. 1 album with 'Hollywood's Bleeding'
  Post from Billboard

Friday, September 13

• The 100 best albums of the 21st century
  List from The Guardian
• The Highwomen were built for this cultural moment
  Interview from Vulture
• Is playlist streaming hurting the artist?
  Post from Music Think Tank
• The Who announce new album, tour and share first single - 'Ball And Chain'
  Item from NME
• In Jamaica with Island Records founder Chris Blackwell
  Interview from Billboard
• The 1975 have nowhere to grow but up
  Feature from The Fader

Thursday, September 12

• Daniel Johnston dies; Gifted and enigmatic songwriter was 58
  Obituary from NY Times
• Spotify wants to know where you live and will be checking in
  Post from CNET
• Americana Awards 2019: A complete list of winners
  List from The Tennessean
• Hip-hop, artists rights and more discussed on day 1 of Colombia's BOmm
  Recap from Billboard
• Venues Now Conference: Jim Dolan goes deep on MSG Sphere with Irving Azoff
  Recap from Pollstar
• Max Richter to perform at the Great Wall of China for 8 hours
  Item from Pitchfork

Wednesday, September 11

• Musicians call for facial recognition ban at gigs
  Post from BBC News
• 'This tape rewrites everything we knew about The Beatles'
  Interview from The Guardian
• How artists are gaming streaming searches to score hits
  Post from Rolling Stone
• Here are the 50 most valuable vinyl records on earth
  List from Paste Magazine
• Listen to Kim Gordon's new song 'Air BnB'
  Post from Pitchfork
• We love you: The Psychedelic Furs and the Sisters Of Mercy
  Feature from The Quietus

Tuesday, September 10

• This music video has been modified from its original version (and now it's vertical)
  Post from The Ringer
• Using Spotify data to predict what songs will be hits
  Post from Tech Xplore
• Esthero interrupts her own track to protest streaming royalties
  Post from Music Ally
• BMI sets revenue record with $1.28 billion
  Item from Variety
• 'We will always sing': Black Belt Eagle Scout makes space for the marginalized
  Interview from NPR
• The best and biggest albums to listen to this fall
  List from Vulture

Monday, September 9

• The United States is about to become a $10bn recorded music market again - for the first time since 2007
  Post from Music Business Worldwide
• Vinyl to outsell CDs for first time since 1986
  Item from NME
• How data is making hits and changing the music industry
  Post from Complex
• In conversation: Liz Phair
  Interview from Vulture
• How pop music is changing the way we talk about sexuality
  Post from The Independent
• Supergrass announce 2020 reunion tour
  Item from Brooklyn Vegan

Friday, September 6

• Billboard's parent company is buying Nielsen's music business
  Story from Bloomberg
• US recorded music business grew 18% in first half of 2019: RIAA mid-year report
  Post from Billboard
• FCC asks RIAA to investigate payola allegations
  Post from Rolling Stone
• Man acquitted of 36 deaths in Ghost Ship fire; hung jury on other defendant
  Post from CNN
• Viagogo sidesteps legal action with website fixes
  Post from BBC News
• Why we are in danger of losing Aaliyah's voice
  Post from Vox

Thursday, September 5

• 'They legitimized buying views': YouTube ads divide Latin music industry
  Post from Rolling Stone
• Big Hit chief Bang Si-Hyuk, mastermind behind BTS, talks music, fans, and new ventures
  Interview from Variety
• In 2019, country music has a raging identity crisis. For Ken Burns, that's a 100-year-old story
  Story from LA Times
• Forget endless playlists, CD binders were real curation
  Post from Mashable
• Every Missy Elliot song, ranked
  List from Vulture
• LaShawn Daniels, Grammy-winning songwriter, dead at 41
  Obituary from CNN

Wednesday, September 4

• Ariana Grande says Forever 21 'stole' name in lawsuit
  Post from BBC News
• How a South-Sudanese superstar found home in Australia with the help of an indie-punk label
  Story from The Guardian
• TikTok has created another viral music star in Stunna Girl
  Post from Buzzfeed
• Chelsea Wolfe, JPEGMAFIA, and 28 more albums we can't wait to hear in September
  List from AV Club
• Pandora now lets you share music and podcasts to your Instagram stories
  Item from TechCrunch
• Björk announces new 'Vulnicura' VR experience
  Post from Pitchfork

Tuesday, September 3

• Linda Ronstadt has found another voice
  Interview from The New Yorker
• Taylor Swift's 'Lover' is no.1, but falls short of a million sales
  Column from NY Times
• How YACHT fed their old music to the machine and got a killer new album
  Post from Ars Technica
• How the producers of 'Despacito' use samples to create global hits
  Feature from The Verge
• Build your own cheap drum machine from cardboard and arcade buttons
  Post from Engadget
• How TikTok's niche viral space is redefining the music industry
  Post from Hot New Hip Hop

Friday, August 30

• Sony celebrates 40 years of Walkman in Tokyo
  Post from The Verge
• LiveXLive, Allied Esports partner for competitive gaming, live music events
  Item from Hypebot
• Chinese music industry reacts to Tencent Music investigation
  Post from Billboard
• 'Baby Shark' is being used as a powerful tool to control
  Post from CNN
• Spotify teams with Headie One on Instagram VR
  Item from Music Week
• The new guard of Nigerian musicians
  Post from NY Times Magazine

Thursday, August 29

• Senators ask for antitrust probe in ticket pricing
  Post from NY Times
• After Katrina, a priceless music archive was thought lost. It showed up in Torrance
  Story from LA Times
• Why are all the teens on TikTok singing this song from 1926?
  Post from Vulture
• The evolution of hip-hop's video vixen
  Post from Okayplayer
• Ask a lawyer: What's going on with Eminem's Spotify lawsuit?
  Post from Vice
• Donnie Fritts, songwriter, musician and actor, dies at 76
  Obituary from The Tennessean

Wednesday, August 28

• Rap music's unspoken leak crisis
  Feature from The Fader
• VMAs hit all-time ratings low for third straight year
  Post from Hollywood Reporter
• Meek Mill pleads guilty to misdemeanor gun charge, ends 12-year legal case
  Post from NPR
• Documents reveal strange details about canceled Woodstock 50
  Post from Vice
• Will AI revolutionize the way artists make music and find samples? Landr says yes.
  Post from Music Business Worldwide
• Nick Cave on PJ Harvey breakup: 'I was so surprised I almost dropped my syringe'
  Post from The Guardian

Tuesday, August 27

• 2019 MTV VMA winners: See the full list
  List from MTV
• A secret ingredient in songs of summer
  Story from NY Times
• Watchdog probes Tencent's grip on China's giant music industry
  Post from Bloomberg
• The ultimate list of work and study music
  List from Lifehacker
• Neal Casal, influential guitarist who worked with Willie Nelson, Shooter Jennings, dead at 50
  Obituary from Rolling Stone
• Universal Music refutes claims of last artist in lawsuit over 2008 fire, requests dismissal
  Post from Variety

Monday, August 26

• Spotify, Netflix should worry about a global recession
  Post from Hypebot
• Pop is crushing hip-hop in 2019, according to hit song study
  Post from Variety
• The survival of Iggy Pop
  Profile from The New Yorker
• Kid Karate on their music, American food portions and the Dublin punk scene
  Interview from Vice
• David Byrne announces new online magazine 'Reasons To Be Cheerful'
  Item from Pitchfork
• Toymaker Hasbro now owns Death Row Records and Twitter has suggestions
  Post from Mashable

Friday, August 23

• Rosanne Cash, Phoebe Bridgers, Corinne Bailey Rae and more unite for Tom Waits tribute album
  Item from NME
• Apple Music's latest playlist suggests new tracks every day
  Post from Engadget
• Forget guitars: Buy a rocker's childhood home
  Story from Rolling Stone
• 'The word 'manager' is misleading. People somehow think we're the boss of the artist. It's the opposite; they're the boss' - Danny Goldberg
  Interview from Music Business Worldwide
• Notable releases of the week
  List from Brooklyn Vegan
• Taylor Swift is the only artist who still sells CDs
  Story from Quartz

Thursday, August 22

• Will merch save or doom the music industry?
  Post from The Fader
• Eminem publisher sues Spotify claiming massive copyright breach, 'unconstitutional law'
  Post from Hollywood Reporter
• How artist imposters and fake songs sneak onto streaming services
  Feature from Pitchfork
• Five years later, it's time to admit we overreacted about Apple putting a free U2 album on our phones
  Post from Uproxx
• Portishead's 'Dummy' is 25. The band asks that you play it loud.
  Story from NY Times
• Why James Acaster thinks 2016 was music's best year ever
  Interview from BBC News

Wednesday, August 21

• The rise of all-lowercase and all-uppercase song titles
  Post from Quartz
• Latest acts to receive Music Momentum Fund support revealed
  Post from Music Week
• Chillwave: A momentary microgenre that ushered in the age of nostalgia
  Story from The Guardian
• Shirley Manson's podcast is about more than just music
  Interview from Vulture
• 'Kind Of Blue' drummer still keeping time as album turns 60
  Story from AP News
• 21 new songs out today
  List from Brooklyn Vegan

Tuesday, August 20

• Neil Young's lonely quest to save music
  Story from NY Times Magazine
• Spotify is reportedly working on Instagram-like story feature for its platform
  Post from Tech2
• 'Soul Train' musical is in the works
  Item from Pitchfork
• Universal Music Group: Original masters for 'many of the artists' named in class action were not lost in fire
  Post from Billboard
• Billie Eilish's 'Bad Guy' has finally dethroned Lil Nas X's 'Old Town Road' at no. 1
  Post from Stereogum
• Jay Som is taking control by letting go
  Profile from The Ringer

Monday, August 19

• Hey Google, please finish one of your music apps
  Review from Ausdroid
• Is Billie Eilish really that weird?
  Post from Buzzfeed News
• How to build your own artist development team: The music publisher
  Post from Hypebot
• Daniel Ek rubbishes iHeart boss Pittman's claim that '73% of Spotify's listening comes from just 3% of their audience'
  Post from Music Business Worldwide
• Department of Justice backs Led Zeppelin in 'Stairway To Heaven' copyright case
  Post from Variety
• 'If Israeli soldiers start shooting, we won't stop the interview': Palestinian hip-hop crew BLTNM
  Interview from The Guardian

Friday, August 16

• YouTube is changing how some copyright claims work, and it could result in 'more blocked content'
  Post from The Verge
• Up to 25% of CDs sold on Amazon, eBay are counterfeit, says RIAA
  Post from Hypebot
• Dave Grohl: 'I never imagined myself to be Freddie Mercury'
  Interview from The Guardian
• The Number Ones: The Staples Singers 'Let's Do It Again'
  Column from Stereogum
• Jack Antonoff, Sounwave and Sam Dew (Red Hearse) on what the music industry gets wrong
  Interview from Vulture
• Inside the monthly beat battle where producers are the main attraction
  Feature from Vice

Thursday, August 15

• From Queen to Springsteen, why are there so many music films?
  Post from BBC News
• Spotify to test more expensive subscriptions in Scandinavia
  Post from Bloomberg
• The first thing sold online was a Sting CD
  Post from Vice
• Alternative financing for independent artists: An overview of emerging models in recorded music
  Post from Water and Music
• Hi-res streaming service Quobuz makes inroads six months after US launch
  Story from Variety
• Opening our borders, embracing diversity, and championing cross-cultural artistic exchange
  Guest post from Pollstar

Wednesday, August 14

• How TikTok took over music
  Post from Rolling Stone
• Forged in bondage, black music is the sound of freedom
  Feature from NY Times Magazine
• Swedish court convicts US rapper A$AP Rocky of assault, suspends sentence
  Post from Reuters
• NFL teaming with Jay Z on entertainment and social activism
  Post from AP News
• Inside music's epicenter with Ty Dolla $ign
  Profile from Spin
• The 15 Irish acts you need to know in 2019
  List from Paste

Tuesday, August 13

• Would you care if music disappeared from FM radio? You may only have a decade to save it.
  Story from CNBC
• UK consumers switch to online streaming en masse
  Post from The Guardian
• Feel their faith in 15 seconds: Meet the Christians conquering TikTok
  Post from The Daily Beast
• How Afrobeats is influencing American pop music, according to producer P2J
  Interview from Complex
• Tencent Music revenues up 31% in Q2
  Item from Music Week
• Music user groups warn DOJ abandoning consent decrees 'would be public policy error of the highest order'
  Post from Billboard

Monday, August 12

• Armada: Inside the world's biggest dance label
  Story from BBC News
• Unleash the sesh gremlins! Sunset Campout, California's clubbing paradise
  Story from The Guardian
• Hackers can turn everyday speakers into acoustic cyberweapons
  Post from Wired
• Fascination, friendship and desire: Kathleen Hanna on the reign of 'Rebel Girl'
  Interview from NPR
• Building with country music legacy partially demolished
  Item from AP News
• Khruangbin: Crossing genres to the top of 'El Mundo'
  Profile from Pollstar

Friday, August 9

• How hidden likes on Instagram could change the music industry
  Post from Complex
• Portia Sabin to succeed Jim Donio as Music Business Association president
  Post from Variety
• Jeremy Deller on raving: 'Stormzy and Dave give me hope'
  Story from The Guardian
• Polyvinyl Records co-founder picks 10 important albums from their catalog
  List from Vice
• Outside Lands becomes first major US festival to offer on-site cannabis sale and consumption
  Post from Pitchfork
• Does the 'greatest rappers of all time' debate even matter?
  Post from The Ringer

Thursday, August 8

• Apple unveils 'Digital Masters' catalog as the future of 'Mastered For iTunes'
  Post from 9to5Mac
• While She Sleeps launch t-shirt based on Spotify royalties
  Item from Music Ally
• David Berman, Silver Jews leader and indie rock poet, dies at 52
  Obituary from NY Times
• Earbuds lets audiences stream the playlists of athletes, entertainers and each other
  Post from TechCrunch
• beabadoobee gives nostalgic 90's alt-rock a cinematic sheen
  Profile from The Fader
• From R. Kelly to As I Lay Dying, music industry grapples with problematic artists
  Story from Pollstar

Wednesday, August 7

• Want to get on the radio? Have $50,000?
  Story from Rolling Stone
• No-deal Brexit: 'Big unanswered questions' for UK music
  Post from BBC News
• How TikTok could fail
  Post from The Verge
• Why do nice guys always finish last in hip-hop?
  Post from Uproxx
• 25 Atlanta indie rock bands you need to know in 2019
  List from Paste
• Rhiannon Giddens, Francis Johnson to get Americana award
  Item from AP News

Tuesday, August 6

• NF upsets Chance The Rapper with a no. 1 debut for 'The Search'
  Post from NY Times
• China's Tencent in talks for 10% stake in Universal Music Group
  Post from Deadline
• Factory Records celebrates 40th anniversary with box-sets and major exhibitions
  Post from NME
• Ticket marketplace TickPick raises $40M in its first institutional funding
  Item from TechCrunch
• Treasure Island music festival canceled with no plans to return
  Post from SF Chronicle
• Khalid planning benefit concert in wake of El Paso mass shooting
  Item from Pollstar

Monday, August 5

• Ed Sheeran breaks U2's tour record
  Item from BBC News
• Female artists account for just 21% of songs on Billboard's country airplay chart, study finds
  Post from Billboard
• Remember rock stars? With Bob Dylan and 'Don't Look Back,' D.A. Pennebaker invented the ideal
  Appreciation from LA Times
• Cassettes are back, and it's not about the music
  Post from Bloomberg
• 'For artists, work ethic and intelligence are just as important as talent' - Mike Caren
  Interview from Music Business Worldwide
• Joan Baez on three days of pregnancy and priggishness at Woodstock
  Interview from NY Times

Friday, August 2

• Katy Perry, others ordered to pay $2.78M for copying song
  Post from AP News
• TikTok turns one: Its first twelve months, as told through TikToks
  Post from The Verge
• 'Masters are owned by (the) artist': Chance The Rapper manager Pat Corcoran inks 'unprecedented' deal with Warner Records for 99 Neighbors
  Post from Music Business Worldwide
• The New Pornographers announce new album 'In The Morse Code Of Brake Lights'
  Item from Pitchfork
• Bill's Indie Basement: The week in classic indie, college rock and more
  List from Brooklyn Vegan
• The week in music: The best albums, songs, performances and more
  List from Paste

Thursday, August 1

• Woodstock 50 is officially canceled
  Post from Rolling Stone
• Reply sections on Twitter are filled with K-Pop videos. Here's why.
  Post from Mashable
• Watch a guy use puppets to explain the Music Modernization Act to Congress
  Post from Vice
• Live Nation has pushed up its concert prices this year, and it's paying off to the tune of $500M
  Column from Music Business Worldwide
• UK Music wants government to step in over PledgeMusic collapse
  Item from Music Ally
• How Jay Z's 'Vol. 3' explained rap music in 1999 - and predicted its future
  Post from The Ringer

Wednesday, July 31

• Reaction videos are helping UK rappers reach American audience
  Essay from Pitchfork
• Bollywood rapper sets viewer record YouTube isn't talking about
  Post from Bloomberg
• 8 women who invented American popular music
  Feature from NPR Music
• The Austin company behind Lil Nas X's ground-breaking 'Old Town Road'
  Story from Austin American-Statesman
• Azoff, Capshaw, Silva join forces on Music Artists Coalition
  Post from Pollstar
• Spotify's 108 million subscribers keeps big lead over Apple Music (but still disappoints)
  Post from CNET

Tuesday, July 30

• Lil Nas X's 'Old Town Road' breaks Billboard's singles record
  Post from NY Times
• Katy Perry's 'Dark Horse' handed defeat in trial
  Post from Variety
• Los Angeles producer Ras G has died
  Obituary from Pitchfork
• Kraftwerk win 20-year sampling case
  Post from BBC News
• The 7 best turntables for new vinyl collectors, according to DJs
  List from NY Mag
• Ho99o9 is climbing the ranks of hard rock - one chaotic show at a time
  Profile from Okayplayer

Monday, July 29

• Apple Music's next era - and the new leader spurring global growth
  Story from Billboard
• Music crowdfunding website PledgeMusic goes offline amidst bankruptcy proceedings
  Post from The Verge
• Josh Rabinowitz reflects on over two decades in the music advertising scene and launch of new consultancy
  Post from Synchtank
• How violinist Gaelynn Lea is redefining who can be a musician
  Video from PBS NewsHour
• How the guitar died again, and again...but not really
  Story from The Independent
• Rock 'n roll will be dead by 2060...but live on as holograms
  Guest column from Variety

Friday, July 26

• Record labels have a new target, streamers and gamers
  Post from The Verge
• Live Nation sees strong Q2 as revenue, ticket sales climb
  Post from Variety
• Drake inks creative partnership with Sirius XM Pandora
  Post from Music Business Worldwide
• 'Hello Tunbridge Wells!': Why uncool small festivals are big business
  Post from The Guardian
• Where Spotify stands, and where artists wish it would
  Post from NPR
• Woodstock 50 relocates to Maryland
  Item from Rolling Stone

Thursday, July 25

• The $60 gadget that's changing electronic music
  Story from NY Times Magazine
• This is the shortlist for the Mercury Prize 2019
  Post from NME
• Rapper A$AP Rocky charged with assault over fight in Sweden
  Post from AP News
• How long does it take to make a classic album?
  Feature from Pitchfork
• 'Spotify Untold' authors reveal secret alliances, internal paranoia and near acquisitions
  Interview from Variety
• These self-learning headphones tailor sounds to your ears
  Review from Paste

Wednesday, July 24

• 'So flawed and problematic': Why the term 'world music' is dead
  Post from The Guardian
• Bob Dylan, Adele music rights to back planned $560 million bond
  Post from Bloomberg
• 'The only way for an artist to build a career is to solidify your live show - start small and work up' - Marsha Vlasic
  Interview from Music Business Worldwide
• Dissecting Brazil's music consumption
  Guest post from Hypebot
• The language I learned from cassettes
  Post from NPR Music
• Nile Rodgers: My mom, Alzheimer's, music and me
  Post from BBC News

Tuesday, July 23

• How Warped Tour led the consumerist music festival revolution
  Story from Vox
• UK Music CEO urges Boris Johnson to avoid 'cliff-edge' Brexit
  Post from Music Week
• New Orleans music legend Art Neville, a founder of the Meters and Neville Brothers, dies at 81
  Obituary from NOLA.com
• Buddy and Julie Miller on their musical reconciliation
  Profile from Paste
• It looks like TikTok has acquired Jukedeck, a pioneering music AI UK startup
  Item from TechCrunch
• Music gear site Reverb.com acquired by Etsy for $275 million
  Post from Brooklyn Vegan

Monday, July 22

• Secretly recorded phone call offers window into how Live Nation helped Metallica and other artists place tickets directly on resale market
  Story from Billboard
• Tay-K, the rapper who went viral with 'The Race,' is found guilty of murder
  Story from NY Times
• Skepta glimpses the 'future of rave' in Manchester, and it's phoneless
  Post from BBC News
• Chicago festival cancelled due to presence of endangered birds
  Item from NME
• Report pitches 'voice' as the next big interface shift
  Post from Music Ally
• Paradigm takes full ownership of UK music agency Coda
  Post from Deadline

Friday, July 19

• Sony's music recording and music publishing companies are now one
  Post from Rolling Stone
• iHeartMedia stock drops in NASDAQ debut
  Post from Variety
• Inside Cole Bennett's Lyrical Lemonade empire
  Profile from Complex
• Filter cancel reunion after PledgeMusic fiasco
  Item from Hypebot
• The making of Minnie Ripperton's 1974 masterpiece 'Perfect Angel'
  Interview from Okayplayer
• The weirder the better: Buzz Osbourne of The Melvins' 13 favorite records
  List from The Quietus

Thursday, July 18

• Google suspends ticket site Viagogo from advertising
  Post from BBC News
• YouTube cracks down on stream-ripping sites that pirate music
  Post from CNET
• Five times Spotify has u-turned on its content strategy
  Column from Rolling Stone
• 10 essential post-punk albums from 2019 (so far)
  List from Paste
• Universal Music files motion to dismiss lawsuit from artists claiming fire damage
  Story from Variety
• The Kinks reunion: Ray and Dave Davies recording new songs for possible album
  Post from The Independent

Wednesday, July 17

• The space race forged immortal rock and roll guitars
  Post from Mashable
• 'An endless fiasco': Indie retailers describe worsening breakdown in getting CDs, vinyl delivered to record stores
  Story from Billboard
• Three ways to make streaming music more user-friendly
  Column from Pitchfork
• Sillerman settles with SEC for $179K for fraud charges, given permanent ban
  Post from Pollstar
• Johnny Clegg, South African singer who battled apartheid with music, is dead at 66
  Obituary from NY Times
• The number ones: Freddy Fender's 'Before The Next Teardrop Falls'
  Column from Stereogum

Tuesday, July 16

• US music streaming revenue tops $8 billion, up 33%
  Post from Hypebot
• 'The Orchard is a totally unique proposition in the music business' - Colleen Theis
  Interview from Music Business Worldwide
• After two weeks, A$AP Rocky is still detained in Sweden
  Story from Rolling Stone
• Missy Elliot: The legend returns
  Profile from Marie Claire
• Before & after 'The B-52s'
  Feature from NY Times
• Norwich band Sink Ya Teeth step in to headline Pohoda festival
  Post from BBC News

Monday, July 15

• Steady as she goes: 2019 mid-year business analysis
  Post from Pollstar
• Why Saudi Arabia wants high-profile pop stars
  Story from BBC News
• Music streaming service Roxi plans to go public later this year
  Item from Music Ally
• Sufjan Stevens and the curious case of the missing 48 states
  Essay from The Ringer
• Ticket resellers settle New York charges over inflated concert ticket prices
  Post from Reuters
• 'Gully Life' film shines a light on India's fast-rising hip-hop scene
  Post from Variety

Friday, July 12

• Amazon Music Unlimited is growing faster than Apple Music or Spotify, report says
  Post from Ars Technica
• Life without iTunes is sweet indeed
  Review from Gizmodo
• R. Kelly arrested on child pornography and other federal charges
  Post from NY Times
• UK music industry declares climate emergency, backed by Radiohead, Idles and Nadine Shah
  Post from NME
• UK competitions authority raises concerns about Live Nation/MCD merger
  Post from Billboard
• Kaina gives her soulful R&B the intimacy of real and chosen family
  Profile from Chicago Reader

Thursday, July 11

• YouTube 'blocks' popular MP3 stream-ripping sites
  Post from Torrent Freak
• 'This is the most exciting time the music business has ever known' - Mark Gillespie
  Interview from Music Business Worldwide
• Internet Creators Guild shuts down, hits out at music labels
  Post from Music Ally
• Diplo's 'Mad Decent Block Party' abruptly canceled
  Post from NBC 10 Boston
• Metallica to publish children's book, 'The ABCs Of Metallica'
  Item from The Guardian
• Bon Iver announce new album 'i,i' share 2 new songs
  Post from Pitchfork

Wednesday, July 10

• Eric Prydz is going to DJ inside a giant glowing sphere
  Post from The Verge
• YouTube revamps its copyright claims system for creators
  Item from Engadget
• How Pearl Jam took on the music industry and lost - but predicted the future
  Story from The Independent
• Great records you may have missed: Spring 2019
  List from Pitchfork
• 'We've hit the jackpot': How Universal turned around its market share
  Post from Music Week
• What's Scooter Braun doing?
  Column from Rolling Stone

Tuesday, July 9

• YouTube users can't stop streaming Latin pop
  Post from BBC News
• Spotify Lite for Android gets official launch in 36 countries
  Post from TechCrunch
• Your guide to urbano's power players: The new stars, OGs and next class
  List from Vulture
• 7digital grows annual revenues but still needs $5.5 million investment to survive
  Post from Billboard
• James Henke, key figure at Rock Hall of Fame and Rolling Stone magazine, dies at 64
  Obituary from Variety
• 'Old Town Road' has been no. 1 for 14 weeks
  Item from Stereogum

Monday, July 8

• Stevie Wonder: 'I'm going to take a break'; will have kidney transplant this summer
  Post from Detroit News
• The DMCA bell did not toll for a beloved musician - thus, I could grieve for him
  Story from Ars Technica
• Why the US Copyright Office chose the Mechanical Licensing Collective
  Story from Billboard
• João Gilberto, an architect of Bossa Nova, is dead at 88
  Obituary from NY Times
• How music about space became music about drugs
  Essay from MIT Technology Review
• How the Haxan Cloak's Bobby Krlic brought unnerving beauty to 'Midsommar'
  Interview from The Fader

Wednesday, July 3

• Welcome to the Rolling Stone charts
  Post from Rolling Stone
• This is the best way for artists to fight back against record labels
  Post from Vice
• American record biz goes all-in on K-Pop, but crossover challenges remain
  Story from LA Times
• TikTok is being investigated in the UK for how it handles children's data and safety
  Post from TechCrunch
• Troy Carter's Q&A chooses Max Lousada's Warner for deal offering artists an 'upstream' to a 'global network'
  Story from Music Business Worldwide
• 'It's about to become an international touring phenomenon': The inside story on Block9's IICON creation.
  Post from MusicWeek

Tuesday, July 2

• Sleater-Kinney's Janet Weiss quits the band after two decades together
  Story from LA Times
• Spotify will no longer let artists upload their own music
  Item from CNN
• Queen is king of Nielsen Music's mid-year 2019 rock charts
  Post from BBC News
• Independent Venue Week unveils full US schedule
  Post from Pollstar
• Essence Festival marks 25 years of celebrating black culture
  Story from AP News
• Lyrical Lemonade Summer Smash turns local hip-hop blog into music fest delivering what's hot and who's up next
  Review from Chicago Tribune

Monday, July 1

• Taylor Swift's masters, Scooter Braun's 'bullying': Inside the Big Machine/Ithaca deal
  Story from Variety
• Ticketmaster to pay $4.5M for misleading consumers on prices
  Post from CBC
• Glastonbury 2019: 13 things we'll never forget
  Review from BBC News
• Spotify, Apple Music and the rest are secretly fixing your mainstream taste in tunes
  Post from CNET
• China silences podcast and music apps as online crackdown widens
  Post from TechCrunch
• Best new artists of the month (June)
  List from Pigeons And Planes

Friday, June 29

• Can hit songs be worth more than gold?
  Post from BBC News
• When you listen, they watch: Pre-saving albums can allow labels to track users on Spotify
  Post from Billboard
• Apple Music surpasses 60 million subscribers
  Item from TechCrunch
• How iTunes went from simple to perplexing in 18 years
  Post from Apple Insider
• Spotify settles copyright lawsuits brought by songwriters
  Post from Hollywood Reporter
• Rap that asks the right questions
  Feature from Chicago Reader

Thursday, June 27

• Here's what you need to know about sharing lyrics online
  Post from The Fader
• Has Vic Mensa made the most political music video of the year?
  Post from The Guardian
• Memes are the new pop stars: How TikTok became the future of the music industry
  Story from The Ringer
• Just how much money is there in unclaimed black box royalties?
  Post from Billboard
• Legendary Cleveland concert promoter Mike Belkin Sr. has died
  Obituary from Cleveland Plain Dealer
• Brian Eno now has his own asteroid
  Item from Exclaim

Wednesday, June 26

• Here are hundreds more artists whose tapes were destroyed in the UMG fire
  Story from NY Times Magazine
• 50/50 gender balance pledge extended to more of the music industry
  Post from BBC News
• How Woodstock 50 imploded right before our eyes: A timeline
  Post from Vulture
• Music still the top request for US smart-speaker owners, but...
  Item from Music Ally
• Why Brittany Howard put Alabama Shakes on hold and made a wild solo album
  Story from Rolling Stone
• We've got a file on you: Britt Daniel
  Interview from Stereogum

Tuesday, June 25

• The Chemical Brothers: 'Dance music has always been the sound of Glastonbury'
  Feature from NME
• 'Crack open them Twiglets so we can munch them like piglets': The 21st century's worst raps
  List from The Guardian
• Smells like yee-haw spirit: The unstoppable rise of Lil Nas X
  Post from The Ringer
• Should Spotify pay songwriters and publishers the same amount as it pays artists and record labels?
  Opinion from Music Business Worldwide
• Madonna hits no. 1 for a ninth time with 'Madame X'
  Post from NY Times
• New weird Russia #4: Outside the capitals
  Post from The Quietus

Monday, June 24

• Soundgarden, Tupac and Tom Petty estates sue Universal Music over fire damage
  Post from Variety
• Here are your 2019 BET Awards winners
  List from BET
• New Orleans music legend Dave Bartholomew, producer and co-writer of Fats Domino's hits, dies at 100
  Obituary from New Orleans Advocate
• Elliot Roberts, manager of rock stars, is dead at 76
  Obituary from NY Times
• We're one step closer to atomic radio
  Post from Ars Technica
• Best music streaming service of 2019: Spotify, Pandora, Apple Music, Amazon and Google Play compared
  Review from CNET

Friday, June 21

• What they don't tell you about being independent in 2019
  Post from Complex
• The music industry signs a pledge against fake streams
  Story from Rolling Stone
• 'His memory shouldn't be shrouded in darkness': How Frightened Rabbit coped with the death of Scott Hutchison
  Story from The Guardian
• Live Nation is creating a suite of augmented reality tools for brands at music festivals
  Post from Adweek
• Industry leaders stress importance of political advocacy at A2IM's Indie Week conference
  Post from Billboard
• Anchor Award jury revealed in New York: Q's with jury president Tony Visconti
  Interview from Pollstar

Thursday, June 20

• The agony and the ecstasy of using YouTube Music in 2019
  Review from 9to5 Google
• Cassius' Philippe Zdar dies in accidental fall
  Obituary from BBC News
• MelodyVR to livestream London's Wireless Festival in virtual reality via new app
  Post from Music Business Worldwide
• Willie Nelson rides again
  Story from American Songwriter
• How Homocore Chicago propped open the gate for queer punks
  Story from Chicago Reader
• Meet the UK's weirdest new buzz band, Black Midi
  Interview from Paste

Wednesday, June 19

• Fake streams could be costing artists $300 million a year
  Recap from Rolling Stone
• Record label admits 'heartbreaking' losses after warehouse fire
  Post from BBC News
• What the Google-Genius copyright dispute is really about
  Post from Wired
• Pandora is being sued for showing Tom Petty song lyrics
  Post from The Verge
• 'What we have achieved is remarkable': Merlin CEO Charles Caldas to step down after 12 years
  Post from Complex
• 'Old Town Road' will never die, but you will
  Column from Stereogum

Tuesday, June 18

• The Jonas Brothers have a no. 1 album for the first time in a decade
  Post from NY Times
• 'Values I believe in': Brazil's new rightwing rappers embrace Bolsonaro
  Story from The Guardian
• LyricFind disputes Genius theft claim, challenges WSJ reporting
  Post from Hypebot
• As downloads keep sliding, streaming is coming to the DJ booth
  Post from Billboard
• Meet Teni, the rule-breaking artist shaking up Nigeria's music industry
  Interview from Complex
• Spotify explains why it's backing Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency
  Post from Music Ally

Monday, June 17

• Genius.com accuses Google of copying its song lyrics
  Post from The Verge
• Not OK, computer: How it feels to have your music leaked
  Story from The Guardian
• The Chulita Vinyl Club is curbing cultural erasure one spinning record at a time
  Story from LA Times
• The 33 best industrial albums of all time
  List from Pitchfork
• 30 years after his Faith No More breakthrough, Mike Patton owns a record label that keeps turning profits
  Post from CNBC
• How much money is the US publishing industry making? A billion dollars more than it was four years ago.
  Column from Music Business Worldwide