Bobby Pinckney went to bed one night last August as a management consultant and woke up the following morning as the man behind one of the hottest music apps in the world. Discz, a song recommendation tool which Pinckney started as a class project during his senior year at USC, …
Read More »Hear Tove Lo Cover Swedish Pop Star Veronica Maggio
Tove Lo dropped a cover of “I’m Coming,” a song by Swedish pop singer Veronica Maggio. The single is part of Spotify‘s “Studio It’s Hits,” a playlist recently launched in the Nordics. Recorded at Spotify’s headquarter studios in Stockholm, “I’m Coming” is a blissful pop track ideal for the dance …
Read More »Spotify Now Lets You Mute R. Kelly Yourself
With its rollout and repealof a hateful conduct and content policy a few months behind it, Spotify is trying a different approach to controversial music — this time, handing over the responsibility to users. The streaming service has quietly introduced a much-requested feature in its mobile app allowing users to …
Read More »Spotify Beefs Up Hot Country Playlist and Taps Keith Urban, Kacey Musgraves
Since the birth of country music more than a century ago, the genre has relied on songs that tell stories and allow listeners to share experiences relating to those stories. As technology has advanced, the discovery of new music has become more challenging, although the accessibility of those new songs …
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