by Bram Teitelman | Jun 12, 2014 | News, Streaming Music
While it’s been known that this was going to happen eventually, today Amazon has launched its own music streaming service. They join an already-crowded landscape, with Pandora, Spotify, Beats, iTunes Radio and Google Play Music All Access already in the field....
by Zach Shaw | May 28, 2014 | Digital Media, News, Streaming Music
It was probably the worst kept secret of the month. However, Apple has officially announced it has purchased Beats Music and Beats Electronics, its largest acquisition to date. Apple will acquire both the subscription streaming music service and the electronics branch...
by Bram Teitelman | May 9, 2014 | News, Streaming Music, Technology
According to a report in Financial Times, Apple is about to make their biggest acquisition ever by acquiring Beats Electronics for $3.2 billion. As a result, the computer maker will acquire streaming service Beats Music, which was launched earlier this year. According...
by Bram Teitelman | May 7, 2014 | Streaming Music
A month or two ago, we heard about a band called Vulfpeck that gamed the Spotify system by releasing an album called Sleepify. The catch was that the album consisted of nothing but silence. The Los Angeles-based band asked listeners to play the album repeatedly while...
by Bram Teitelman | Mar 27, 2014 | New Music, Streaming Music
When it was announced that Steel Panther was releasing their third album, All You Can Eat, on April 1st, it seemed appropriate. The band’s ridiculous over the top brand of ’80s metal is a joke, at least kind of. However, the Los Angeles quartet are dead...
by Bram Teitelman | Jan 13, 2014 | Streaming Music
Until Saturday, all we knew about Beats Music is that Jimmy Iovine, Dr. Dre and Nine Inch Nails mastermind Trent Reznor were behind it, and that it was launching this year. In an article in the New York Times over the weekend, more details have surfaced. The...