by Mark Zapata | Mar 21, 2019 | Editorials
The recent ruling by the Copyright Review Board has once again dragged into the light the issue of songwriter compensation. Songwriters and music streaming services have been quietly battling for a long time while the world enjoys access to millions of songs at the...
by Mark Zapata | Mar 13, 2019 | Editorials, News
The latest in the ongoing digital music streaming discussion has to do with artist compensation. Some headlines falsely accuse Sweden’s music streaming giant Spotify of “Suing songwriters” along with Amazon, Pandora and Google as the four leading...
by Zenae Zukowski | Jul 16, 2018 | News
It’s bad enough that Mondays exist and now, Google has made this day even worse. At least for die-hard Tool fans. Earlier this morning (16th), Google informed everyone that the band’s new album was released today via Google Alert stating, “IllutionWorld by Tool was...
by Bram Teitelman | Jul 2, 2014 | News, Rumors and Gossip, Streaming Music
In a move that’s not that surprising given Apple’s purchase of Beats, Google has purchased streaming music service Songza for an undisclosed price. Songza offers music curated for moods, events, times of day and more, using 50 music curators. There are...
by Bram Teitelman | Nov 18, 2013 | Technology
Even though it’s out right now to several thousand beta testers, Google Glass is more or less the wave of the future. The $1,500 online eyewear, which is essentially a wearable Siri, still isn’t available to the general public yet, and even if they were,...