Tag Archives: music

Yes, BOYNEXTDOOR are watching your fan edits

The first thing you must know about BOYNEXTDOOR is that they’re loud. Not the kind of loud that turns off and on for cameras, but the kind that’s natural and uncontainable — an energy that fills a room even when they’re just being themselves. The six-member boy group is doing …

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Spotify is piloting a Premium membership tailored for kids

Spotify is introducing a new way for young listeners to discover music, announcing a new Premium membership pilot tailored explicitly to kids. Unlike Spotify Kids — a child-friendly app that offers singalongs, soundtracks, and playlists curated by Spotify — the new offering is a parent-managed Premium membership for users under …

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The Music Industry’s ’90s Hard Drives Are Dying

One of the things enterprise storage and destruction company Iron Mountain does is handle the archiving of the media industry's vaults. What it has been seeing lately should be a wake-up call: Roughly one-fifth of the hard disk drives dating to the 1990s it was sent are entirely unreadable. Music …

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Spotify expands its 'daylist' playlist feature

Spotify is expanding its listening data-generated “daylist” to even more users, so I won’t be the only one playing something as niche as a “demure power ballad Wednesday morning,” “scream writer Monday evening,” or “laurel canyon classic folk Friday afternoon” playlist around here. The audio streaming company launched its personalised, …

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Ticket Bots Leave Oasis Fans Enraged

Oasis, the band everyone likes to sing after too many pints at karaoke, is going on tour. Well, not exactly on tour—it’s more like 17 dates in the UK and Ireland in summer 2025. Still, considering the band broke up in 2009 and has just reunited, this is what most …

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