Neil Young’s Adventures on the Hi-Res Frontier; How Did Radio Become the Nickelback of Media?; YouTube Music Streaming App Launches in Singapore

The artist is intent on bringing real quality to streaming audio, whether you want it or not.

Pereption is reality. Despite incredible album sales, Nickelback is one of the most reviled rock bands, a cautionary tale for broadcast radio.

There are many questions floating out there – on YouTube, forums and blogs – about how music streaming services go about their day-to-day business, and the main queries usually have to do with how artists can hit the big time via these platforms.

The advent of streaming has changed our relationship to music, but where is it taking us? What’s the logical conclusion? The only way to know for sure is to ask the future — so we did.

YouTube Music has launched in Singapore with an ad-supported free version available for users along with an ad-free premium subscription package.

There’s a new level of empowerment being experienced by musicians.

Zane Lowe didn’t join Apple Music / Beats 1 to tell artists what they can and can’t do.

Teams of researchers and students at Ithaca College and Cornell University have been working on a tool to inject more local music into people’s Spotify playlists.

Spotify are testing out a transformation of the time-honoured sidekick to music: The album artwork.

Tracklib has stepped into the arena to act as both a clearinghouse, and conduit between sample based producers and the companies that own both sides of the material that producers want to use in their derivative works.

Scott Javor is named Chief Financial Officer of Rhapsody International.

“Outdoor, radio and print-based media rarely see the focus that pure-play digital and television-related media do, but continue to offer significant