9 Best Articles in 2020
HackerNoon
Spotify’s Discover Weekly: How machine learning finds your new music
HackerNoon
9 min read · 874 saves · From 2017 · The science behind personalized music recommendations
OpenAI
Jukebox
OpenAI
7 min read · 463 saves · Apr 30th · We’re introducing Jukebox, a neural net that generates music, including rudimentary singing, as raw audio in a variety of genres and artist styles. We’re releasing the model weights and code, along…
Quartz
The magic that makes Spotify’s Discover Weekly playlists so damn good
Quartz
8 min read · 436 saves · From 2017 · Thirty songs that feel like a gift from a music-loving friend, but were cooked up by an algorithm.
Spotify Engineering
Spotify engineering culture (part 1)
Spotify Engineering
~12 min read · 378 saves · From 2015 · Here's part 1 of short animated video describing our engineering culture (here's part 2). This is a journey in progress, not a journey completed, and there's a lot of variation from squad to squad. So the?stuff in the video isn't all true for all squads all the time, but it appears to be mostly true…
The New York Times
The Day the Music Burned
The New York Times
323 saves · 2019-06-11 · Jody Rosen · It was the biggest disaster in the history of the music business — and almost nobody knew. This is the story of the 2008 Universal fire.
medium.com
Design Doesn’t?Scale.
medium.com
8 min read · 289 saves · From 2016 · Stanley Wood · Design Doesn’t Scale is a statement that has bothered me for the last four-years.
NPR
How The Brain Teases Apart A Song's Words And Music
NPR
2 min read · 222 saves · Feb 27th · Jon Hamilton · Brain scans show that when people listen to songs, an area in the left hemisphere decodes speech-like sounds while one on the right processes musical information.
Spotify Engineering
Spotify Unwrapped: How we brought you a decade of?data
Spotify Engineering
4 min read · 213 saves · Feb 18th · The Spotify Wrapped Campaign is one of Spotify’s largest marketing and social campaigns of the year. It enables our users to see a detailed breakdown of their listening habits over the past year.…
Rolling Stone
Little Richard, Founding Father of Rock Who Broke Musical Barriers, Dead at 87
Rolling Stone
7 min read · 210 saves · May 9th · Pianist-singer behind “Tutti Frutti,” “Good Golly Miss Molly” and “Long Tall Sally” set the template that a generation of musicians would follow
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Pitchfork
The 100 Best Songs of 2020
Pitchfork
3 min read · 87 saves · Dec 7th · The tracks that defined this bizarre year, featuring Megan Thee Stallion, the Weeknd, Christine and the Queens, Noname, Waxahatchee, and more
youtube.com
The Beatles: Get Back - A Sneak Peek from Peter Jackson
youtube.com
60 saves · Dec 21st · PETER JACKSON REVEALS SNEAK PEEK OF HIS UPCOMING MUSIC DOCUMENTARY“THE BEATLES: GET BACK” ONLINE AND STREAMING ON DISNEY+ Feature-Length Film Opens in Theatr...
Longreads
Longreads Best of 2020: Music?Writing
Longreads
7 min read · 57 saves · Dec 10th · Krista Stevens · Music has been a salve this year, helping us cope with the myriad challenges that 2020 brought. Here are some favorite pieces of music writing we picked in 2020.
Rolling Stone
The Best Music Books of 2020
Rolling Stone
9 min read · 51 saves · Dec 7th · Here are the must-read music books of the year — from revealing memoirs to historical deep dives, from boy bands to the blues and beyond
Data Visualization Society
Telling Stories With Data & Music
Data Visualization Society
~13 min read · 34 saves · Dec 8th · Duncan Geere · Exploring a new approach to sonification
Guardian music
Bob Dylan's rights sale all part of his freewheelin' approach to business
Guardian music
2 min read · 34 saves · Dec 7th · Alexis Petridis · Singer has been a frequent flogger of his songs, his clothes, his drawings and his whiskeys
Guardian music
My perfect Christmas playlist, by Michael Kiwanuka, Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Tim Burgess
Guardian music
5 min read · 31 saves · Dec 20th · Jude Rogers · Pop stars who lit up 2020 talk about their Christmas routines and share the tracks they turn to on the big day – scroll down to hear their choices
Guardian music
Good riddance 2020: the ultimate New Year's Eve playlist to end a very bad year
Guardian music
24 saves · Dec 14th · The year that lasted centuries is finally coming to a close – and we need some music to bid good riddance to the horrors of 2020.
Variety
Eric Clapton and Van Morrison Release Anti-Lockdown Song 'Stand and Deliver'
Variety
1 min read · 17 saves · Dec 19th · Eric Clapton and Van Morrison have released their anti-lockdown collaboration, “Stand and Deliver.” Written by Morrison and performed by Clapton, the four-and-a-half minute bluesy track…
The Wall Street Journal
Bob Dylan’s Catalog Sale Highlights a Tax Advantage for Songwriters
The Wall Street Journal
4 min read · 17 saves · Dec 11th · Bob Dylan’s song-catalog sale could offer benefits for both the music icon and the company that bought them
