9 Best Articles in 2021
HackerNoon
Spotify’s Discover Weekly: How machine learning finds your new music
HackerNoon
9 min read · From 2017 · The science behind personalized music recommendations
The Pudding
How Bad Is Your Spotify?
The Pudding
2020-12-22 · Our sophisticated A.I. judges your awful taste in music.
OpenAI
Jukebox
OpenAI
8 min read · 2020-04-30 · 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
9 min read · 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
~13 min read · 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
From 2019 · 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 · From 2016 · 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 · 2020-02-28 · 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.
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The Atlantic
How Spotify Has Changed Music Libraries Forever
The Atlantic
5 min read · Jul 19th · If your entire collection is on a streaming service, good luck accessing it in 10 or 20 years.
Guardian music
The Velvet Underground’s greatest songs
Guardian music
8 min read · Jul 8th · As Todd Haynes unveils his documentary about them, we rate the best work of a band who overturned and reinvented rock’n’roll
Vox
The pop star versus the playlist
Vox
9 min read · Jun 29th · Streaming services’ playlists make it easier for listeners to find music worth playing. But experts say they’re also breaking fans’ relationships with artists.
Guardian music
Song of the summer 2021: our writers pick their favourite tracks
Guardian music
6 min read · Jul 19th · From Olivia Rodrigo to Leon Bridges to Bo Burnham, Guardian critics recommend their most played songs of the season
Rolling Stone
Beijing Calling: Suspicion, Hope, and Resistance in the Chinese Rock Underground
Rolling Stone
20+ min read · Jun 24th · China has produced some of the most vital indie rock on the planet. But can the scene survive gentrification, government crackdowns, and a hit TV show?
