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…
WIRED
All the Ways Spotify Tracks You—and How to Stop It
WIRED
2 min read · Aug 7th · Whether you're listening to workout music or a "cooking dinner" playlist, the app can show you ads based on your mood and what you're doing right now.
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.
Rolling Stone
The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time
Rolling Stone
2 min read · Sep 15th · For the first time in 17 years, we’ve completely remade our list of the best songs ever. More than 250 artists, writers, and industry figures helped us choose a brand-new list full of histori…
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.
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Pitchfork
The 200 Best Albums of the Last 25 Years, According to Pitchfork Readers
Pitchfork
Oct 15th · You chose the best records released between 1996 and 2021.
youtube.com
Bohemian Catsody - A Rhapsody Parody Song for Every Cat Queen and King!
youtube.com
Oct 6th · Cats are royalty. We are their willing servants. Bohemian Catsody - enjoy a parody song of the Queen classic, Bohemian Rhapsody, this time, all about CATS! S...
The New Yorker
Paul McCartney on Writing “Eleanor Rigby”
The New Yorker
4 min read · Oct 18th · How one of the Beatles’ greatest songs came to be.
word.tips
Which Singers Have the Biggest Vocabularies?
word.tips
5 min read · Oct 7th · “Words of nuance, words of skill/Words of romance are a thrill/Words are stupid, words are fun/Words can put you on the run…” What are words worth? So asked pop band Tom Tom Club in their 1981 hit,…
Aeon+Psyche
Can music give you an orgasm? The short answer is yes
Aeon+Psyche
~14 min read · Oct 18th · A song can take you on a journey of ecstatic arousal. Is music imitating sex, inviting it, or something else altogether?
NPR
Janet Jackson Once Had 'Control' of the Charts. We Don't Give Her Enough Credit
NPR
7 min read · Oct 5th · On the 35th anniversary of Janet Jackson's first No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 hit, we look back at Control, her career-defining album that changed the trajectory of pop music in the late '80s and '90s. In…
Mashable
11-year-old phenom drummer rocks out in new climate protest song
Mashable
Oct 9th · Nandi Bushell can't vote. But she can demonstrate...loudly.
NPR
Todd Haynes' new film takes us deep into The Velvet Underground
NPR
5 min read · Oct 14th · In his first documentary, filmmaker Todd Haynes uses the language of experimental cinema to spotlight the Velvet Underground, a legendary band that flowered within New York's avant-garde art world.
Apple Podcasts
Song Exploder: John Lennon
Apple Podcasts
Oct 9th · Show Song Exploder, Ep John Lennon - God - Oct 6, 2021
NPR
Dr. Lonnie Smith, Master Of The Hammond Organ, Dies At 79
NPR
4 min read · Sep 29th · The NEA Jazz Master died Tuesday at the age of 79.
