Music Archive

Bloomberg reports Spotify “has already begun talking to partners about the product” adding full-length music videos to its app. After Spotify’s podcast plan went awry, it appears the company could try to take a bite out of YouTube (which also deeply integrates videos into its YouTube Music service) and TikTok.

Despite unending chaos and a swelling cast of competitors, Twitter’s users are still forcing events into existence. On April 11th, Juvenile tweeted, “Wtf is a tiny desk 😂and no 😂😂” to a request that he appear in the series.

Rick Astley performed his iconic song “Never Gonna Give You Up” at Glastonbury this year, and it’s great. When you’re done listening to that, you should check out his also-good cover of Harry Styles’ “As It Was” from the festival.

There’s this album called 69 Love Songs. I listened to it on repeat one New York winter a long time ago, and it’s etched into my brain. The Magnetic Fields just announced that they’re are playing it in its entirety in a series of two-night shows next year. Tickets go on sale in July. Let’s go.

The Recording Academy has released new rules for the upcoming 66th Grammy Awards. Among them is the clarification that “Only human creators are eligible to be submitted for, consideration for, nominated for, or win a Grammy Award”.

S.H.Figuarts is making a figure of Jamiroquai — a criminally underrated British jazz-funk artist who blessed us with bangers like “Canned Heat,” “Seven Days in Sunny June,” “Traveling Without Moving,” and “Return of the Space Cowboy.” I can’t wait to see full stop-motion recreations of “Virtual Insanity,” as the figure also comes with the music video’s signature black couches.

As of today, Zound Industries is officially called the Marshall Group following its acquisition of Marshall Amplification. Zound had used the British amp manufacturer’s branding for its headphones and speakers for over a decade.

Did you know SiriusXM was a merger of Sirius and XM, which were incompatible satellite radio services, and lots of cars out there with older Sirius receivers still can’t get the full lineup of stations? I got into it with CEO Jennifer Witz on Decoder last week, and mentioned that people have been asking for the popular Road Trip Radio station to be moved to the Sirius bands for years now.

Clark’s video on YouTube has a nice, simple overview of the phenomenon and shows how to take advantage of them on a guitar. His explanation starts at the minute mark.

Kaytranada did make a few stops in between, with Grammy wins and Grammy losses (to Beyoncé), his 2016 debut album 99.9%, and the Wiz-inspired Coachella show a few weeks ago.

Turns out he wasn’t faking it during the WWDC keynote. From John Gruber’s live The Talk Show: