The life and death of Pop Smoke will be the focus of an upcoming podcast series from Spotify and Complex Networks. The six-episode Complex Subject:Pop Smoke — premiering on July 20th, which would have been Pop Smoke’s 22nd birthday — highlights the late Brooklyn drill rapper who was tragically shot …
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If the music business were allowed to write its own history, every year’s chronicle would glow with variations on the same theme — the words “transformation,” “revolution,” and “record-breaking sea change” chief among the lexicon — ad nauseam. But in the peculiar shadow of 2020, these bombastic end-of-year appraisals, for …
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Brittany Howard shared a cover of Funkadelic’s “You and Your Folks, Me and My Folks,” as well as a new version of her excellent slow-burner, “Stay High,” for the Spotify Singles series. Recorded at East West Studios in Los Angeles, Howard delivers a timely, refreshing update on the funk band’s …
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Off the back of a triumphant (enough) first quarter, Spotify is busy this month buffing up its user experience with new features. The music-streaming service recently began testing a homescreen view that puts podcasts front and center, and it’s also played with a subscription plan for couples. Spotify’s latest experiment: …
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In the torrent of year-end listening reviews and holiday carols on repeat last month, a curious incident on music streaming didn’t draw as much alarm as it should have: Global superstar Beyoncé dropped two new albums under a secret name, which turned out to be full of not new music …
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