Spotify Will Stream Videos And Podcasts Now Too
The on-demand music streaming leader will transform into a multimedia platform, with content from partners including Vice News, Comedy Central, MTV, ESPN, Radiolab, and more. Andrew Burton / Getty...
View ArticleZosia Mamet, Vanessa Bayer, And Fred Armisen Re-Created "The Golden Girls"...
Shosh makes a surprisingly good Dorothy, tbh. Witt/Thomas/Harris Productions Autumn deWilde/ Warner Bros. Records Though she's spent much of the past two decades reinventing herself, Lewis playfully...
View ArticleCan Apple Fix Music Again?
Apple Music’s real competitor isn’t Spotify, but years of diverging consumer trends. Justin Sullivan / Getty Images Answer this question without thinking about it too much: Where do you go when you...
View ArticleThe End Of Album Privilege
Pop-punk band All Time Low, who were kept from the top of the Billboard 200 by sales of the Furious 7 single "See You Again." All Time Low / Facebook It used to be that there was no greater...
View ArticleTaylor Swift Donated $15,000 To The Firefighter Who Saved His Own Family
A friend of the VanRiper family set up a GoFundMe page to help with their medical costs, and Swift delivered. On Saturday, a Texas firefighter named Aaron VanRiper responded to the scene of a car...
View ArticleTaylor Swift's "1989" Will Not Be On Apple Music
The technology giant could not secure the rights to Swift’s latest blockbuster, which will remain unavailable on any streaming service, BuzzFeed News has learned. UPDATED: Swift spoke out against...
View ArticleWhat Apple Music Gets Right, And Wrong, About Music Fandom
I’m a longtime Spotify premium subscriber, but while on a trip out of town over the 4th of July weekend, I used the new Apple Music streaming service as my sole source for tunes, as I have exclusively...
View ArticleThe Unbreakable Rebecca Black
Rebecca Black just turned 18 and she’s forgotten how to flirt. It’s a problem. She might be at a party in a circle of friends, all of them egging her on, with an attractive and available-seeming (but...
View ArticleDisclosure Want To Be Bigger Than Dance Music
Guy and Howard Lawrence, who started making electronic music as Disclosure when they were still in their teens, settled on the genre for the same reason that many teenagers choose their...
View ArticleYour Perfect End-Of-Summer Mix Is Here, From DJ A-Trak
BBQ bangers served by the co-founder of Fool’s Gold Records. Bad News: Summer, like the impaled remains of a drippy popsicle, is almost over. Good News: your three-day Labor Day weekend is upon us,...
View ArticleSelena Gomez's "Good For You" And The Rise Of "Indie Pop Voice"
How a phenomenon called “vowel breaking” became an epidemic in pop music. BuzzFeed News; Getty Images (4) If you've turned on the radio at all over the past few months, you've probably heard the song...
View ArticleThe #Blessed Life Of Kaskade, EDM's Voice Of Reason
The W Hotel in downtown Atlanta narrows twice near its summit, 28 gloriously reflective stories in the air, so that the roof of the building feels almost impossibly small. All that glass and concrete...
View ArticleWhat Makes Carly Rae Jepsen A Pop Star?
Carly Rae Jepsen built her career crafting fantasies that other people either believed in or wished they did, and she’s always coming up with new ones for herself. The latest goes like this: Jepsen...
View Article20 Major Pop Stars Dodged Our Questions About Whether They’d Work With Dr. Luke
The super producer is accused of sexually assaulting and abusing Kesha. But will that hurt his business? The influence of Dr. Luke, a powerful figure in the music industry who has produced over 30 Top...
View ArticleLearning To Mourn In My Father's Country
I remember feeling grateful that we never said “Merry Christmas.” We didn’t say it on Christmas morning when we awoke in Virginia, during a layover at the world’s most desolate Hampton Inn &...
View ArticleDrake Demonstrates The Struggle Of Being In Your Late Twenties
Young Money Entertainment / Cash Money Records Twenty-nine is a weird age. A hospice for youth. It’s the last guest to leave the party. Thirty gets all the attention — the big, round number feted with...
View ArticleHow Afrobeats Became Pop Music's Next Big Thing
Ayo Jay. RCA You may not be familiar with the 26-year-old singer and songwriter Ayo Jay, but you might know his viral, dancehall-influenced song “Your Number.” On the East Coast, recent listeners to...
View ArticleInside Apple Music's Second Act
Justin Sullivan / Getty Images Music streaming is a buyer’s market, and over the course of its first 14 months, Apple Music has pitched itself to customers in a few marquee ways. There’s the army of...
View ArticleWin Or Lose, Trump Supporters Say Things Won't Ever Be The Same Again
Reggie Ugwu/BuzzFeed News ATKINSON, NH — Before Donald Trump ran for president, Kenny and Sharon considered themselves largely apolitical, rarely concerning themselves with the distant machinations of...
View ArticleHow Electronic Music Made By Neo-Nazis Soundtracks The Alt-Right
Photo Illustration BuzzFeed News; Getty Images “Galactic Lebensraum,” the first song posted to SoundCloud by the electronic music producer Cybernazi in November 2015, is the musical equivalent of a...
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