Spotify

All gigs are off. We’re stuck at home, worried about our next buck and glued to our devices. No doubt about it, COVID-19 has made 2020 a dumpster fire to remember. The novel Coronavirus is punishing…

I grew up in the 90s — my formative teenage years falling in the decade that gave us Nirvana, Shaquille O’Neal and American Pie. Nowadays, you’d be forgiven for being promiscuous when it comes to…

How the big two music streaming platforms plan to help the local music industry.

As hundreds of millions around the world face the strange prospect of a house arrest for the foreseeable future, streaming technology has come to the rescue. Netflix, Apple, Zoom and an army of…

Spotify has already begun the search for a replacement!

Spotify is recruiting for a new managing director for AU & NZ.

Karen Lawson is exiting as managing director of Spotify Australia and New Zealand, less than a year into the role. Lawson, the former chief of start-up accelerator Slingshot, took the big job last…

Spotify is getting behind emerging acts with new program RADAR.

Inclusion on a Spotify playlist can graduate a middling musician’s career into the big league. Cracking the streamer’s New Music Friday is like bagging national airplay only, well, its global. And…

The music industry has undergone a heck-load of rearrangement and evolution in the past few decades. The role of everyone from radio DJs to booking agents and record label heads has shifted. So how…