Kottke Wrapped 2025

Spotify and Universal Music Group Announce Landmark Licensing Agreements for Fan-Made Covers and Remixes — Spotify

Groundbreaking responsible AI tool to launch as paid add-on for Spotify Premium users   Spotify and Universal Music Group (UMG) today announced landmark recorded music and music publishing licensing agreements enabling Spotify to launch a new tool allowing fans to create covers and remixes of their favorite songs from participating artists and songwriters.   This groundbreaking tool...

Seemingly AI-generated band The Velvet Sundown have over 400,000 monthly Spotify listeners

Seemingly AI-generated band The Velvet Sundown have thousands of monthly Spotify listeners but have only existed for a month

Building a More Trusted Podcast Experience for Creators and Listeners — Spotify

Podcasting continues to evolve, and so does Spotify. As we build what comes next, one thing remains constant: This is a medium built on connection. It lives in the chemistry between co-hosts, in the relationship between creators and the fans who return week after week, and in the dialogue around ideas and culture. As creation...

The Feed Is Fake

That “viral” song, movie, influencer, and celebrity drama you scrolled by recently was likely the result of a stealth marketing campaign.

Vancouver DIY Events

Anti-corporate music scene calendar from Vancouver. <br> Have a show coming up soon? Add it <a href="https://cal.fiera.social/add">here!</a> <br> <a href="https://cal.fiera.social/export">Follow this calendar</a> from your app of choice! <br>Presented by <a href="https://audiovalentine.com/">Audio Valentine</a>.

An unofficial teal.fm wrapped

Cosmik New Year: 2025 in Review, and Looking Forward to 2026 - Cosmik Labs

Reading this forum post on open protocols and music publishing. Thank you @hilk.eu for sembling it.

That WWDC Glow

I am sitting in a hotel room in Cupertino, the day after the WWDC keynote. Yesterday was a pretty packed day, full of announcements, information, press releases, and podcast recordings. But it was a very satisfying one. My last WWDC was in 2023, and I was lucky enough to be

Cloudflare’s 2025 Annual Founders’ Letter

Cloudflare launched 15 years ago this week. We like to celebrate our birthday by launching new products that give back to the Internet, which will do a lot of this week. But on this occasion we've also been thinking a lot about what's changed on the Internet and what has not.

Introducing Verified by Spotify, a Signal of Authenticity and Trust for the Artists Behind the Music — Spotify

Music is evolving, and so are the ways you discover and connect with artists. In the AI era, it’s more important than ever to be able to trust the authenticity of the music you listen to. At Spotify, our focus is providing you with more context about artists and their music, so you can build...

Half a million Spotify users are unknowingly grooving to an AI-generated band

A supposed band called The Velvet Sundown has released two albums of AI slop this month.