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Anberlin’s Stephen Christian critiques the streaming industry

The ever-interesting Anberlin frontman Stephen Christian recently did segment interviews with Real Feels beginning with the heated subject of watching shows through your smart phone (“You’re never gonna watch that, man.”). Moving on, he's sounding off about streaming services like Spotify, Beats and Rdio, favoring them over illegal downloading, but also saying progress needs to be made to pay […]

MGMT stream new self-titled album

MGMT are currently streaming their new, self-titled album via Rdio. You can stream the album using the player below, or visit Rdio to check out “the Optimizer” that accompanies the album stream, which combines the music and visual interpretations of it by several artists and MGMT's live show video instrumentalist Alejandro Crawford. MGMT is set […]

Rdio introduces new way for artists to monetize streaming music through fan engagement

Digital music service Rdio has introduced a new way for bands to monetize their music streaming through a new program called the Rdio Artist Program. By using Rdio to share their music, bands will recieve $10 for every new subscriber they bring in through their social sharing. Rdio CEO Drew Larner had this to says […]

Rdio partners with Tunecore and CD Baby; increases track catalog to 18 million

Digital music streaming and social discovery website Rdio announced today that it has partnered with distributors CD Baby and Tunecore, increasing the site's play-on-demand track catalog to more than 18 million. The catalog expansion puts Rdio just above Spotify in terms of total tracks claimed, according to Tech Crunch. More than 250,000 artists were added […]

Report: Apple possibly looking into on-demand music streaming a la Spotify or Rdio

Digital Music News reports that Apple may be looking into entering the on-demand streaming music business to compete with Spotify and Rdio: “And of all the rumors floating around, this has to be the juiciest: executives keep pointing to a possible on-demand streaming service ahead from Apple, including a tight tie-in with iCloud and iMatch. […]

Check out AP 284 playlists on Spotify and Rdio

Now that AP #284 is out everywhere (and available for purchase here), it's time to let your print and digital worlds collide by checking out our AP 284 playlists on Spotify and Rdio. The playlists feature music from all of your favorite bands covered in the mag, including Falling In Reverse, Say Anything, Frank Turner, […]

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Check out AP 283 playlists on Spotify and Rdio

Now that AP #283 is out everywhere (and available for purchase here), it's time to let your print and digital worlds collide by checking out our AP 283 playlists on Spotify and Rdio. The playlists feature music from all of your favorite bands covered in the mag, including Anthony Green, Simple Plan, the Maine, A […]

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