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Joan Jett's music is now on Spotify & Apple Music (and she has a new song)

Joan is also releasing a soundtrack for the new ‘Bad Reputation’ film, including a new Joan Jett & the Blackhearts song, her version of The Replacements’ ”Androgynous” with Laura Jane Grace and Miley Cyrus, and more.

Neil Young launches new online music archive, livestreaming concert tonight

The ‘Neil Young Archives’ include all of Neil’s music from throughout his lengthy career, including some unreleased material. The site launches today in conjunction with the release of his new album The Visitor, and he’s celebrating the launch with a live stream of a hometown concert tonight.

Neil Young puts his music back on streaming services, releases new song

Last year, Neil Young removed his music from streaming services and said, “When the quality is back, I’ll give it another look. Never say never.” Well, we’re not sure if the quality is in fact different now than it was in 2015, but Uncle Neil’s discography is back up on Spotify and Apple Music…

Grammys now recognizes streaming-only projects

The Grammys have always had a contentious history with hip-hop. But aside from frequently snubbing rappers, another egregious error of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences has been its lack of recognition of streaming-only albums as equal to physical releases, a move that has disproportionately affected hip-hop artists who release free mixtapes online…

Pandora app adds features, Amazon working on streaming service

In the ongoing streaming platform wars, it appears that new battles are being fought. First of all, Pandora has added a bunch of features to its app, which are rolling out now for iOS, in what is widely being seen as an attempt to keep up with Spot…

The Beatles discography will be on streaming services as of Christmas Eve

Here’s a holiday gift just about any music fan can get excited about. As of 12:01 AM local time on Christmas Eve, The Beatles‘ entire discography will be on streaming services globally, including Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, Deezer, Google Play, Rhapsody, Amazon Prime, Microsoft Groove, and Slacker, according to their webs…

now WeTransfer is launching a streaming service too

In the past week we got news of Beats Music and Rdio shutting down (the latter because Pandora acquired “key parts” of it), and now comes the news that file sharing and storage site WeTransfer is launching a streaming player and a video streaming platform next week…

Pandora not launching on-demand Spotify competition until 'late 2016'; Meanwhile RDIO could stop working any day

The Verge has a good article on “why RDIO died“, these two key quotes included:”Rdio’s apps will soon stop working — the exact timing depends on when the deal closes — and its modest subscriber base will have to do its music streaming elsewhere…

Pandora to acquire "key parts" of Rdio for $75 million (RIP Rdio, hello Spotify-like Pandora functionality)

We just wrote about Beats Music shutting down and now here’s more streaming music news: Pandora has acquired “key assets” from Rdio, including technology and intellectual property…

Neil Young on tour, removes music from streaming services

High quality digital music advocate Neil Young is removing his music from streaming services. He says:Streaming has ended for me. I hope this is ok for my fans…
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