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The Music Episode
Listen to and follow ‘Hard Fork’Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTube This week, we drop the Hard Fork Music Megamix. Plus, we talk to two of The New York Times’s composers who make the […]
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Why Did Matt Farley Put a Song About Me on Spotify?
I don’t want to make this all about me, but have you heard the song “Brett Martin, You a Nice Man, Yes”? I guess probably not. On Spotify, “Brett Martin, You a Nice Man, Yes” […]
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TikTok and Universal Music Group: What’s Next for Users and Artists?
TikTok users woke up Thursday and discovered that many videos using songs by stars like Taylor Swift, Lana Del Rey, Drake and Ariana Grande had gone silent, after a public brawl between TikTok and Universal […]
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Is TikTok Over?
How much time do I spend on TikTok? I can tell you which chiropractor is demonstrating their technique without even seeing their face. I know which fashion content creator is partial to Rei Kawakubo, and […]
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That Spotify Daylist That Really ‘Gets’ You? It Was Written by A.I.
Have your Sunday scaries ever given way to a “Nervous Ocean Monday Morning”? Does the weekend truly begin on Friday, or on a “Wild and Free Chaotic Thursday Afternoon”? How should one dress for a […]
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Haptic Suits Let You Feel Music Through Your Skin
Jay Alan Zimmerman, a deaf composer and musician, was used to positioning himself near the speakers at clubs, straining to feel the vibrations of songs he could not hear. So when he was invited to […]
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Dolby Atmos Wants You to Listen Up. (And Down. And Sideways.)
Initially, Apple’s biggest challenge was that there was very little Atmos content available. In 2017, R.E.M.’s “Automatic for the People” became the first album mixed for Atmos, and over the next few years, several notable […]