How Spotify is Perfecting Music Curation

Pandora, Rdio, Apple and Tidal all offer their own versions of music curation, but one service, Spotify, seems to have cracked the code. The streaming service’s popular Discover Weekly feature has found a way to spot tracks that users will actually enjoy, without remaining too safe or straying too far from personal taste. The team behind Discover Weekly admits the product is far from perfect …

Sonos Play:5 Redesigned and Reengineered

The latest wireless HiFi speaker and music streaming system keeps getting better

Today Sonos, the wireless HiFi company, announced two significant releases: The new Play:5 speaker and Trueplay, a feature in the Sonos app that easily helps most Sonos speakers sound the best it can in whatever environment you’ve placed it in. We sat down with two of the people that brought them to life, Tad Toulis, Sonos’s Vice President of Design, and Giles Martin, their Sound …

101 Artists To Listen To Before You Die

Spanish illustrator Ricardo Cavolo's personal music diary bursts with color and passion

While listicles can sometimes feel like lazy writing, the book “101 Artists to Listen to Before You Die” from Spanish illustrator and music lover Ricardo Cavolo is anything but. Inside, he dedicates two pages to each artist who has had an impact on his life. On the left, Cavolo hand writes anecdotes and entangled thoughts on why he admires them; on the adjoining page lies …