As Sochi unfolds, the snowboarding documentary about the cost of x-competition raises consciousness – and questions. The Winter Olympics just started. For over twenty years, market research has placed bets on its decline. Studies show kids don’t care about the Games. To win them back, the International Olympic Committee has increasingly pushed an agenda of…
On February 14, the first full length follow up to New Jet City will be ready for download. Introducing the new Jet-Life.com. Curren$y raps about real life. He releases music directly to fans. He puts out mixtapes when he feels like it. He makes mixtapes that aren’t: part video, part song, part flyer. His crew…
The acclaimed electronic artist on freeing music by making music free. Gramatik grew up glued to his stereo: a kid in Slovenia raised on R&B and jazz. By 13, he was building his own tracks; mixing beats on an old PC. His sound grew up. And it grew bigger and broader than electronic music’s traditional…
In September, we opened up BitTorrent Bundle to our first wave of Alpha publishers. Bundle is designed to be a durable (digital) platform for artists: a publishing system that lets you tell better stories; a file format that becomes more valuable, each time it’s shared. As we work on integrating marketing support into the platform,…
How a New Orleans hip hop crew reinvented mixtape culture. It’s been said that the history of hip hop is told by the tape. It was cassettes, not records, that moved rap from a localized movement to music’s mainstream: traveling from parties, to trunks, to radio stations; crossing borders and sonic barriers as they exchanged…
Last month, we opened up BitTorrent Bundle to our first wave of Alpha publishers. (Welcome, guys!) Our goal is to build a durable (digital) platform for artists: a file format that becomes more valuable, each time it’s shared; a publishing architecture that lets you tell better stories. With BitTorrent Bundle, you can promote an album…
Plain White T’s hit Hey There Delilah became the soundtrack to a generation’s relationships. Their new single, The Giving Tree, will take its place on our playlists. The Giving Tree is a love song about love lost; an evolution of the band’s heartfelt sound. And today, the video debuts direct to fans as a BitTorrent…
On September 30th, Moby released innocents: his 11th studio album, and maybe, his most personal. A lo-fi, melodic meditation on vulnerability, it’s the record that he wanted to make. What you make of it is up to you. Today, we’re sharing the entire stem catalog from innocents as a BitTorrent Bundle. Download the Bundle, and…
Just a few days ago, we opened up BitTorrent Bundle to our first wave of artist collaborations. (Welcome, guys!) This project marks the start of something big: digital publishing by, and for, the people. But it also marks the culmination of a lot of work out there, online. For over a year, we’ve been partnering…
Elite ed shifts from the Ivy League to the Internet There’s a tsunami coming. At least, that’s what John Hennesy, president of Stanford and “godfather of the Silicon Valley”, has to say about traditional education as we know it. The problem’s clear: elite schools run on a limited supply model. Classroom resources have historically been…