Posts Tagged: pressroom

BitTorrent users are 170% more likely to buy music versus average Internet users. Last year, we launched an alpha project called BitTorrent Bundle. Our goal was to build a sustainable ecosystem for the Internet’s creative projects. A place where published stories could be big, messy, and multimedia. A place where artists and fans could connect…

The artist’s first album is the first open Bundle paygate project. “I was making things I’d never heard before, things I could just imagine.” Diplo began work on his first album ten years ago, between Philadelphia and Florida, between jobs, after hours, on the bus, and inside his head. Florida, released in 2004 on Big…

The rock legends go direct-to-fan for the release of their latest Roboshobo-directed video premiere. Alice In Chains helped define one of the most influential eras of modern rock music. Emerging from the storied Seattle music scene, the band dominated airwaves and record charts, and remain one of the predominant alternative-rock bands in existence. Their most…

Unlock Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes

A step-by-step guide to the new album by Thom Yorke. Read more about the project here. Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes is a new album from Thom Yorke. It is the artist’s first solo record in eight years. It is a project conceived of in conversation with, and collaboration with, fans. It is music and video and…

The world around us is made of music. This is what happens when you listen in. The sound of a passing car. A turbine in the distance. Wind blowing through your hair. The tap of a keyboard. A heart beating. Everything around us is music. It’s not background. It’s life, and it’s larger than life.

A collective history of electronic sound, compiled by the good people of OWSLA. This marks the summer that EDM became Officially A Thing: the subject of a thousand thinkpieces on music, the pulsing beat behind the top-charting Billboard songs, the chief contender for sound-of-a-generation status. Electronic music today is audio sprawl; a constantly spreading and…