Listener Data Reveals the Artists, Tracks, Make-ups and Break-ups that Shaped a Decade. Pioneers of digital music, Last.fm, today reveal the biggest trends from the past 10 years of music. To coincide with Last.fm celebrating a decade of scrobbling*, the music discovery service has revealed the globe’s listening habits over the last ten years and has launched the Last.fm Scrobbler [...]

Spotify data reveals the acts, tracks and apps that took the streaming world by storm in 2012. As 2012 draws to a close, Spotify today reveals the biggest songs and artists listened to this year by the 15 million global users on the music streaming service. Spotify can reveal that 2012’s biggest track of the year was Gotye’s breakthrough hit [...]

“”Bright Lights” has single handedly just restored my faith in music today.” Stop the presses – Rock and Roll is not dead. Right out of leftfield comes Gary Clark Jr., an artist who takes the best of one of the only other true Rock and Roll artists of the modern times, The Black Keys and mixes it up in a [...]

Metal Blade // “So is it good? Fuck yes it is.” The Parallax II: Future Sequence is one of my most anticipated albums in quite a while. Since the release of Colors in 2007, Between The Buried and Me have been struggling to not only top Colors, but to even come close. 2009′s The Great Misdirect was bit of a [...]

Island / Def Jam // “…it’s is a great collection of songs and not so much a cohesive album” When Kanye West presents Good Music Cruel Summer first dropped and with it being so weirdly labeled (Various Artists) and titled, I had assumed that it was merely a compilation album. I thought Kanye West had put together a selection of [...]