RCS Music News Weekly – Spotify Now Invested in Weaponry
We thought it might be science fiction, and perhaps wanted it to be, but the RCS Music News Weekly team confirmed it’s all real. Spotify is now invested in weaponry, and the music [...]
RCS Music News Weekly – The Year-End Holiday Music News Issue
As 2021 winds down, the RCS Music News Weekly elves have been busily gathering yet more breaking music news stories. By “elves,” we of course mean our RCS music news team, who were [...]
RCS Music News Weekly – November Local Live Shows & Music Releases
This week in RCS Music News Weekly: Live music happening tonight and locally in November, including EVO at the Red Brick and Cody Drake, rolodex darko, and Hollow Core at Silence; new music [...]
Apple and Spotify Set for Podcast Smackdown
Alas, it’s not all fluffy painted unicorns among large gajillion-dollar mega-corporations. According to Josh Lindgren, new podcasting department head at Creative Artists Agency, “there is a platform war emerging.” Apple and Spotify are [...]
Spotify Sets the Record Straight on Pay-for-Play Scams
You may have seen them on social—posts that basically go, “Get your music heard on official Spotify playlists! Pay us to do it for you because we’re awesome at it!” If so, here's [...]
COVID’s Hard Lessons About Live Music Performance
After COVID-19 hit the music industry in 2020 with what Nashville music venue owner Chris Cobb called “extinction level” impact, countless bands and solo artists were forced to face hard lessons about live [...]