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Understanding Spotify

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Understanding Spotify Part 3: Sending Clear Signals
What Spotify seems to want from a song, and what two recent releases revealed
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Understanding Spotify Part 2: The Score
Looking closer at Spotify so you don't have to.
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New Music

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Coming June 12: I Would Never Change You
A long-overdue love song for Dari, just in time for our anniversary.
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New Song: Hard to Find (feat. Jesse Siebenberg)
A song for your desert drive, a day before it’s out everywhere, with some appreciation for friends who know exactly how to take a recording where it…
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Paid Perks

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First Listen: I Would Never Change You
An ode to 25 years together, 17 years married today.
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First Listen: Hard To Find
Out May 15 for everyone. Here for you now.
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Songs, stories, and practical strategies for making and releasing music in the age of the algorithm.
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