Twitter expanding #Music team in L.A., looking for a ‘head of music partnerships’

If you'd like to work for Twitter, live in L.A., and don't know a join from a conditional but have good connections in the U.S. music industry, you're in luck.

Apple streaming music service one step closer to reality as deal with Universal Music Group ‘imminent’

An Apple entry into the streaming music market is kind of a big deal. Now it looks to be one step closer to reality.

Thanks, Steve: Global music revenues rise for the first time since 1998

Given that this is the first increase in more than a decade, the music industry has a legitimate reason to scream, and shout, and let it all out.

Soundrop brings music ‘listening rooms’ to Facebook

Social music service Soundrop announced this morning that it has launched listening rooms on Facebook, which means that artists -- and fans -- can create social music spaces where they can listen to music together, chat, and vote on what they want to hear next.

From savage beast to sweet music: How Pandora became the Internet’s radio station

Very few companies have ever had such a crazy, tortuous, long pivot as Pandora.

Facebook music apps have racked up 22B song plays in 1 year

Facebook touted new stats around the crop of social newtork-enhanced music applications helping its members stream and share songs. Apparently, song plays through Timeline apps in the past 13 months have amounted to about 210,000 years worth of music.

Sonarflow for Spotify, an app for iOS devices, takes you on a journey of musical enlightenment

An iOS application called Sonarflow for Spotify, which hooks into the streaming service for access to 15 million tracks and counting, promises to point you to artists and songs that you’re sure to love.

Sonarflow for Spotify, a brand new …

Facebook pulls a MySpace, adds “Listen” button to all artist Pages

The allure of MySpace may be long gone, but that hasn’t stopped Facebook from stealing a little musical inspiration from the former place for friends.

Facebook today made music a much bigger part of the social networking experience with the …

Warner Music Group chairman loves Spotify, calls Google Music an “oxymoron”

Google Music is an oxymoron and Spotify is a friend to the artist, Warner Music Group chairman Edgar Bronfman, Jr. said Tuesday on his last day on the job.

Bronfman, Jr. expounded obtusely on the reasons why Warner Music Group …