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Backspin: The Search for Milwaukee’s first hip-hop song

In the late 1970s, music was fundamentally changing. Nationally, black artists were experimenting with new sounds and techniques, creating a unique form of musical expression. As disco morphed into something else entirely, a musical and cultural phenomenon was underway, leading to what we now call hip-hop. And it was more than music. It was a…

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Spotify redesigns platform for subscribers

The redesign, which was announced and launched Thursday, brings tabs to the library section of a subscriber’s app: one for music and one for podcasts. People will be able to swipe or tap between the two tabs to get to the content they want. Spotify (SPOT) didn’t respond to a request for comment about what…

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The BoF Podcast: Trend Forecaster Li Edelkoort on Hybridity in Education | Podcasts

 To subscribe to the BoF Podcast, please follow this link. NEW YORK —  When Li Edelkoort presented her “Anti-Fashion” Manifesto at BoF VOICES in 2016, she offered a barnstorming critique of an industry that, for all its fixation on setting trends, is stuck in the past. Now, the trend forecaster and futurist is the dean…

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The Other Side podcast: What’s it like to be a black woman working in the tech industry? – News – The Columbus Dispatch

Tuesday Apr 2, 2019 at 12:01 AM Dawn Dickson, Columbus native and founder and CEO of ‘PopCom’ and ‘Flat Out of Heels’ shoes, sits down with The Other Side to talk about how she got her start in tech, her inspiration for a shoe vending machine, and how that has led to her owning multiple businesses…

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Apple might be getting into the podcast-making business. Is its reign as the industry’s benevolent overlord coming to an end? » Nieman Journalism Lab

There had been rumors, and there had been increasing reason to believe them. Spotify’s buzzy start to the year, in which the Swedish platform spent hundreds of millions of dollars acquiring its way into the podcast business, had begun to inspire questions about the future of Apple’s position as the dominant podcast distributor. Those questions…

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Los Angeles gets a new hub for podcasting to match WNYC Studios out east » Nieman Journalism Lab

Welcome to Hot Pod, a newsletter about podcasts. This is issue 218, dated July 16, 2019. California dreamin’. This morning, Southern California Public Radio of supposedly sleepy Pasadena — one of the two major public radio stations serving Los Angeles (excluding KUSC), the other being Santa Monica’s KCRW — announced the launch of a new…

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All the Marcus Morris drama, unpacked | The Big Fundamental Podcast

Listen to The Big Fundamental Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Soundcloud, Stitcher, or Podbean.  On the latest episode of the Big Fun Pod, KENS 5 sports anchor Joe Reinagel joins Jackson Floyd and Cameron Songer to break down what amounts to one of the wildest weekends of an NBA offseason history. Marcus Morris is a Spur! And then…

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D.C. United’s bad day versus FC Dallas and more: Filibuster

Filibuster is back and if not for the US women’s national team would be drinking straight shots of liquor. Jason, Adam, and Ben start the show by talking about the World Cup victory by the Women’s National Team, before diving into the badness that was D.C. United’s game against FC Dallas. We also touch on…

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‘The Netflix of Podcasts’ Sees Positive Cash Flow by Year End – Yahoo News

‘The Netflix of Podcasts’ Sees Positive Cash Flow by Year End  Yahoo News Jul.08 — Renee Wang, chief executive officer and founder of Castbox, a podcast platform, talks about her business strategy. She speaks on the sidelines of the … Read More.

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Podcasts should stick to exonerating the innocent

On April 30, 2018, American Public Media’s true crime podcast In The Dark began airing its second season, an investigation of the case of Curtis Flowers, a black man in Mississippi accused of a quadruple homicide at a furniture store in 1996. The crime itself was extraordinary, but the case drew In The Dark’s attention…

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