Wanted: Music Researchers and Data Analysts
We’re on the hunt for Music Researchers and Data Analysts! Interested? We’re looking for smart, interesting, and hard-working people to join our researcher team. Ideally, we would like to find a number of students or recent graduates with an interest in digital music. Whether you’re into Pop, Rock’n’Roll, House, Classical, Jazz, Dubstep, or rubbish 80s [...]
Decibel and Music Discovery. Part 1: How we find music…
I’m a new research intern at Decibel and during my time here I’ve been trying to organise what exactly it is that makes Decibel such a great service and where it fits in on the wider scale of the digital music platform both now and in the future. My background is in DJ’ing and electronic music production [...]
Valentine’s Day Inspiration: 10 songs about true romances
Love it or hate it, it’s Valentine’s Day. It’s the time of year to write that Valentine’s card—or heart-felt confession of ardent love. But let’s face it: most of us are terrible at pouring our hearts out. The Decibel Team has chosen 10 love songs for some much needed inspiration. Be it glorious, undying love, [...]
Revisiting the most memorable Super Bowl performances
This year, we have a hunch the Super Bowl is in for an amazing show. After the whole lip-syncing debacle, Beyoncé silenced her critics by performing an acapella version of the national anthem at yesterday’s Super Bowl press conference in New Orleans. While anxiously awaiting to see how she’s gonna impress the world on Sunday, [...]
Decibel, featured in the French publication “ici Londres”
The November 2012 issue of French magazine ici Londres features an article about Decibel, and our very own co-founder Gregory Kris. Entitled “Decibel, provider of data for the music industry”, the piece begins with the mention of some key points in Gregory Kris’ career as a successful entrepreneur, including the encounter with Evan Stein, which [...]
Decibel’s data drives discovery on the Blue Note app
Decibel is delighted to have played a part in the creation of the wonderful Blue Note App, launched in October by the long-established Blue Note Records jazz label, in partnership with developer Groovebug.
Decibel Track of the Day (Festive Edition) #19 – Christmas In Hollis by Run-D.M.C.
As we are now officially in ‘advent’, Decibel’s ‘Track of the Day’ feature will be taking on a considerably more ‘festive’ flavour. To fill the Decibel blog with traditional songs like Wham’s ‘Last Christmas and Band Aid’s ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’ would be somewhat of a wasted opportunity considering the number of ‘hidden gem’ Christmas songs [...]
Celebrating Global Entrepreneurship Week: Decibel’s 10 Favourite Musicians/Entrepreneurs
Successful musicians are thought to have the mindset of entrepreneurs. Some of them have taken this skill to a whole new level, becoming not only entrepreneurial musicians, but also entrepreneurs in their own right. Joining the celebrations for this year’s Global Entrepreneurship Week, Decibel introduces some of our favourite entrepreneurial pursuits by musicians. Bono Besides [...]
Music History: Presidential Music
The US Presidential race has understandably been the focal point of international news over the past few weeks, and culminated Tuesday night with the re-election of Barack Obama. Obama’s campaign was supported by a plethora of musicians, ranging from the Foo Fighters – who performed at the Democratic National Convention in September – to Jay-Z, [...]
Music History: The Mercury Music Prize
Ever since the Mercury Prize nominees were announced on the 12th September, there has been rampant speculation as to who will take home the annual award. Brainy art-indie foursome Alt-J are the bookies’ favourite, with Django Django and Richard Hawley, who claimed he was ‘robbed’ by the Arctic Monkeys in 2006, close behind. Hawley’s remark [...]
Six Things To Remember If You’re Starting A Tech Company
Decibel’s Evan Stein is an understandably busy man but recently took the time to write this guide for Music 4.5 (on the appropriately-named ‘Blog 4.5′), aimed at startup tech companies. The article can be found here: http://4pt5.com/6-things-to-remember-if-youre-starting-a-tech-company-by-decibel-founder-evan-stein/
Decibel’s Albums of the Week
In a new feature, I will be picking the collective brains of the Decibel staff in order to find out what their recommended albums of the week are. The Decibel office is quite a diverse place musically, and the short-but very-sweet list that follows shows that. So starting this week I will be, with a [...]
Creative Industries Event 23/10/2012
Decibel are happy to confirm that Evan Stein, CIO, will be speaking at Creative Industries’ ‘Partnering for Innovation’ event today at Wallacespace in London. Further details can be found on Creative Industries’ website: https://connect.innovateuk.org/web/9390327
Music History: Musicians Who Threw In The Towel
In an interview with The Daily Mail, James Blunt has announced that he will be leaving the music industry behind. The singer/songwriter/one-time figure of national annoyance revealed that he has no more plans to do any songwriting. Blunt is, of course, not the first person to become disillusioned with life in the limelight, so we [...]
We’re Back!
Yes, the Decibel blog is up and running again and under new management. From here on out you can expect a celebration of all things musical, from the latest album releases to the most up-to-date news from the world of digital media. Follow us on Twitter @decibelnet for more!
2012 Winter Call for Interns – Open Now
Update: We’re now looking for intern researchers to start in October 2012! Interested? Email: jobs@decibel.net This year we are offering Technology Internships and Music Researcher Internships Technology Developers – Internships We’re looking for a number of computer science, software development or database architecture students with an interest in digital music. We know that a good developer [...]
Welcome to Mike the Kiwi Developer
Mike is a Kiwi legend and he is responsible for making some cool stuff from our own APIs…. watch this space! Name [...]
Welcome to Decibel, Robbie (not Williams)
Welcome to Robbie McC – our new software development intern. Robbie will be with us for a few months, maybe more if we can keep hold of a man with his considerable talents. Name: Robbie McCorkell Job Title: Software Development Intern Why did you join Decibel: To learn more about software development and get my [...]
Major Label uses Decibel data to Improve Internal Comms
Decibel are working with a major record label to normalise the communications between the different parts and sub labels of the company.
Independent Label using Decibel to manage their assets
Decibel are working with a well known UK indie label to manage their internal data assets and distribute awesome data to their digital and physical retailers