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2020 was the year the world stood still, as the COVID-19 pandemic spread and took music legends like Harold Budd and Manu Dibango from us and propelled the whole live music industry into crisis....

This year has flown by and looking back; there has been a lot of great music released this year. I found myself listening to music to keep myself distracted from the ongoing stories about the...

The beauty of music – it absorbs all the changes and the emotions around us and can become the upspoken truth of the current state of society. With all these challenges, some of the best music was...

In a year of extremes, I found myself cradled in a nest of polarities. Hyper pop became inherently interwoven with retro folk, while industrial hip-hop befriended modern synth-pop. Barriers...

I’m Brittany Ward and I’ve worked at PlayNetwork coming up on 7 years, and in the music department for about 3. I love rap, R&B, pop, country music, and well, really anything that is a HIT… you...

What can I say about 2020 that has not already been said? It has been a hard year for this planet. With small businesses closing and so many people out of work with no health insurance or knowing...

Okay, 2020 has been a year. And yep, here’s another blog post calling out what you already know very well. Fair enough. As we’ve moved through this year with so many twists and turns, what’s been…...

Best of the year playlists (similar to opinions) are like bellybuttons; everybody has one. And moreover, as a Music Supervisor and DJ whose responsibilities include taking requests and...

2020 was indeed one hell of a year. Music helps everyone get through the challenges — be it the harsh realities of COVID-19, responding to systemic racism in society or enduring the surreal US...

Wow – 2020, where do I start? The year actually started off on a positive note with everyone coming together to help with the Australian wildfires and we even had a great Super Bowl Halftime show...

Hi, I’m Alex Ruder and I’m a music supervisor at The Octave Group. No doubt it’s a prerequisite for the job, but I’m a fan of a lot of types of music. A genre that I’ve been particularly...

Since we started working from home in March, as everyone is aware — the current world we live in with the global pandemic, racial tensions, and political differences has had me paying a lot more...