Tech Companies Are Offering Generous Family Leave to Their Mostly Male Employees

In the tech industry, paid leave is becoming a sought-after benefit for employees, and for employers like Spotify, Twitter, Etsy, Netflix, it’s become an explicit priority. But, as Rebecca Greenfield writes at Bloomberg, these policies are made feasible partly because the tech workforce is still mostly male.
My Spotify Discover Weekly Playlist Thinks I Am a Garbage Person
On July 20, 2015, Spotify introduced a new feature called Discover Weekly. It works like this: every Monday, Spotify presents you with a 30-song playlist—approximately two hours’ worth of music—based on “both your own listening as well as what others are playlisting and listening to around the songs you love, making…
Spotify Considers Making Some Tracks Available To Paid Subscribers Only
Spotify is considering letting a handful of artists release new music to paying subscribers only. According to the Wall Street Journal, the streaming service is reversing course on its business plan because major stars, like Taylor Swift, are unhappy with the company’s current policy that all music must be released to…
What's the Most Embarrassing Thing From Your Spotify Year in Music?
It’s the time/ of the season/ to look at your Spotify Year in Music and be like, “Yeah, I took the emo revival a little too far.”
Spotify Offers All Full-Time Employees 6 Months Paid Parental Leave
Music streaming giant Spotify has just announced a new global parental leave policy that is reasonable, necessary, and makes Amazon’s recent foray into more family-friendly leave policies look like the half-baked publicity fart it almost definitely was.
The Best Halloween Soundtrack Is the One Where All the Musicians Are Dead

Halloween is enjoyable in moderation, but, as is the case with many vices, it is difficult to enjoy without overindulging. Every year, I set out to have a good spooky time, and before I know it, I’m huddled under a blanket with all the lights on because I thought it might be fun to cook dinner while the creepiness…
Ginuwine’s 'Pony' Is On Everyone’s 'Netflix and Chill' Playlists
Spotify users have been taking “Netflix and chill” to a new level by creating themed playlists, which the music streaming company noticed, and decided to aggregate into their own. At the top of the list of the 20 most popular come-over-let’s-bone tracks is a hit from 1996—Ginuwine’s “Pony,” whose recent resurge in…
Spotify Demands Our Privacy, Gets Yelled At, Says Sorry
Spotify kicked up their privacy policy, and now the music streaming platform wants to… see your photos and know where you’re going? Or maybe just give you the option of putting your latest selfie atop a new playlist? Either way, users weren’t happy, and Spotify CEO Daniel Elk just apologized for trying to raid our…
Zayn Malik to New Enemy Calvin Harris: 'Calm Your Knickers'
This is a story about former One Direction member Zayn Malik, his new enemy Calvin Harris, Calvin’s girlfriend Taylor Swift, Taylor’s newish enemy Miley Cyrus, Taylor’s longtime enemy Spotify, Taylor’s almost-enemy Apple Music, and a Twitter user named Bitch Problems. So sit down, grab a cup of tea, and put a few…
How to Craft the Perfect Sex Playlist (Plus Some Song Recommendations)
The right soundtrack has the power to elevate sex from good to mind-boggling. But if you’ve ever hooked up with someone who put on what was obviously a meticulously-arranged “sex playlist”, you also know that music has the potential to make your encounter a bit awkward. Here’s how to achieve the former rather than the…
Dumb Fox News Bashes Hillary's Playlist, Is Bad at Music Criticism
Fox & Friends, deeply unfunny despite its best efforts, recently proved its propensity for selective truth extends to music criticism, as Elisabeth Hasselbeck chose one verse from an American Authors song—”I’m a little bit jealous/ I’m a little bit slow/ I’m a little bit hurtful/ and I don’t wanna let it go”—and used…
Would You Vote for Hillary Clinton Based on Her Spotify Playlist?
Hillary Clinton, Presidential candidate and purveyor of millennial-targeted merchandise, is fully ready to take this election thing by storm. And as everyone knows, to run for President, you have to have signature jams to back you up. Hillary just don’t stop thinkin’ about tomorrow.
I Tried Tidal and It Sucked
Two weeks ago, a happy-go-lucky troupe of ragtag recording artists (collective net worth: over $2,000,000,000) stood shoulder to shoulder on a stage and asked for your money. In return they would give you "TIDAL," a streaming music website and app that costs too much. I gave it a try. You should not.
Taylor Swift Launches a World Tour and Disses Spotify in the Same Day
Taylor Swift announced her upcoming world tour for her album 1989 on Monday, briefly causing her website to crash. And in a move only the world's biggest pop star could pull off, she's taken all her music off Spotify, prompting the music streaming company to write their own version of a breakup ballad about her.
