At the Echo Nest, everyone is obsessed with music. But there’s also another obsession as highlighted in this new photo blog: lookatthisfuckingcrema.com:

At the Echo Nest we have lots of data about millions of artists. It can be interesting to see what kind of patterns can be extracted from this data. Tim G suggested an experiment where we see if…

There’s a movement this year to take back the Christmas charts from smarmy pop artists churned out by music factories like the X factor and Idol franchises. The kickoff to this…

I saw that Nickelback just received a Grammy nomination for Best Hard Rock Performance with their song ‘Burn it to the Ground’ and wanted to celebrate the event. Since Nickelback is known for…

I’ve almost recovered from the Boston Music Hack Day. Here’s a retrospective of posts, tweets video and images about the event. First, lots of people have written about their experiences at the…

Last month I Spotified the Billboard charts by using the Billboard and Spotify APIs. However, I wasn’t actually able to create real Spotify playlists since the Spotify web API…

Oh lookie – Brian has re-posted his Singular Christmas

Take a look at Kurt’s weekend hack to make a visualization of the Echo Nest artist similarity space. Very nice. Can’t wait for Kurt to make it interactive and show artist info. Neat!

Boston Music Hack Day is in the can. I learned a lot over the last few days about what happens when you have 200+ programmers gather for a weekend. Here’s some of the things I want to remember…