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'SoundCloud Crumbling? $70M in Losses Spells Uncertain Future

The longevity of the popular audio social network, SoundCloud, could be in question after recent reports surfaced that service has lost over $70 million in two years. Having endured loses in 2013 as well as 2014, the losses place SoundCloud in an unstable position going into the future, with the company's board of directors going so far as to assert that "there are material uncertainties facing the business."
  • 'Carnegie Hall @ 125: Weill Institute's Lullaby Project

    Commissioned for the birth of Bertha Faber's second son, with Clara Schumann at the piano, Brahms' "Lullaby" was first heard some 150 years ago. Absent that night in Vienna, you'll still recall its gentle, E-flat waltz from your own childhood. Likewise, you weren't there last April for the world premiere of "Sweet Like Honey Buns." But that's just because its funky, electric guitar-led hook, care of composer Daniel Levy and a young mother named Vetaya, was first performed at Rikers Island. The end result of Carnegie Hall's Lullaby Project, songs like "Honey Buns," LaToria's "Mommy's Boys, Mommy's Blessing" and "Sleep Under the Willow" by Sarah (institutions like prisons and hospitals prefer first names only) are all part of a precious process, intent on helping at-risk women, and often their partners, bond with their babies.
  • 'NASA's Golden Record to Aliens Now Available for Stream on SoundCloud

    The most common soundtrack is that of our lives, indeed. For NASA and their Voyager program however, the common sounds of Earth have been transcribed onto a golden record for extraterrestrial life to listen to--so long as the aliens can figure out how to play the record. Now, those sounds are available to stream on the NASA SoundCloud.
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