Localify

Summer 2025 Plans for Localify

May 20, 2025

Our goal for localify last summer was to launch a professional grade version of Localify. This included developing: For the most part, our team (Griffin, Paul, Cassandra, Bridget, and Ruth)...

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Music Festival Artist Recommendation for SXSW 2025

March 6, 2025

One of the new features we have been working on for Localify.org is artist recommendations for music festivals that: Some festivals can have hundreds of bands playing during a small...

Localify, Research

Why Spotify Should Care About Local Music in the Coming Age of Generative Music

February 28, 2025

Summary: With the rise of generative music, some listeners will increasingly value “authentic” music experiences with human artists who perform live shows within their communities. Spotify must position itself as...

General

What is Localify & How You Can Help

November 13, 2024

Have you ever: These are all the questions that we have try to answer with Locality.org. Here is how it works: What We Believe We believe that there are incredible...

Publications

Contextualizing Local Music @ ISMIR24

November 11, 2024

Our goal at Localify.org is to help people discover local artists within their communities. However, it is difficult to design an effective “Local Music Recommendation” user experience (UX) for a...

Localify

Localify 2.0

September 7, 2024

A new version of Localify.org will launch in September 2024. We want to create a service that helps potential fans discover talented artists who live and perform within their communities....

General, Research

Three Forms of Popularity Bias

September 18, 2023

In our research on long-tail music recommendation, we have come across three distinct forms of popularity bias: In this post, we will discuss all three and describe some of our...

Localify, Publications

Measuring the Strength of Music Scenes

December 6, 2022

Almost all of my research has focused on technical topics such as digital signal processing, machine learning, and recommendation algorithms. But this year, for the annual International Society for Music...

Publications, Research

Not Finding Popularity Bias in Recommendations from Music Streaming Services

December 4, 2022

One of the emerging topics in machine learning research is “fairness” and “bias” in recommendation algorithms. For example, when a job site only recommends certain applicants for certain high-value jobs,...

General

Humane Music Recommendation Technology

November 23, 2021

Localify.org has been designed to embrace the concept of humane technology. We do have an agenda but it is not to make money. Rather, it is to use music recommendation...