Sonos Adds Artist, Genre Stations for Sonos Radio, Premium HD Service

Sonos announced new artist channels and genre stations for Sonos Radio and Sonos Radio HD Wednesday. It’s adding stations from D’Angelo, FKA twigs, Bjork and The Chemical Brothers, including select songs and commentary, and new radio shows from Dolly Parton, Brittany Howard, Thom Yorke and Third Man Records. The Sonos Sound System station will launch new shows, including a podcast about music that’s shaping culture, it said. The first artist station to launch, D’Angelo’s Feverish Fantazmagoria, began streaming Wednesday, with others scheduled to come online over the next few weeks. Sonos Radio is included with Sonos subscriptions globally, preloaded in the Sonos app. Sonos Radio HD offers original content that streams ad-free in CD-quality audio, with skip and repeat capability, for $7.99 per month in the U.S. and U.K.