Music streaming services have been getting a lot more attention than usual. Not long after Amazon (AMZN) launched its own music streaming service — Amazon Prime Music — Google’s (GOOG) YouTube has joined the fray, announcing a paid service for streaming music. Here’s Reuters’ Alexei Oreskovic what to expect from the YouTube streaming service.

Ars Technica (Casey Johnston): The YouTube service might be bad news for independent labels. Artists only have a few days to sign with — or else get booted by — the YouTube subscription service.

The Verge (Jacob Kastrenakes): Elsewhere in the tech world, everyone’s expecting Amazon to unveil a 3D smartphone today, and some insiders are already talking about the secret history of the Amazon smartphone.

Forbes (Ryan Mac): Of course, Amazon isn’t the first company to attempt to jump into the smartphone arena. There are quite a few lessons the company could learn from the botched Facebook (FB) phone.

Quartz (CityLab’s Richard Florida): Detroit might be the poster child for urban collapse, but it’s still expected to make more money than Ireland this year. See the full map of city-to-country comparisons.

Forbes (Kevin Harrington): Branding has always been critical to a company’s identity. And most companies could learn a thing or two about branding from an unlikely source: rock bands.

Reuters (Ian Simpson): Dr. Oz might need a rebranding effort of his own. A Senate committee has been tearing into the doctor-turned-TV-host over sales of dubious medical products.

ExtremeTech (Sebastian Anthony): A new space race is starting up. Elon Musk’s SpaceX claims that it’s going to put humans on Mars … a decade ahead of NASA.

io9 (George Dvorsky): SpaceX might see more demand than it ever expected when vampires take over. Researchers believe they have found the tomb of Vlad “The Impaler” Dracula (believed to be inspiration for Stoker’s Count Dracula) … and they plan to open it.

As of this writing, Aaron Levitt did not hold a position in any of the aforementioned securities.