On Tuesday, June 30, Apple Music goes live and it may very well be the next evolution in the music industry like iTunes before it. With Spotify, Pandora, and Rdio breathing down Apple’s neck, the house that Steve Jobs built is ready to take on the competition with both feet in, offering up a subscription-based streaming service as well as a 24/7 global Internet radio station.

Apple unveiled Apple Music at WWDC earlier this month, and you can learn all about it there. Today I’m here to discuss what’s new before the service rolls out tomorrow morning. First let’s talk exclusives. In order to compete with the aforementioned competition, Apple is taking advantage of its artist relationships to bring special content to Apple Music that listeners won’t be able to find elsewhere. After pulling her latest album 1989 from Spotify’s library, country-turned-pop star Taylor Swift is granting Apple Music streaming rights to it. This followed, of course, Swift’s public letter to Apple regarding paying artists (both large and indie) royalties during users’ free three-month trial periods. Apple’s Senior VP of Internet Software and Services Eddy Cue swiftly took to Twitter to announce his company’s about-face. The indie community, as well as Swift, backed Apple’s decision to pay artists before users’ subscriptions kick in and this seemingly opened the floodgates for more goodwill and exciting exclusives coming to Apple Music. Pharrell is debuting his brand new single “Freedom” exclusively on the service on Tuesday, and it will likely come packaged with a music video. Additionally, Dr. Dre’s iconic rap album The Chronic will stream digitally for the first time on Apple Music; due to a legal spat, the Beats co-founder couldn’t even get it spinning on the Beats Music service before Apple gobbled it up.

The remainder of new information surrounds Beats 1, the new global radio station powered by Apple and run by former BBC Radio 1 DJ Zane Lowe. He’ll be broadcasting from Los Angeles, and two other hand-picked DJs–Hot 97’s Ebro Darden and UK tastemaker Julie Adenuga–will broadcast live from New York City and London, respectively. In an interview with The New York Times, Lowe shared his aspirations for Beats 1, after the break.

“Everyone keeps going to their devices because of fear of missing out. I’m constantly going on Instagram, Twitter, wondering what’s going on in my friends’ lives. What am I missing? I want that for radio. What’s on right now, right now, that I didn’t know I wanted to listen to?”

With knowledgable DJs hosting shows and interviews and spinning fresh tunes on the regular, Lowe hopes that music lovers will want to check in as often as they check their social media feeds to find out what’s happening in music in the moment. In addition to the three aforementioned DJs, Beats 1 will also be home to exclusive radio shows hosted by special guests including Elton John (his “Rocket Hour” will offer “an eclectic mix of old songs and new”), Dr. Dre (his show is aptly named “The Pharmacy”), Drake, Jaden Smith, St. Vincent, Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age, and Disclosure. It also looks like Justin Timberlake and actress Cara Delevingne will participate, too. Beats 1’s first exclusive interview will air sometime during the service’s first week launch window and it’s with rap legend Eminem. According to the NYT, the prerecorded session will see Em discussing the new music be made for the upcoming boxing film Southpaw and his spell as a boxer.

Now the question remains: how do you get Apple Music? It’s simple, really. The service comes baked inside the new version of Apple’s Music app that (typically) sits in the bottom dock of your iOS device. Upgrade to iOS 8.4 tomorrow morning (the update will go live specifically at 8am PT, according to former Beats CEO Ian Rogers) and you’ll notice the shiny new Music app waiting for your touch. Of course, Apple Music will also be accessible via iTunes on Macs and PCs, so look out for software updates there, too. And later this fall it will roll out for Android. Interested in tuning into Zane Lowe and the birth of Beats 1? The radio service launches at 9am PT, precisely one hour after iOS 8.4 comes out.

After signing up for Apple Music and running through your free three-month trial period, you’ll have to chalk up $9.99/month for a single membership to continue streaming (a $14.99 family membership bundling six separate memberships will also be offered). Beats 1, remember, is completely free and does not require a membership for access. This week, Cue also confirmed that Apple Music comes with iTunes Match capabilities cooked in; it’s 25,000 track match-and-upload-to-iCloud cap will increase to 100,000 this fall in tandem with the release of iOS 9. Last, Rogers also went on to say that Sonos speakers will support Apple Music wireless streaming before the end of the year.

And with that, I leave you to it! Come tomorrow, June 30 at 8am, iOS 8.4 will release and with it the new Music app packing Apple Music, Beats 1, human-curated playlists and recommendations, and Connect, a new way for artists to interact and reach out to their fans. Will Apple’s own streaming service compete (or even beat) what the market currently offers? Will Zane Lowe’s experimental radio station explode on the scene with exclusive interviews, celebrity guest hosts, and a crop of rising, never-heard-before talent? Much like when MTV switched on in 1981 and played the very first music video, I wonder if people will remember where they were when Apple turns on its Internet radio station. What will be the first song streamed?! A future Jeopardy answer, perhaps. Whether or not you see a bright future for Apple Music and all its wares, it certainly has a fighting chance to make history since it’ll soon be living inside every iDevice. If streaming music replaces downloading music, the utter ubiquity of Apple Music might just make the company king of ever-evolving the industry once again.