Earlier today, I conducted an interview via someone else’s Google Glass. For crying out loud. In this live, international interview (which you can see below albeit without audio, because I didn’t manage to capture it — again, my first Google Glass interview) Massimo Ciociola, founder and CEO of the popular lyrics service MusiXmatch told me about…
Last November, we got all hot and bothered about Artiphon, which promises an oasis of quality construction in a desert of poorly-designed plastic things that attach to iPhones. Like the gTar, it’s a musical instrument that uses an iPhone as its brain. However, instead of modeling itself after a guitar, Artiphone is a whole different…
Spotify leads the world’s on-demand subscriptions with six million paying subscribers, but it’s facing stiff competition from a company that isn’t even available in the biggest music market on the planet: Deezer, which tells us it now has over four million paying subscribers to its “premium plus” subscription. Though you cannot access it from the…
Smule, creators of several of the most popular iOS music apps of all time (including early smash hits I Am T-Pain and Ocarina), has been kicking apps and taking names, with over 15 million active users. The company’s chief product officer Prerna Gupta (formerly of Khush) shared some crazy numbers with Evolver.fm this week, as…
As many of us do, I recently ended up in a Facebook conversation about parenting or music. In this case, it was about both conversational mainstays: Namely, how do you allow a child in 2013 to decide to listen to something of their choosing? “I’ve been thinking lately about the downside of having a digital-only…
As reported by the Wall Street Journal today (and echoed via Techmeme), Spotify plans to launch a “top 50″ chart that will give fans and the music industry insight into which songs are most popular on its freemium music subscription. Update: Spotify tells us Spotify must be running in the background to play the charts….
Microsoft will launch a raft of new stuff today for the XBox at an event where it is expected to unveil a new gaming console. However, we already know about one piece of the announcement: an intriguing interactive live music show that will only be available to people who have Xboxes, called “The Music Room.”…
We all have different strengths, and for too many of us, they do not include computer programming. By converting drawings into programs that play music, Tunetrace (iOS; free) makes computer programming a touch (get it?) more accessible to the right-brained among us. From QApps, an app venture from researchers at Queen Mary, University of London, Tunetrace for iOS…
Well, this isn’t going to change the world, but it sounds like a step in the right direction. DayTrotter, the original music subscription that creates scarcity in a digital world by making about a hundred new, unique music videos each month, recently announced a twist on the idea of subscribing to music (a big deal, with…
Google’s new music subscription service, Google Play Music All Access, lacks an official iOS app, which comes as no surprise. Google and Apple are hardly “besties” when it comes to digital music or smartphone platforms. However, Evolver.fm has learned that an iOS app called gMusic, which is already capable of playing music from a Google…
We’ve been writing a lot about Google’s new music subscription service this week, because of course we would. Google is a force to be reckoned with — and now, that force is reckoning with the likes of Spotify, Rdio, and Rhapsody in a bid for your $10 per month, in return for unlimited access to…
I set out this morning to build a chart listing the various features of the major music subscription services: Rdio, Rhapsody, Spotify, and we assume the recently-launched Google Play Music All Access, although it remains to be seen whether it will succeed on the level of those standalone music services — or whether it will…
