We’ve just received word of a promising-looking new online music outfit out of Australia whose main premise is to help bands sell tickets to online shows, which they can then webcast using their own equipment to fans worldwide, or just in specific regions. PlayFi is a fairly standard online music store that lets fans set…
In the early days of Web 1.0 beta (i.e. the ’90s), most of us who were paying attention thought music middlemen were on their way out. Technology on the near horizon allowed bands to sell tickets, merchandise, and recordings directly to fans, while promoting their music through early internet radio, where payola and corporate sway…
We spend a lot of time thinking about the future of music as an app phenomenon – mostly for listeners, but also for musicians: instruments for the synth wiz, ways for musicians to market and monetize tunes, and recently, how this whole transition into apps has affected music bloggers. Our lengthy conversation with Sean Adams – founder of influential music…
Promising an experience akin to sharing music with your bunkmate in college, summer camp, cruise ship quarters, or wherever else they have bunkbeds these days, MusicBunk recently launched as a social music player that’s free on iOS and Android. On a basic level, the MusicBunk app connects you with friends and like-minded fans so you can…
While techie hipsters (techsters?) complain that Turntable.fm is so over, most people and even music fans only recently began to grasp the concept of downloading MP3s from the internet and transferring them to a portable MP3 player, in the grand scheme of things. When you obsess about technology all day, it can be easy to…
Maybe you remember HitClips, those little plastic players that clipped onto our clothes — the iPod of the ’90s kid. Inserting a chip would play about a minute of the latest pop song by the likes of Britney Spears or the Backstreet Boys. Well, enter Playbutton, arguably the hipster’s answer to the HitClip, which has…
Let’s start at the beginning: The Gregory Brothers are the amazing folks responsible for “Bed Intruder,” the “Double Rainbow” song, “Winning!” and other viral monstrosities of song. These Brothers (which include one woman) endorse an app called Songify, which was created by Khu.sh, which is now part of the Smule music app development powerhouse. On…
On paper, Tone Target sounds like a fine way to improve one’s musical ability. This iPhone app displays musical notes moving across the screen, along with a cross-hairs indicator that shows your pitch as you sing, whistle, or play an instrument. If you sing the right notes, the app scores that as a hit. If…
It’s an idea that’s been kicking around for years — that maybe people don’t want to subscribe to music in general. Maybe, in cases of extreme fandom, they want to subscribe directly to the artists they love, without all of the layers of record labels, distributors, online music stores, and so on. The fan pays,…
This Week in Music Apps, of course, is a chance to gather together all the intriguing stuff we find in our daily quest to bring you the best new music apps. We’ll get to that of course, but first, we’d like to point out that some stories — like honey, which has been found in…
Music fans on Google’s Android platform: Your ship has come in — or one of them, anyway. Turntable.fm, the breakout digital music service of 2011, is now available for your smartphone. Let’s take a moment, shall we, to reflect on how far digital music has come in the past decade. Remember learning how to rip that…
The 2012 London Summer Olympics is just around the corner, and advertisers are already using the occasion to try to move product. There will always be a certain irony in cigarette companies sponsoring tennis tournaments or purveyors of sugar water sponsoring the Olympics — especially when “Americans are drinking themselves fat,” in the words of New…
