Unlike most music experiences these days, going to a show is something you do with other people. Yes, it would be nice if they would stop ruining shows with their smartphones, but for the most part, having other people around adds to the live music experience. It’s even nicer if you know some of these…
Apple is expected to announce its new iRadio music streaming service at the Worldwide Developer’s Conference later today, according to multiple sources, and has already inked special deals with all three major labels as well as Sony/ATV, which is Sony’s publishing arm. Sony/ATV CEO Marty Bandier says Sony/ATV will get 10 percent of the ad revenue…
Some artists have been complaining about the royalties paid out by online streaming services like Rdio and Spotify (which depend on record label deals), and also about what they get from streaming radio services (even though the U.S. government mostly sets those). But at least one band has inadvertently discovered how to climb up the…
News organizations, particularly those concerned with technology, have spent much of today issuing the usual liveblogs and “what they said”-style articles about Apple’s big press event today, where it rolled out new iPhones, among other things. You won’t need one of those new iPhones to use one of the biggest parts of this announcement, iOS 7,…
A widely-echoed report surfaced on CNET this week that “Daisy,” the upcoming context-driven music service that was recently spun off from Beats Electronics, and whose name has yet to be finalized, is trying to partner with AT&T to bundle its music service with cellphone plans. Billboard says Daisy is also talking to other carriers. This bundling…
Apple wants iTunes Radio to have special features and pay special rates, the way Slacker Radio does, rather than following the government-set rates and rules. So before Apple announced iTunes Radio earlier this month, it made special deals with the “Big Three” labels that reportedly involve sharing ad revenue, paying a smaller per-song rate, and offering other…
The iOS 7 beta version is in developers’ hands today, following yesterday’s WorldWide Developers Conference, and with it, the beta version of iTunes Radio (once known as “iRadio”). Anyone with an Apple developer’s account or $99 to get one — and an iOS device they don’t need to rely on for important matters — can…
Remember when Daft Punk convinced every music blog in the world to link to its iTunes page, leading to a big sales boost? The secret to that — making iTunes the first place to stream something (a page out of NPR’s and Pitchfork’s playbooks) — will be a part of iTunes Radio when it launches…
Apple unveiled its new internet radio service on Monday as part of the iOS 7 operating system for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch, as expected, at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference. You can’t use it yet, although a developer preview is available; it will ship with iOS 7 in the fall, and probably around the…
We have some ground to make up in this latest installment of This Week in Music Apps, which is really more like “the past three weeks in music apps” this time around. Thankfully, that leaves us plenty of new apps worthy of mention on the Apple iOS, Google Android, web platforms, as well as the…
