Last week, Sean Adams from Drowned in Sound and DiS readers shared with my editor a bunch of methods they use to deal with the problem of digital-age music collection. The list includes some great ideas, but the hunt for the most efficient way to collect music is still on. Later.fm (free; web) stands as a pretty good contender,…
If you were to build an online radio station that could channel characters from Arrested Development, what would you call it? Clearly, “Bluthify.” A free Arrested Development-themed web app, Bluthify.me lets you tune into radio stations “created” by all the main characters on the show. Yes, every single amazing, mind-altering Bluth character is represented in all of…
On Monday, the U.S. Senate approved new taxes on digital and physical goods sold on the internet, including apps and digital music. This probably comes too late to save your local record dealer, but it probably wouldn’t have saved him or her anyway. Still, when more of the economy is online these days, a tax of…
What follows is a new twist on our This Week In Music Apps series. Instead of simply bringing you a selection of the most interesting new music apps, we’re grouping them into themes. This week’s theme is web apps for your browser. But first… Recent Reviews Speakerfy: How To Listen Together/Alone with iPhone, Android Friends…
At this past weekend’s TVnext Hack event, a loose consortium of geeks, hackers, and businessmen from the television and technology industries gathered in a high-rise Boston office building to compete for cash and prizes by inventing and building technologies that add to the experience of watching television. Several hacks won prizes from sponsor companies, while…
Although it was designed to help the people who put music into television shows find more tunes to match the mood of their show, Curation Station, one of the hacks to emerge from TVnext Hack 2013 this weekend, also works just fine as a method for extending your taste from television to music. Simply enter the…
We didn’t think Tokyo could seem any more dynamic or exciting, but that’s what Japanese creator Tsubasa Oyagi sought to do with his recently-released interactive web app, Tokyo City Symphony. Combining 3D projection mapping with music generation, this visually stunning symphonic experience captures the innovative spirit of the city. Granted, it would be cooler if playing…
The top trending music app in Google’s weird Chrome web app store today is ButtonBass DubStep Piano (direct web link). If you ever wondered what Skrillex is doing back there, this will give you an idea; it works in a similar way to the MPCs and other equipment used by pros to trigger samples. This…
You might not have heard of the Belgian band, Amatorski. Neither had we, but The Guardian UK called them “the best Belgian act around,” which counts for something — as does the fact that their music sounds pretty great (even after playing this on repeat). Most of all, we’re impressed by their Deleting Borders project, an interactive HTML5 collaboration…
A new open-source music streaming service called Napster.fm had to change its name to Peer.fm at the behest of Rhapsody, which owns the Napster brand, as reported by TechCrunch. However, the service has a bigger problem that will probably shut it down for real — or at least force it to re-source its entire music…
As noted in our hands-on review of Twitter’s new app for iOS and the web, Twitter #music, that app looks at Twitter alone to find music for you to listen to and musicians for you to follow. However, Twitter’s acquisition of We Are Hunted — and with it, Stephen Philips, Richard Slatter, and Michael Doherty…
Twitter is all over the music tech news today, but Facebook just quietly rolled out another social music feature too: the ability to specify what you are listening to — you know, the same way the new Twitter #music app lets you say what’s #NowPlaying. When you post a status update on Facebook, a new…
Twitter announced that its new music discovery app, Twitter #music, will launch to the public on Thursday in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States, expanding the offering past the small group of celebrities who have been kicking the tires for the past week or so. The free Twitter #music apps…
Twitter’s not talking about the music app it is reportedly set to debut either Friday or this weekend, during the Coachella Music Festival, but already, several clues have emerged about this standalone music app, based on Twitter’s now-confirmed acquisition of We Are Hunted, which analyzed Twitter and other sources to identify trending music. The official…
Ever since I started going to live shows (when you had to look at record-store fliers and local weeklies to find them), I’ve collected every single last one of my ticket stubs. Unfortunately, several moves and disappearing storage boxes have eaten up good deal of them. Without those ticket stubs to stir my memory, I…
