Music-sharing site This Is My Jam – whose founders call it “slow music” because in contrast to the way many music apps encourage the sharing of everything, it only lets you post a single jam at any given time — launched a new feature this week designed to help users find more people to follow. This is…
People on the internet are noticing that YouTube deleted billions of fake views from YouTube, after someone – some say artists, labels, or their affiliates — intentionally faked in order to get paid in a more Gangnam-like style, and climb the charts. The thing is, the exact same thing happened last December, when YouTube cracked down…
Beats Music, which hopes to lure music fans to its subscription service by adding the curation and context it says has been missing from other music services, is officially launching in the United States next month, January 2014. Beats Music chief Ian Rogers (formerly of TopSpin Media, Yahoo Music, and the Beastie Boys’ Grand Royal…
It’s weird to buy someone a music app as a gift for the holidays, or any other time for that matter. Depending on the platform, you might be able to buy them store credits or a gift of the app itself — but either way, you don’t have anything to wrap, unless you feel like…
When people hold their phones in the air to identify a song, they are essentially saying, “I don’t know what this song is, but I like it.” As such, Shazam has unique insight into where our collective music taste is headed. Which artists are people most curious about? Which ones make them fire up Shazam…
Following thousands of articles about how Spotify pays — or doesn’t pay — enough money to artists, the company, again worth $4 billion after another round of investment, issued a mini-website on Tuesday to explain how it is not ripping off artists by streaming their music for free or for a monthly subscription to music fans in 39 countries. It’s…
Well, we might have just found the grandaddy of all audiophile music apps, perfect for the most important music snob in your life: you. Of course, if you care about sound quality, you already have nice headphones. Canopener for iOS ($4, or $1 today), is about what happens right before the sound leaves your iPhone,…
You know how annoying it can be to listen to more than one song on YouTube on a smartphone, compared to on a computer? Music won’t play in the background, if you turn your phone’s screen off, or if you don’t have (or want to use up your) wireless data connection, you can run into…
Google is arguably the only company with the cash and moonshot moxie to release something like Google Glass — those funny glasses with the screen in them that some people like to make fun of, while others can’t wait to get their face in one. Here’s the main thing to understand about Glass: It actually…
Let’s get one thing out of the way: Nobody buys a gaming console for music. Yes, modern consoles increasingly run all kinds of non-game apps — especially the entertainment kind — as the manufacturers of just about every type of consumer electronics aim to be the primary interface between people and their favorites 1s and…
Please pardon the repetition in the headline, because EDM means “Electronic Dance Music,” but it’s important to understand that we’re talking about a music service here — and that this one is for EDM music, specifically. EDM is huge right now. If you want to hear entire sets of music, which is arguably the best…
First, check out RattleJam for iOS: You can also use it with multiple iPhones — in this case, four are playing, and one is capturing the group’s recording:
