Okay, crowdsourced party music is officially a trend on the app scene, if not at many actual parties… yet. Anthm is the latest one we’ve seen that lets partygoers decide what to play next, as a group. Like a hyper-local Jelli Radio, a democratized, real-world version of Turntable.fm, or maybe a more precise version of…
If flying around as a kitten with a jetpack, a “butterfly” kitten, or even a kitten wrapped with bacon as techno music plays is your idea of a good time, then Techno Kitten Adventure is the app you’ve been waiting for. This music game mashes the popular lolcats internet meme with techno music, creating one of…
It’s always a pleasure to chat with host John Schaefer on WNYC Soundcheck, airing locally in New York and nationwide on NPR affiliate stations. Yesterday, joined by music technology writer Geeta Dayal, we discussed digital music collections as part of the show’s “Supercollectors” series. (As usual, I stuck around to hear the musical guest, which a…
Mötley Crüe’s upcoming Las Vegas extravaganza will feature the pyrotechnics and dancing girls one might expect (video below), as well as a rather unusual feature available to fans with iOS or Android smartphones tucked into their ripped jeans: the ability to choose what music plays during the last two shows of the Crüe’s residency at the…
Steve Jobs, architect of a shockingly large portion of today’s computing landscape, left us last year. Do you use an iOS device, or even Android? You have Steve Jobs to thank. As it turns out, you can also listen to “Steve Jobs’ iPod” in your web browser and various devices, thanks to some digging from…
Apple unveiled a developer preview of its upcoming “OS X Mountain Lion” on Thursday morning, the latest of the company’s operating systems to be confusingly named after a cat. As with previous releases, Mountain Lion will offer the Mac faithful and fresh converts a host of new features once it launches to the general public in late summer….
Most of the time, the decision to see live music takes place weeks or even months in advance. You know the routine: Talk to your friends to see who else is going, somebody throws down a credit card, and then you put the show on your calendars. Thrillcall, which released an iOS app on Wednesday,…
Depending on when you tuned in to the 54th Grammy awards Sunday night, you may have seen one of four shows: One was stately and appropriately low-key in its remembrance of the late Whitney Houston; another was unabashedly celebratory; a third was full of the usual awkwardly-forced collaborations; and the fourth one had way too much…
Here’s one for the “How on earth did nobody think of this before?” files. Video Star for iOS facilitates the creation of homespun music videos to go along with any song on your device. To use it, you simply choose a song from your music library and start shooting. You can act along with 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…
Frankie, short for Frankenstein, has an organ unlike the ones found in the mythic monster of yore. Instead, the Frankie’s Organ web app attempts to “learn” and re-synthesize popular recordings as songs played by pipe organ. To use it, all you have to do is enter a song, artist (optional), and wait as Frankie gets…
At a MidemLab lunch a couple of weeks ago in France, I sat next to Adam Perry, drummer for The Bloodhound Gang and the man behind BandApp, which promises to help any band create iOS applications to promote and sell their music, keeping a higher percentage of revenue than they would through iTunes. Naturally, I…
