My old friends at We Are Hunted, the brains behind the much-heralded Twitter #music app – and their new friends at Twitter — have figured out what to do with the We Are Hunted Spotify app, now that the firm’s technology is being used exclusively to parse Twitter data and turn it into playable charts. To deal…
The year isn’t over yet (nor is the world, for that matter), and already, music publications are engaged in the annual ritual of deciding which songs and albums represent the very best the year had to offer. As ridiculous as it is for a publication to assert that one album was the objective best of the…
Hey, look, some band released an album. Why should you care? Maybe you shouldn’t, but sometimes you do. If this happens to you, this whole “caring about an album a lot” thing, the 33 1/3 series of books from Bloomsbury (see also: the blog) can be an invaluable resource. These small books detail the stories behind many of…
After refusing to sell their music online for years, the Beatles have now racked up sales of over 1.8 million albums and over 10 million songs, which is not a bad haul for about a year. Now, the Fab Four have released an excellent music app themed called The Beatles Yellow Submarine. For some reason,…
Some people like to pick and choose the music they listen to “on demand,” while others prefer to “lean back,” in the industry jargon, letting someone (or something) else choose the tunes. Interactive radio services like Slacker and Pandora fall into the latter category, because all you have to do his hit Play and away…
