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…
Most of us get our dose of new music on the interwebs, whether via streaming radio, blogs, blog aggregators, friends, feeds, label newsletters, or hybrids like Shuffler.fm, the online music blog curator that’s also recently joined the lineup of Spotify apps. This one’s different. The popular site The Turntable Kitchen, part personal blog, music blog, tech blog,…
We’re back with another batch of fresh music apps as part of our This Week in Music Apps series, which usually includes Android apps, but this time it’s iOS, the web, and desktops only. First, the latest app reviews: This Week in Reviews Boil The Frog: The Coolest Playlist Generator We’ve Seen All Year Rework_,…
With the end of the year approaching, “Best of” lists are everywhere. To help you cope without ignoring them, we’ve aggregated a lot of those into a “streamable” article: the ultimate collection of the best music of 2012, so you can check out all the most critically-acclaimed music of the past year, all in one…
This installation of This Week in Music Apps brings great redesigns of some of our favorite apps as well as some new music players, an app for playing guitar, ukulele and banjo songs, another great way to discover music via music videos, and more. But first…. This Week in Reviews Artiphon: Super-Interesting, Pricey iPhone Instrument The…
We devoted inches to wireWAX’s “shoppable” music video, which started us thinking about other promotional techniques that might make sense these days. Now, we shift our focus to interactive music videos as a species. We found a degree of variation. Aside from the viral, more traditional version we’ve all become accustomed to — and which…
This week brings the ultimate music app for fans of Arabic music, a nice Android music player, a new way to stay updated on your favorite artists’ album releases, and more. First, our latest reviews: This Week in Reviews The Nifty Trick Behind Pulselocker, a.k.a. ‘Spotify for DJs’ iWitness Reports: The Real Stories Behind Rock’s…
Add 67 speakers and a microphone to London’s iconic black cab, and what do you get? The Sound Taxi, a project by audio design company AIAIAI and sound artist/designer Yuri Suzuki. Basically, it’s what would happen if a music app turned into a car (we already saw one become a building.) This is by no means…
Finally, the “first” digital music magazine designed for iPhone and iPad has arrived. What’s so great about a magazine in app form? And haven’t other people done this before? Aside from the obvious benefits of convenience and portability, web and app platforms also translate to lower risks for publishers, which translates to lower prices — or in…
Given that we’ve been entertaining ourselves this week by reliving concerts with OMGig and watching shows on iRocke and Concert Window, I decided that this week’s app round-up would be a good time to explore other apps that deal with concert footage. Here in the northeast we experienced our first snow of the season — a brutal reminder of the…
For those out of reach of Hurricane Sandy and this little follow-up storm that’s coming in, you can still get wind of what we’re dealing with here on the East Coast with some rainy mood apps for Android and iOS; a special mixtape I created using one of the web apps listed below; or by…
The ever-evolving music industry is pushing artists to use unconventional methods of promotion such as apps and functional merchandise, and now, music that is only available as an app. Enter Delaware, a company that founded Re<ords, a virtual record store, of sorts, that releases two-track album apps mimicking the look and feel of vinyl. A free app called Re<ords Mag serves…
After a summer hiatus from This Week In Music Apps, I’m back with a fresh batch to combat dropping temperatures. I’ll be spending more time inside, as the weather begins to chill, and I’m not the only one, in the northern hemisphere at least. As a cure for the winter blues, I’ve rounded up some music-making…
Designers everywhere tweeted praise for Bat For Lashes’ Pitchfork ”cover story” last week, raving about its elegant style. How impressive could a text interview really be? Well, if you haven’t checked out the site yet, take a look. It’s design and photography at its best. Pitchfork spokeswoman Jada Williams told Evolver.fm that this interview is part…
Yes, we all know, the new Myspace redesign is beautiful. The obvious emphasis on aesthetics is even present in its choice of video platform: Rather than use YouTube, it seems the partially-Justin Timberlake-backed company created an account with designer-friendly Vimeo just to release its preview video (above), as if to make a statement about its…
