Google’s new music subscription service, Google Play Music All Access, lacks an official iOS app, which comes as no surprise. Google and Apple are hardly “besties” when it comes to digital music or smartphone platforms. However, Evolver.fm has learned that an iOS app called gMusic, which is already capable of playing music from a Google…
What about the app of Geddy Lee? Well, here’s what: His band, Rush, has an app called Rush, published by band’s label and management company The Anthem Group, Inc., which makes Rush apps for Rush fans. In the other corner, we have Anthm, a nifty, free iOS app we wrote about two Februaries ago, which…
The Gregory Brothers, who rose to prominence on the strength of their ability to strike internet gold by turning viral videos into songs with autotune (see my interview), have done it again. Inevitably, they turned the notorious video of Charles Ramsey, who rescued three kidnapped women earlier this week, into music. We’re not sure if…
In a way, Vio reminds us of those old advertisements that depicted a brain on drugs as an egg frying in a pan. In this case, it’s your iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch on drugs. This novel $3 app for iOS grabs audio from the iPhone’s microphone and applies reverb, delay, and other effects listed…
Before we get to the new version, let’s get right to the latest numbers for Songza’s activity-based music apps, which offer playlists for various activities, weekdays, moods, and times of day, because they are big: over six million iOS installations; over 560M (corrected) songs in the last 30 days; almost 4.7 million monthly active users;…
As crazy as it sounds, we might have to start paying more attention to Shaquille O’Neal for music app scoops. The basketball star awarded Optini‘s new app Speakerfy one of two prizes at his “Pitch Shaq” competition at SXSW last month; after investigating, we agree with his positive assessment. Speakerfy (iOS/Android; free or $1; Windows Phone soon)…
Comedian Louis CK made a great point that’s worth revisiting (transcript), even if you’ve seen it before: that “everything is amazing and nobody is happy.” The disruptive funnyman was referring to the way we complain about the world we live in, even as we enjoy unprecedented abilities and conveniences thanks to the preposterous degree of technological advancement over…
Five days after it was released, Twitter #Music is the most popular free music app in Apple’s iTunes app store. It’s now the sixth-most-popular free app overall, beating out Spotify at number 19: Twitter #Music’s main feature is a popularity chart, so it’s fitting that the app itself is also charting well, so far anyway….
Apparently, it is possible to cobble together some APIs over the weekend to make an iOS app that takes a picture of an object, then plays a song about that object. That is precisely what Martino Bonfiglioli and Christian Zanin (both of musiXMatch) did at Music Hack Day Paris this past weekend. Their creation, Camera…
Celebrities caring about sound quality is the new nobody caring about sound quality. But really, for most of us, the convenience of compressed (or streaming) files and the portability of a smartphone trump all other considerations. App creators have stepped in to rectify the problem. We’re pleased with Audio Xciter and SonicMax Pro for messing around with music’s…
Countless studies suggest that listening to music has a range of physical and mental health benefits. As such, there’s no shortage of app developers striving to deliver the healing power of music in app form, from those that purport to reduce pain, alleviate stress, help you relax, or get in shape. Now, a group of music therapists, designers, and…
The people who built some of the best virtual guitars in iTunes have finally gone and done it: They formed a real band. The unnamed band recorded the following cover of Bob Dylan’s “All Along the Watchtower,” somewhat in the style of the Jimi Hendrix version, using their own apps as well as some others…
Spacemen 3 released an album in 1994 called Taking Drugs To Make Music To Take Drugs To, which you can hear on YouTube, if you use it like a music service. In similarly recursive fashion, a new iOS app called Crossfader Move & Mix (free for now) lets you dance to remix music to dance to….
We’ve been having plenty of fun with Twitter #Music for iOS this morning. You can read about the features here, but they’re only part of the story. The other story is the design, and our verdict is that it’s fairly stunning — and we see a lot of music apps. Here are the five best,…
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…
