If you were to build an online radio station that could channel characters from Arrested Development, what would you call it? Clearly, “Bluthify.” A free Arrested Development-themed web app, Bluthify.me lets you tune into radio stations “created” by all the main characters on the show. Yes, every single amazing, mind-altering Bluth character is represented in all of…
We’ve been writing a lot about Google’s new music subscription service this week, because of course we would. Google is a force to be reckoned with — and now, that force is reckoning with the likes of Spotify, Rdio, and Rhapsody in a bid for your $10 per month, in return for unlimited access to…
I set out this morning to build a chart listing the various features of the major music subscription services: Rdio, Rhapsody, Spotify, and we assume the recently-launched Google Play Music All Access, although it remains to be seen whether it will succeed on the level of those standalone music services — or whether it will…
It’s easy to get the impression these days that everything under the sun is now just a few clicks away on the internet — that is, until you look for something that’s not there. My first ever feature story for the web, from 1997 or so, a CNET piece called “Cellphone Horror Stories,” appears to…
Note: This tutorial for Windows was adapted from this tutorial for Mac, which is why some of this text appears cribbed from there. Sometimes, you love a song and it’s not on the web. That’s just not right, because the three or so generations alive today are largely responsible for making sure that all the…
The Windows version is here. Sometimes, you love a song and it’s not on the web. That’s just not right, because the three or so generations alive today are largely responsible for making sure that all the important and interesting stuff (and not just important cat videos) make it onto the internet. This is because…
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…
Our pal Sean Adams of the music reviews and community site Drowned In Sound picked up on our frustration about how hard it is to collect music these days, even as we are quite figuratively “drowning in sound.” Music is everywhere, and yet, perversely, it’s harder to collect. Now, the DiS community is talking about…
We really like music apps, but some of them don’t exist, which is annoying. That’s okay. Along with some of our readers, Evolver.fm has been not-so-quietly inventing our own music apps out of thin air (this being a particularly good one), then posting the ideas in polls so people can vote on which ones they’d…
Austin, Texas-based guitar-slinger Ian Moore had a problem that no company in the 2013 digital music ecosystem could solve: He simply wanted to sell a song each day for 30 days as a package deal, with fans naming their own price for that music. He suggests $30, but you can pay whatever you want for the…
Do you ride a fixie? Does it have three gears? We might have found the speakers for you. We’re not poking fun at Joey Roth’s Ceramic Speaker System, Version 3, pictured above, because they are beautiful. But there is something about their combination of handmade construction, “honest” materials, and sleek design that make us think of…
First we collected music objects, then we hoarded MP3s to the point that many of our computers’ music collections became so huge and labyrinthine as to become almost useless. Now that most active music fans play music from the cloud as much or more than we access our local libraries (remember iTunes?), we music fans…
Microsoft’s Kinect proved that real people are actually interested in moving their bodies to motion-control stuff on a screen. Leap Motion, whose $70 motion detector is decoupled from a gaming console, could end up having a wider impact. It’s not just for gamers, and desktop and laptop manufacturers are reportedly looking at integrating Leap into…
At this past weekend’s TVnext Hack event, a loose consortium of geeks, hackers, and businessmen from the television and technology industries gathered in a high-rise Boston office building to compete for cash and prizes by inventing and building technologies that add to the experience of watching television. Several hacks won prizes from sponsor companies, while…
As the editor of this thing called Evolver.fm, it gave me great pleasure to appear alongside Ben Sisario of the New York Times and Andy Malt of CMU on the episode 129 of Digital Music Trends. Topics covered: Twitter #Music Grooveshark’s legal woes RoyaltyExchange’s system for letting musicians sell parts of copyrights to regular investors China’s…
