Promising an experience akin to sharing music with your bunkmate in college, summer camp, cruise ship quarters, or wherever else they have bunkbeds these days, MusicBunk recently launched as a social music player that’s free on iOS and Android. On a basic level, the MusicBunk app connects you with friends and like-minded fans so you can…
Music fans on Google’s Android platform: Your ship has come in — or one of them, anyway. Turntable.fm, the breakout digital music service of 2011, is now available for your smartphone. Let’s take a moment, shall we, to reflect on how far digital music has come in the past decade. Remember learning how to rip that…
The 2012 London Summer Olympics is just around the corner, and advertisers are already using the occasion to try to move product. There will always be a certain irony in cigarette companies sponsoring tennis tournaments or purveyors of sugar water sponsoring the Olympics — especially when “Americans are drinking themselves fat,” in the words of New…
At first glance, This American Life and OK Go don’t have much in common. The former is a talk radio show known for its funny and touching stories about human connection, and the latter is a rock band known for its sugary hooks and music videos about dancing on treadmills. A closer look reveals a…
Hype aside, apps really can be a fine way for artists to “connect with their fans,” as overused as that expression might be. MobBase debuted another interesting entry in the budding market for helping bands build apps — a trend that at the very least gives them a new way to promote themselves to their…
On Apple’s iOS smartphones and tablets, most people stick with the default music player — formerly called “iPod,” and now just “Music.” Google’s Android platform is a different story, with several developers competing to be the preferred music playback app for an increasingly large group of music fans, now that Android has gobbled up over…
Android users who subscribe to Spotify or have joined the 30-day free trial have a treat waiting for them this morning: a brand new Spotify Android app that has been completely redesigned, and it looks pretty slick. The new app supports the Android 4.0 operating system as well “all-new slide-out navigation, ” the ability to…
Google users may have noticed a new addition to the black navigation bar pictured above — you know, the one that was supposed to go away, but instead has become an omnipresent springboard for Google’s growing list of non-search services, seemingly designed to keep you frolicking in Google’s “free-and-open” garden for as long as possible….
“We like it hard, we like it fast We got the biggest amps, man they blast True metal people wanna rock not pose Wearin’ jeans and leather, not crackerjack clothes.” Manowar – “Kings Of Metal“ Heavy metal is a force. Of that, we are certain. But what makes heavy metal truly “metal?” Is it the…
The main problem with SXSW is that you typically miss 95 percent of the stuff you want to see, whether it’s bands, technology, or film. It’s just the nature of the beast. There’s simply too much going on. Despite exchanging several emails with Malte Goesche of Miselu, the awesome-looking portable keyboard and music studio based…
Exfm began as a Google Chrome extension more suitable for geeks than music nerds, who might not really grasp the concept of browser extensions. Then it evolved into a ready-for-primetime web app, and after that, an app for Android and iOS that made us ponder the question, “With friends like these, who needs iPods?” However, the app…
It looks like more Google Android-powered smartphones and tablets will soon learn the same trick computers acquired back in the Napster days: P2P file sharing. Maybe this time the “P” stands for “phone.” Unlike the countless Android apps that can remote-control a BitTorrent file-sharing client on the user’s computer, the reportedly upcoming uTorrent app (also…
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…
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…
Just yesterday, we posted a widely-disseminated guide to zapping music from Android smartphones and tablets to Apple AirPlay devices. Why? Because Google has been slacking on its wireless Fling technology, leaving Apple to eat its wireless music lunch. As we put it yesterday, “Google should be worried. This is how people develop a taste for…
