Our own Aarti Kelapure attended the launch party for the Focusrite iTrack Solo, which promises to turn any iPad (or Mac or PC) into a recording studio suitable for one-person music production for $200. Aarti was mightily impressed, so we requested a review unit to put this thing through its paces outside of the craziness…
Celebrated indie folk crooner-fronted Bon Iver, music collaboration platform Indaba Music, and unlimited music service Spotify teamed up in August for a remix contest that gave everyone in the world unfettered access to every part on the 2012 Grammy Award-winning Bon Iver record. Remixers were to use Indaba to collaborate and submit remixes for voting by…
Bon Iver, the Justin Vernon-fronted band that entranced the indie music scene with its debut album in 2008 and followed that up with the award-winning Bon Iver in 2011, just announced a remix contest that goes way beyond the usual “here are some tracks for you to mess around with, have fun” type of thing. Every single…
A capella music — the kind that consists of just the human voice, was once strictly the domain of college glee clubs and barbershop quartets. Now, it is having something of a cultural moment. The mega-hit TV shows Glee and The Sing-Off are the most obvious proponents (Glee even inspired its own karaoke app), but…
