Going to concerts these days can mean staring at either your smartphone, or the one held aloft by the person in front of you, to the point that the Yeah Yeah Yeahs recently issued an edict commanding their fans to watch the show, not those screens. However, the band’s singer, Karen O, carved out a…
955 Dreams, the music app hitmakers behind Apple favorite Band of the Day, are back with an event-finding and ticket purchaser, Applauze (free; iOS). Considering the difficulty of scaling up a big live music directory, because the shows are always changing, the app launched this week in twenty-five U.S. cities, with free and paid music shows listed. Sports, theater, and…
At first blush, Moment.me struck us as one of those startups we’re not supposed to cry for. People already spend seemingly every waking minute updating their stati and taking sepia-toned pictures of their feet. Do we really need another social network — especially one that doesn’t add anything new, but simply piggybacks on top of all…
If you attended Red Bull Culture Clash in London’s Wembley Arena on November 7, there’s a somewhat decent chance you’re in this super-high-resolution photo: “The photo was taken using GigaPan technology that allows photographers to take gigapixel panoramas that give fascinating detail and allow people to zoom in and interact with the image,” said GigaPan…
LiveHouse Media hopes to evolve the online concert space with iRocke, which indexes the over 2,000 live music shows it says are happening on the interwebs each month, so you can watch from the comfort of your web browser, smartphone, or tablet — sometimes for free, or sometimes for a fee. This directory has the…
As my colleague Denise Lu noted in her round-up of concert apps, finding tickets for live music has become a high-tech affair. My own experiences in that area have left me thoroughly scanned, scrobbled, and notified. While personalized concert recommendations can be helpful, there’s still always a risk I’ll miss a great show. That’s where Timbre (free,…
Concerts apps are mostly similar, in that they typically mash the now-familiar GPS on your phone against show listing databases. But when you’re on the run, trying to find that last-minute concert or be among the first to score tickets to something before it sells out or scalpers ruin the party for everyone, only a handful…
When the very first iPhone shipped, literally changing the world as we knew it, it carried a little Trojan horse inside of it called YouTube. The app for Google’s video sharing site comes standard with every single iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch, but all of that ends with the next version of Apple’s mobile operating…
It’s a sad fact: Every night, at venues across the land, bands play to half-empty venues or worse. Meanwhile, people who would enjoy the show sit across town, non-blissfully unaware of what they could be doing, if only they’d thought to check. First of all, a plethora of apps already exist for finding out about…
Lots of people are talking about whether electronic artists push one button or more than one button when they play live. Everyone else seems to be bickering about whether the kids today are immoral because they play videogames and stream music instead of dropping acid and seeing the Grateful Dead. You know who isn’t talking?…
The Flaming Lips blew us away in the ’90s, when they invited the crowd onto the stage as part of their infamous boombox experiments. Frontman Wayne Coyne conducted the performers like some sort of mad Leonard Bernstein, telling each side of the boombox orchestra to turn up their volume knobs at the appropriate times. (The…
Spotify quietly rolled out a couple of new apps for the desktop version of its freemium music service: SeatGeek, which lets you buy concert tickets based on the music you listen to (sort of like SongKick); and DFX Radio, which makes customized radio stations either based on an artist you’ve listened to recently, or consisting…
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…
Nobody likes missing out on the big gig, whether due to a prior commitment, lack of funds, or scarcity of tickets, as with the recent tours by Kraftwerk and Pulp. Wish You Were Here, developed at Music Hack Day Sydney, is a simple web app that promises to alleviate some pain on the part of…
Lose your ticket stub? Can’t find that old shoebox with your concert mementos? Documenting concerts you’ve attended is now possible with just a few smartphone swipes, so you can relive your favorite moments and keep track of who you saw, what they played, and what you thought about it. StagePage (free) lets you create a virtual…
