Sonic Emotion makes an app called HeadQuake (free, iOS) that adds 3D dimensionality to your downloaded music. It’s pretty neat — not only does the sound get more “present” with the 3D feature turned on, but you can drag the speakers forward or back, or move the “band” playing the music closer or farther away. It…
Sony and Bandsintown announced on Friday that Sony Music Unlimited will provide music to Bandsintown. This is a great idea, because Bandsintown is an app for finding shows to see, and one aspect of deciding what show to see is, well, “what does this band actually sound like?” With this Sony Music Unlimited integration, Bandsintown,…
In our exclusive interview with Grooveshark CEO and co-founder Sam Tarantino a couple of weeks ago, he listed no fewer than eight reasons why music should be free — and why his company should be the one to make it that way. For now, despite lawsuits from all four major labels, Grooveshark continues to distribute…
The car is the next frontier for digital music. Auto-makers, whose dashboards lag, by design necessity, behind the rest of the market for 18-plus months, are starting to capitalize on the power of music apps. A large percentage of music listening happens in the car, so this is a welcome development for music fans —…
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – Rdio, the unlimited music subscription service from the founders of Kazaa and Skype built as a Twitter-like music service with strong social features, announced its first hardware partner at the Consumer Electronics Show on Wednesday evening: the Sonos Music System, a multi-room digital music sound system that already supports two of…
Technology lets us do things that would have been impossible just a few years ago, like driving through the West Village without getting lost. But as has been widely noted, sometimes all of this helpful technology can interrupt our train of thought or — in the case of car rides — our tunes. Here’s something…
