The Hype Machine is great. It tracks music from the latest blogs so you can harvest what you will, into whatever you are calling your music collection these days — iTunes, web/YouTube bookmarks, Spotify playlists, your Rdio collection, or whatever. The Brooklyn-based Hype Machine makes a fine front-end to 800 or so of the best,…
The classic battle of Beatles vs. Stones is over, at least where digital strategies are concerned. Even as the Fab Four continue to drag their feet regarding all things digital, their erstwhile rivals released a pretty decent iOS app today. Not only that, but they took the time to tell you about it:
Finally, the “first” digital music magazine designed for iPhone and iPad has arrived. What’s so great about a magazine in app form? And haven’t other people done this before? Aside from the obvious benefits of convenience and portability, web and app platforms also translate to lower risks for publishers, which translates to lower prices — or in…
Hey kids, nevermind that Halo 18: Ms. Pacman Returns videogame your friends are chattering about — it’s time to play an ear-training videogame! Seriously, somebody built a game that asks the player to guess the intervals between two pitches. It’s called Earache (free, iOS), due to creator Ralph Seamen‘s prediction that his app will give you…
Andy Warhol said that in the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. In 1985, seemingly every popstar on the charts gathered to record a song called “We Are The World.” Put these two concepts together and you’d have something like Nana, an iOS app currently only available in Japanese beta, but which will…
The goods inside the new Leonard Cohen app, free on iOS, make it a definite must-have for any Leonard Cohen fan. But it might be worth the install just to hear Cohen’s golden voice say “Hello, Darling” each time you use it. Yes, this app is basically like having a miniature version of the most debonair…
Like many of us, I’m not particularly comfortable singing in public. I’m normally an extrovert, but whenever I have to sing in front of people for whatever reason, I clam up, evade eye contact, and grow timid like The Hunchback of Notre Dame (in the first part of the film). My dad, on the other…
I don’t know if you’ve heard, but apparently, the music industry is dead. From the start, it was clear that digitization would bring the ability to acquire music for nothing, in a mostly-anonymous setting (that is, until a record label subpoenas your ISP for your IP address). For many of us, the availability of so…
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA — We already know the vinyl revival is not going away. Now, there’s a handy new app looking to help record shoppers (not to mention CD holdouts) listen to albums before buying them, as well as sharing their prospective purchases with friends a la Instagram. Enter: InstaSound. This iOS app (with a companion…
We were concerned when we heard from Mode2 Studio about its new iOS app, Remixer, which promises to let users remix any song on your iPhone or other iOS device. It’s no easy feat to release something that’s easy enough for civilians to use, yet precise and powerful enough not to insult people who actually…
Where would we be without APIs? Actually, we’d probably be right here; we’d just be way more bored. Developer Rony Fadel contacted Evolver.fm alerting us to his creation Twist Radio for iOS, powered by APIs (application programming interfaces) from SoundCloud and Last.fm. If you’ve been dutifully scrobbling your music playback to Last.fm (now owned by CBS),…
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 —…
Apparently, the legendary Velvet Underground frontman Lou Reed knows a lot of people, their names keep changing, and they have multiple numbers. Oh, and he has an iPhone, but struggles to read the text on its screen. How do we know this? Because of Lou Zoom, an iPhone app that makes it easier to see and interact…
Ouch Mobile’s down-to-earth 10 Band EQ audio processing app loads songs from an iPhone’s music library, then lets you tweak each graphic equalization band up or down by up to 8 decibels. Unlike other equalizers for the iPhone that we’ve tested, 10 Band EQ ($1) changes the sound immediately after you move a slider. You…
