First, it must be said: Many people already DJ with an iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad. They works just fine in many settings, even without using fancy DJ apps that enable cross-fading, EQ, headphone cuing, and other mainstays of the DJ trade. After all, when most people talk about DJing at a bar or party,…
We spend a lot of time thinking about the future of music as an app phenomenon – mostly for listeners, but also for musicians: instruments for the synth wiz, ways for musicians to market and monetize tunes, and recently, how this whole transition into apps has affected music bloggers. Our lengthy conversation with Sean Adams – founder of influential music…
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…
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…
We’re all for apps that let beginners and seasoned geeks alike make music in a fun, easy, engaging way, but with the potential for sonically interesting results. We like to call them apps for making music without really trying. eDrops (free-$2, for iPhone and iPad), the latest entry in this field, takes its musical inspiration from the…
If you were told to make an iPhone app that to capture the current zeitgeist, what would it look like? A gas price calculator, perhaps, or something like the Inhuman Microphone? Or how about an app that lets you make dubstep tracks from Tim Tebow’s voice –does that sound about right? We thought so. Enter…
Smartphones and tablets were supposed to be different from what we think of as “computers.” They were supposed to turn us into mindless consumers, concerned only with ingesting the output of “professional” creators rather than empowered to make things ourselves, the way we did with computers. However, there are holes in that argument. In the…
Indulge, if you will for a moment, the concept of viewing your music library as a grid of colored dots. PlayGrit ($2), a new iOS app, was designed to make playlist creation more visually vibrant. Like the mega-popular Draw Something, it lets you, yes, “draw something.” Yes, we realize that analogy is a reach, because Draw…
If you own an iPhone, iPad, or iPad Touch — and an AppleTV, AirPort Express or AirPlay-enabled system — you probably already know that you can play the music from any Apple AirPlay-enabled app (like Spotify or Pandora). All you need to do is tap the button within the app that looks like this: Suddenly,…
“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…
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Turntable.fm, a social music service that goes beyond the usual buzzword with a service that turns music fans into avatars so they can DJ music for each other in rooms, is officially “legit.” On Tuesday at the SXSW Interactive festival, Turntable.fm co-founders Billy Chasen and Seth Goldstein announced that their company had…
We first checked out Herd.fm about a year ago, after it had been a finalist in last year’s SXSW Accelerator contest. Back then, the app shared music based on your physical location, allowing you to “drop” tracks at various venues for other users to “pick up” and listen to — a pretty neat idea. Unfortunately,…
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…
Apple unveiled a developer preview of its upcoming “OS X Mountain Lion” on Thursday morning, the latest of the company’s operating systems to be confusingly named after a cat. As with previous releases, Mountain Lion will offer the Mac faithful and fresh converts a host of new features once it launches to the general public in late summer….
