Google’s new music subscription service, Google Play Music All Access, lacks an official iOS app, which comes as no surprise. Google and Apple are hardly “besties” when it comes to digital music or smartphone platforms. However, Evolver.fm has learned that an iOS app called gMusic, which is already capable of playing music from a Google…
We’ve been writing a lot about Google’s new music subscription service this week, because of course we would. Google is a force to be reckoned with — and now, that force is reckoning with the likes of Spotify, Rdio, and Rhapsody in a bid for your $10 per month, in return for unlimited access to…
I set out this morning to built a chart listing the various features of the major music subscription services: Rdio, Rhapsody, Spotify, and we assume the recently-launched Google Play Music All Access, although it remains to be seen whether it will succeed on the level of those standalone music services — or whether it will…
In a way, Vio reminds us of those old advertisements that depicted a brain on drugs as an egg frying in a pan. In this case, it’s your iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch on drugs. This novel $3 app for iOS grabs audio from the iPhone’s microphone and applies reverb, delay, and other effects listed…
Before we get to the new version, let’s get right to the latest numbers for Songza’s activity-based music apps, which offer playlists for various activities, weekdays, moods, and times of day, because they are big: over six million iOS installations; over 560M (corrected) songs in the last 30 days; almost 4.7 million monthly active users;…
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…
The people who built some of the best virtual guitars in iTunes have finally gone and done it: They formed a real band. The unnamed band recorded the following cover of Bob Dylan’s “All Along the Watchtower,” somewhat in the style of the Jimi Hendrix version, using their own apps as well as some others…
Grandpa’s CD player was an awful piece of technology by many estimations. Purists hated the idea of slicing precious analog sound waves into bits, on philosophical if not auditory grounds. Owners of cassettes and vinyl were justifiably bummed to have to buy everything all over again. And on the label side, that CDs didn’t include the copyright…
Twitter’s not talking about the music app it is reportedly set to debut either Friday or this weekend, during the Coachella Music Festival, but already, several clues have emerged about this standalone music app, based on Twitter’s now-confirmed acquisition of We Are Hunted, which analyzed Twitter and other sources to identify trending music. The official…
The legendary electronica label Ninja Tune has done what many have contemplated, but no one has crushed: It launched an app, Ninja Jamm, that lets anyone remix music with (relative) ease, using a variety of high-quality releases from world-renowned DJs, producers, and other artists. If this doesn’t start you remixing music, nothing will. By simply downloading this…
AirPlay is Apple’s most underappreciated achievement. Its AirTunes feature puts digital music in the home more cheaply and easily than anything else — and unlike so many Apple things, it’s widely-interoperable. Not only can you find plenty of speakers and stereo systems that have AirPlay built in, but many iOS apps include it natively, so…
Spotify’s strategy, from the beginning, has included allowing people to listen for free on the desktop. There’s a catch when it comes to playing that music away from a computer. If they want to take the millions of tracks on Spotify to their iPhones, Androids, televisions, or other devices, Spotify users have to pay for…
If you live in a place and you enjoy live music, you might enjoy Timbre. To find good shows near your place, you need simply fire up the app and start listening. You can skip around until you find something you like, and then it’s time to buy tickets. Last fall, we were impressed by…
You’re throwing a party. You take an iPhone. You plug it into the stereo. Any other iPhone at the party — not an online party, an actual party — can pick the music. That’s the basic premise of JukeBox Hero (not to be confused with the Foreigner song or Android music quiz), which simplifies the “Hey everyone with an…
For most of us, live music is something that happens a handful of times per year — a summer festival, a friend’s band, maybe a couple of big stadium tours, and/or some local up-and-comers. Other music fans go to shows all the time. This could be because they’re in a band or have yet to…