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…
Dan Deacon knocked everyone’s socks off with the live music app he embedded in crowds at the shows on his America (stream it below) tour. We had a missed connection in Baltimore and didn’t see that one in action, but we’re not sleeping this time around: Dan Deacon plans to follow that up 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…
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…
We’ve been all over Neil Young’s Pono music initiative because: A) It’s a bold gambit to reinvent digital music as something that sounds better, and B) It’s from Neil Young, who is famous enough to talk about it on The Daily Show and Late Night with David Letterman in a way that other technology entrepreneurs are not….
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…
You have favorite artists. They tour, and release new albums. You have many ways to keep track of them, but Sound Collection (iOS, $3) ties it all together in a nice, neat package, so you shouldn’t need anything else. And if you subscribe to Rdio or Spotify, you’ll be able to use Sound Collection as a…
A couple Sundays ago, my girlfriend and I, Wren Leader, traveled to Berkeley, California to see one of my favorite bands, The Bobs, play at the Freight & Salvage, a coffeehouse music hall. These masters of comedic but heartfelt a cappella were in true form — world-class professional musicians combining the skill and talent of…
At SXSW in March, I wasn’t allowed to write about one of the neatest things I saw. It happens — due to the embargoes that (most of) us technology press people have to agree to in order to see stuff before its creators want people to know about it. For example, on Monday, I met…
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…
Bandsintown’s live music app, which allows artists to enter their shows (and display them automatically on Facebook and elsewhere), and sends their fans push notifications via apps, Facebook, Twitter, and email when their favorite bands are going to play in their area, shared a number of impressive findings with Evolver.fm (full presentation below). Two things impressed…
ShowScoop has a new angle on an old problem: Should I spend the time, effort, energy, gasoline, and/or public transit credits to go see so-and-so play live? To answer that question, it’s tapping “the wisdom of the crowd” with a user-generated database of show reviews. As opposed to Songkick and its ilk, which figure out…
Remember when we wrote about how Google+ could steal music fans from Facebook if it figured out how to stream concerts using Google Hangouts, and everyone from our pals at Wired to CNN picked up on it? Well, it looks like Google was listening — or at least thinking along the same lines. On Monday, Google…
