People are talking, again, about “unbundling” television programming. Most of them fail to understand that television networks, cable companies, and satellite providers hold almost all the cards — and they like the game just the way it’s played now, thank you very much. It’s not because they’re evil, or don’t want you to be happy….
When I made up my “one (fictional) music app to rule them all,” I was talking about something like Buzzam Radio, a music app that goes above and beyond the usual, by adding plenty of non-musical elements. The Social Radio for Twitter took a step in this direction by reading your tweets in between songs….
It’s that time again — and by “that time” we mean the somewhat haphazardly-chosen date upon which we reveal the results of our Untapped Apps poll. We (mostly) report on actual apps and analyze real trends here, but the Untapped Apps series lets us delve into the realm of fantasy by making up ideas (and…
The iPhone music app got a makeover in iOS 6, which was released to the public (as opposed to developers) yesterday afternoon. At first glance, the changes don’t amount to much. Playlists have a new black and white color scheme, and the Now Playing screen sports new, svelte play and skip buttons. Though the facelift…
Any developer can throw together a music app, ranging from the simple to the revelatory. When someone takes the time to build a music app (of sorts) out of hardware, color us impressed. (See also: these swings.) Freelance fashion and textile designer Lara Grant teamed with sound artist and audiovisual composer Cullen Miller to create the Ruffletron, a…
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…
Last week, we took a look at iOS apps that keep you aware of your surroundings as you listen to music through headphones, and found a fairly healthy selection to choose from on Apple’s mobile platform. These apps either allow you to hear surrounding noises while listening to music through your phone’s or headphone’s microphone, or…
It’s been about eight months since we launched our curated directory of music apps. That went fast. The Evolver.fm music app directory broke the 2,500-app threshold recently, so we figured this would be as good a time as any to scour the database for best apps in each of our 35 categories of music app. You won’t…
As Evolver.fm’s resident metalhead, I once answered a question from my editor: Can a music app — something that runs on shiny, expensive technology equally prized by fans of Lady Gaga and hard rock fans — ever qualify as truly “metal?” After scrounging the internets, I found eight brutal, gloriously powerful apps to prove that yes,…
Do you make music? Is it any good? No matter — you, too, can build your own music app in just a few minutes to unleash on an unsuspecting populace. Conduit Mobile, the app-building company behind the Waka Flocka Flame app and other major label apps, just made it possible for any musician to create…
If you’re looking for another fun music app to amuse yourself and your friends — or perhaps if you want to try rapping but totally can’t do it — AutoRap, a spectacular new effort from the app-makers at Smule, would make a great addition to your app collection. After developing the smash-hit app Songify, which…
Way back in August 2008, when apps were still in their infancy, Tapulous Tap Tap Revenge – a rhythm game that many likened to “Guitar Hero for the iPhone” – ruled the school. Over 1.2 million iPhone users installed it in the first month it was available, back when that was still a ridiculously big number. (Remember, the iOS…
We’ll keep this one short and sweet, just like the topic at hand: @uncovery. This Twitter account launched today to send out links to music (and movies) that score a 75 or higher on MetaCritic. In the case of music, the links go to Toma.hk pages like this one, which are part of the Tomahawk…
We were mightily impressed with the music apps created at Music Hack Day Sydney — the first such hackathon ever to be held in the southwestern hemisphere. The latest to float our boat: Ivy, a web app that lets friends or coworkers add songs to a group playlist that they can all hear at the same…
First, a disclaimer: We appreciate that the above headline is begging to be proven wrong. One of the classic journalistic mistakes is to declare anything to be the “first,” “best,” or any other superlative. It’s a big world out there, with many things in it. But having already written about the first MP3 players, it only…
