Mother’s Day is fast approaching, and, typically, we can’t resist putting together another playlist to celebrate it. Let’s literally hear it for the moms. We wouldn’t be here without you. We’ve stocked this playlist with a few tunes to get the ball rolling, but the neat thing about these collaborative Spotify playlists is that you…
My old friends at We Are Hunted, the brains behind the much-heralded Twitter #music app – and their new friends at Twitter — have figured out what to do with the We Are Hunted Spotify app, now that the firm’s technology is being used exclusively to parse Twitter data and turn it into playable charts. To deal…
Comedian Louis CK made a great point that’s worth revisiting (transcript), even if you’ve seen it before: that “everything is amazing and nobody is happy.” The disruptive funnyman was referring to the way we complain about the world we live in, even as we enjoy unprecedented abilities and conveniences thanks to the preposterous degree of technological advancement over…
Clark Dinnison, founder of Noon Pacific, emails a hand-curated mixtape to subscribers each Monday, for free, made up of music he’s read about on leading blogs, or heard about from friends, family, or wherever. It runs on the 8tracks platform, and it sounds good. As such, we figured we’d check in to see what advice…
When we heard app veteran Clever & Son was unveiling a new creation this week, we knew we had to check it out, because WiFi2HiFi and Panamp are both worthwhile. We’re happy to report that the Swiss company’s latest effort, Couch Music Player (iPad; $2), did not disappoint. Basically, it’s Apple’s Music app on steroids. If you like…
DoubleTwist, which makes two of the most popular Android music apps in the world (AirSync at #7 and doubleTwist player at #23), just entered the U.S. streaming radio market alongside Pandora, iHeartRadio, and TuneIn. DoubleTwist’s Magic Radio has the power to extend your library, playlists, and musical taste to over 13 million songs. We’ll get…
Google and YouTube are working on at least one subscription music service to complement YouTube (free music videos) and Google Music (free music locker and download store). Our theory is that this is because some label(s) are pressuring Google into the music subscription space by threatening to withhold their music from YouTube. We think we’re…
Another commemorative day, another collaborative playlist. That’s right – we just couldn’t resist putting together some jams for Valentine’s Day, as we tend to do for holidays and special events because we can’t really help it, and the technology to make one of these is now commonplace. We tried to include songs everyone can enjoy,…
When there’s weather or something similar, we make a playlist: Hurricane Sandy, The Collaborative Playlist: Let’s Panic Together Hurricane Irene: The Collaborative Spotify Playlist RIP REM: The Collaborative Spotify Playlist 10 Years of iPod Commercials: The Spotify Playlist Occupy Wall Street: The Spotify Playlists (Both Sides) The Best of The Best Music of 2011 Campaign…
When you’re in charge of a publication, sometimes you look at server logs to see what people are reading. We try not to obsess too much about it, because it encourages repetition of the same formulaic story ideas over original articles with a mind to the future. Still, we can’t help but notice that lots…
Paul Lamere, the man who brought us the Infinite Jukebox, Bohemian Rhapsichord, Bangarang Boomerang, and other fun stuff is at it again with Boil the Frog, a free web app that’s a little bit like “six degrees of separation.” Boil the Frog is a curiosity — a conversation piece of sorts, but it’s also a new way…
Just Hear It made playlist-making quick and painless on the web app a few years ago, with the tagline “any song, legal, free.” The web version pulls music from the web and YouTube, but the new $1 iPhone version can only make playlists from the music on your iPhone. That’s probably all you need to know. However,…
Skeumorphism, nostalgia, digitized analog — call it it what you will, but people have a clear tendency to make digital technologies that pretend to be analog things. Mixta.pe, an freeiOS app for creating, sharing, and listening to virtual mixtapes, does not fall into the trap of making new things look like old things (and after…
‘Tis not quite the season to lose one’s mind risking life and limb for winter holiday bargains, thankfully, but rather for Thanksgiving, which only requires some food shopping, and asks of us only that we stuff ourselves like turkeys and give thanks for whatever we have. By my calculations, this makes Thanksgiving the finest holiday…
Another week, another thing for collecting music on the internet that people might or might not want to use. The latest: Whyd, a social music service that lets you find music from free music sources across the web and start a collection of songs on your Whyd profile page — kind of like an expanded, not-as-alluring…
