For those of us who fondly recall seeing the legendary Tivoli (then called KLH) radio on the kitchen counter-top of our childhood, it’s nice to know that not only is Tivoli Audio still around, but it’s on-board with the music app revolution. At a press luncheon in Manhattan on Wednesday, Tivoli Audio unveiled their newest products…
It’s a problem that exists all around the world: Radio stations can only play on song at a time, and those songs tend to be the ones that a person or algorithm has already decided is worthy of airplay. We all know there’s plenty of great new stuff sitting there, but it’s not always easy…
AUSTIN, TEXAS — This is the second part of our exclusive SXSW interview with Peter Blom, co-founder of the popular SpotON Radio app for iOS, which turns Spotify into an artist-based radio service. See the first part here. Eliot Van Buskirk, Evolver.fm: Do you think it hurts you that because Spotify’s mobile app lacks a free trial,…
When the Decemberists’ latest album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart earlier this year, more than one person pointed out that the folks at NPR and other non-commercial radio stations deserved at least some credit for the band’s sudden popularity. Public radio stations and other non-commercial stations have become musical tastemakers in…
This no-frills app allows users to listen to stream of the University of Pennsylvania-based WXPN as well as Y-Rock, the alternative station that went off the air in 2005 and became part of WXPN in 2006. Users can also access podcasts from the same services. And that’s all she wrote, so far as the WXPN…
One of the granddaddies of non-commercial radio, KCRW has been a huge force in Los Angeles and beyond for years, and can justifiably claim to have broken artists including Coldplay and others. The KCRW Radio iPhone app ($1) does cost, whereas competing apps are free, but it also offers more than most of those. It…
The Seattle station KEXP, from the University of Washington, consistently ranks as one of the top non-commercial stations in the country, but its iPhone app leaves something to be desired. Its biggest problem: weird volume issues that force users to crank up their phone’s volume to hear songs. The KEXP Radio iPhone app (free) is…
What is it with the Northwest region of this country? Oregon Public Broadcasting’s music channel isn’t the only radio station from that area to offer a fine music radio app, but it’s the best from the area and packs some funky bonus features to boot. OPB News / Oregon Public Broadcasting (free) for Apple iOS…
Depending on your politics, National Public Radio is either a valuable respite from the noisy gibberish permeating the rest of mass media, or a biased waste of federal funding. But what’s undeniable is that the organization is an excellent resource for discovering music, and that quality extends to its iPhone music app. The excellent NPR Music…
