This week’s Rethink Music conference kicked off with a weekend Hackathon, where participants built and presented 25 music “hacks,” or hastily-created apps, at Microsoft’s New England Research and Development Center (a.k.a. N.E.R.D) on Sunday. You can use most of them today, and we see a good deal of potential for some of them to evolve…
App ideas that make it upstream to app stores do not represent the totality of music apps. Polished (or at the very least compiled) and ready for consumption, these “finished products” are the focus of most of our coverage here. But we’re also fascinated by the wackier fare that emerges from music hack days and other…
Plenty of ad-supported music services have come and gone over the years, while others struggle to balance music-licensing payments with ad revenue. Interactive radio service Pandora, meanwhile, teeters on the edge of profitability in anticipation of an IPO that could reach the $1 billion range. (By “teeters,” I mean that Pandora has had at least one…
As rumors continue to swirl regarding the imminent launch of cloud-based music services from Spotify, Apple, and Google, one such service that’s already up and running in this country – MOG – announced that plans to revamp its on-demand music subscription as a freemium music service somewhat along the line of Spotify within the next couple of…
Those of us who aren’t at the Rethink Music Conference in Boston, where academics, rockstars, executives, government officials, and other thinkers are mixing it up an an effort to reinvent the future of the music industry on April 26 and 27, can check it out here on the conference’s LiveStream. We’ve listed the full program…
