People spend way more time listening to music than watching sports. And yet sports programming generates six times more money than the recorded music industry. What’s up with that? Such was the question posted at an SF Music Tech panel called “Music, Tech & Money” (.pdf), according to a tipster, who believes it was moderator Hany Nada, a…
Love it or hate it, but you can’t deny that SXSW is the biggest event of the year for music and technology. Nowhere else do so many music nerds and tech geeks gather in such numbers, for so long. As the veteran of more SXSWs than I can remember, I have even started buying footwear…
Slacker Radio made a whole internet radio station consisting of music from SXSW, which took place in Austin, Texas last week. As usual, listeners are able to “heart” individual songs. Here are the ten most-hearted songs from that channel, providing a nice slice of new jams from the festival, which is unknowable in its entirety….
Music is starting to listen to us, for a change. The signs are popping up everywhere — and not just in music services that make great guesses about what a particular human wants to hear, but quite literally, with magic bracelets and heart-healthy music apps that alter musical programming or even the music itself based on what…
SXSW is almost over — well, it technically ends on Sunday, but that’s pretty much only good for catching your flight back home or, if you’re brave enough to soldier on another day, sticking around to play softball and eat barbecue with legions of SXSW volunteers. Or maybe you didn’t go this year, like us, due…
This morning, I composed and played music with someone in Spain and some people standing around in a museum in London. You can do it too, for free, right now, as soon as you’re done with reading all the new articles on Evolver.fm. All you need is the Google Chrome web browser, a few minutes,…
We’re just a little obsessed with SXSW this week, because of course we are. It’s SXSW. There’s nothing else like it in music or tech, and we’re all about both. What did you expect, fake viral videos about race car drivers we’ve never heard of before or penguins falling down? Those are great and all, but…
We are enjoying covering the madness at SXSW 2013 this week, although this time, due to logistics in our editor’s family life, we’re not physically there this year. It’s sad, in a way, to have to watch it from afar, as many can probably relate. Instead of feeling sorry for ourselves, we found six great ways to keep…
We don’t normally post infographics from third-parties, in part because many of them are lame or marketing-y. However, MusicMetric did a nice job with this one, which presents data analyzing every band at SXSW. First, a few takeaways:
The following is a guest post from Paul Lamere’s MusicMachinery about the Artist’s Hack at SXSW, which was the first Music Hack Day specifically designed to unite musicians and techies. Lamere is director of developer platform for The Echo Nest, which publishes Evolver.fm, and is a Music Hack Day wizard (see also: Infinite Gangnam Style, Bohemian…
Spotify co-founder and CEO Daniel Ek will take the stage this afternoon at SXSW in Austin, Texas, for a “fireside chat.” According to an early CNET report on Tuesday, Ek plans to announce that Spotify now has six million paying subscribers worldwide, which is something, considering that you can also use it for free (with…
Twitter did it in 2007. FourSquare did it in 2009. Highlight sort of did it at last year’s SXSW. So, will any app break away from the pack at SXSW 2013 to become the “it” app of SXSW 2013 — the one that takes first the festival’s ultra-wired attendees, and later the world, by storm?…
Monday is the last day of SXSW Interactive, which means people are posting lists of trends purporting to distill this incredibly wide-ranging event into a few key trends — “takeaways,” if you will — from the event. These hopefully say something about where we are, both culture- and business-wise, as of March 2013. We like…
The music portion of SXSW begins Tuesday in Austin, Texas. This festival being what it is, the division is never too clear between these legs of the event. Still, one does notice a certain “changing of the guard” between the chunky glasses/fauxhawk/striped shirt/beer-swilling/iPhone set during the Interactive portion, and the pierced lip/amp-dragging/beer-swilling/iPhone set that rolls…
Ever failed to buy a limited-edition tour shirt due to the line at the merch table, only to regret your decision on the way home? After all, lines are temporary, but T-shirt glory is forever. TheHub.fm (currently in beta) should reduce the likelihood of that scenario playing out in the future, helping bands put more money in…
