When you hear about a one-hit wonder, there’s no need to wonder what their best song is. It’s their “one hit.” What about other bands though? One of the neatest music technologies to emerge from Midem Music Hack Day earlier this month is That One Song. Part of the This Is My Jam website, this feature plays you…
Please, if you drink during this holiday season, it should goes without saying that you shouldn’t drink and drive, drink and text, text and drive, or do all three at the same time, especially near bicyclists. But if you are drinking during the holiday season, the kindly tipplers at Drinkify might have just what you need…
Music-sharing site This Is My Jam – whose founders call it “slow music” because in contrast to the way many music apps encourage the sharing of everything, it only lets you post a single jam at any given time — launched a new feature this week designed to help users find more people to follow. This is…
Most of us probably remember having a song, album, or band change our lives. It’s a fairly common experience, even for those unfortunate beings who don’t live and breathe music. It’s a good thing to have happen to you (unless you become too obsessed). Still, anyone can get bored of the music they already know,…
In a time of musical deluge, when the stuff seems to come at us from all angles from so many firehoses, This Is My Jam represents a refreshing glass of water. Rather than sharing everything you listen to with the world or all of your friends, the service encourages you to post a single song. Just…
Yes, we all know, the new Myspace redesign is beautiful. The obvious emphasis on aesthetics is even present in its choice of video platform: Rather than use YouTube, it seems the partially-Justin Timberlake-backed company created an account with designer-friendly Vimeo just to release its preview video (above), as if to make a statement about its…
This Is My Jam confounds many of the trends at play in the internet music industry, such as million-song catalogs and the algorithmic analysis of trends, relying instead on forcing each user to select only one song at a time as their Jam, which can be automatically shared on Facebook and Twitter. It’s an easy way…
There’s something happening here. All of a sudden, a song isn’t just a song. It’s a statement about people’s emotions at specific places and times, and it’s not from the people who recorded the song. As Sean Adams of the excellent music reviews site Drowned In Sound explained to Evolver.fm in an exclusive interview, we’re…
Before we get to the weekly app roundup, a quick note to our Bay Area people at the sold-out Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival this weekend: Make sure to download the event app (iOS, Android, and Blackberry) so you don’t miss a thing. On to the latest and greatest music apps!
Spotify and This Is My Jam introduced a Spotify app on Thursday that gives all of the carefully hand-picked music from This Is My Jam users a home within Spotify. If Facebook is “fast music” (as in getting overwhelmed by all the songs scrolling through the activity ticker), This Is My Jam is calling itself…
Long before Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard to found Facebook, Last.fm allowed music fans to keep an online record of the music they had been listening to in all sort of music players, including iTunes, Winamp, and more. Last.fm’s feature for this is called “scrobbling,” based on the fact that it had acquired a…
We’ll stop writing about all the neat stuff to emerge from Music Hack Day Sydney at some point, but I’m not done with this thing yet, even as my jetlag is finally waning. Although this latest iteration of the Music Hack Day series produced only just north of 20 functional apps, they were all humdingers….
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA — You might already know about This Is My Jam, which encourages users to post the one song they truly care about at any given time, in a refreshing change from the deluge of millions of songs that threaten to entertain music fans at any given time these days. When you update your…
