The cool kids spend all day mining SoundCloud for jams. That’s where you can find not just new releases and remixes, but entire, full-length mixes that weave together samples, the DJ’s voice, and multiple songs, sort of the way a club DJ would do it… which is probably why these mixes tend to include fairly…
It’s going to take a while. Eventually, online listening rooms such as Turntable.fm will feel as normal as radio — another tool for letting people listen to music at the same time, even if they can’t talk to each other — does now. Just because music gets distributed digitally and over the internet doesn’t mean…
This guest post from Brenna Ehrlich of MTV O Music Awards. We haven’t heard much from social music service Turntable.fm for a while now, but today the platform is out with some big news — literally. The site has increased the size of its rooms (there used to be a 200-person limit) allowing casual users access to even…
The music industry’s troubles are well documented, hinging on contradictory realities: Music is too free to be expensive and too expensive to be free. People no longer spend money on music automatically, so promoting it is arguably more important than ever. One approach is to try to “turn your band into a virus.” Let’s take a…
Music fans on Google’s Android platform: Your ship has come in — or one of them, anyway. Turntable.fm, the breakout digital music service of 2011, is now available for your smartphone. Let’s take a moment, shall we, to reflect on how far digital music has come in the past decade. Remember learning how to rip that…
We’ve been digging the Soundrop Spotify app since it launched last year, allowing Spotify users to create or join listening rooms where they can listen to the same song at the same time with their friends. Yes, Turntable.fm popularized this concept, and that app remains the favorite of many, but Turntable.fm hardly has a monopoly…
AUSTIN, TEXAS — Turntable.fm, a social music service that goes beyond the usual buzzword with a service that turns music fans into avatars so they can DJ music for each other in rooms, is officially “legit.” On Tuesday at the SXSW Interactive festival, Turntable.fm co-founders Billy Chasen and Seth Goldstein announced that their company had…
Happy holidays! So, you scored a new iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad. You’ve already downloaded Angry Birds, set up email, and possibly had some interesting conversations with Siri. What about the music? You probably have some, and you probably want more. Sure, you could just sync and playing the same music from your iTunes library. But that’s something your…
This was the first full year of Evolver.fm, which we recently redesigned with a new, cleaner look, and the world’s first cross-platform directory of music apps with categories, reviews, videos, and more. To celebrate, we figured we’d take a look at Evolver.fm’s top five stories of 2011, as chosen by our readers. (Note: This doesn’t…
Put on your headphones. It’s time to listen to music in a new way that might just blow your mind. The above headline doesn’t really do justice to Tomahawk and the new Tomahawklet add-on, which added support for the popular Turntable.fm group-listening service today. Here’s how to work this strange magic for yourself. First, get…
Turntable.fm co-developer Yang Yang has been with the company since it was just an idea kicking around the StickyBits offices — well before Turntable.fm launched in stealth mode on May 19 (see our May 24 post). It’s still unlike just about any other service. Earlier this week, Yang appeared at the NYC MusicTechnology Meetup earlier this…
On September 22, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (above) announced sixteen music partners ranging from almost-unheard-of to the incredibly popular. Of those, eight (updated) have completed their integration with Facebook, meaning that they can automatically send users’ listening activity to their friends’ Facebook tickers and Music sections, and to their own Facebook Timelines. Here’s the full list in…
We’re busy monitoring Facebook F8 for all the music news we already knew was coming, but in the meantime, it’s worth noting that Turntable.fm’s slick redesign has gone live during Facebook F8 – just like co-founder Seth Goldstein said it would – with a number of advantages over the old look: It’s easier to see where your friends…
As his partner, Turntable.fm CEO Billy Chasen flew to San Francisco for Facebook’s F8 conference, Turntable.fm co-founder Seth Goldstein demonstrated their creation at Manhattan’s Paley Center at an event hosted by SoundCtrl (which put together the FlashFwd Awards we covered earlier this year). We turned down a VIP seat in order to watch the event online, all…
All around the world, musicians are sitting alone by their webcams, and they’re nervous. They’re about to appear in front of strangers everywhere, where they’ll have to bring their best stuff. Otherwise, these hopefuls will be unceremoniously booted from one of YouNow‘s two (and counting) stages. “What you’re seeing here is live,” YouNow founder Adi…
