Will Paul McCartney’s Low-Priced Album Apps Add To Digital Music’s Downward Pricing Pressure?
To some degree album apps are being treated as novelty items with marketing appeal even when there's a lot of new art involved from remastered music to photos and video.. Continue reading
Squarespace Adds Bandsintown Support
Website building platform Squarespace has partnered with Bandsintown to make it easier to post gigs. Users can now just add a new Squarespace Bandsintown "Block" to their website that displays tour. Continue reading
Microsoft To Spin Off Nokia’s MixRadio
Microsoft is spinning off it's Nokia MixRadio streaming music app into a standalone company. The announcement is of deep cuts at the parent company. If the free Pandora like service. Continue reading
New Music Messaging Apps From Soundwave and La-La Take Divergent Routes
Music messaging is kind of a weird space since people rarely send music as a message. Two mobile startups are taking what I think are the two main routes for. Continue reading
Hushed Events Lets Artists Rewards Fans With Private Calls Using Temporary Numbers
Private messaging and calls enter a new promotional dimension with the launch of Hushed Events. Hushed is known for providing temporary phone numbers for smartphone calls using their app to. Continue reading
Shazam Adds Rdio Full Song Streaming, More Services To Follow [Updated]
In what is likely to be the first of many such announcements, unless they update in a batch, Shazam yesterday announced that Rdio subscribers will be able to stream full. Continue reading
Pono Competitor Geek Wave Crowdfunds Over $1.3 Million For High Quality Music Player
LH Labs, a part of Light Harmonics, successfully completed an Indiegogo campaign to fund their Geek Wave "high-performance portable music player." Their campaign goal of $38,000 was dramatically surpassed closing. Continue reading
Neil Young Prepares For Late 2014 PonoMusic Launch As New CEO
Late last week in a shakeup at PonoMusic, Neil Young became CEO while Rick Cohen was named COO. John Hamm stepped down as CEO while remaining an investor. In addition,. Continue reading
Soundsight Headphones Shoot Video For Livestreaming Or Editing
Soundsight Headphones are designed to be high quality headphones that record video based on where the wearer's head is turned that can be livestreamed or edited through a mobile app. Continue reading
Artwork FM: Single Frame Music Video Creator
Lee Martin is a developer who has created all sorts of curious web contraptions to market music. Occasionally he also whips out a useful tool for musicians. Most recently he. Continue reading
