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Jammit offers a cool idea at its core — to help people learn to play certain songs by isolating the individual instrumental music tracks — but the idea isn’t enough to hold back the frustration of mega micropayments that fuel the app. Before you sign up on Jammit, you can preview how the proc ... Full Article »
I’m loving app Groovebug for iPad and that’s not just because I’m favorable to the fact it was created by a team of Chicago developers. Groovebug is billed as a “personalized rich media music magazine and discovery engine” and it provides exactly that in its smartly designed interface. To ... Full Article »
MTV News tries to put a curious spin on the MTV brand. Sure, the network isn’t known for music, but when I think of entertainment news my first thoughts are E! and TMZ, not MTV. This app is a concerted app to change that, as it focuses almost entirely on entertainment news. The focus is neatly se ... Full Article »
When iOS 5 finally hits the Internet this fall, it’ll include a number of cool new services from Apple. The biggest, clearly, is iTunes in the Cloud, which takes the entirety of Apple’s iTunes software and turns it into a cloud service. One portion of that – Apple’s cloud music service – i ... Full Article »
There’s a reason that music fans still collect and talk about vinyl records. Few people lament the death of the 8-track or the cassette tape, but the specific sound quality of a record is hard to beat. It’s not surprising to see another app, in this case VinylLove Pocket, try to recreate some of ... Full Article »
There’s quite a bit going on in Chicago this weekend. If you’re not heading to the Windy City for President Obama’s birthday party, you might instead be heading to a little music festival called Lollapalooza held in Chicago’s Grant Park from Aug. 5 to 7. In addition to your two one-liter bot ... Full Article »
Bullseye By Polyphonic Spree bills itself as an “interactive music video,” a statement that conjures a number of different ideas. I was hoping for some sort of game that was timed to end alongside the song. Instead, the interactivity amounts to a lot of window dressing and not much more. But it ... Full Article »
There are a few apps in the iTunes App Store designed to help people figure out the names of songs when they’re hearing them. After a big update today, SoundHound may now be the most powerful. Already, SoundHound used the microphones on iOS devices to pick up songs as its users are hearing them a ... Full Article »
This may be hard to believe, but once upon a time I actually downloaded music illegally. Maybe even more than once. Scandalous, I know. And I wasn’t some Johnny-come-lately pirate. No sir. I was in on the ground floor, cutting my teeth on digital music the way everyone in my age group did – with ... Full Article »
It seems like forever that the Internet has been buzzing about Spotify, a European music streaming service, and how great it is. But for all that time, U.S. users have had to look on with envy and wonder.That ends today (kind of), with Spotify officially coming to the U.S. following the inking of a ... Full Article »
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