Rumors Surface About Apple’s Cloud Music Service

May 20, 2011

Apple’s rumored cloud-based music service allows users to post their music to a cloud server where their songs will be available to play from their phones, computers, and any other devices they may have.

The new rumor is that Apple has just signed agreements with three major labels, including EMI, Sony, and Warner Music Group. Universal is the next likely candidate to sign on.

Release of the product is not certain yet, but sources believe the Apple’s developers conference on June 6 could be a possible date.

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Google introduces Google Music in the Beta Stage

May 13, 2011

Google Music is the long awaited music service now available in the Beta stage. It allows you to upload your music to a cloud so that you can listen to it anywhere. It also is available on Androids and has the ability to create playlists for you.

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Music Hunter Released for Discovering New Music On the iPad

April 27, 2011

We Are Hunted is a cool web app used for discovering new music and recently they launched a new app for the iPad called, Music Hunter.

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The Present and Future State of Music [Infographic]

April 16, 2011

In this infographic showing the present and future state of music, we find that music streaming is on the rise, radio is still popular, Katy Perry is the #1 act in the US and oh so much more.

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What Labels Say Record Sales Would Have Looked Like Without Napster

April 8, 2011

On May 2nd, Sony Corp.’s Arista Records and Warner Music Group Corp.’s Atlantic Records will begin their trial against LimeWire. A New York federal judge, Kimba Wood, is allowing them to seek statutory damages on a per-song rather than a per-album basis.

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Fender creates real MIDI guitar to be played with Rock Band 3

April 6, 2011

Fender and Rock Band 3 are helping blur the line between gamer and musician with their latest invention. Fender created an actual guitar that uses MIDI to play along with Rock Band’s challenging game.

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HardWire HT-6 Polyphonic Tuner lets you tune all your guitar strings at once

April 6, 2011

Making tuning a faster process is definitely needed. If you’re a guitarist, you know how quickly a live show can turn boring if you have to stop and get your instrument back to playing in key. Luckily, HardWire is now shipping the HT-6 Polyphonic Tuner that was announced at the NAMM show. The HT-6 allows you to do something very cool; by recognizing each frequency individually, it you can tune all your strings at once. There press release below tells all the details.

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News Corp Looks To Sell MySpace to Vevo

April 3, 2011

As you should remember, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp bought out MySpace for $580 million in July 2005. It should also come as no surprise that MySpace has been struggling to survive against its competitor Facebook — which is valued at more than $65 billion. With MySpace’s layoffs, falling traffic, and reported $156 million loss last quarter, it is no surprise that News Corp is now trying to abandon ship by selling to internet music video titan, Vevo.

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Pay-For-Play: How Rebecca Black’s Parents Bought Her Way To Fame

April 3, 2011

If you’re not familiar with the song “Friday” by Rebecca Black, then you’ve been living under a rock. With over a million dislikes, it may be the most hated song on the internet. Its simple lyrics and autotuned singing have made it a laughing stock. But just how did something like this ever make it past the gatekeepers? The answer as reported in the Collegiate Times is that fame-hungry parents are now paying to have their children become stars.

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Ge Wang Discusses Laptop Orchestra Computer Programming Language for Musicians: ChucK

March 30, 2011

The laptop orchestra is a group of 15 or more computer musicians performing live, and Ge Wang is the Stanford Professor who brought the laptop orchestra to his university after seeing what they accomplished at Princeton. But behind every great computer musician is great software. In this case, that software is ChucK. As part of the Stanford University Human-Computer Interaction Seminar (CS 547), Ge Wang discusses this revolutionary new software.

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