May 24, 2012
Spotify was already a great product before the addition of apps. Fast, fun, and free (for those unwilling to pay), it offered everything you could want in a music streaming service. Or at least that’s what I and many others thought prior to the apps making it even better than it previously was. The rolling out of its API and the first selection of apps turned Spotify from a great product into a must-have product.
May 20, 2012
Sound Sunday is a weekly feature promoting free album downloads. Every edition invites you to explore various genres and artists from around the world. If you happen to be a little stressed these days, let these instrumental albums help you calm down and relax. Note that name your price albums can be downloaded for free [...]
May 20, 2012
Rap music isn’t all just what you hear on the radio or thumping from the teenager’s car beside you at your nearest intersection. It’s a pretty popular opinion that the radio rap genre is very dumbed down and easy to understand. I’d agree with that. Rap is sort of where pop music was in the late ’90s. Understanding that much, you’re cutting yourself short if you shrug hip-hop music aside as immature and boring.
May 17, 2012
If you’re a geek who’s also a bit of a musician, you’ve probably occasionally thought about using your own equipment to record and produce CDs. I mean, you’ve got the microphones, a decent computer, a sound editing program like Audacity and various other useful tools. What’s stopping you from making your own demo CD?
May 16, 2012
We’ve already seen a list of the best music videos featuring floppy disk drives, and now it’s time to broaden our horizons a little and bring more tech hardware into the mix. It’s amazing the variety of machines and old gadgets that can be reimagined as music-making instruments.
May 14, 2012
In the midst of streaming music services and (unfortunately) pirated music, we tend to forget that there’s a type called public domain music too. Public domain music quite simply is music and musical works which do not have any form of licenses or copyrights attached to them. They can be freely shared and if one sees it that way, they have no legal owner.
May 13, 2012
Sound Sunday is a weekly feature promoting free album downloads. Every edition invites you to explore various genres and artists from around the world. This edition contains several samplers and a remix album, embedded in a selection of full length albums and EPs. Dig in and pick what you like. Note that name your price [...]
May 9, 2012
Who would ever have thought that old, outdated technology such as floppy disk drives would be given a new lease of life by amateur computer engineers and programmers turning them into instruments? Not me. But that is exactly what has happened over the last few years. What follows are the best music videos on the Web featuring songs played using floppy disk drives as instruments.
May 6, 2012
Sound Sunday is a weekly feature promoting free album downloads. Every edition takes you on a sound journey. This week we explore genres that range from mellow to psychedelic and everything in between. Note that name your price albums can be downloaded for free by entering 0 in the price field. That said, we strongly [...]
May 6, 2012
No matter where you go in the Google universe, you will find a little piece of Google+. Now, Google Play is no exception, as Google has added the ability to share songs purchased in Google Play with friends. It’s no secret that sharing music is popular, with Spotify and its Facebook integration taking the music [...]
