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Music
Weird Al - Lady Gaga score settled
by
John Moe
Apr 21, 2011
How's that for a tech show headline? Well, yeah, I know but stay with me. Weird Al Yankovic wrote a parody of Lady Gaga's hit "Born This Way". He...
Android tosses Shark
by
John Moe
Apr 6, 2011
Not a movie. Sadly. Google has removed an application from the music site Grooveshark from the Android Market. Grooveshark lets you post your own...
Amazon getting heat from record labels
by
John Moe
Mar 30, 2011
Does anyone else think the term "record label" is outdated? No comment on whether the institution is outdated. Anyway, Amazon's new cloud service...
Amazon takes music to the cloud
by
John Moe
Mar 29, 2011
While we've been waiting for months for Apple, Google, or Microsoft to launch a cloud based music service, Amazon seems to have snuck in and...
"You're not buying music" - Supreme Court
by
John Moe
Mar 28, 2011
Alright fine, that's a bit of an extrapolation. But last week the Supreme Court declined to hear a case involving royalties paid to musicians for...
Zune player dies, Zune lives on
by
John Moe
Mar 15, 2011
Microsoft will no longer make Zune music players citing weak demand and a desire to focus on the smartphone market. This should come as no shock to...
Fred Armisen's favorite music apps
by
John Moe
Mar 13, 2011
Saturday Night Live's Fred Armisen discusses some of the music apps he likes.
For public good, not for profit.
Pocket Hipster is handy, annoying
by
John Moe
Feb 25, 2011
O technology, what hast thou wrought. Pocket Hipster is an app that mocks your current music and then suggests new music. It features your choice...
Tivo on the radio - DAR.FM
by
John Moe
Feb 24, 2011
DAR.FM is a new free service that's just been rolled out and currently in alpha testing. It stands for digital audio recorder (.frequency...
Sony's new music service: a good deal or not?
by
John Moe
Feb 17, 2011
Sony has announced a new subscription music service. They say they have 6 million songs on their servers. You can use it as a radio, picking the...