President Obama’s 2012 Campaign Spotify Playlist Has a Hint of Soul
President Obama and his 2012 Campaign are making sure they cover all social media avenues, even digital music. The president and his campaign released a Spotify playlist called the 2012 Campaign Playlist, but what’s on it? The playlist consist of 28 songs from a variety of different artists. There are about five R&B tracks incorporated [...]
Read MoreHow to Make Google Music Your Secondary Media Player
Even if you don’t want to use Google Musicas your full-time music player, it’s become one of the best ways to back up and access your music library from anywhere. It doesn’t need to be your main player; you can still reap the benefits of Google’s free music backup and on-the-go streaming service. Here’s everything you [...]
Read MoreHow Turntable.fm Replicates Music Scenes Online
There are two things that avid music listeners appreciate: variety and sharing. On the internet, listening to music has become a more social experience with sites like Last.fm, Spotify, and even YouTube engaging users in recommending music and commenting on it. And Pandora provides variety, auto-generating playlists based on listener preferences. Each of these sites [...]
Read MoreLil Wayne Sets iTunes Sales Record
Although there are many that were not impressed by Lil Wayne’s 10th studio album, The Carter IV, many in fact were, or at least bought it to try it out, because it has broken iTunes sales records with 348,000 digital albums sold in just four days. Nielsen Soundscan figures indicate that The Carter IV moved a total [...]
Read MoreTech Week in Review 11-19-2010
OnLive Cloud Gaming System Coming to Your TV Remember Web TV? Yeah, me neither, but founder Steve Perlman has moved on to bigger and better things. His startup OnLive Inc. has an online game service that will be available for your TV for the holidays. OnLive will be selling a tiny device called a “micro-console” [...]
Read MoreJay-Z & The ‘Nation’ Doin’ the Damn Thing
Are you ready for the music industry revolution? Jay-Z and LiveNation are ready to bring it to you with the announcement of what is being billed as the largest music contract ever awarded at $150 Million. But that is only half the story. The other half is that they are formulating a new distribution and [...]
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