Posts under ‘Music’

In the days before Pandora, Sirius, and Napster, radio ruled the world.  If you didn’t own the album, CD, or cassette, the only way to hear your favorite tunes was the radio.  Your yearning for the latest from Michael Jackson, Nirvana, Madonna, Red Hot Chili Peppers or U2 could only be satisfied by a radio DJ.    
Sometimes you [...]

A metronome. It is a musician’s best buddy when wanting to succeed in being on beat. As a band geek who loves my saxophone dearly, I had to test this app out. It seems that every band geek and band director has some form of a metronome on their iPhone, so that you don’t have [...]

Control your music by swiping instead of pushing buttons – handy for when you’re driving or riding or running.
iTunes Link : GestureMusic
On deck: Just4Keepers (Sports)

ShareTunes is a music player that comes with a bunch of features including lyrics, artist info, and Twitter.
iTunes Link : ShareTunes
On deck: 3D Through Walls (Games)

Turn your iPhone into a guitar!
iTunes Link : Strummer
On deck:  Block Busting Planet Panic (Games)

Call me crazy, but internet radio is pretty much the same no matter where you’re getting it. The content, that is… it’s the same! With the exception of apps like Pandora and Boombox that let you personalize your own “station”, straight-up internet radio is always just internet radio.  There’s a gazillion internet radio stations out [...]

If you’re looking for something that’s like Shazam but better, look no further. Yeah Shazam’s free and MusicID with Lyrics costs about the same as an Egg McMuffin, but if there’s a free music app that comes with all of MusicID’s features I’d like to see it!
Shazam, in case you’ve never heard of it (loser!), has [...]

SoundGrid looks like a pretty heavy-duty sound mixing & composing app… you can even make your own ringtones with it! Neato.
(oh btw, Haas Animation Studios just posted some more codes for Hocus Pocus)
iTunes Link – SoundGrid
On deck: Strips Web Comic Reader (Entertainment)

Despite what mass marketers will have you believe, there’s more to Irish culture than leprechauns and step dancing! The Bodhrán Drum has been around for a good 400 years or so and now you can get one on your iPhone as well.
iTunes Link – Bodhrán Drum
On deck: eChant

Um, I’m not entirely sure of what this app does, so here’s the official word from the mySoundtrack website!
mySoundtrack is unlike any music app you’ve experienced. With 12 customizable “Themes” to choose from, you create the mood for any moment throughout your day. Whether you are about to ask someone a very important question, breaking [...]

You know that thing your iPhone does when you’re running the iPod and you turn it sideways and it changes from a list of songs to a nice row of album art that you can flick your way through? That’s called Coverflow! Just in case you didn’t know.
Coverflow is cool, especially if you’ve taken the [...]

I know, I know, Pandora’s far from “new” but it recently occurred to me that there are a lot of truly clueless (and truly new) iPhone users out there! Despite Pandora’s perennial Top 25 placement, I still run into people here and there who have never heard of it. Maybe they don’t look at the [...]