Vibin.fm – The Pandora For Electronica

March 4, 2012

  Name: Vibin.fm URL: http://www.vibin.fm A visit to this website is mandatory for those who love electronica. Vibin.fm is brimming with nothing but quality mixes that you can listen to without even having to register for an account first. The site’s usable on the fly, and all of the music that you can listen to [...]

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Motoi Konno (Mashroom.fm) – Interview (Part 2)

February 26, 2012

The final part of the interview with Motoi Konno from Mashroom.fm is posted below. If you’ve read yesterday’s installment and enjoyed it, now you have a chance to know about the music Motoi-san has always been inspired by.  Just what you need to start the week in a motivated way, wouldn’t you say?   PART [...]

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Motoi Konno (Mashroom.fm) – Interview (Part 1)

February 25, 2012

Motoi Konno, one of the founders of Mashrooom.fm (a web service for creating your own mashups using different YouTube videos) was kind-enough to answer all the questions I put his way about his startup, and also about the role music has in his life. This is the first time that I interview someone from Japan, [...]

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Adele Becomes The First Artist Ever To Go Double Platinum on iTunes

February 24, 2012

Artists who make it big at the Grammy Awards always see a hefty boost in sales, and Adele was to be no exception. After winning no less than 6 awards in one night (including “Album Of The Year” for “21″ and “Song Of The Year” for “Rolling In The Deep”), “21″ managed to reach double [...]

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Mashroom.fm – Create Music Clips Using YouTube Videos

February 21, 2012

  Name: Mashroom.fm URL: http://mashroom.fm Mashing up online videos is the order of the day here. Mashroom.fm is a service that lets you take different clips as found on YouTube, and then have them mixed in order to create something unique. You can choose up to six different YouTube videos, and use them to create [...]

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Music Streaming Services: An Overview

February 19, 2012

Today I want to share with you a terrific infograph that I’ve found, and which covers all the music streaming services in existence. Well, all minus Google Music. For some reason, whoever compiled this decided to omit it. But other than that, everything’s been included – Spotify, Pandora, Last.fm, Turntable.fm… there’s even a corner explaining [...]

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Struggle (Gino Tunessi) – Uruguayan Independent Artist

February 14, 2012

  You don’t need to. You don’t need to listen to Josh Ritter singing with his eyes dancing on a horizon of fire and brimstone “inside this gilded cage a songbird always looks so plain” to have an idea of the entrapments an artist has to avoid as he goes his way. You don’t need [...]

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Mike Bishop (Record Together) – Interview (Part 2)

February 12, 2012

Find below the second part of the interview with Mike Bishop from RecordTogether.com. This is where we talk about the artists he likes and his musical background. To learn more about Record Together itself, read the first part of this interview and the original blog post.   PART II MUSIC & YOU When did you [...]

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Mike Bishop (Record Together) – Interview (Part 1)

February 11, 2012

Another great interview for you, this time with Mike Bishop from Record Together. As you probably remember (the site was reviewed last month on MusicKO), RecordTogether.com lets you crowdsource the recording of individual tracks for your own songs. The site is really ingenious, as it lets you ask people in other parts of the world [...]

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New Releases Now! – All The Latest Music Releases

February 9, 2012

Name: New Releases Now! URL: http://www.newreleasesnow.com The Internet makes it dead easy to discover new music, right as it’s become available. And the way things stand right now, you don’t even need to subscribe to lots of different sites to stay on the loop. There’s services that can do all the hard work for you. [...]

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