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Mico Headphones Let Your Brainwaves Choose the Music
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By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. Music is starting to listen to us, for a change. The signs are popping up everywhere — and not just in music services that make great guesses about what a particular human wants to hear, but quite literally, with magic bracelets and heart-healthy music apps that alter musical programming or even the music itself based on what our bodies are doing. Neurowear, which engineered those ridiculous cat ears that detect your brainwaves and react ...
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Do SXSW's Tech Trends Foretell the Future of Music?
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By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. Monday was the last day of SXSW Interactive, which means people are posting lists of trends purporting to distill this incredibly wide-ranging event into a few key trends — “takeaways," if you will — from the event. These hopefully say something about where we are, both culture- and business-wise, as of March 2013. We like NPR All Tech Considered's list, because it's comprehensive without being overwhelming or ridiculous. We'll take each of the trends ...
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Why Wait For Google's Youtube Music Service? Stream It Free Now!
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By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. Google and YouTube are working on at least one subscription music service to complement YouTube (free music videos) and Google Music (free music locker and download store). Our theory is that this is because some label(s) are pressuring Google into the music subscription space by threatening to withhold their music from YouTube. We think we're right about that, in part because the kids already think YouTube is a music service anyway — it just ...
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Bands: Stop Using Flash on Your Website
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Flash was once a hugely popular platform used to create streaming audio and video players, animations, and other multimedia content for websites. Now, its popularity is waning, as it struggles for relevance in a more mobile world. When reviewing websites for Bandzoogle at music conferences, I still see many artists using Flash widgets for important content on their sites, like music players, videos, and even for things like show calendars, bios, and press kits. If you're an artist and use ...
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The Magic 8: Essential Menu Options for Your Band Website
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At Bandzoogle, one of the most important decisions we try and help our members make is what main menu options to have on their websites. Whether you're building the new website for your band, or just doing a bit of cleaning up, the navigation has a significant impact on the experience your fans will have on your site. In this blog post we'll go over which main menu options are essential for your website, how many menu options to have, ...
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How Pitchfork Visualizes Music on the Internet
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Evolver.fm
Welcome to part two of our condensed, super-digestible interview with RJ Bentler, vice president of video programming for the influential music tastemaker Pitchfork. The first part of this interview covers the interactive promise of internet-on-the-television. This second (and final) segment concerns Pitchfork’s plans for putting its original video programming directly on the television — an area of particular interest for anyone who cares about the future of media — as well as the fundamental, philosophical question of whether it is ...
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ShowScoop Launches Live Show Rating App
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By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. For most of us, live music is something that happens a handful of times per year — a summer festival, a friend's band, maybe a couple of big stadium tours, and/or some local up-and-comers. Other music fans go to shows all the time. This could be because they're in a band or have yet to settle down to the family grind — or maybe they're just really, really fun. ShowScoop (free on the web ...
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The New Live Music Experience: Tech, Bands and Fans
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Guest post by Casandra Govor (@casandragovor) for sidewinder.fm, a music and tech think tank. In 2005, live was considered the golden goose of the music sector, all hopes were invested in the small venues and festivals, while pundits and executives preached it to be the future; the alternative to the sinking and piracy-ridden recording industry. By 2010, hopes were still up, but there were many issues to be faced: rising booking fees, rising ticket prices, and a slew of cancelled or underperforming ...
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