Category: Music

Herd.fm: Share Your iPhone Music Playlist with Another iPhone

Remember when sharing your hand made mixtape was the thing to do? Grabbing your cassette recorder, flipping it over – recording on the other side and then sharing it with friends and family? Well, those days are surely over – for one cassette’s are long gone, but the time it takes to filter and burn your iTunes track lists to hand a tangible item for sharing seems even more outdated…. Read More…

Converse Rubber Tracks: Giving Bands Free Record Studio Time

With TechStars applications being put in by budding entrepreneurs and Y-Combinator accelerator opportunities coming around yearly, those running startups know how useful and important it is to be mentored from the best. Converse is doing something very similar for the music industry – offering bands free recording studio time in a professional studio with experienced sound engineers and producers. … Read More…

Habu

A mammoth music library should inspire pride, not anxiety. The problem is, how do you begin to sort through tens of thousands of tracks? Shuffle functions are too dumbed down, and there’s no time to create a custom playlists for every occasion. Enter Habu, the mood-based music app that… Read More…

Finding New Music with The Hype Machine

The Hype Machine is a music blog aggregator app that was launched in 2005. What the service does is pull streaming music from hundreds of different blogs (over 800 at the time of this writing), and compile them all in a single location for visitors to listen to, rate, and ultimately discover. The g… Read More…

Fellody

Relationships have many high notes and low notes, but starting out dating someone new always should start on the right note, and a note that both parties can vibe with. Fellody helps music lovers find other people to have fun with or to flirt with based on mutual tastes in music. The new startup, Fellody (fellow + melody), by Thomas Vatter and Robin Simon, focuses on music taste as the major criteria for harmony between two people…. Read More…