Spotify has released its top 100 lists for 2011. They include staff favorites, too. Here are the first ten user picks from the Spotify United States top 100 roster, which leads with Foster the People‘s rather disturbing (but very listenable) song, “Pumped Up Kicks.” 1. Pumped Up Kicks, Foster the People 2. Stereo Hearts – […]
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2011: The year radio entered the cloud
It only makes sense, really, that a medium often referred to as the aether should now be associated with the cloud. For those who haven’t been paying attention to the interwebs for the last couple of years, the cloud refers to idea of data being available on nearly ubiquitous servers, anywhere on the internet. Gmail […]
FCC: Internet doesn’t count for local radio ownership rules (but should it?)
Despite heavy lobbying from Clear Channel and its allies, the Federal Communications Commission proposes retaining its current ownership rules for commercial AM and FM radio stations. Here is a quick refresher course on the local radio rules. They allow any entity to buy as many AM/FM signals as its wants, nationally, with these restrictions in […]
Spotify, Pandora, Rdio, Aupeo! or MOG: Which subscription internet radio service sounds the best?
I am bit of a stickler for audio quality and fidelity, as readers of my holiday gift guide and recent review of iHeartRadio may have sussed out. I’m reticent to call myself an audiophile because I’m not in pursuit of perfect audio nirvana, nor am I willing to spend the price of a new family […]
Spotify Radio redo is part of new app
Spotify‘s radio feature has so far seemed like an afterthought. Ostensibly it was based on the same idea as Pandora–you pick an artist and then Spotify picks songs by other artists that are similar. In my tests of the feature I found that the picks were pretty narrow and repetitive, with the same artist cropping […]
2011: the year that Internet radio went social
2011 was supposed to be the Pandora Takeoff Moment—the year that Pandora went public and solidified its absolute, total dominance over Internet radio and music streaming. And coming out of the starting gate in February, it sure looked like that was going to happen. Pandora’s S-1 form noted that it had registered 80 million users […]
Party Bus! More tt.fm music festivals on the way
Guess I’m going to be in charge of announcing Turntable.fm music festivals from now on. Don’t forget that tomorrow night (Wednesday), the mashupfm folks are launching the world’s first online “Mashtival“. Now here’s more news. On Thursday December 8, Party Bus and Fratmusic Radio are having a big shindig from 8:00pm until 1:00 am at The […]
Turntable.fm mashup fans launch first online “Mashtival”
My favorite mashup mavens over at Turntable.fm say that they are hosting “what could be TT’s, and possibly the internet’s, first online Music ‘festival’.” A “Mashtival”—they’re calling it. December 7, 8 pm EST is the time. It will take place in various affiliated Mashup rooms: Mashupfm1, Mashupfm2, and the Mashupfm VIP room. “DONT MISS THIS […]
Clear Channel ups the ante with 3 more months of commercial-free iHeartRadio custom stations
Clear Channel may have been too focused on scarfing up stations in the early 2000s to construct anything resembling an internet strategy, but the company has been making up for lost time with its iHeartRadio service. When it went live in 2008 it was primarily a site and mobile app to provide access to the […]
“Don’t be a dick”: Turntable.fm talks to its subscribers
As a die hard Turntable.fm fan, I’ve been reading the service’s blog for a while. Starting in October tt.fm inaugurated a “room-of-the-week” series and has posted on the activities of four rooms. All include very funny exchanges between turntable users and tt.fm’s jessepedia. October 31: Orange Bear Indie Party The convention at the Orange Bear […]