There are squillions of online music services available as free applications which are easy to use. Redolf Music is just one of them. The difference with this one though, is that Redolf has none of the overcomplicated bits and pieces that often come with music apps. With Redolf it's just a case of typing in the search box and choosing your song title. Then you can save it in a playlist and have it available later or whenever you want to play it again. Read more
LicenseQuote is the missing link in the process that means that the independent musician can actually become totally independent. It's a licensing e-commerce solution for independent musicians, music publishers, music labels, catalogs and libraries that licenses compositions and recordings straight from their own website and enabling them to keep every last cent of sales revenues. LicenseQuote is a music licensing e-commerce solution Software As A Service (SAAS) that provides a powerful array of publishing and licensing tools for music publishers to set up and manage their own branded licensing store on their own websites to facilitate licensing sales transactions ... Read more
The thought of sheet music immediately makes me think about very serious musicians in an orchestra or a piano musician in a bar playing Frank Sinatra classics. I'm totally wrong, of course, but that's the image that comes into my head. In reality more and more sheet music is being accessed by musicians over the Internet. Tonara is a sheet music app for your iPad that takes sheet music well and truly into the 21st Century by turning it into a fun and very cool interactive experience. Read more
PulseRadio is an immense online electronic music portal and radio channel tool that connects the artist to his audience as well as managers, labels, clubs, festivals and promoters. It can also have the ability to turn you into a megalomaniac DJ programmer overnight. Electro music people can be a weird bunch. You can often pick them by their twitchy faces and the constant tapping of their foot whenever they hear that strangely uplifting music that electronic can be. PulseRadio gives you the ability to unleash and advertise your own music out into the stratosphere by creating your own personal channel. Read more
Well here's a new one. There have been social networking sites for everything from business to craftspeople so why not a social network for musicians (Ed, nod to MySpace). BandLink is a networking app specifically geared towards bands and musicians and it's aim is to connect the humble muso with other similar types worldwide. Read more
I love meeting up with old friends and talking about the stuff they are listening to on the radio. Its always funny when i ask which station and they tell me about some obscure radio station I've never heard of. The tell me it just plays stuff they want to hear with little or no intervention from mouthy DJ's. Bliss. Myxer Social Radio is a bit like that. Myxer is a free social networking and chat tool for your desktop and mobile that provides a music service that changes the way you interact musically with your friends. Read more
While there is a huge number of social networking related apps of all shapes and sizes I have to admit that I haven't seen one quite like Yumety before. It calls itself a social network for dreamers and you'll see why. Yumety encourages you to write down your wish or dream and connect with others who have similar desires to create opportunities and friendships the world over. Read more
Gets The Party Started With The Music You Create! You know when you go into one of those epic dance parties and your whole body is immediately reconstructed by this fat sample coming from the speakers? There are a few bands around at the moment that are hitting it. Bands like Skrillex and Nero. Advanced IGD Studio is an amazing music app that gives you that fat sample (and much much more) so your iPhone turns into a mini music machine. Read more
WooHoo! What a brilliant concept we have here. Veenue could almost be considered a new art form. This music and video contest app is a platform that let's you create music in collaboration with musicians from the world over. When you have completed your multi instrumental masterpiece you can play them all together to make one piece of multiscreen mayhem. not only do you have an original song but you've also captured a unique film clip to go with it. Read more
I am always astonished by the talent there is out there just waiting to be 'discovered.' You've just got to watch shows like America's Got Talent and The Voice to get an idea of the talent waiting to explode. So if you are a performer how can you showcase your undoubted talent when you can't manage to get onto one of the big TV shows. URSponsored is a video music contest app that provides you with another chance to showcase your skill, whatever it may be, to a worldwide audience. URSponsored was created with one goal in mind and ... Read more