Category: app

• October 14, 2011

  The Devil Wears Prada slay zombies

  On the heels of their latest album, ‘Dead Throne’, metalcore masters, The Devil Wears Prada, have just released a mobile game entitled, Zombie Slay. For $1.99, fans can grab any number of deadly weapons, and attempt to rid the virtual world of those who have risen once again – all while being entertained by the […]

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• July 25, 2011

  thoughts on Biophilia

  Last week, Bjork released her free Biophilia app – more or less a host application from which you can then purchase the individual tracks of her new album of the same name. Each Biophilia “song” is quite unique as it contains both a standard audio track as well as an app/game you can interact with.
• July 6, 2011

  Radio Soulwax app

  Soulwax is made up of Belgian brothers/mashup magicians David and Stephen Dewaele. You may also know them as 2ManyDJs. Soulwax has just released an app that marries the mashup with a short animated film. The concept is simple, but highly entertaining – highlight the albums used for sampling by animating their covers as the mashups […]
• June 7, 2011

  Dave Grusin app

  So I’m not a huge Classical music fan – in fact the only Bach I’m familiar with was in a band called Skid Row a number of years (OK, decades) ago, but I’m totally into musicians who go the extra mile when it comes to immersive mobile applications. Composer Dave Grusin has partnered with ROBA […]
• June 6, 2011

  Gwilym Gold app single

  Musician Gwilym Gold has released a single entitled, Flesh Freeze, as a desktop app for Mac. The app utilizes a format called Bronze that alters the playback of the track each time it is listened to – you’ll never hear the song the same way twice. Each playback of the track through the app is […]
• June 1, 2011

  Bluebrain’s location-aware album

  Bluebrain is a band from DC who have just released an album that can only be listened to inside the Mall – a stretch of park located in downtown Washington. The album, entitled, The National Mall, has been released as an app for the iPhone. The music within the app will play as the user […]
• May 11, 2011

  Bjork’s Biophilia website

  Icelandic singer, songwriter and audio scientist Bjork is about to release the follow-up to 2007’s Volta. Entitled Biophilia, the new album is more or less a music project full of several innovative elements that take Bjork’s music in multiple new directions. The Biophilia website is apparently just the beginning as the new album will be released as
• April 21, 2011

  KORG iELECTRIBE Gorillaz Edition

  Legendary electronic instrument company KORG has joined forces with the legendary animated musicians from Gorillaz to produce an iPad app that holds a collection of 128 Gorillaz sounds culled from the band’s latest album, The Fall. The app is based upon KORG’s iELECTRIBE app that the Gorillaz used to record much of The Fall while
• March 23, 2011

  Kraftwerk app

  German electronic music pioneers, Kraftwerk, have been around since the 1970’s, but they now embrace the new millennium through the release of their first app, Kling Klang Machine No 1. Above is a video walk-through of the minimalist application that was co-developed by an audio artist/project called Norman Fairbanks. The app features
• January 31, 2011

  Jay Z’s Decoded app

  Designed for both the iPhone and iPad, Decoded is a collection of music, interactive lyrics and never-before-seen video that (based upon the iTunes description) “. . . tell the story of a culture, an art form, a movement in history . . .” Decoded appears to be an admirable attempt to understand the creative process […]