Rethink music streaming - We are hunted
I came across a new music streaming site on Mumbrella this afternoon - We Are Hunted. The site tracks what’s being said about music on various blogs, social networks, forums and even peer-to-peer networks. It then compiles these into the top 99 that users can listen to and then buy (beating copyright infringement).
The site’s a collaboration between wotnews and Native Digital who got a bunch of press a little while back for creating EMI’s ‘The In Sound From Way Out’ MP3 blog.
Enjoy the fresh sounds…
iPhone musical madness - Kids by MGMT played on iPhones and iPod Touches
Website / TuneGlue
TuneGlue is one of the latest online offerings venturing into relationship visualisation. In this case, TuneGlue maps the links between various artists and genres of music from Last.FM and Amazon. Type in the name of your favourite singer or band and the mini-app generates threads of similar artists, albums etc. From here you can drill down to albums and tracks.
All the data is pulled from the EMI owned Last.FM which adds credibility to the offering and once again shows the faith and commitment EMI have to the digital space - read their press release on the issue here.
A similar offering named LivePlasma has been around for quite a while and although not as slick, does a better job of visually representing the relationships. The addition of size to the generated nodes and multiple linkage paths gives depth and relevance. Try searching for the same artist and see what happens.
Website / Radio 1 Musiccubes
The Radio 1 Musiccubes website has been around for a year or so now. Put simply, a user creates a ‘tower’ of their favourite music genres, with everything from Hip Hop to global beats. The tower created directs them to radio programmes dedicated to their chosen sounds. The nice twist on this is the ability to paste the ‘towers’ into blogs - pretty cool idea.
According to Creative Review, the site has been a huge success with over 30 000 Musiccube towers built.