There is something on the web for everyone and with internet usage almost doubling what it was five years ago, there has got to be a way to hold all that data. Through innovation and the way content is consumed, there is a way. To put this into perspective, up until 2003 all the data generated was five billion gigabites; we now create that amount in 10 minutes. So what changed? First of all, people got smarter and saw the future of what the internet could be. We saw the future of sharability; no longer was it confined to hyperlinks in emails. Thus, embed codes and social sharing buttons were born. Devices…

Music soothes the soul and it is something we can all relate to, we love a good tune to turn the volume on high and dance like a crazy person even when we are all alone. A song can trigger a memory and take you back to a person or a place in its very first notes. We all have our favorite genres and artists and we want to stay in the know when they are in our area so we can see them LIVE. Time spent trying to check out tour dates to only find that they are not playing in your location can be a real bummer. However, there is a way for you to let concerts of artists you want to see find you. …

There is nothing like vinyl, the way it would slide out of the cardboard sleeve and glisten from the light onto the blackness of a record. Music was made with circular lines that with a stylist would belt out your favorite tunes. Since technology has made our formats of music players smaller and has improved how quickly we can receive music we miss out on the process of finding a gem, nothing will beat walking into a record store and finding the treasure to add to your collection. An accomplishment that was rewarding and one that you wanted to take home right away to introduce to your record player. …

Remember the days when you had to go buy those shiny discs (which, if you looked at them wrong, would get a scratch)? Or how about burning discs from a friend because it didn’t make sense to pay for something that you could acquire for free? Technology has almost made cavemen of compact discs, and as for records (big black CDs for turntables, for those of you born in the ‘90s), they’re all but extinct. Technology’s effect on the music industry is supersized compared to other industries because it’s so easy to download and share music for free. When Napster hit the scene, record labels and…

Social media has clearly permeated out lives so much that it is now influencing the other media that we consume. This is extremely clear in the world of music. I see the songs popping up on my Facebook news ticker and it seems like my entire friends list is listening to the same songs. For the most part people have always listened to very similar music, but more and more I am seeing an increasing trend of the “ironic” hit. I don’t know if this is a new phenomenon, but I first noticed it with the rise in popularity of Rebecca Black’s song Friday. We all know and love (or hate) it. The song features timeless…

As many of you might have heard by now, this past Sunday night at the Coachella music festival, Tupac Shakur was resurrected via holographic technology. He took the stage in front of an estimated audience of a hundred thousand people. The company that pulled off the feat, Digital Domain, has been making Hollywood magic for years. Their technological prowess was never a question, particularly given their track record. But did they go over the line with this most recent display? Coachella is known for being an incredibly innovative musical atmosphere. Huge bands and small indie bands fill the…

France made waves in the P2P industry by implementing a controversial graduated response program in 2010 that was designed to reduce the amount of illegal downloads by establishing progressively-harsher penalties on file sharers. The results were strong, as shown in Hadopi’s report, with file-sharing activities traffic slashed by two-thirds in 2011. However, the goal of increasing revenues in the French music and movie industries did not materialize and revenues fell in both industries. The French music market fell 3.9% in 2011 while the video market fell 2.7%. As Ernesto of TorrentFreak…

With about a million iPad apps and a billion iPhone apps available, finding good ones isn’t hard. Finding ones that stand out from the crowd often is. If you like making music but don’t necessarily have “skills” with instruments, MadPad is an iPhone or iPad app that can help. No skill required – just bring your imagination and creativity. “Remix your life” is their way of putting it. By sampling everyday sounds and using a slick interface to put them together into music, even the most mundane places like hardware stores can be used to create music. Check it out: …

Looking back at the world of music and communication, it’s amazing to see the transitions that have taken place to get to where we are now. With iPods, FLAC (free lossless audio codec), and the domination of digital files over physical venues, we are able to immerse ourselves in recordings of the highest imaginable quality. The days of the old slogan, “Is it live or is it Memorex?” are truly upon us. In this infographic, the sound pros over at Sonos break down the history and explore the evolution of sound systems from Thomas Edison to Steve Jobs and beyond. Click to enlarge. …

Are you about ready to throw your car stereo in the trash? You’re about to be. Students Robbin Ingvarsson and Waldemar Wegelin have designed what they hope to be the next revolution in in-car audio – and from the looks of things, they’ve pretty much got it in the bag. Soundtracks is a system that takes input from your car to design on the fly a soundtrack that reacts according to the action on the road, as well as the environment in which you’re driving. The resulting synaesthetic experience is nothing short of brilliant What about your favourite tunes? Surely you’re not going to throw your classic jams…