Scrobble your music to Last FM, ban or love tracks. Listen to personalized radio, share music with your friends, leave an artist or user a shout, and discover new music based on similarity with your iTunes collection. Everplay is fully integrated with Last FM web and radio services.

The company is also planning to add a lot more services to its apps—a recommendations engine, a way to let you share your musical tastes with your friends, and charts that show the songs that people are searching for. Every Monday, Shazam sends out its charts to record labels, and execs have been known to sign artists based on the data. This has led to a new way for artists to break into the mainstream: getting featured in TV ads. In 2005, for instance, Volkswagen ran an ad in Europe for the Golf GTI that featured a remixed version of "Singin' in the Rain" by Mint Royale. The song inspired a lot of searching on Shazam—and prompted the band's label to release the track, which then shot to the top of the European charts. "We probably see that at least once a month around the world," Fisher says. In other words, Shazam doesn't only help an audience find music. Sometimes it helps music find an audience.

SweetFM switches seamlessly between Last.fm and iTunes. Tune to any station and you can control Last.fm with SweetFM's interface - stop the stream and you can use it as an iTunes controller!

Len Graham is one of Ireland's best known traditional singers who has gained an international reputation, not only for his inimitable singing style, but also for the breadth of his knowledge of Irish folk music. Writer Ciarán Carson says "By definition, any traditional singer is obliged to the past, but he assimilates the songs in the hear-and-now, and re-makes them in his own voice, continually. Those who know Len Graham's singing will recognize artistry and the 'spontaneity' of his voice, but there is no spontaneity without recollection. To be here, you must have been there, and Len has, many times."

Alex Dragulescu is a Romanian visual artist whose practice embraces both traditional and new media. His projects are experiments and explorations of algorithms, computational models, simulations and information visualizations that involve data derived from databases, spam emails, blogs and video game assets.

Simple sinewave synthesizer triggered by an ordinary 16step sequencer. Each triggered step causes a force on the underlaying wave-map, which makes it more cute. Makes me feel like a kid.

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Fluke is a small Mac OS X utility that lets you listen to your FLAC files right within iTunes without needing to convert anything. Simply feed your FLAC’s into it and watch the magic happen!

I Am Sitting in a Room (1970) is one of composer Alvin Lucier's best known works, featuring Lucier recording himself narrating a text, and then playing the recording back into the room, re-recording it. The new recording is then played back and re-recorded, and this process is repeated. Since all rooms have characteristic resonance or formant frequencies (e.g. different between a large hall and a small room), the effect is that certain frequencies are emphasized as they resonate in the room, until eventually the words become unintelligible, replaced by the pure resonant harmonies and tones of the room itself. The recited text describes this process in action—it begins "I am sitting in a room, different from the one you are in now. I am recording the sound of my speaking voice," and the rationale, concluding, "I regard this activity not so much as a demonstration of a physical fact, but more as a way to smooth out any irregularities my speech might have," referring to his own stuttering

This is an amazing article. It discusses social orders, their drugs, and the music they spawned. It shows the beautiful feedback loop that results from all this. It lacks one critical piece of information: what's happening currently with experimental drugs whose names and natures aren't known outside of readers of Shulgin or Bluelight.

"Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" ran in April 1966 and became one of the most celebrated magazine stories ever published, a pioneering example of what came to be called New Journalism -- a work of rigorously faithful fact enlivened with the kind of vivid storytelling that had previously been reserved for fiction.

Holy pants.

Create & share an instant mixtape of your Pandora bookmarked songs or Last.fm loved tracks

linked via http://www.google.com/reader/view/

Fucking brilliant. Full-length songs (at not the best quality, but bearable) targeted through some rather abstract metrics.

Once you attempt to coexist you sell out. If that's true, then selling out is a good thing. It is an important thing. If we didn't do it, we'd be fucked, quite literally, by everyone bigger than us physically who found us fuckable.

The reactable is a collaborative electronic music instrument with a tabletop tangible multi-touch interface. Several simultaneous performers share complete control over the instrument by moving and rotating physical objects on a luminous round table surfa

A nerd beatmaster who tickles his korg to produce some of the sickest beats I've heard.

A powernoise label.

Joshua Bell plays a free concert in a public place. Only one person places him, and few give money.

How to use an iPod without using iTunes at all.

Excellent guide to getting rid of those damn vibrations in lower frets.

Send music from iTunes (Mac or PC) to a Wii!

A post about using the Trance Vibrator included with RES, a PS2 shooter game, to stimulate yourself or loved one.

A fantastic uplifting little journey and a ballet of a music video.

An awesome animation that acts a commentary on the subversive practices of advertising companies to influence and control the consumer. Lovely.

Ever had the urge to create a song until you realized it was harder than it was worth? With Whistler, just whistle, hum or tap out your creation into music app importable form.

The latest version of the IUJCS, the Indiana Undergraduate Journal of Cognitive Science.

Slashdot reports that Warner is uploading it's entire music video library to YouTube. This is a change from the tide of copyright disputes between YouTube and Univseral, who is planning on suing them.

Playing with iTunesDB

One thousand cars in Trackmania. Amazing. Sends chills though nerves.

Dual-headed iTuning with two computers. Exactly what I need.

Top 10 iTunes plugins

A guy hidden in a bunker liveblogging the bombings in Lebanon.

Stream your iTunes library to your Windows Mobile Handset!

RIP Syd. His music influenced me a lot during my younger years and got me more in touch with my spiritual side (before I ever tried drugs).

Amazing little photosensitive synthesizers that look like little robots.

A video of a drum solo my brother sent me.

Amazing. Birdy Nam Nam, a group of 4 Parisian DJs.

Dinu Lipatti could play the piano before he could smile.

A song made from 37 different Chello parts

A technical document describing why CDs suck.

Past Champions of the World Livestock Auctioneer Championship

Fun game from my friends at saddle creek.