January 8, 2010 – 8:29 pm
Everyone knows that listening to Motley Crue at dangerously loud volumes makes you look a lot cooler when you’re cruising in your shitty old Mark II Escort, and thanks to Ford’s in-house boffins you can finally ditch that 8-Track and get with the now, yo.
The latest version of Ford’s SYNC system -the trendingly titled MyFord Touch – now supports Pandora radio, giving you the chance to annoy people at junctions with weird Boris remixes.
Add in Stitcher for Podcasts and even Openbreak so you can bellow tweets while on the move, and Ford are all set to provide us with an all new, net-savvy generation of music loving drivers. Now they just have to fix that weird leaky breaks thing and they’ll be good to go.
January 6, 2010 – 4:12 pm
Whe it comes to music, Vice magazine seem to either discover and champion amazing underground bands that deserve more attention and have their finger on the pulse of fascinating new scenes that are sure to blow up…
Or
Go on and bloody on about bands that sound like someone throwing angry electro cats down some stairs in a dustbin.
Either way, when they launch a music player on their site you know it’s going to be filled with music that is definitely different. And different is good. Most of the time. Well, they have and it is. It should be refreshed with new music every now and again, so if you can’t be fucked to seek out new music yourself (you lazy bastard) you can name drop any of the bands on the player and instantly win at cool.
Well worth checking out if only for the 8-Bit Dub of Darkstar. Here is your Linky.
October 16, 2009 – 12:25 pm
We are currently loving GrooveShark in the Downtuned office – it may well replace Spotify in our hearts as ‘most favouritist music service ever’.
And rather than banging on about how good it is ourself, we talked to GrooveShark’s CEO Sam Tarantino to ask him a few questions about his wonderful app.
Can you let us know the differences between Spotify and your service? Do you have more (or different) artists?
Although there are many similarities there are very key differences. We are a Web app vs their desktop app. They focus very heavily on the consumer while we have put a significant effort and resources towards pushing artists and the back-end. Our fundamental goal is to be able to play any song anywhere from any device. We also have long tail content so anyone in the world can upload their song that they wrote in their garage or the mountains of nepal, get it heard worldwide, and use our promo network to build a fan base around it.
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September 7, 2009 – 1:18 pm
It’s here – the app that will revolutionise music listening habits for all of Europe, or make a few music / tech geeks vaguely happier about how they can download music.
Either way, to have it you have to sign up to Spotify Premium, which costs a tenner a month, and removes those pesky, if endearingly amateur adverts from you listening experience.
I’m going to try it out for a month and see what happens…
