• WHY MUXTAPE’S PROBABLY GONE FOR GOOD

    Both Val­ley­wag and Sil­i­con Alley Insid­er point out that one of the rea­sons Mux­tape shut down prob­a­bly was­n’t the R.I.A.A., but all the costs asso­ci­at­ed with run­ning a mas­sive stream­ing music data­base. One of the things I’ve noticed about Web 2.0 is that music con­tent is seen as more of a lia­bil­i­ty than an asset…

  • IMAGINING THE PERFECT STREAMING MUSIC SERVICE

    Read­WriteWeb has a must-read post for any­one who’s pay­ing atten­tion to what’s hap­pen­ing with Pan­do­ra and Mux­tape this week. As wi-fi becomes more pow­er­ful and wide­ly avail­able, I think more peo­ple will want on-demand dig­i­tal deliv­ery, rather than be bur­dened by the moun­tains of phys­i­cal prod­uct they rip to an mp3 play­er any­way. It’s equal­ly…

  • A CALL FOR iPHONE APPS

    My iPhone, orig­i­nal­ly uploaded by Black­mail Is My Life. I need your sug­ges­tions, specif­i­cal­ly for an all-in-one chat client that can com­bine my Gmail and AIM con­tacts. One pro­vi­so: I’m not real­ly look­ing to turn my iPhone into a gam­ing plat­form yet. What iPhone appli­ca­tions do you like? Which do you use most?

  • LISTEN TO THE NEW TV ON THE RADIO SONG

    Stream TV on the Radio’s new song, “Gold­en Age,” on their site. It took two lis­tens, but I’m real­ly into their ongo­ing transformation.  Looks like they’re com­ing to Philly Octo­ber 10th. They’re one of my favorite bands. I can hard­ly wait. [via Pitch­fork]

  • FAVORITE BAND OF THE MOMENT: CUT COPY

    It took me a lit­tle while to warm up to Aus­trali­a’s Cut Copy, a band I first saw at the Rhap­sody Rocks par­ty at SXSW. Now I’ve fall­en in love with their lat­est album, In Ghost Colours. It’s got the glitchy bril­liance that I loved about Beta Band, with some of the splashy synths that…