Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the dance craze that swept the nation, the story behind the Twist and the records that made it great.
Selvin On The City podcast – Hey Let’s Twist part 1
Selvin On The City podcast – Hey Let’s Twist part 2
Selvin On The City podcast – Hey Let’s Twist part 3
Selvin On The City podcast – Hey Let’s Twist part 4
Today’s Superior App Mobile Music Award goes to Pandora, the online radio station that could. Famous for their “Music Genome” project, Pandora can be accessed for free via their free mobile apps. As any Pandora user already knows, Pandora is aptly named because you open up a “Pandora’s Box” of music discovery with one click.
Available for: iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Android, BlackBerry, HP webOS (used on the Palm Pre, Palm Pixi, Palm Pre 2, and HP Veer), and Windows Mobile.
Strengths: Installs easily, elegant user interface and exceedingly fun to use. For newbies: you just pick an artist, enter their name, and Pandora starts streaming you a channel of music related to and from that particular Artist. It’s not something you can truly comprehend without trying it, and once you do, if you’re a music lover, you’ll be instantly hooked. On my Android right now is Pandora’s Frank Zappa channel, which is giving me Hendrix’s “If 6 Was 9,” Pink Floyd’s “Any Colour You Like,” and Zappa’s “Drowning Witch” for starters. It’s an endlessly surprising and entertaining user experience.
Limitations: You can only skip a certain number of songs per hour, due to their licensing agreements. And there’s advertisements occasionally, like any commercial radio station (oh boohoo, what do you want, it’s free!). You can upgrade to Pandora One to remove all ads, and get some additional features as well.
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Open Source Music has established the Superior Application Mobile Music Award, to introduce quality new music applications to the public.
The digital music revolution has reached your smartphone. It’s the latest way to enjoy music.
| Open Source wants to acknowledge creative companies that are developing innovative applications to make music accessible on your smart phone. |
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Each application we select helps make music fun for you via your cell phone. Each winner is a FREE application and can be found in your mobile carrier’s app. store. |
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Today’s SAMM winner specializes in the field of song-recognition. You hold your mobile device near a sound source, utilizing the Shazam app, which analyzes the sound wave. It publishes the song title and artist name of whatever is playing. A recent version includes a feature called LyricPlay which kicks in and displays the song lyrics, as they’re being sung, in real time.
Available for: Android, iPhone & iPod Touch, iPad, Blackberry, Windows Phone 6 & 7 and Nokia.
Strengths: Fast, useful and fun. The user-interface is child’s play to operate. You’re at the movies, a song comes on the soundtrack and you don’t want to wait til the end credits to find out who it is, you point your phone at the speakers and click the Shazam button, and Shazam! Now you know the artist and title, plus it shows you links to buy the record, or hear it on Youtube, and other options.
Limitations: Not a ton of indie material is recognized yet. Naturally they’re building their database of songs from the most popular, and working out from there to less well known material. So the Shazam experience will get better with time.
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It’s World Series time. At least one listen to Ed Meeker’s version of “Take Me Out To The Ballgame,” to truly get in the baseball mood, is a must. This classic recording of a hundred year old song extolling the virtues of America’s pastime is a must listen. Ed Meeker was an Engineer at Edison Records when he was asked to record this version. Who would have ever thought that this early 1900′s recording would end up as the definitive version. I found this along with many other 78 recordings ripped to Mp3 in a treasure trove of music @ Publicdomain4u.com.
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