Webby Awards Announce Winners Today #IWNY

Money is No Object at High End NY #Audio Salon

January 6, 2013 at 2:07 pm

At Audio Arts, a sound system can cost as much as a one-room apartment. The stereo equipment store, located off Madison Square Park, has a marble fireplace, lovely park views and high security. Owner Gideon Schwartz told The Wall Street Journal that for most of his clients, it’s not about the [Full Story…]

NY Theremin Society Wants to Elevate Status of Instrument

January 6, 2013 at 10:51 am

The New York Theremin Society wants to deliver the instrument to the status they feel it deserves. Invented by Russian Leon Theremin, the electronic instrument has long been associated with soundtracks involving UFOs or otherworldly effects. It's played by manipulating the electromagnetic fields [Full Story…]

Iconic NY Record Album Covers Mapped via Google

August 14, 2012 at 9:32 am

Bob Egan, a 59 year-old New Yorker, spends his time searching for locations depicted in artwork on record album covers. For instance, the wall behind Billy Joel on his "52nd Street" album, or Bob Dylan's stoop on "Highway 61 Revisited." So far, Egan has concluded that the Who almost positively [Full Story…]

Spotify May Lease New NY Office

August 5, 2012 at 2:02 pm

Spotify may soon sign a 73,000 sq. foot lease for the seventh floor of 620 Avenue of the Americas in Manhattan. The company provides online music streaming services and will be moving from its current location on 111 Eight Avenue. Rents were not available, but RXR Realty acquired 620 Avenue of the [Full Story…]

First Round Capital’s Fralic Talks Digital Music at NY Event

June 27, 2012 at 2:21 pm

Chris Fralic, a partner at the NY office of First Round Capital spoke yesterday at the New Music Seminar's tech summit near Union Square. Fralic discussed both the successful digital media companies he has backed, as well as those that did not survive. According to Xconomy, however, Fralic gave [Full Story…]

Songza Launches iPad App, Surpasses One Million Downloads

June 19, 2012 at 1:15 pm

NY-based Songza launched their iPad app last week and since then has reached more than 1.15 million downloads. Songza is a music curator and streaming service available on iPhone, Android, web apps, and now iPad. Though they did not release numbers pre-iPad launch, founder Elias Roman told [Full Story…]

Popdust Closes $4.5 Million Funding Round

June 8, 2012 at 11:11 am

Earlier this week NY based Popdust received Series A funding totaling $4.5 million from such backers as New Enterprise Associates, RRE Ventures, SoftBank Capital, and Project A Ventures. The website provides cheeky music-celebrity news, but recently added a fashion store filled with items [Full Story…]

Blip Festival: NY’s Geeked Out Music Fest

May 26, 2012 at 10:02 am

Blip Festival, a NY music festival centered around retro video games, is taking place this weekend at Gramercy Theatre. The sets feature 8-bit stage projections and an array of unique sounds. According to The Village Voice, "Chiptune" is the style to emulate. This geeky niche of electronic music [Full Story…]

Attention Engineers: NY Tech Industry Needs You

May 20, 2012 at 2:03 pm

Demand for engineers in NY is the number one concern facing the growing number of startup tech companies in the city. According to WNYC.org, the need for these coveted code-writers was apparent at New York Tech Day job fair this past April. Jesse Chad-Norris, co-founder of NY-based Indaba [Full Story…]

New Ideas for Digital Music Mulled at #IWNY

May 17, 2012 at 12:01 pm

A panel of backers for new digital music ideas spoke on this week on an Internet Week NY panel about the need for innovation in digital music, how audiences discover music and new ways of connecting fans to their favorite groups at live venues. According to Xconomy, Jalak Jobanputra, managing [Full Story…]

TuneCore Finds Its Niche in the Online Music Industry

May 8, 2012 at 2:09 pm

Six years ago, Jeff Price, founded TuneCore, a Brooklyn-based service for artists who are not quite in the realm of mainstream music. Price was one of the founders of the independent label, spinART, in 1991, but by the mid-2000's, the rise of digital music had pushed the company along with many [Full Story…]

Startup Weekend NYC Highlights Music, Gaming Innovations

May 8, 2012 at 12:04 pm

At this year's Startup Weekend NYC, which took place this past weekend, about 110 participants gathered to create "disruptive music and game-themed software." These apps developed over the 3-day event are prototypes; but they have the potential to scale the business and provide a reasonable [Full Story…]

New York NeoFuturists Brings Nerd-themed Musical to NY

May 5, 2012 at 1:02 pm

The New York NeoFuturists, a collective of theatrical artists, have premiered a new musical in the city called "You Are in an Open Field" based on the "nerdcore" genre of music (hip-hop music dedicated to nerd-themed interests, such as video games and D&D). Headed by NeoFuturists Kevin R. [Full Story…]

Webby Awards Announce Winners Today #IWNY

May 1, 2012 at 4:09 pm

The Webby Awards, which celebrate various Internet achievements, announced today this year's winners. Amongst those being honored include comedian Louis C.K., who won the "person of the year" award for innovating the channels of distribution in media, Bjork, who was voted as "artist of the year" [Full Story…]