digital music

For a brief, weird moment in the Myspace-fueled early 2000s, dance music felt truly alternative.

WIRED’s spiritual advice columnist on predictability, freedom—and the duality of rebellion. 

When you're just starting out on Spotify, it's hard to know what to do or where to go first.

In 1798 Joseph Fourier, a 30-year-old professor at the École Polytechnique in Paris, received an urgent message from the minister of the interior informing him that his country required his services, and that he should “be ready to depart at the first order.” Two months later, Fourier set sail from Toulon as part of a 25,000-strong military fleet under the command of General Napoleon Bonaparte, whose unannounced objective was the invasion of Egypt.

Moog Music has released a new extension pack for its Animoog iPad synth that explores the lower end of the sonic spectrum by tapping into the sounds generated by the lower ends of our digestive tracts.

Making music on the iPad is still mostly about the apps, the tablet becomes even more useful if you can plug other stuff into it.

Back in the nineties, when CDs were selling strong, we called the major labels the Big Six. After the music business’s major transformation over the past decade, we’re down to the Big Three — officially speaking anyway. EMI, one of the so-called Big Four major record labels, no longer considers itself a “label” per se, […]

The Department of Justice is reportedly looking into Apple’s bullying ways in the digital music market, where its iTunes music store accounts for 70 percent of digital music sales and 28 percent of all music sales in the United States. At issue: Apple’s objection to Amazon’s sale of certain albums exclusively, for one day and […]

The legal price for a tune on an iPhone could drop to a dime in no time, thanks to the wonders of cloud computing. That’s if Apple approves an iPhone app from the innovative music service Lala, which the company says will happen by the end of the year. The pending app is the third […]