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Apple iTunes

  • Blogs

    September 12, 2012

    Apple Updates iTunes, Offering Possible Relief to Music Fans Everywhere

    The computer giant named after a piece of fruit announced a shiny new iPhone 5 in San Francisco today, one that comes with a .5-inch larger screen, better camera... and blah. Doubtless people are most excited (or not!) about the new iPhone, but for music fans -- at least those of us still bound to v ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2012

    Apple Gets More Gay With Addition of Homosexual Emojis

    Last year Apple found itself caught on the wrong side of the gay community when it allowed aspiring heterosexuals to access that controversial gay cure app on iTunes. But it appears the Silicon Valley tech giant is finally making peace with homosexuals, or at least those homosexuals with iPhones. As ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2012

    San Jose Man Says Apple Is Double-Billing iTunes Customers

    Apparently, Apple isn't just dodging taxes, it's also double-dipping from its customers. At least that's what one San Jose man claims after he says he was charged twice for one song he bought on iTunes.Robert Herskowitz filed a class-action lawsuit this week, claiming Apple's e-store refused to reve ... More >>

  • Music

    March 7, 2012

    In Defense of the CD: Why We Should Keep Them Around

    Apparently, Apple isn't just dodging taxes, it's also double-dipping from its customers. At least that's what one San Jose man claims after he says he was charged twice for one song he bought on iTunes.Robert Herskowitz filed a class-action lawsuit this week, claiming Apple's e-store refused to reve ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 7, 2012

    In Print: Defending the Lowly CD From Oblivion

    From the latest edition of SF Weekly: In Defense of the CD: No one loves CDs. The cool kids today want to either dig through crates of dusty old vinyl or pay four times too much for the new stuff. The even cooler kids spend actual money on godawful cassette tapes. And everyone else under age 40 has ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 13, 2011

    iTunes Claims SF Weekly Best of App Is Tops

    Earlier this year, we decided to make it that much easier for readers and tourists to find the best restaurants, bars, and and coolest places to sip on lattes with one slick touch of their  iPhone. Turns out, we were onto something pretty damn cool -- iTunes selected our free iPhone app as one ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2011

    Music Links: Hear the New Wax Idols Record, Kreayshawn Draws the VIPs, and Pondering the Future of Google Music

    Listen to this.​ Hear No Future, the new album from SF's Wax Idols, and check out their release show at Vitus in Oakland. [The Bay Bridged] You didn't sleep through it: Feist didn't actually play "1 2 3 4" at the Warfield on Monday. [SF Gate]

  • News

    November 9, 2011

    SF Weekly Letters

    Listen to this.​ Hear No Future, the new album from SF's Wax Idols, and check out their release show at Vitus in Oakland. [The Bay Bridged] You didn't sleep through it: Feist didn't actually play "1 2 3 4" at the Warfield on Monday. [SF Gate]

  • Blogs

    November 1, 2011

    Five Things Pete Townshend Got Wrong About iTunes and the Online Music Industry

    Phyllis KeatingPete Townshend​Last night, Who guitarist Pete Townshend made a rousing speech at a British radio festival, blasting Apple's iTunes store for its treatment of musicians "whose work it bleeds like a digital vampire." His speech even included a list of things Townshend believes App ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 17, 2011

    Apple Will You Help Find Your Friends ... And Cheating Wife

    ​Just like iTunes put record stores out of business, the new iPhone app, Find My Friends, will likely mean less work for private investigators. According to Forbes, a man might have busted his cheating spouse using the new Find My Friends app a week after Apple released it. The app is supposed to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2011

    How the iPod Sucked All the Joy Out of Listening to Music for Me

    ​In case you missed it, Bjork just became the first artist ever to release an album as a series of apps. Depending on your perspective, you're either breathless with the futuristic, multi-media innovation of it all, or -- if you're like me -- it kind of makes you want to stick your head in a bucke ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 7, 2011

    J-Boogie Gets Down Like an Indian John Travolta in New "Undercover" Video

    Yup.​Local DJ and All Shook Down 2011 alumnus J-Boogie has explored many genres, including reggae, Latin, funk, disco, and house. His new video for "Undercover," the single from his upcoming album of the same name, adds one more to the list -- Bollywood disco inferno. Using what can only (we' ... More >>

  • Music

    July 27, 2011

    The Cool Kids: Cool with Recording for Mountain Dew

    Yup.​Local DJ and All Shook Down 2011 alumnus J-Boogie has explored many genres, including reggae, Latin, funk, disco, and house. His new video for "Undercover," the single from his upcoming album of the same name, adds one more to the list -- Bollywood disco inferno. Using what can only (we' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2011

    In Print: The Cool Kids Are Happy to Record for Mountain Dew, and More

    From SF Weekly's latest print music section: The Cool Kids​The Cool Kids: Chuck Inglish, one half of Chicago's retro-styled rappers the Cool Kids, is speaking about releasing the duo's new album, When Fish Ride Bicycles, through a quasirecord label funded by Mountain Dew, the lurid-colored so ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2011

    Lil B Suddenly Drops New Album, I'm Gay; Hear New Song "Trapped in Prison"

    Uh, thank you Based God?​ And so it was decreed. Last night around midnight, apropos of pretty much nothing, The Berkeley based rapper/provocateur/phenomenon Lil B released his much-anticipated new album, I'm Gay, on iTunes, and then Tweeted the announcement. Why did he do it so suddenly? Why ... More >>

  • Music

    June 8, 2011

    Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

    Uh, thank you Based God?​ And so it was decreed. Last night around midnight, apropos of pretty much nothing, The Berkeley based rapper/provocateur/phenomenon Lil B released his much-anticipated new album, I'm Gay, on iTunes, and then Tweeted the announcement. Why did he do it so suddenly? Why ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 6, 2011

    Apple Unveils iCloud, the Best-Seeming Music Locker Service So Far

    Meet your new master, the iCloud​This news didn't shake the earth off its axis or anything -- only Anthony Weiner's semiflaccid member could do that -- but the cloud music service Apple unveiled today in San Francisco sounds at least cool and likely useful: The iCloud, as it's called, is a free 5G ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2011

    Google to Launch Cloud-Based Music Service Today, Major Labels Not Included

    ​ The Google I/O Conference is in S.F. The confab's keynote speech is scheduled for this morning. And Google execs say today's the day that the Internet search giant is planning to unveil its long-awaited cloud-based music service -- without any licensing deals from the major labels. Music Be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2011

    The Bangerz, Workhorse Bay Area Rap Producers, Discuss Their Vegas Show, Chris Brown, and Carlos Mencia

    If you've been at the Monte Carlo in Las Vegas recently -- and no, I wasn't expecting to start a sentence that way either -- perhaps you took in MüS.I.C., the critically acclaimed live show from masked B-boy crew JabbaWockeeZ. Or perhaps you saw it at the 2009 NBA All Star Game? Or maybe you're jus ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2011

    New Lumerians Video Puts the Psychedelic in Psychedelic Rock

    "Did you mean 'Lemurians'?"​Remember when we all had CRT computer monitors and we could degauss them, making the screen go all trippy for a split second, and then we wouldn't be able to do it again for a couple days? This is just one of the many things you could try to think about while this video ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2011

    Dear Apple, Please Don't Make Us Pay More for Better-Sounding Music Downloads

    Okay, but in high-quality audio at no extra cost?​Apparently getting hip to the idea that people who still pay money for music might want it to sound good, Apple is considering offering higher-quality audio files in the iTunes store.This alone would be great news -- we're frustrated that the store ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2011

    Welcome to the Music Industry, 2011: Records Don't Sell, Touring Can Make Bank, and Major Labels Are (Mostly) Useless

    ​For whatever reason, today seems to be the day that the music industry reminds us that it's still in total upheaval. Soundscan tells us that relatively few people actually bought music in 2010, unless they were fans of Eminem and Katy Perry. Dave Matthews spent the last 10 years collecting $500 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2010

    mSpot Lets You Stream Your iTunes Library on Your iPhone

    via VentureBeat​There are smartphone apps which give you access to millions of streaming songs. But sometimes they don't have those rare recordings that you spent months tracking down. And there are smartphone apps that kinda, sorta let you connect to your home-based server or hard drive. But the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2010

    Watch the Bathrooms: Bay Area Rapper Durt Reynolds Puts the Durt in Durty

    ​ Ask and you shall receive. Or, rather, leave your four-track promo CD by the sink in the men's room at Mezzanine during a Wu-Tang show and I shall bring it home and listen to it. This one's for you, Bay Area rapper Durt Reynolds.

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2010

    Official: The Beatles Now on iTunes (Yawn)

    ​So, as expected, Apple's big announcement today is that the Beatles' music is now available on the iTunes store. The band's albums are sold whole (regular albums are $12.99; the double-length White Album is $19.99) or by individual songs, which sell for $1.29. Also for sale now are three "bo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2010

    Top 5 Reasons You Should Buy Beatles Albums, Not Beatles Songs

    So now you can download Beatles tracks one-at-a-time on the iTunes store for $1.29. But just because you can do something doesn't mean you should, and that's doubly true for the Beatles' music. While some parts of the band's catalog are entirely cherry-pickable, much of the Beatles' work -- especial ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 15, 2010

    The Beatles on iTunes: If It Happens, Should We Care?

    From one Apple to another?​If the Wall Street Journal, Reuters, and the New York Times are correct, Apple will announce a deal tomorrow to sell the Beatles' music through the iTunes store. What would such a deal mean? Should we even care? A few thoughts below:- How big a deal is this? If you're St ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2010

    Dubstep Documentary Claims to Predict Genre's Future

    You can bet that these days, any genre of music with a decent lifespan will one day get its documentary. Like what Better Living Through Circuitry was for electronic/dance music or what Scratch was for hip-hop/turntablism, a forthcoming U.K. film entitled Bassweight wil ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 1, 2010

    The Case for Apple's 'Ping' Social Network

    Ping lets Lady Gaga reach out to fans​Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced today that his company is hopping on the social network bandwagon with a service, called Ping, that will connect music fans, musicians, and their friends and followers. Jobs describes Ping -- which will be available on Apple mobi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 26, 2010

    Five Features That Would Make iPod iTunes Better For Music Fans

    ​Even if we don't know what will actually happen at Apple's big music announcement next week, we know what we want to happen. The iTunes/iPod combination has long been the standard apparatus for music fans, but as much as we love it, there are things we hate about it, too -- and things we wish it ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2010

    A National Tour of 10 Strange Musical Sandwiches

    ​Music celebrities continue to be a fertile source of inspiration for sandwich makers across the nation. Behold some incredibly strange examples of a growing art form; call it an iTunes eatlist. The star: Lady Gaga The sandwich: Fried cod sticks, avocado, roll The location: Hapa Ramen, San F ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2010

    Google May Launch iTunes Rival, Rock Concert Injuries, Shred Guitar on Your iPhone

    Bono, your ruined back totally ruined our week​Google may launch music store to battle with iTunes this fall. [CNET]U2 had to postpone tonight's show in Oakland due to Bono's back injury. Disappointed, the Chron assembles a list of famous rock injury moments. [SF Gate]Members of Oakland noise-psy ... More >>

  • Music

    May 12, 2010

    Meklit Hadero takes on the world

    Bono, your ruined back totally ruined our week​Google may launch music store to battle with iTunes this fall. [CNET]U2 had to postpone tonight's show in Oakland due to Bono's back injury. Disappointed, the Chron assembles a list of famous rock injury moments. [SF Gate]Members of Oakland noise-psy ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2010

    Five Shitty Things About Concerts We Need Apps For

    ​Keep those phone chargers handy, people. With a patent application filed last week, Apple let on that it's creating an entire e-ticket system for the iPhone and iTunes. Concertgoers will be able to buy tickets through the iTunes store, store them on anything from an iMac to an iPhone, and scan th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2010

    Music to Tweet By: Chirp Playlist

    Twitter User Experience Researcher Mark Trammell tweeted out the above song selection from Chirp earlier today. In the grand tradition of awesome conference soundtracks it's eclectic enough for web hipsters but still mainstream enough to avoid alienating the over-thirty Venture Capital crowd. And ... More >>

  • News

    February 10, 2010

    SF Weekly Letters

    Twitter User Experience Researcher Mark Trammell tweeted out the above song selection from Chirp earlier today. In the grand tradition of awesome conference soundtracks it's eclectic enough for web hipsters but still mainstream enough to avoid alienating the over-thirty Venture Capital crowd. And ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2010

    Sketchfest Q&A: Moshe Kasher

    Frankie Norstad​SF Sketchfest brings together amazing comics in from all over the U.S., but the best news is we also get a couple of locally-grown superstars this weekend at the Punch Line when Brent Weinbach and Moshe Kasher take the stage (Thursday 8 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. ... More >>

  • Music

    December 23, 2009

    The decade in ideas: local artists, DJs, studio heads, and tech geeks discuss the past and present in music

    Frankie Norstad​SF Sketchfest brings together amazing comics in from all over the U.S., but the best news is we also get a couple of locally-grown superstars this weekend at the Punch Line when Brent Weinbach and Moshe Kasher take the stage (Thursday 8 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2009

    The Lovemakers' Big Score

    Who's Makin' Love?: The Lovemakers​ Oakland indie-pop darlings and double-entendre addicts The Lovemakers hit the jackpot when their new single "Love is Dead" registered more than 400,000 digital downloads on iTunes -- in just one week. With numbers like that, who needs brick-and-mortar retai ... More >>

  • Music

    June 10, 2009

    The business of selling used MP3s

    Who's Makin' Love?: The Lovemakers​ Oakland indie-pop darlings and double-entendre addicts The Lovemakers hit the jackpot when their new single "Love is Dead" registered more than 400,000 digital downloads on iTunes -- in just one week. With numbers like that, who needs brick-and-mortar retai ... More >>

  • Music

    April 8, 2009

    How the crash will reshape the music industry

    Who's Makin' Love?: The Lovemakers​ Oakland indie-pop darlings and double-entendre addicts The Lovemakers hit the jackpot when their new single "Love is Dead" registered more than 400,000 digital downloads on iTunes -- in just one week. With numbers like that, who needs brick-and-mortar retai ... More >>

  • Music

    April 1, 2009

    CD ripping services put record collections in the 21st century

    Who's Makin' Love?: The Lovemakers​ Oakland indie-pop darlings and double-entendre addicts The Lovemakers hit the jackpot when their new single "Love is Dead" registered more than 400,000 digital downloads on iTunes -- in just one week. With numbers like that, who needs brick-and-mortar retai ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 7, 2009

    MP3 of the Day: N.A.S.A.

    Space is the place. At least that's still the deal when it comes to N.A.S.A. (North America South America) whose new single, "Money," features a hot-shit guest list. David Byrne, Chuck D, Ras Congo, Seu Jorge, and Z-Trip are all part of the clan protesting the almighty dollar as the root of all thi ... More >>

  • Music

    December 31, 2008

    Cell phones: the future of music broadcasting

    Space is the place. At least that's still the deal when it comes to N.A.S.A. (North America South America) whose new single, "Money," features a hot-shit guest list. David Byrne, Chuck D, Ras Congo, Seu Jorge, and Z-Trip are all part of the clan protesting the almighty dollar as the root of all thi ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 17, 2008

    Cumbia Cumbia!

    Space is the place. At least that's still the deal when it comes to N.A.S.A. (North America South America) whose new single, "Money," features a hot-shit guest list. David Byrne, Chuck D, Ras Congo, Seu Jorge, and Z-Trip are all part of the clan protesting the almighty dollar as the root of all thi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 8, 2008

    Halou Releases Digital EP Feb. 12

    Space is the place. At least that's still the deal when it comes to N.A.S.A. (North America South America) whose new single, "Money," features a hot-shit guest list. David Byrne, Chuck D, Ras Congo, Seu Jorge, and Z-Trip are all part of the clan protesting the almighty dollar as the root of all thi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 4, 2007

    New Mars Volta Single Releases Today on iTunes

    Space is the place. At least that's still the deal when it comes to N.A.S.A. (North America South America) whose new single, "Money," features a hot-shit guest list. David Byrne, Chuck D, Ras Congo, Seu Jorge, and Z-Trip are all part of the clan protesting the almighty dollar as the root of all thi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 23, 2007

    Complete Led Zeppelin on iTunes, Mudshark Dildo Not Included

    Space is the place. At least that's still the deal when it comes to N.A.S.A. (North America South America) whose new single, "Money," features a hot-shit guest list. David Byrne, Chuck D, Ras Congo, Seu Jorge, and Z-Trip are all part of the clan protesting the almighty dollar as the root of all thi ... More >>

  • News

    June 27, 2007

    iPhoney iDol?

    SF Weekly iTeam investigates: Atheist best-sellers and Steve Jobsism

  • Music

    June 20, 2007

    Giving the Indies a Spin

    Small outposts rule online MP3 sales

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