More music in your living room: Rhapsody debuts Xbox app

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As promised, Seattle-based on-demand music service Rhapsody launched its Xbox Live app today. The service is available for current Rhapsody subscribers and Xbox Live Gold members. “Many families will be gathering around their Xbox this holiday season, and this year, Rhapsody can provide the soundtrack to those memories,” vice president of business development Brian McGarvey said in… Read More…

7 top apps for the arts, compiled by Art Zone and GeekWire

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The arts are an integral part of our lives, but how are they making the transition to our devices? I had fun working on a segment on this topic with host Nancy Guppy and the staff of Art Zone on the Seattle Channel — sampling the landscape of apps in areas including painting, poetry, music and literature. We were fortunate… Read More…

A Pandora killer? Apple rumored to be considering a new ad-based music service

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Shares of Pandora slumped today after Bloomberg News reported that Apple plans to launch a new ad-based online music service early next year. Pandora fell more than 11 percent, with trading halted at one point. Bloomberg notes that a deal could be hammered out next month, with talks revolving around how ad revenues would be… Read More…

Rhapsody targets the living room on TVs and Xbox Live

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Rhapsody is expanding its presence to the living room, rolling out its digital music service to LG, Panasonic and Samsung smart TVs, targeting Sharp sets in the coming months and promising to hit Microsoft’s Xbox Live this year. The Seattle-based company sees the bulk of usage on smartphones — through Rhapsody apps for iPhone and… Read More…

Paul McCartney returns to streaming music sites

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In February, we reported that Paul McCartney had pulled his music from streaming sites, like Rhapsody, Spotify and Rdio. It appears that the Beatle’s camp has changed their minds — some of McCartney’s music is back online. Spotify has added his solo album, Ram (1971). Memory Almost Full (2007) and this year’s Kisses on the… Read More…

4 minutes on the train with … Ali Daniali of BigShot DJ

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Editor’s note: Team GeekWire participated in the Geeks on a Train voyage between Portland, Seattle and Vancouver, B.C. Tuesday night as part of the GROW conference, taking place this week in Vancouver. We chatted with folks along the way for short four minute interviews, talking about a variety of tech topics. In this installment, we… Read More…

Startup Spotlight: RockStar Motel aims to put the power in the hands of music fans

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Music is one of the scariest industries for startups. With giant record labels dominating, it’s hard to move quickly without running into roadblocks. RockStar Motel is working to take the power out of the record labels’ hands, putting it into fans’ hands. The Seattle startup allows fans to “sign” different artists, stream songs and buy tracks… Read More…

Seattle’s Best CD/Record Store is … Starbucks?

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Seattle Weekly is out with its annual “Best of Seattle” awards, and in a city that takes pride in its remaining indie record shops — the ones standing tall in the face of the digital revolution — the winner of Best/CD Record Store will be familiar to everyone. It’s Starbucks, of course. Wait, what? “Hey,… Read More…

Amazon’s Cloud Player now offers cloud-based music transfer with ‘scan and match’

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Amazon.com today is touting new offerings for its Cloud Player music service, including a new service called “scan and match” that allows consumers to easily move their favorite music tracks from their hardrives to the cloud. Here’s how Amazon describes the new service: Amazon scans customers’ iTunes and Windows Media Player libraries and matches the songs… Read More…

Mars Hill Church, now with its own music label

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Rock, rap and Jesus? Seattle-based ministry Mars Hill is launching a record label to serve and attract its growing membership. The fledgling record label is called Mars Hill Music and run by Deacon Jonathan Dunn. Dunn is a founding member of the heavy metal band Demon Hunter and directed A&R at Tooth & Nail/Solid State… Read More…