Music

You've never listened to your Zune like THIS before. I used to think headphones are headphones are headphones - but now I know that's not the case. Musicians know their stuff and they need the highest quality, most precise audio in their ears and that's why most on-stage performers use Ultimate…

One of the all-time most popular mobile applications, Shazam, is coming to the new Windows Mobile app store, known as the Windows Marketplace for Mobile. Already available on other platforms including iPhone, Android, Blackberry, and Symbian devices, the Windows Mobile version of Shazam offers the…

For Brits, or anyone else who enjoys BBC radio, there’s now a new plugin for Vista Media Center that lets you listen to BBC Radio from within Media Center: BeebMC. This plugin is pretty cool, but there are a couple of downsides that you should be aware of: 1)  it uses Real Player to do the…

Unicorn Media, a Silverlight-based music/video-streaming service, launched at this year's SXSW conference. The service gives artists a way to offer their music and video content for high-quality streaming while participating in ad-based revenue sharing. The media that Unicorn Media offers will only…

Ben Martens, a Microsoft employee and Zune enthusiast sent us over this video of him using his Zune with his Pioneer in-car stereo/navigation system and, being the extroverted type of folks that we are, we thought you might want to check it out.Want to see something in particular about the Zune? Let…

Tommy Tallarico, the legendary pioneer behind music in video games, stops by to talk about some of his Advent Rising tunes and how technology has changed in the video game industry. He'll also give us the scoop on Video Games Live, the innovative video game music concert that rocks out to Halo,…

Once in a while little gems of entertainment can be found buried deep within massive corporate websites, and microsoft.com is no different. Microsoft Japan's Dominoken animation that is simply good fun. It's a nice example of what can be done with Windows Presentation Foundation, so turn on…

To celebrate the launch of The Beatles: Rock Band, the new game that brings the group’s music to a standalone edition of the popular Rock Band franchise, Microsoft is putting up a special edition Xbox 360 console up for auction. The case for this Xbox is covered with beautiful hand-painted…

Wunder Radio, an already popular mobile application, became available to users of Windows Mobile phones just last week. The service provides access to nearly 36,000 radio stations delivered by Radio Time. With this app, you can access over 400 different genres including music, talk, sports,…

Bjork may be as crazy as a soup sandwich, but I'll give her credit for her latest phase being technologically interesting. She's put Grammy-nominated Damian Taylor on tour playing a reactable. The reactable is an open-source application that runs on a surface computer. There are builds for a number…