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Freeing Music From The Page: A Q&A With iSheetMusic’s Matthew Sutton(1)

July 29, 2011

iSheetMusic is a music app that works for both the iPhone and iPad. One of the company’s founders, Matt Mostad, was struck one night by the fact that he couldn’t remember any tunes to play at a beachfront guitar pull. Why weren’t there tools on his iPhone to help him remember the chords to that [...]

Freeing Music From The Page: A Q&A With iSheetMusic’s Matthew Sutton

New Deals Site Offers Fashion And Music Packages

Singer-songwriter Will Hoge offered a deal through the website 1Band 1Brand. With the rise of deals on the Internet, one company is finding a niche exploring the connection between fashion and music. Kyle York, along with his brother Travis and two friends, visited the music and technology conference, South By Southwest, in 2010 and noticed [...]

Animal Collective Closes Out Pitchfork Day One

[Photo Credit: Laura Brown] On Friday, the first day of the annual Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago’s Union Park, both the lighter-than-usual crowd and the weather, cooler than usual, made for a nice day and night of music. Both those factors are expected to change, as the heat moves in and the lineups get more [...]

StageIt Rethinks The Concert Experience

What if you could go to a concert without having to deal with going to a concert? If you could skip all those things that can make live concerts a drag: waiting in line at will call for your ticket; having to fight your way to the bar to buy an expensive drink; peering around [...]