Watch the Video for Björk's "Moon"

Icelandic singer-songwriter and all around eclectic pop star Björk has released a new music video for her song "Moon", off of her upcoming album Biophilia, which is due for release next month on October 10. The album has been described by the singer as a multimedia collection, ""encompassing music, apps, internet, installations, and live shows".   read more

What We Want From Apple's iCloud

The gap between how customers want to interact with music and what providers actually offer has been widening recently. This gap has always been there to a degree—it may have started with the release of a car that came with a built-in turntable in an attempt to satisfy customers’ desires to travel with their music. (Poorly) summarizing Ray Kurzweil, the holy grail for any product is when technological innovation aligns with customer demand. This explains why products like the DVD player, the microwave oven, the (short-lived) Flip camera and others seem to find their ways into our lives with such...  read more

Shop Talk: 10 Reasons Adorable Singing Cats are the Future of the Music Industry

In case you haven’t heard, the music industry is dying. This statement may not be based in numbers or statistics or, well, actual fact, but all the boo-hooing about illegal downloads and MP3s and streams and shareables and niches and Internets has to mean something, right? We need a savior of sorts, a force to give all us sad journalists and PR reps and label managers and Apple CEOs a little extra financial boost. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you cats....  read more

Shop Talk: Overwhelming Undersharing

The New York Times published an article last week called T.M.I? Not for Sites Focused on Sharing. In it, Brad Stone wrote about the growing number of sites that allow you to share absolutely everything online, from your location (Foursquare and Twitter), to purchases you’ve made (Blippy and Swipely) to the number of push ups you’ve done (iPhone app Skimble). The underlying message of the piece was cautionary, discussing the possibilities of identity and financial theft, and when Blippy announced early this week that Google had crawled and saved users’ transaction data (including airline confirmation numbers and parts of credit...  read more

Shop Talk: Sleigh Bells' Good Bad Music

Last year, Wired editor Robert Capps wrote an article called The Good Enough Revolution in which he argued that your average tech consumer now prefers cheap, simple, sharable products over "quality" gadgets—Google Docs to feature-laden software, easy-to-use video cameras to hi-def camcorders, MP3s to CDs. He cited a study in which Stanford professor Jonathan Berger asked his students each year over six years to rate the musical medium they preferred; as the aughts progressed, an increasing number of them preferred MP3s. Capps suggested that, with music in particular, we not only prefer the ease of the digital format, but we...  read more