Music News

Developers have created a jukebox-like app allowing users to create or request songs for a music playlist, another response to the growing popularity of streaming music services.

Users can turn their iPhone into a virtual cassette tape player with a new app, giving their modern device some retro style as it plays their favorite tunes.

Fans of GarageBand can now jam on the iPhone and iPod Touch, as well as their iPads, with Apple introducing an update that makes the popular music recording app compatible on all its devices carrying iOS 5.

A new app allows a user to turn spoken words into song form, in yet another effort to get music, or at least musical fun, out of mobile technology.

Bjork's next album will be an "app album," with each recorded track having its own related iPad app, another sign that mobile technology is becoming a critical part of pop music promotion.

A new app aims to make discovering independent music easier, part of a trend in using mobile technology to cultivate and sustain music careers, big and small.

The new iPhone app creates music using ordinary barcodes, letting people generate symphonies from boxes of cereal and clothing price tags.

An experimental music group has created a location-based album as an iPhone app, with songs that sync up with sites at the National Mall in D.C., highlighting the creative possibilities of geolocation, music and mobile technology.

New apps aim to make music a shared experience, enhancing the ability to discover new songs through Facebook and Twitter.

Music lovers can now remix, and recreate, German techno beats on their iPhone or iPad, spotlighting the interactive possibilities of mobile devices.

A new Android app is letting music lovers download and play songs on their phones for free, even when there isn't an Internet connection, challenging the growing ranks of streaming music services.

A new app maker aims to link pop musicians and their most ardent fans as if they were playing a video game, expanding the trend of using social networking as a promotional tool.

Anyone looking for new, hip music can download "Pocket Hipster," an iPhone app, for less than the price of a white belt and skinny jeans.

A growing amount of music-making apps are turning the iPhone into a musical-creation and education tool, but guitar-based apps dominate the segment with over 1,000 programs alone.

When Ge Wang imagined the absurdity of someone placing their chin on an iPad, violin-style, to make music, that's when the idea for "Magic Fiddle" was born.

Music video site Vevo has so far exclusively offered full service to iPhone and iPad owners, but that will soon change as the site's YouTube videos become available on Android phones.