May 16th, 2013 by Stuart Dredge

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Having taken the world by storm with his Gangnam Style and Gentleman videos, Korean star Psy is now hoping to make a similar impact on the iPad app charts. His label/agency YG Entertainment is releasing...

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May 10th, 2013 by Stuart Dredge

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Developer Kit Robot raised $15.7k on Kickstarter last year to finish its DevoBots app – part synthesizer, part robot-avatar creator, fully licensed by new wave pioneers Devo. Now the app is out,...

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April 29th, 2013 by Music Ally

Lick Library

British site LickLibrary has built its business around online guitar lessons, with video tutorials on how to play thousands of tracks. Now there's an iPad app for that.

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April 22nd, 2013 by Music Ally

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Musicians' website Musicroom has released a succession of sheet-music apps for iPad over the last couple of years, including chord and scales education apps, as well as songbook apps for Adele, Bob Dylan...

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April 4th, 2013 by Music Ally

EA Vue

Here's a curveball: games publisher Electronic Arts has unveiled Vue, an iPhone and iPad app with the tagline 'Where Life Meets Music'.

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April 1st, 2013 by Stuart Dredge

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If your last experience of Swiss electronica band Yello was 'The Race' in the late 1980s, prepare for a surprise: the band's Boris Blank has launched an iOS music creation app called Yellofier. Available...

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March 18th, 2013 by Stuart Dredge

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We've written lots about albums as apps over the last three or four years, but how about apps as album companions? Snoop Dogg – currently in his Snoop Lion reggae incarnation – is trying the latter...

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March 13th, 2013 by Music Ally

IDC claims that shipments of Android tablets will overtake iPad for the first time this year: 49% and 46% market shares respectively in an overall market of 190.9m tablet shipments in 2013.

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February 21st, 2013 by Stuart Dredge

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When Apple unveiled its first iPad in January 2010, nobody talked much about its music implications. The device was more obviously disruptive for video, gaming and newspapers/magazines. As time has...

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