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There has been no shortage of news with regards to the future of the album here. How can artists sell more than just singles now that our culture seems to be so quick to acquire and discard whatever music is “hot right now?” Perhaps the answer is in the App Store.

Check out this demo of the Spotify App for the iPhone.

Guess who just gained exposure to tens of thousands of new listeners that would have never heard his music otherwise?

Sonik Architects and BT have teamed up to create Sonifi, a sweet little iPhone App that lets you remix four tracks (Bass, Beats, Synth/FX, and Melody) by using the iPhone’s accelerometer and touchscreen.

Depeche Mode has released a free iPhone App that lets users play with samples from tracks on their new album, Sounds Of The Universe.

In the new musical climate where album sales are no longer suficient for sustinance, we’ve seen artists turn to video games to make money, and we’ve seen artists turn to the mobile platform to make money. Sooner or later, somebody was bound to merge the two, and Coldplay is that somebody.

The much anticipated NIN iPhone App is here. Check out Trent Reznor, Rob Sheridan and Kevin Rose giving you a quick look at the features here.

One of the more prominent show finders, Bandloop, has released an iPhone app for use on the go.

Check out The Mentalists’ cover the MGMT hit Kids, using the iPhone Apps Ocarina, Retro Synth, miniSynth, DigiDrummer Lite.

Sonos released an iPhone app that can control your music from anywhere in your home.

Check out iRock 1.0 in the Apple App store. It’s a guitar amp simulator for the iPhone and iPod touch.
You can plug in a headset with a microphone to sing and modulate your voice through the amp sim, or hook in a cable with the proper pin-out to play your guitar through it. The tough [...]

I first wrote about Spotify a month or two back, as a potential game changer in the world of music distribution and P2P sharing. Though not yet available in the U.S. (which I’m more than bummed about), Spotify has taken another big step forward by launching an iPhone app that will let users stream music [...]

We already wrote about Antares bringing Auto-Tuning to the iPhone. While that app’s not out yet, you can amuse yourself with a vocoder app found here. The reviews are way less than favorable; a lot of users even complaining that it doesn’t work.
Clearly, Jet Daisuke didn’t seem to have any trouble with it though. Whether [...]

I found this over at wired.com and thought it was pretty interesting.
Remember that song Peaches from way back when? What about Lump, or my personal favorite, Dune Buggy? I can recall my Jr. High P.E. class having the Presidents of the United States of America album on heavy rotation while we stair-stepped our way to [...]

Bebot: part synthesizer and part animated robot.

Touching the screen causes the robot to move and make sounds controlled by your movements. Play it like a musical instrument, or just have fun watching the robot and making noises with your fingers.
Features 4-voice multitouch polyphony, multiple synthesis modes, tweakable sound parameters and echo effects, and hypnotic interactive [...]