Calling all cover bands! I’m coming after you (minus the groupie panty-throwing mentality). Timbre is uniting us wherever I go. One simple tap on the Timbre icon and BOOM an entire list of live music is displayed within 50 miles. My choices for this weekend: the wildly popular Florence & The Machine ($60) or a local blues band Bluestix ($5).
“Tune in Tokyo, Tune In Tokyo” (bonus pts to anyone who can name what movie that’s from) In moving away from Clearchannel (aka IHeartRadio) the masses have a unique alternative via TuneIn which boasts over 70,000 stations from talk to music to sports to comedy including over 2 million podcasts. So yes, you can actually TuneIn to Tokyo.
Podcasts galore. It’s podcastical! Stitcher is your Pandora-esq discovery app for everything outside of music. Podcasts from ESPN, Suze Ormon Show, E! Entertainment, Piers Morgan, Children’s Reading Corner, Gun Rights - the only thing missing is Honey Boo Boo....and thank goodness for that!
Timbre
"Connecting Fans with Bands"http://www.timbreapp.com/
I recently went to see a No Doubt cover band and fell back in love with live shows. With an itch to see more live music, I wanted to find shows related to what I liked. Searching by venue was time consuming and mostly disappointing. Then I found Timbre and Timbre found me, literally. The phone app uses your GPS location to connect you to venues with live band performances that meet your preferred genre....which then led me to earplugs.
- Discover new talent
- Preview the artist before heading to the venue
- Enjoy live music close to home minus the outrageous Ticketmaster prices and large crowds
- Find live shows while traveling
- FREE
Stitcher
"More Than Music"
http://www.stitcher.com/
Thank you Stitcher for bringing The Joe Rogan Experience, Freakonomics Radio, The Adam Corolla Show and about 9,999 other podcasts to my phone (and my car via bluetooth). This app also streams live news stations and recorded bites from radio shows. Put it all together in a discovery app that tailors your listening experience to shows that relate to your interests. News, comedy, sports, gossip - there’s even a children’s read-along station.
- On demand podcasts from a wide variety of genres
- Avoid downloading podcasts to your phone
- Auto-dash availability through SYNC (Ford), IntelliLink (Buick)
- 10,000+ talk shows, radio stations, podcasts
- FREE
TuneIn
"Everything in the Whole Wide World - except Clearchannel"
http://tunein.com/
With so many unique ways of separating itself from IHeartRadio (IHR), this app brings more to the table than just 70,000 station and 2 million podcasts. From instant iTunes purchasing to rewind capabilities, it seems like TuneIn found everything missing in IHR and gave us what we never thought we always wanted.
- iTunes button lets you buy a song you like instantly
- Pause & rewind as you’re listening
- Record shows as you listen and send a link to friends (Premium account only)
- Search by artist and find interviews, podcasts, & radio stations currently playing their song,
- Preview the current song being played on radio stations as you browse
- Car Mode: easy to use big buttons makes it faster/easier to get to your favorite station
- Reach global radio stations outside of the US
- Keep track of your cell phone data usage in settings
- Set an alarm to a preferred radio station and wake up to a station you like
- FREE
(PS. The movie reference is Girls Just Wanna Have Fun)
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