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Music+Location Mashup: CitySounds.FM
Free streaming music sorted by urban scene? Powered by SoundCloud and packaged in a slick UI, CitySounds—dubbed ‘the music of cities’—is just that. Uploads are pushed to CitySounds in realtime—the music is fresh. Flickr adds style to the mix by displaying related photos. Listeners can see the most active cities and the most popular genres in each.
TC Electronic PolyTune iPhone App
Tune up, in sixth gear, for 10 bucks. Modeled after the popular pedal, the TC Electronic PolyTune has now cruised into the App Store. Two days ago they released the app with a promotional free price tag for the first two days. They’ve now curbed the promotion but considering the killer feedback we’ve seen so far, it will likely race into the top paid music apps.
Ultimate Guitar Tabs iPhone App Has a Tab For That
Ultimate-Guitar.com—if you’ve ever Googled for a guitar tab, then you’ve no doubt come across this tab mega-source. Well, tab addicts can now access the same database on a much sleeker interface with the new iPhone app, Ultimate Guitar Tabs.
Bay Area Beatmaker Freematik Makes Album with iPhone
Freematik (Tom Freeman) is a San Francisco-based hip hop music producer. But outside of his fully-equipped studio, he is armed only with his iPhone and imagination. For months he’s been experimenting with apps that let him make beats and riffs on the go. The iPhone’s limitations forced him to improvise and he found himself feeling “more creative than he had in while.”
3 iPhone App Creation Platforms For Musicians
Enter the mobile music frontier—the age of the app is here—and you don’t need to be a developer to create your own iPhone app anymore. Here are three four platforms that enable artists to build their own custom mobile applications.

