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Peel, the app that learns your television tastes and turns your iPhone in a remote control , launched with the aim of creating a next-generation TV guide . "We started with discovery and control," says Scott Ellis, Peel's VP of marketing. "Now, we're focused on blowing out our social sharing." Today, the startup, which has raised more than $24 million in VC funding, finally unveiled its social experience at SXSW.

Watching Vevo, the online music-video service, used to be all about one-off experiences. Viewers would head to Vevo or YouTube to watch music videos by artists such as Jay-Z or LMFAO, but rarely would they venture beyond what they searched for

In this extended version of the talk from our new issue , we speak with Tom Conrad, the CTO and Executive VP of Product at Pandora. Why does it take so much input from so many sources for the company to build perfect playlists

The Beatles didn't just have musical talents. The band's longevity and success was largely the result of group dynamics--the same ones start-ups require. Two bands, both heralding from Liverpool

Billy Joel’s schmaltzy ballad “Honesty” spoke the truth back in 1979. Yet at the time, the accepted strategy for building a brand was creating perceptions that were often far removed from reality

To make up for its tardiness to the online music store game, Google Music has enlisted bona fide music lovers to help curate its store. It's the Google version of "High Fidelity," with Tim Quirk as Rob Gordon.

Spotify's got a huge catalog of music and 10 million subscribers.

How Elf on the Shelf createdand convinced CBS to aira "special" commercial for its product. Elf on the Shelf , Christa Pitts's Marietta, Georgia-based company, is one of the fastest-growing private corporations in the United States.

The retail music landscape may be walking dead, but the carefully curated soundtracks to the Twilight franchise are alive and well, thanks to music supervisor Alex Patsavas "marriage" of story and song, featured in the upcoming Breaking Dawn--Part 1. Darkness may have washed over the retail music landscape (RIP, Tower Records ; Fare thee well, Virgin Megastore ), but hordes of teenagers dressed in black and clutching hardcover books nonetheless descended upon Hot Topic stores in malls across America last weekend for a nationally synchronized CD listening party. On November 5th , Twi-hards, those obsessive, dedicated fans of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight book series and the blockbuster movies it spawned, gathered to listen to the soundtrack to Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn--Part 1, just as they had in 2008 , 2009 , and 2010 .

The social-equipped, virtual listening room is a hit with users. Now music industry types are turning to Turntable.fm to promote shows, bands, and albums.

Neuroscientists have found how brainwaves can predict hit songs, but listen (below) to actual music made from neuro feedback, and you'll understand why experts think the pop charts will remain mindless for decades to come.

When I was a staff writer at Rolling Stone in the mid 90s, listening to music at work was part of the job description. But back in those days of yore, we had actual [gasp] stereos that played CD's, even at times, cassette tapes! But while technology has radically changed, one thing has remained constant: Music in the workplace equals happy time

Whales can boom their songs across thousands of kilometers of ocean, and elephants' low-frequency calls can be heard by other pachyderms several kilometers away. But when body size is taken into consideration, these mammoth mammals produce but a relative whisper compared with other animals--especially one odd arthropod. [More]

Prices so low, Apple must be INSANE! Or, more likely, they're hooking a whole new world of users with bargain basement prices on OS Lion and iCloud while planning to charge them later for add-ons and premium features. The most important thing Apple announced at its Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday had nothing to do with new software features or services.