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Satechi Audio Move SD Review

Chris Burns, Feb 13th 2012 Discuss [0]

Onto the SlashGear review bench has fallen one of the most powerful little beat-blasters able to be supplied with said music by a microSD card we may have ever seen. This is the Satechi Audio Move SD, and though you can plug your tiny memory card into its side to bring the heat to the block with stereo sound and some relatively excellent bass, you can also plug your iPhone, your Android, your Windows Phone, your BlackBerry, etcetera and etcetera into the side of this little monster and let the love flow!

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Rhapsody, other streaming music sites told to pull Paul McCartney

Mark Raby, Feb 11th 2012 Discuss [0]

Paul McCartney, who continues to believe he's somehow better and more important than any other living musician, has decided to sever his ties with streaming music services like Rhapsody. This means anyone wanting to download a McCartney tune will need to pay for each individual MP3 track. It was surprising that McCartney ever decided to grant licensing rights to the subscription-based all-you-can-eat services in the first place. Read The Full Story

House of Marley Bag of Rhythm up for sale now

Chris Burns, Feb 9th 2012 Discuss [0]

If you attended CES 2012, you very well may have happened upon this delightful device being carried around by members of the House of Marley: the Bag of Rhythm. This harvest-colored beast is essentially a boom box that works natively with your iPod Touch and iPhone, has an Aux input to connect to essentially any other small media device, and strings over your shoulder to blast beats right up into the atmosphere. This sack and wood-housed set of speakers has the look and materials of a modern day block rocker - and it's officially on sale today! Read The Full Story

iPad FingerLabs DM1 2.0 update live now

Chris Burns, Feb 8th 2012 Discuss [0]

One of most powerful looking beat machines you can get for your iPad or iPad 2 is none other than the FingerLabs DM1 Drum Machine - and today it's updated to its full level of software power. With the iPad you can do just about anything in the beat creation world, including making a beat fantasy with your fingertips - and the DM1 is about to make that a whole lot simpler for you. Inside there's 64 electronic drum kits. 18 classic vintage drum kits , 20 Acoustic kits, and a total of 26 in-house produced electronic kits, all the sounds you'll need to make the most intense gallery of sound you've ever conjured up. Read The Full Story

Monster Gratitude earbuds are endorsed by Earth, Wind & Fire

Mark Raby, Feb 5th 2012 Discuss [0]

The Beats by Dr. Dre line of headphones are durable, well-built headphones that stand up to their hype. But they also prove that tying in a celebrity endorsement to an audio product can create tremendous brand value, so Monster has decided to team up with a more old-school music sensation to promote its new product, the Gratitude in-ear headphones. Read The Full Story

KISS frontman Gene Simmons eyes Angry Birds deal

Mark Raby, Feb 3rd 2012 Discuss [0]

When you think of colorful, odd-shaped birds flinging into a group of circular green pigs, does a man who dresses up in gaudy black-and-white makeup and gothic black outfits come to mind? Well, maybe. But then again, with the number of different promotions and partnerships Rovio has managed to milk out of Angry Birds, pretty much anything sounds like it makes sense at this point. Read The Full Story

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thinksound ms01 Monitor Series earbuds Review

Chris Burns, Feb 3rd 2012 Discuss [0]

When you think of earbuds for listening to music and working with audio, you generally don’t expect the kind of quality that thinksound presents here. What we’ve got here is a wooden pair of earbuds by the name of ms01, an entry into thinksound’s monitor series. These in-ear earbuds each feature an acoustically enhanced 8mm high-definition driver, each with passive noise isolation to back them up – and that wood certainly warms up your world from the outside in.

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Jawbone Jambox BIG details leaked

Chris Burns, Feb 3rd 2012 Discuss [0]

A brand new Jambox may be on the horizon, this time twice the size of its predecessor and just as bright for mobile devices. This device is a massively impressive speaker for smartphones in its first iteration, last seen here on SlashGear in a demonstration of Qualcomm technology at CES 2012, of all places. This new Jambox Big is being detailed as a 10.1 x 3.2 x 3.7-inch monster weighing in at 2.7lbs and another 2 hour boost of battery power over the original beattastic tiny speaker. Read The Full Story

iPod Nano 7G with camera leaked in photos

Chris Burns, Feb 1st 2012 Discuss [0]

Not one whole heck of a lot of news is written or read these days about the iPad Nano, one of the last devices to have been designed and released by Apple since their attention switched to purely iPhone and iPad in that sized market. But what we’ve got here appears very much to be an upgrade to the iPod Nano line, and the folks at Apple.pro have a collection of photos which depict it having a 1.3-megapixel camera! This may seem to the average citizen to be a fool’s errand as the current iPod nano has a clip on the back that would block and camera attempts – but lo! There it is!

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Urbanears 2012 Spring/Summer explodes with dazzling flat colors

Chris Burns, Feb 1st 2012 Discuss [0]

The newest set of everyone's favorite set of one-tone over-ear headphones are headed your way with Urbanears 2012 Spring/Summer collection. This headphone brand is known for its optimization of sound and matching preferences in size, style, design, function, and close relation to the music they're blasting. This newest collection includes Cream, Sage, and Grape colorways to continue to engage your head in the finest of flat color magic. Read The Full Story

Neil Young to continue Steve Jobs music legacy

Chris Burns, Jan 31st 2012 Discuss [0]

One of the most famous musicians of all time, Neil Young, spoke this week with Peter Kafka and Walt Mossberg of AllThingsD about the future of digital music, and how he'd be continuing Steve Jobs legacy in pioneering for it. A device which allows you to download music with the highest possible resolution is what Young aims to create. This device will allow ultra high-fidelity audio downloads, and because of Young's talks with Jobs on the matter before he died, Young wasted no time invoking his name to spread the word about it. Read The Full Story