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Anyone and everyone seems to be adding music capabilities to their services, whether they make sense or, as in some cases, not (hello, LINE). The latest to join the fray is Vine, but don't be afraid, ...

Meet Cizoo, a new iOS app that is all about making it easier to create music. Learning to play an instrument can be hard, but anyone can sing and rap. Cizoo lets you record tidbits of songs on top of ...

At this point, pretty much every guitarist is aware of looping; you play notes into a recording device that lets you automatically recycle the part over and over ad infinitum or nauseum, depending on ...

Twitter's Vine video-sharing app has a new feature aimed elevating the soundtracks for your six-second video masterpieces. The new feature, dubbed Snap to Beat, lets you easily create perfectly ...

Daft Punk gave up using samples and returned to how artists recorded in the 1970s on “Get Lucky.” They reverse-engineered a technique they perfected—sampling and looping music from earlier times—and, ...