We teamed up with artist Hisham Bharoocha to design some special custom-painted PLAY:3s, which will be handed out to our partners and VIPs during SXSW this week. Get a first-hand look at his work in progress–which was interrupted by gale-force winds, golf ball-sized hail, and tornado warnings in Nashville–in the photo gallery below. Also, be [...]
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John Varvatos has collaborated with Sonos to create a customized special edition SONOS PLAY:5. The uniquely adorned player features a grille with digitally printed artwork by the noted designer. The custom Sonos players are being auctioned off to support the Stuart House charity. Dig it? You can bid on one of the units right now [...]
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March 8th is International Women’s Day all over the globe. To celebrate the occasion, MOG’s editors have put together a special playlist featuring many of the world’s greatest ladies in music. The mix features some of our favorite avenues of pop across several cultures. Head over to MOG and save the playlist to your library [...]
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Last November, we introduced you to Sonos Labs, a program that provides music service developers access to SMAPI–the free Sonos Music API, Technical Documentation & Tools Suite. The platform allows music services to make themselves available on Sonos faster than ever before, all while giving our customers early access to the service during the development and [...]
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It’s easy to picture our greatest musical minds as utter geniuses, creating their own ideas and styles simply by drawing from some inexplicable inner wellspring. But like the rest of us, even the brightest have to take inspiration from somewhere–or someone else. On March 1, 1964 Jimi Hendrix began recording and performing with Little Richard, [...]
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