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Leading classical music label Naxos will offer premium DRM-free WMA lossless downloads at MusicGiants.  MusicGiants sells a variety of premium quality downloads in all genres.  Dubbed HD downloads, they promise superior sound quality.
The online store will also carry PentaTone, the Dutch-based classical label as part of its collection of so-called Super HD downloads in 5.1 ”surround” sound.
Naxos also recently opened its own download store, Classicsonline, which makes the label’s entire catalog available as DRM-free MP3’s.

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New reports point to the ticket selling deal between giant national concert promoter Live Nation and Ticketmaster ending late next year. Fans have long complained about the high fees that Ticketmaster charges which often add 10-30% to the cost of a concert or club ticket.
Now it appears that Live Nation wants to control and improve its relationship with concert goers by cutting out the middleman. One can only hope that it will lead to lower fees for fans.

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This week WalMart.com went live with DRM free mp3 tracks for 94 cents from music giants EMI and Universal.  Real’s Rhapsody has also just added DRM free tracks from Universal ans iTunes has sold $1.24 premium quality tracks from EMI for several weeks.
What does this men to you?  With a little searching, you can now buy tracks from two of the four largest record labels without any of the annoying restrictions that often prevents you from copying them onto CD’s and moving them from device to device.
Expect more labels and download stores to drop DRM in the coming weeks.

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MySpaceMp3.org, the site that we wrote about late last week that allowed you to easily download mp3’s from the hundreds of thousands of songs streamed on MySpace, has closed.
The Spanish programmer that created the web site claims that MySpace forced him to shut down and offers emails as proof. But he is still offering the computer code used to create the offending download site free “for informational purposes only.” Undoubtedly within a few days a Google search will show new sites offering a similar service.

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Ever feel like crying when your could favorite band played 10 miles away and you missed it or wished you could get an overview of all the shows happening in your area next month?
There are lots of concert databases out there but Pollstar.com is probably the most comprehensive.  This consumer arm of the concert industry’s top trade magazine gets all the info as fast as anyone and has created some decent tools to search and keep track of all your favorite live shows.

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UPDATE : MySpaceMP3.org is down as of Monday Morning 8/10. Check back for more updates.
We can guarantee you that this one is not really legal…
New hack MySpaceMP3.org allows you to quickly search for and download a DRM-free mp3 of any of the hundreds of thousands of songs streamed on MySpace. The only trick we found in our “test” was to be sure that you enter a band’s name exactly as it appears at the end of the MySpace url (for example http://www.myspace.com/bandname) with no spaces.
I wonder how you’ll be spending your weekend?

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Hidden among today’s usual horrible headlines was a small item that almost went unnoticed. August 17th marks the Silver Anniversary of the often silver discs we know as CD’s.
Compact Discs may be on the way out in the digital download age. But they were quite a technologicial marvel when they were first manufactured back on August 17, 1982 in Hanover, Germany. Almost instantly CD’s were a big hit and by 1986, CD players were outselling record players. By 1988 CD’s outsold records.

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UPDATED:
Like music free, but don’t like breaking the law?
YourFreeMusicDownloads.com launched today with a free music service available to the first 100,000 registered users. Fans seeking free music downloads are encouraged to register as soon as possible in order to gain access to the website’s catalogue of over one million songs. All songs in the Your Free Music Downloads.com catalog are in MP3 format and can be played on a computer, on an iPod or any other portable media player.
Your Free Music Downloads is an ad-supported free music download site with a catalogue of over 1,000,000 legal MP3 songs …read more

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Tell us about your new music blog TheProductionSide.com?
I mainly write about 90’s alternative/rock and sometimes stuff older and newer at theproductionside.com (the name may be changing soon though). There are album reviews, concert updates and sharing some useless knowledge as well. (That’s TPS faves Stone Temple Pilots on the right.)
Why did you choose this topic?
#1. I love this music
#2. I want people to know that many of these forgotten bands are still around.
What would your readers be surprised to know about you?
Maybe the fact that I am currently an elementary education/history major.

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