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If you’re a fan of Facebook, you’ll be seeing and hearing a lot more music soon.  Facebook has just launched a major music initiative including pages from your favorite artists.  iLike also expanded its music fan site with 150,000 artist pages.
Love the Eagles but hate Wal-Mart? The retail gian may be the only “official place to buy their new CD, but never fear.  Thanks to the good old laws of supply and demand, the new Eagles CD found its way into other retailers.  The Eagles topped the charts last week selling 750,000 units; almost 3 times the Britney debut. (There …read more

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Have you ever gone looking for tickets to a sold out show, and while you were willing to pay extra, you wondered if you were fo a forking over a lot more cash than you should?
To the rescue comes Ninja Tickets, designed to provide a fast, easy, and unbiased price comparison. Ninja Tickets indexes tickets from the multiple sources including ticket brokers across the web and helps you to find the cheapest and best priced tickets with their “Price Rating” technology — an exclusive algorithm that rates tickets based on their market values.
Think of Ninja Tickets as a Google search …read more

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Thru November 11th, the ultra-hip music magazine PASTE is letting readers (that’s you) name the price you want to pay for a 1 year (11 issue) subscription.
New or renewing subscribers can pay as little as $1 on PASTE’s web site…or whatever you think it’s worth. You can even buy gift subscriptions for as little as $1.
Every issue of PASTE also includes a sampler CD with 12-15 great new tracks; so it seems worth a lot more than $1 a year to me….but just like with the new Radiohead release, you decide what to pay. If you’re willing to pay …read more

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Concert promoting giant Live Nation has added interactive 3D (three dimensional) seat maps for many of their large venues across the country on its LiveNation.com web site. The technology enables fans to locate the best available seats based on a 3D image of the venue. Then, with just one more click, you see an animated version of the actual view of the stage from those seats – all before you pay a dime,
With these 3D seat models, which are animated three-dimensional images of Live Nation amphitheaters, you can familiarize yourself with the venue in just a few seconds on your …read more

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Ever wish you could hear an entire CD before you buy it?
There are a growing number of ways to preview full CD’s on the net, but one of the easiest is AOL’s Spinner free Full CD Listening Party.  Just hit play and sit back.
Current offerings include full new releases  by Sugar Rus, Joy Division & Nas.  Listen here.

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If you’re into music file sharing,  you may want to check out Waffles.fm. The site appears to be the current top successor to popular but recently shuttered BitTorrent site OiNK and there are signs that the folks at the notorious Pirate Bay are behind it.
And if you’re a real techie you may be excited to know that Pirate Bay appears to be at work on an open sources successor to BitTorrent. More at the UK’s Register.

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For the first time ever Rolling Stone Magazine has published its entire 213 page 40th Anniversary Edition free on online. And to add to the fun, most of the stories link back to Rhapsody where you can preview the songs being written about and buy downloads.
Cool stuff and the price is right. But hurry its only online for two weeks here.

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The Rise Of The Musical Middle Class – Part I & II outlines how the fragmentation of media and rising power of the internet is creating a new middle class of music who may never drink champagne and ride in limos but who make a decent living.  That’s good news for fans like us. You can add your comments to those of more than a dozen industry insiders.
Want some more bling for your blog or MySpace page? Its coming as social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook and Friendster moved to open their services up to the outside developers and …read more

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Here’s this week’s installment. Click on the band name for song previews and downloads.
Glasvegas – Daddy’s Gone Armed with heartbreaking melodies, crashing drums and a tornado of white noise, Glasvegas are the thrilling sound of young Scotland. Well-versed in rock’s rich history, they marry classic 50’s song writing with the sinister fuzz of Suicide and the Velvets. Yet these are songs that could only ever have come from spending the last two decades in Glasgow’s notorious East End. Check out Daddy’s Gone – the NME and XFM single of the week.
The Real Heat – Hearts …read more

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We’ve had a lot of fun in recent days with Halloween music and our 10 favorite Desert Island Downloads, but we didn’t want you to think we’d lost site of our main goal here on OurDigitalMusic.com is helping you enjoy and understand the  changing work of digital music and doing it as cheaply as (legally) possible

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iTunes Lowers Prices On DRM Free Tracks & Adds Indie Product
5 Best …read more

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