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It has been a busy month for the blogs of the b5Music Channel. Check out this April round-up links. Its a must read for music lovers…

52Bands featured the Barenaked Ladies band.
Austin Sound Check already has the SXSW 2009 Dates.
Big Apple Music Scene has a list of her favorite CD store in NYC.
Brit Music Scene begs for BoyZone to give up.
Christian Music Fan reviewed David Pettigrew “Every Minute Miracles”.
Concord Crazy delved onto New Zealand’s Coat of Arms.
Country Music Stop tells us about the Country Music’s 3 Muskeeters.
Crooner Culture is not sure whether to believe or not that Marilyn Monroe has a …read more

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MySpace has launched MySpace Karaoke.  Plug in your microphone into your computer and surf on over to  sing, record and share personalized renditions of their favorite songs with the MySpace community.
The free web application delivers sing-along lyrics and recording capabilities, and also offers vocal and instrumental versions of fan favorites. The user friendly interface offers MySpace members the ability to browse songs, recordings and performers in a variety of categories including new releases, top artists, most popular, musical genre, and more.
MySpace members can sing, record, listen to and save up to ten songs on their personal MySpace Karaoke profile for …read more

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From Traffic to great solo albums in the 19990’s Steve Winwood has had a great run. Now he’s back and his distinct voice is sounding as strong as ever. You can get a great feel for his new album, “Nine Lives”,  by download the first single “Dirty City” absolutely free.  You can also learn more about Winwood including his 2008 tour dates, photos and more here.
Download a free DRM-free mp3 of Steve Winwood’s new track “Dirty City” here for free.  And check out the video for Dirty City featuring Eric Clapton here.

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Coldplay will make the single “Violet Hill” from their new album “Viva La Vida” available as a free download via their web site  (here)  for a week starting at 7:15 a.m. EDT Tuesday, April 29th for one week before it goes on sale.
The band’s site will also share details of free shows at London’s Brixton Academy on June 16 and at New York’s Madison Square Garden on June 23. The new album will be released June 12th worldwide.
image via amazon 

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iTunes celebrates its 6th birthday today with an incredible 70% of the worldwide download market? Can iTunes keep it up? (Read more about the challenges facing iTunes at Hypebot.com)
Opinion Polls & Market Research

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Here’s a deep sampling of music by each day’s bands. Sit Back and enjoy!

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There were major layoffs at Capital and Virgin Records
Nokia denies making high payments to labels for “Comes With Music”
The economy is beginning to effect entertainment spending
Starbucks is pushing music to the back burner
Only 42% of music consumed in US is paid for
Microsoft says it will stop supporting license keys for songs bought at the former MSN Music
Music magazine ad revenue dropped 28% last quarter
An Op-Ed from Jon Webster of the Music Managers Forum supports a UK iPod tax. You better hope this never comes to the US…
MySpace has launched 1000 outside applications for use on personal pages
Looking back at …read more

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The MySpace Apps (Application) Gallery has now officially launched with  more than 1,000 approved outside apps to add to your MySapce page free. They come in a variety of categories including music, politics and causes, quizzes and polls, and video and have already been installed 2.1M times by other MySpace users.
Some music related examples include players from imeem, Yahoo! Video, Last.FM and others  as well as music related contests, news and more. Check it out here.
(press release)

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