The huge SXSW Music Festival 2008 begins next week, and imeem has created a resource to give music fans and attendees a preview of what to expect from Austin. imeem’s Ultimate Guide to SXSW offers free streaming playlists for virtually every showcase at SXSW, along with artist interviews, blog posts, video of showcases, and picks […]
You may know Last.FM as a site where you can build your own personal net music stream. Like Pandora, you start with an artist you like and the station starts playin. Over time by adding artists and praising or rejecting songs you build a stream of music that fits your tastes.
Yesterday Last.FM added on […]
Music sales dropped 15% or more over 2006. Sales were down 21% in the week before Christmas alone. But 2007 was the year that fans regained control of the music.
Three of the four top label groups (EMI, Universal, and and last week WMG) stopped adding restrictive software to their downloads. This means 80% […]
Songza is a music search engine that acts as a free internet jukebox. It locates songs posted on the net and lets you listen to them in their entirety and add them to playlists or blogs.
To try it out, visit songza.com, choose the song or artist you wish and Songza will search for your […]
A new study showed that iTunes and not illegal file sharing or P2P use was to blame for the big slump in music sales.
Despite the big slump in CD sales the music industry overall (concerts, merchandise, portable players) is growing.
iLike and Billboard have teamed for two new charts measuring internet song activity.
Friendster has opened it […]
Starting Tuesday Oct 2, Starbucks will be giving away 50 million free downloads to mark the launch of the new iTunes wireless store. From Oct. 2 to Nov. 7 in all 10,000 U.S. Starbucks outlets when you order your late you will also be handed one of 1.5 million “Song […]
Ever hear about a great new song from a friend or caught just the last few seconds on the radio and wish you could hear the whole track before you paid for it?
Napster Free - not to be confused with its sister paid download site Napster.com - offers free full song streaming supported by ads […]
Every day there are deals and announcements from the music industry that will effect how you buy and enjoy music. Once a week we’ll try to give you a round-up of the news that will effect you weeks and months from now.
>>> MTV is dropping its URGE download store deal with Microsoft and partnering […]
Have you ever been so sick of the crap they play on the radio that you wished you had your own station? Do you have a few friends who feel the same way?
There are some very affordable ways like via Live365 to do it on the internet. (We’ll write more about that soon.) But from […]
I apologize for continuing to beat this drum…actualy…no I don’t apologize.
Internet radio - the #1 place that fans of indie music like you and I discover new music - is literally days away from bring silenced.
Today the US Court of Appeals declined to delay implementation of the Copyright Royalty Board’s recent decision to increase […]
A consumer's guide to the digital music revolution.
Written by Bruce Houghton [email] for b5media.
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