The Franks – Suzy Can’t Spell They’re playing Glastonbury Fest this summer, they were selected from over 2300 entrants in Q Magazine’s New Talent competition, they’ve had Radio 1 airplay and they’ve toured America’s East Coast. Now The Franks have released their debut album Suzy Can’t Spell on indiestore, and 2008 is looking like […]
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The 3rd largest major label group Warner Music reported another down quarter.
Google is set to launch a free music service in China giving away downloads to encourage use of its search engine. Is free the future of the music industry?
Yahoo! dropped music subscriptions and tapped Rhapsody pick up the pieces. More changes are ahead for […]
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MORE CHANGES AHEAD AT YAHOO! MUSIC
Yahoo announced yesterday that its shutting down its music subscription service and sending its subscribers over to Real’s Rhapsody. Music subscriptions allow you to listen as much as you wan from a library of several million songs for $10-$15 a month. But for some reason (price?) subscription music has never […]
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Napster announced this morning that it will drop all DRM and go all mp3 within the next three months. The decision was apparently made made after Warner Music (Warner, Elektra, Atlantic, Rhino) announced that it was dropping DRM effective immediately. (So far only Amazon has those tracks) and Sony BMG is expected to follow this […]
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If having 10 or 20,000 songs on your iPod isn’t enough; you may already be a fan of Rhapsody or Napster’s music subscription services that allow you to listen to more than a million tracks on demand. Now Rhapsody has taken things even further with the ibiza.
This Wi-Fi-enabled portable media player that connects directly to […]
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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 […]
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The big new music industry news this week the new Amazon.com DRM-Free mp3 download store. Be sure to check it out. Here are:
An Overview And First Look
What The New Store Is…And Is Not
Analysis & reaction from around the web
Here at Our Digital Music Amazon lead the “Top 5 Favorite Places To Buy MP3 Downloads“
Yahoo! […]
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Virgin will shut its music subscription and download services in the US and UKas of October 19th.
In the UK, Virgin Digital stopped selling tracks last week and is no longer accepting new customers. U.S. customers will face a similar fate, but will get a credit to be used on Napster’s music download service.
Virgin Digital allows […]
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There is a battle going on between to new free ad supported music download services - We7 vs. SprialFrog. Read an exclusive interview with the head of We7, check out each service and vote to tell us which one you like best here.
Never doubt the power of YouTube. A crazed Britney Spears fan […]
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Popular DRM-free download subscription service eMusic which specializes in indie music has launched a new application dubbed eMusic Remote which syncs traks with the three most popular media players - iTunes, Windows Media Player and Winamp.
Remote automatically moves eMusic downloads to your preferred player for easy transfer to digital music devices like your iPod. […]
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