Coldplay Snubs Spotify
Coldplay’s short-sighted money grab could mean pain for the music industry at large.
Google Streaming Music Service Rumored By Fall
Google plans to preempt the iTunes “Cloud” launch with its own streaming music offerings and store.
Google Music Search – One More Thing For Bing To Catch Up On
So the rumors were true. As expected, Google announced a new music search service today, partnering with iLike, MySpace, Lala, the big 4 record labels and a venerable “who’s who” list of other internet music services. I’ll give you a quick list of what’s up so you don’t have to power through the dissertations on CNET or RS.
Google To Announce New Music Service Next Week
Google is partnering up with iLike and LaLa to change the way you search for music.
Spotify Overthrows iTunes… for UMG… in Sweden…
It’s being reported that Universal Music Group, the largest label in the world, has earned more money from Spotify in the past 5 months than it has from iTunes Sweden.
Listen To Imogen Heap’s New Album Streaming Now
Check out Ellipse in its entirety, streaming here! Proud to be part of the hype machine.
wax&wires tv – Episode 1 Now Available!
In this episode:
- Airquote Abuse
- Seattle-based rock group Barcelona
- Miles Davis – Kind of Blue
- thesixtyone.com
TheSixtyOne – Game Theory Meets Music Discovery
Check out thesixtyone.com, a great way to not only discover new music, but get your tracks discovered. You might also have a little competitive fun in the process.
Spotify Everywhere… Except The U.S.
Imagine every song carried on iTunes, beamed for FREE to your phone, PS3, XBox, SlingBox, and whateverelseBox comes out next. Yeah. It’s kinda like that.
NIN iPhone App Demo
The much anticipated NIN iPhone App is here. Check out Trent Reznor, Rob Sheridan and Kevin Rose giving you a quick look at the features here.
Muziic Player Streams Free Music From YouTube
Muziic Player puts millions of songs right on your desktop, free and legally. Interested?
Spotify iPhone App
I first wrote about Spotify a month or two back, as a potential game changer in the world of music distribution and P2P sharing. Though not yet available in the U.S. (which I’m more than bummed about), Spotify has taken another big step forward by launching an iPhone app that will let users stream music [...]
Twisten.FM – Find New Music Through Twitter
This is a great tool. Twisten.fm crawls Twitter for tweets about music. You can then listen to the songs that are getting tweeted about. I normally hate describing new sites based on other sites, but for lack of a better way to put it into words, twisten is basically like a last.fm meets twitter, as [...]
iMeem Introduces Fee Structure For Uploads
Social networking site iMeem has always been known as an ad-supported service, which means visitors have never had to pay for anything. That appears to be changing. For iMeem users who once uploaded hundreds or even thousands of songs, videos and photos to the site without paying a dime, iMeem has quietly rolled out a [...]
Pandora Brings Back Audio Advertisements
Well, it’s no surprise that radio is hurting, especially internet radio. Web radio currently lives under the cloud of potentially having to pay both performers and songwriters for streaming their music, while traditional radio only pays songwriters. The double-dipping is not currently enforced, but there is always the potential for it, which has put enormous [...]
LA’s Indie 103 Goes Web-Only “Effective Immediately”
This is crazy. I was just listening to this station last night, thrilled that there was still independent radio somewhere. From Indie 103: Indie 103.1 will cease broadcasting over this frequency effective immediately. Because of changes in the radio industry and the way radio audiences are measured, stations in this market are being forced to [...]
Spotify: Legal P2P?
Though not yet available in the U.S., the new music player Spotify looks to have all the makings necessary to create a new paradigm in music acquisition.
Spotify is a music player that allows users to stream any songs they want, without downloading the songs onto their computer. In that regard, it functions much like Pandora, and the sound quality is comparable. Where it one-ups Pandora is in the fact that’s so much more than a music discovery tool. Spotify lets users select the specific songs they want to hear, create playlists from songs hosted on other users’ computers, and share their playlists with other users. The GUI looks a bit like Songbird, a mashup between iTunes and last.fm.
