wax&wires

Found an article by Eliot Van Buskirk over at Wired that basically gives an update on the state of streaming music services, and whether or not they’ll fly in the US.

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.

What’s the best thing that could happen in the backseat of a car? You guessed it! Brilliant musical performances!

Google is partnering up with iLike and LaLa to change the way you search for music.

EPISODE 3

In this episode:
- Skunks
- Royalties, Pandora and the New Deal
- Spotify U.S.A! U.S.A! U.S.A!
- EMI in the troubles
- The Bird And The Bee
- Promoting your band (get off the internet!)

Indaba is a DAW that works with Java within your internet browser. We’ve all seen a million little audio flash apps, but this is the first browser-based Java audio tool that shows a bit more promise because of the high quality audio, non-destructive editing, and integrated social element.

In this episode:
- Airquote Abuse
- Seattle-based rock group Barcelona
- Miles Davis – Kind of Blue
- thesixtyone.com

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.

We Are Hunted is the Online Music Chart, aggregating social networks, forums, music blogs, Torrents, P2P Networks and Twitter to develop a daily chart of the 99 most popular songs online.

Free Music Archive brings a fresh means of finding solid music released under Creative Commons by actually curating the content.

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.

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.

A lot has been made the past few days about MySpace Local, the NewsCorp response to sites like Yelp. Here’s how to harness it as a tool to promote your music.

MusicMetric has released a Twitter app called MuZoid, which lets you tweet the name of a band to @muzoid, and within a few seconds MuZoid returns a link to MusicMetric’s file on the band.

Muziic Player puts millions of songs right on your desktop, free and legally. Interested?