Is Streaming Music Our Shambhala?
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.
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.
VIDEO: Black Cab Sessions
What’s the best thing that could happen in the backseat of a car? You guessed it! Brilliant musical performances!
Google To Announce New Music Service Next Week
Google is partnering up with iLike and LaLa to change the way you search for music.
wax&wires tv – Episode 003
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!)
Music Making Gets Social – Indaba Music Now Open
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.
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.
We Are Hunted – The Top 99 Buzzed About Songs On The Net
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.
FreeMusicArchive.org Makes Creative Commons Accessible
Free Music Archive brings a fresh means of finding solid music released under Creative Commons by actually curating the content.
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.
What MySpace Local Means For Musicians
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.
MuZoid – MusicMetric’s Twitter App
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 Streams Free Music From YouTube
Muziic Player puts millions of songs right on your desktop, free and legally. Interested?
SliceThePie – Help Yourself To A Piece Of The Music Industry
I came across this site when poking around the net, and it looks like a pretty cool concept, though I’m not sure how well it will work in practice. [From SliceThePie.com] Slicethepie is a financing platform for the music industry that enables new and established Artists to raise money directly from Music Fans and Investors. [...]
Ruckus: When “Free Music” Can’t Compete With Free Music
[via ars] The Ruckus music service shut down over the weekend, raising the question of whether universities are done offering sponsored legal download services to students. The music industry, struggling to find workable business models for the digital age, apparently can’t even give its product away. Ad-supported services like SpiralFrog have generated what can only [...]
The Squeakerbox.com – Local Shows
Pirate Debs just turned me on to this site called TheSqueakerbox.com. It just started up, so the userbase is pretty small, and the look is a bit primitive, but it has a great concept. I think with a bit more development, this could really turn into something unique and very handy.
Muxtape rises from ashes as a MySpace-like site for bands
The new, made-over Muxtape has launched after a nearly year-long battle against the RIAA. The Muxtape that we once knew and loved is gone, and has been replaced with a legit place for artists and bands to showcase their own work to the world. Muxtape, the former online music mixtape/mashup service, has finally relaunched 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 [...]
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.
Busker Du – Phone Recorded Street Musicians
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Call it anything but over-produced.
Busker Du is a website where users can phone in recordings of street musicians.
Used MP3 Store?
Seriously? Bopaboo.com is a website where you can buy and sell USED mp3s. I can see the good intent behind it, and why somebody thought it would work, but it seems pretty ridiculous in practice. Buying and selling works with everything else we own because most things we own are physical items that you can [...]
