Thursday, April 27, 2006

Safa Ensemble

Safa Ensemble - Official site of the Safa Ensemble. Amir Koushkani, François Houle, and Sal Ferreras play music influenced by traditional Persian repertoire on tar, setar, clarinet, and percussion instruments

Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Lani Silver and Friends: Spare the World

Folk, Blues, Rock, R&B, all with political lyrics. These songs are about removing Bush from office, the rainforest, sexual politics and revolution
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Monday, April 24, 2006

Breaking Locals

Breaking Locals - Offers an outlet for new bands around the world. Mp3 uploads, blogs and forums allow fans to connect

Sonos - wireless, multi-room digital music system

Sonos is the first wireless, multi-room digital music system that lets you play all your digital music, all over your house—and control it all from the palm of your hand. With a wireless Sonos™ Controller in hand, you'll have instant access to all your digital music, plus Internet radio, subscriptions to online audio services like Rhapsody® and Audible.com®, and even music from your favorite CD or MP3 player. And, with Sonos™ ZonePlayers in the rooms of your choice, you can play the same song in different rooms, or different songs in different rooms. To start listening, just grab the full-color Controller and simply pick a room, pick a song and hit play

Friday, April 21, 2006

ajaxTunes

ajaxTunes is a web-based media player that lets you play, pause, forward and rewind high-quality streaming music straight from the Internet on any computer. Try ajaxTunes immediately, it has been preloaded with a demo account containing more than 25 songs encoded at 192kbps from different albums and a great mix of playlists from select artists. Or, create your own music locker and choose from over 40,000 songs to create your personal playlists. ajaxTunes is a fully interactive application that will allow you to connect to hours of music, free

The Truants

The Truants formed in Jackson, Ohio in 1964. As young teenagers, they played high school parties, teen dances, Jr. /Sr. proms, supermarket openings, fashion shows, community events and festivals. Like many fledgling garage bands of the day, they copied what they heard on the radio: The Kingsmen, The Rolling Stones, Johnny Rivers, and The Ventures, country music, folk music and R&B. After their appearance on the TV program, Let's Dance in Huntington, WV they quickly became one of the most popular bands playing in the 1960's. This CD is an opportunity for you to relive the good old days of that fabulous era of music that was the 1960's
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Thursday, April 20, 2006

The Black Angels

The Black Angels - Official site of the band The Black Angels, producing psychedelically induced rock and roll evoking the spirit of the 1960s while awakening the heavy droning rhythms inspired by The Velvet Underground

Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Interscope Records has struck a deal with Hasbro

Interscope Records has struck a deal with Hasbro, the toy maker, to create a line of fashion dolls modeled on the Pussycat Dolls. The toy line, which aims to mimic the act's playfully risqué style, is expected to be on sale by this year's holiday season. Hasbro executives estimate the dolls, intended for children aged 6 to 9, will be priced around $15, with the label receiving a royalty on sales

Michael Jackson to cut new album with Bahrain record label

Michael Jackson is to release his first album since 2001 on a record label based in Bahrain. The singer has settled down in the kingdom and is reportedly close to the Prince of the country. Sometime ago his publicists had confirmed that Jacko was planning to permanently settle in the Gulf State. The 47-year-old Jackson has been living in Bahrain ever since he was acquitted of child abuse charges last year. The record label on which he is to bring out his new album is called Two Seas Records and is owned by the country's royal family member Abdulla Hamad Al-Khalifa

Neil Young - "Let's Impeach the President"

Neil Young's 1989 anthem "Rockin' in the Free World" was scathingly critical of the social policies of then-president George Bush. Now the rock icon has found himself a new target: Bush's son. In a ticker on his official Website, Young has announced plans to release Living With War, a anti-war album addressing the conflict in Iraq which he recorded earlier this month in three short days. The album, being distributed by Warner/Reprise, takes sharp aim at the administration of President George W. Bush with the scathing tune, "Let's Impeach the President."

The Corrs

The Corrs - News, mobile ringtones, videos, and more for The Corrs

Corinne Bailey Rae

Corinne Bailey Rae - Official site for British singer-songwriter Corinne Bailey Rae, with news, tour dates, photos, blog, fan forum, merchandise, and more

Sunday, April 16, 2006

Magnatune news

Independent record label Magnatune has announced growing popularity of its online music licensing service, with licensing sales up by more than 150 percent in the first quarter of 2006. The three year old record label is the first to automate the music licensing process in a manner similar to conventional online retailers - making music by over 200 recording artists easily available to television producers, advertising executives, and filmmakers for use in their projects

Beatles catalog set to go digital

After years of refusing to enter the music-download market and sell Beatles tunes online, Apple Corps has decided to bring the Fab Four's recordings into the digital age. The disclosure came during the record label's trademark-infringement lawsuit against Apple Computer that ended last week in London

Stony Plain Records celebrates 30 years

Industry folk - along with Macleans magazine - call Holger Petersen's record label "the best small label in North America." It's the kind of plaudit that makes Petersen blush. The fact is, says Petersen, without financial whiz Alvin Jahns, Stony Plain Records would've folded up tent a long time ago, joining the dozens of blues labels that started with intent of supporting the genre, and not the bottom line. "Alvin never gets the credit that he should," says Petersen of his partner and financial officer. "But the reality is, we could've sunk several times without his financial leadership." Instead, Stony Plain is celebrating its 30th anniversary with a star-studded compilation that includes roots, blues and a DVD

AirPlay Direct

AirPlay Direct is a web-based digital delivery system that allows artists and labels to make their music available directly to broadcasters around the world. The radio industry has been slow to adopt digital delivery in some regions globally, but that appears to be changing. Recent trends indicate that radio programmers are now aggressively embracing digital delivery. AirPlay Direct's newest radio members include programmers from Clear Channel, Sirius Radio, Live 365 and the world famous KROQ in Los Angeles

Wednesday, April 12, 2006

eyespot

eyespot - Allows users to mix, edit, combine, and share videos, music, and photos online

Eurythmics

Eurythmics - Official site for the '80s synthpop band the Eurythmics, featuring Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart. Includes news, audio/video clips, photos, downloads, and tour dates

Zeal

Zeal - Official website of the rock and pop artist, Robert Jarvis, who calls himself Zeal, including journal, videos, and information about the artist

Tuesday, April 11, 2006

Aunty Nancy: Coming Back For Moore

Rocking England World Cup Song, combining a tribute to Bobby Moore and his team with a rousing anthem for the new 2006 team ... this is a 1966 to 2006 extravaganza
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Sunday, April 09, 2006

Mercora Madwords

Mercora Madwords - a new and innovative search based advertising program that connects music and music-related advertisers with new customers at the precise moment when they're searching for or listening to music on the Mercora IMRadio network. Madwords works well for both customer acquisition and branding related advertising. Mercora Madwords allows advertisers to choose music keywords such as genres of music, artist names, and similar artists to place highly targeted advertisements that are displayed when users are either searching for or listening to music on the Mercora IMRadio Network

La La

La La is the first online music store where music fans can trade CDs they own for CDs they want for $1 a CD. CDs are sent through the mail in pre-paid envelopes provided by La La. If an album is not immediately available for trade, members will be able to buy the CD new or as a digital download at retail prices. La La is taking the unprecedented action of giving artists 20% of its revenues from used CDs and help them reduce overhead in marketing costs across the industry, so that they can make more from selling their music. La La's search and recommendation engine introduces members to new artists by drawing upon what other members with similar tastes enjoy. The service is free

Saturday, April 08, 2006

Bananarama

Bananarama - Official site for the British pop group Bananarama. Includes news, downloads, fan forum, and band history

Islands

Islands - Official site for the quirky Canadian indie band with influences ranging from dancehall to calypso. Contains bandmembers from The Unicorns

Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man

Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man - Official site for director Lian Lunson's film Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man. Celebrates the music and poetry of Cohen through performances and readings

Friday, April 07, 2006

Becki and Nikki are Duo Canto

Becki and Nikki are Duo Canto - Site for twin sopranos, Becki and Nicki Rice, featuring short bio, photo gallery, music clips, and concert details of the singers

Michael Paige

Michael Paige - International singer, Michael Paige, sings in English, French, Spanish, Hebrew, Italian, and German. Site features sound clips of his songs in different languages, and video clips of his Las Vegas show

Thursday, April 06, 2006

rock paper scissors

rock paper scissors - We specialize in publicity and marketing in the U.S. for "world music" and reggae labels, artists, websites, etc. We are true world music enthusiasts. Our approach for publicity is to distill the most intriguing angles about a project and hook editors/journalists/etc. that way. We have great relationships at National Public Radio, mainstream music and lifestyle press, and major market newspapers. Clients have included Nonesuch, Harmonia Mundi, Antibalas, Narada, Indigo, Sounds True, Triloka, Mondo Melodia/Ark 21, Network, Ninja Tune, the Bulgarian Women's Choir, Naxos World, Piranha, Lyrichord, Ashé, International Music Network, Afropop Worldwide, World Music Institute, Times Square, World Connection, World Village, Vive La World!, XenoMusic.com, and RootsWorld.com

Maynard Ferguson: MF Horn VI- Live at Ronnie's

Recorded in the summer of 2005 at the legendary Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in London, England, this album features exciting new arrangements of classic jazz standards done in the colorful Ferguson way, as well as a few quintessential Ferguson chart toppers
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Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Gene Pitney dies on tour in Cardiff

American singer Gene Pitney, who shot to fame in the 1960s with hits including "24 Hours from Tulsa", has died while on tour in Cardiff, his agent said on Wednesday. Jene Levy said Pitney, 65, was found dead on Wednesday morning in the Welsh capital, where he had given a concert the previous night that won him a standing ovation

Tuesday, April 04, 2006

PferdeDance.com

PferdeDance.com - Offers customized musical freestyle design by Lynne Warfel-Holt. Features articles, portfolio, and services provided

Jordis

Jordis - Official Sony BMG site of Jordis Unga. Features a biography, message board, and music clips

Monday, April 03, 2006

Stridr

Stridr - Links to either low cost mp3s, or files uploaded by the artist themselves. Aims to maximise the benefits of the internet as a distribution platform for both artists and consumers

Saturday, April 01, 2006

Harlan Wolf: Britney Spears For President

The DVD imagines Britney, Clinton, Bush and Nixon on a hard-driving mission to the White House; the CD is an up-beat-pop-swing-reggae fusion with lyrical stops on the moon, in Mexico, and what-if speculations of lives ruined by "alien abduction"
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Peter Walker

Peter Walker - Official site of Peter Walker with tour info, photos, media, and more

The Submarines

The Submarines - Official site of the duo, The Submarines, with music downloads, shows, photos, news, and more

La Rocca

La Rocca - Official site for La Rocca, with news, tour info, media, and more