Twitter Listening Party: tweet and stream The Used's new album for free

Rock band The Used releases their latest album "Artwork" today in the US and the UK. As a way of building buzz and giving fans and potential buyers a chance to hear the new music, the band's label, Warner Bros. Records, has teamed up with Culture Jam Labs to launch what they call 'the first ever Twitter Listening Party'
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She Loves You is Beatles top seller

"It was only the band's second number one, issued as Beatlemania was in its infancy - but newly compiled figures show She Loves You to be the biggest selling Fab Four track ever released in the UK"
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ALOT Music Toolbar

"The free ALOT Music Toolbar gives you quick and easy access to all your music needs directly from your desktop. Get access to free song lyrics, watch your favorite music videos, check out the latest music news, and listen to radio live or on demand, from your choice of the nation's top local radio stations."
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CSS Music

"CSS Music offers 17 libraries of royalty free buy out music. Whether you want downloadable music or CDs, CD-roms or Hard Drives, CSS has a music library that fits any budget or demographic requirement. You'll find selections that are used in theatrical motion pictures and nationally syndicated television programs with outstanding music production values. You'll also find stock music that's perfect for music on hold messages. Other applications include corporate, government, education, medical, training, audio clips for sales presentations and multimedia, background music for event video, audio production and sound clips for web sites"
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Dame Vera back in the charts

"Forces sweetheart Dame Vera Lynn has became the oldest living artist to make it into the top 20 of the UK albums chart, her record company said. Dame Vera, who kept up the spirits of millions with her songs and personality during the darkest days of the Second World War, entered the album chart at number 20, at the age of 92. Her album, We'll Meet Again - The Very Best of Vera Lynn, returned her to the charts almost six decades after she topped them in the 1950s. Dame Vera said: "I am extremely excited and delighted to be back in the charts after all these years." The album features 24 songs from Dame Vera's golden years, including Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart, which was a number one hit in the US in 1952" - Yahoo
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ScreenTunes.com

ScreenTunes.com is a free site built to help you find out which movie you might have heard a particular song in. Or, if you heard a song in a movie recently but didn't know the name, you can find that too
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Hynde to protest McDonald's

"The Pretenders star Chrissie Hynde will launch her 'I'm hatin' it' vegetarian campaign against fast food chain McDonald's in Los Angeles on Monday." - Yahoo
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Rolling Stone Brian Jones death to be reviewed

"A police force is to review the death of Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones, 40 years since he was found lifeless in a swimming pool. Sussex Police said the force had been handed documents connected with Jones's death which would be examined, but added it was too early to say if a fresh investigation would be launched. Jones was found dead aged 27 in his swimming pool at Cotchford Farm, Hartfield, East Sussex, in July 1969. An inquest recorded a verdict of death by misadventure, but speculation has continued that he was murdered. Journalist Scott Jones, who collated the papers but is not related to the late musician, told The Mail On Sunday: "There is no time limit on the review. But after 40 years of mystery, anyone who values Brian's reputation will be happy to wait for the outcome." A Sussex Police spokesman said: "We can confirm that Sussex Police received papers from an investigative journalist in relation to the death of Brian Jones. "These papers will be examined by Sussex Police, but it is too early to comment at this time as to what the outcome will be." Jones, a founder member of the Rolling Stones, was regarded to have lived a drink- and drug-fuelled lifestyle while with the band." - Yahoo
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Concert Vault

Concert Vault - Free music site featuring streaming music from various concerts spanning different genres including rock, blues, classic rock, indie rock, country, and more
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AudioPal

AudioPal - easily add audio to any website
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Mugasha

"Simply put, Mugasha makes it really easy to listen to Electronic Music podcasts and long sets from world famous DJs. Think of us as Hulu.com for some of the most popular dance music sets in the world. We "chop up" the sets to enable users to easily skip and browse through the songs in each set"
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Deborah Gibson's Electric Youth

Deborah Gibson's Electric Youth - Arts education summer and winter camps, songwriting intensives, and recording bootcamps for serious young performers ages 10-20
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Musical 'badges' reveal personality

Dr Jason Rentfrow, of Cambridge University, said musical preferences and lists of favourite bands on profiles on social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace were "clear public statements of who we are and how we should be perceived, whether we are conscious of that or not". Sample groups of subjects regularly made the same assumptions about people's personalities, values, social class and even their ethnicity, based on their musical preferences, he said. Jazz fans were viewed as friendly, emotionally stable people with a limited sense of responsibility, while rap fans were viewed as more hostile, but energetic and athletic, the research found. Classical music was linked to white, upper-class people and rap to black or mixed-race people from lower class backgrounds - PA
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TwittyTunes from FoxyTunes

TwittyTunes is a FoxyTunes feature that allows you to post your currently playing songs to Twitter, Facebook, Last.fm, Y! Messenger, Y! Status, and Skype with a single click
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Gary Go releases 'The Heart Balloon' to help the British Heart Foundation

"Singer-songwriter Gary Go has released a new song 'The Heart Balloon' to help raise funds for our fight against heart disease. Gary is making the track available to download for FREE on a pay-whatever-you-want basis, with 100% of all voluntary donations going directly to support our vital lifesaving work. Anyone who donates to download will go into a special prize draw to win fantastic exclusive Gary Go goodies. Gary has been supporting music royalty Take That and Lady Gaga on tour this summer, and has been referred to by Q magazine as a "One Man Coldplay". 'The Heart Balloon' is available to download until midnight on Mon 31 August"
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The dotmatrix project

"The dotmatrix project is a collective of artists, musicians, filmmakers, photographers and sound engineers who dig live music. We put on and document shows to expose the talent of local bands while positively impacting the live, original music culture of downtown Greensboro, NC."
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MySpace to buy Web music service iLike

"News Corp's MySpace said on Thursday it has agreed to buy music recommendation service iLike, as the once-hot social networking site tries to reinvent itself as an entertainment portal. MySpace declined to disclose financial terms of an acquisition that brings iLike's twin brother founders Ali and Hadi Partovi and Nat Brown into the MySpace fold. The site was backed by venture capital funds and Ticketmaster Entertainment. Several blogs, including AllThingsDigital, reported earlier in the week that iLike would be bought by MySpace for around $20 million. iLike is best known as a popular social music discovery service on Facebook, the social networking site that has overtaken MySpace as the top Web destination for friends and family to share photos, messages, video clips and other media." - Reuters
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iTunes sells 25% of all music in the US, 69% of digital

"Music sold through the iTunes Store makes up a full quarter of all music sold in the US, according to a new report from the NPD Group. The market research firm noted that paid digital music downloads have continued to grow since 2007 (from 20 percent to 35 percent this year) with the help of iTunes, Amazon, and Walmart's online offerings, and that digital music sales may even equal CD sales by the end of 2010" - Ars Technica
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funnel

With funnel, its possible to make playlists of your favorite music and listen to the playlists your friends make
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Live Nation's Twitter Scavenger Hunt

All Live Nation Twitter followers who complete the #LNScavHunt will receive a Friends & Family Ticket offer, redeemable for a $10 lawn ticket! And every follower who completes the #LNScavHunt will automatically be entered to win a lawn season pass to their local Live Nation amphitheater
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Create music playlists, compilations and embeddable music mixtapes

"If you are looking for a way to create an online compilation of your favorite songs, or a music playlist that you can openly share online, there is a new group of free services that allow you to do just that, while enabling you to publish your newly created music playlist on any blog or web site" - From Robin Good
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Radiohead releases free MP3: These Are My Twisted Words

Radiohead has released a free MP3: These Are My Twisted Words
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Windows Media Player Import for Winamp

Windows Media Player Import is a free Winamp plug-in for importing the Windows Media Player library
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U2 break attendance record at Wembley

Irish rockers U2 have broken the record for the number of fans attending Wembley stadium - thanks to their state of the art stage sets
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Les Paul 1915-2009

Tribute is being paid to Les Paul, who died aged 94, by musicians around the world, with guitarist Joe Satriani calling him 'the original guitar hero' and Brian Wilson crediting him with inventing the Beach Boys sound. Paul was a musician, playing 'hillbilly' and Jazz from his teens until his 90s, and inventor - one of the pioneers of the solid body electric guitar and credited with the invention (or discovery) of overdubbing, tape delay, phasing effects, and multitrack recording. His most iconic legacy, is of course, the Gibson Les Paul.
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The Who are to tour again in 2010

"Fans feared frontman Roger Daltrey's upcoming solo shows could spell the end of the band - but he insists he's simply working on his live singing voice for big concerts with bandmate Pete Townshend next year"
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Flavortunes

"Flavortunes creates a fresh experience for party planners and their guests. Personalized interactive invitations and your guests’ favorite song selections make for the perfect event. Flavortunes makes your party unforgettable. Create an exciting get-together by simply following our step by step process"
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Woodstock.com

"Rooted in the live music, community and sustainable living aspects of the original Woodstock Festival, Woodstock.com is an all inclusive online community of fans and artists that celebrates the Woodstock Festivals and all Live Music Events from all generations, all genres and all levels of artists from anywhere around our beautiful green planet"

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The Classical String Quartet, 1770-1840 (Duke University)

"The string quartet, for two violins, viola and violoncello, was one of the most widely-cultivated genres of chamber music during the Classical period, with the Viennese masters Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven all contributing substantially to the literature. The Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University has about forty collections of string quartets in parts dating from this time (about 1770-1840), most, though not all complete, and representing composers whose works are rarely found in modern editions. Digitization of these parts makes newly available for performance, study and recording a large and varied repertoire of works for this instrumental ensemble"
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Forty years on, Beatles fans flock to Abbey Road crosswalk

Fans of the Fab Four are flocking to the most famous pedestrian crossing in Britain for the 40th anniversary on Saturday of the taking of one of the greatest images in rock 'n' roll history
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DigiMusicBids

Digimusicbids.com is the first-ever online marketplace dedicated totally and completely to the music business
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JamLegend

"JamLegend lets you play a rocking guitar game online for free. It features a limitless song library, massive multiplayer, tournaments and social features"
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Heath Ledger music video for Modest Mouse track released online

One of the final pieces of work by the late actor Heath Ledger has appeared online today. A music video directed by the tragic Dark Knight star for the American indie band Modest Mouse finally got its premiere on video websites this morning.

Modest Mouse - King Rat (International Version)

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Sam Cooke's music, business acumen take center state at Mississippi music festival

"Sam Cooke's music and life will take center stage this weekend in Clarksdale. The Sunflower River Blues and Gospel Festival pays tribute to Cooke, beginning Friday. The weekend event includes an unveiling of a blues marker at the Roxy Theater and roundtable discussion on Cooke's life at the Ground Zero blues club. Many of the local performers at the festival will sing at least one of Cooke's hits, whether it's from his early gospel career with the Soul Stirrers or from his repertoire of pop music, including the mainstays "You Send Me" and "A Change is Gonna Come." Cooke was a Clarksdale native."
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Local Concerts App on iPhone from iLike

Do you enjoy live music? Check out the Local Concerts app.

* Find local shows near your neighborhood
* Access a huge, global database of concerts and live events
* Browse nearby concerts by date or favorite venue
* Buy tickets and get directions to the show
* Available FREE for iPhone and iPod Touch!
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Music Forte

Music Forte has grown into the largest online resource for Independent music and sheet music
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Idol Records founder Erv Karwelis is a magnet for Dallas acts

"From a converted garage at his home in the Lakewood area, Erv Karwelis is a one-man record label. The founder of Idol Records, now 16 years strong, defines the grass-roots, savvy, dedicated and fiercely independent mind-set that has kept his imprint afloat, even as the recording industry experiences a debilitating slump"
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Kings Of Leon launch record label

Kings Of Leon have announced they are starting their own record label in collaboration with BUG Music. The first release on the new imprint will be "Some Kind Of Salvation" by The Features
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DEQQ

DEQQ is an always-on messaging and media distribution service that provides artists and broadcasters with a brandable desktop application that can deliver music, video, and games directly to your followers. Supports Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and the artist's own blog or website
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1 dead, 15 injured in Canada stage collapse

"One person was killed and at least 15 were injured after a storm whipped through an outdoor country music festival, causing a stage to collapse. Strong winds and heavy rain began hitting the Big Valley Jamboree in Camrose, east of Edmonton, around 6 p.m. Saturday, said Camrose Police Chief Darrell Kambeitz. He confirmed the one death and said all 15 injured were taken to hospitals. "The concert at Big Valley Jamboree was delayed and the concert bowl was being cleared when a small portion of the main stage collapsed," Kambeitz told The Canadian Press. He said reports of dozens of people being trapped at the site weren't true." - AP
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Sleeveface

Sleeveface - one or more persons obscuring or augmenting any part of their body or bodies with record sleeve(s) causing an illusion:

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