Panjea

Panjea is a social media network that enables musicians and video artists to sell their music and videos. Artists can sell their works through the Panjea Store and, thanks to the Panjea Adshare program, they make money when people download their music and videos by getting 100% of all ad revenue. Simple users can earn points just by participating in Panjea and redeem music and videos for free. Panjea is completely free

2006 Video Music Awards

2006 Video Music Awards - Official site for the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards. Videos, photos, nominees, and winners

Cleveland record label opens Nashville office

Rust Records, a Cleveland-based label that has shifted its emphasis from rock to country, has now opened a downtown Nashville office in Cummins Station, 209 10th Ave. S

Glastonbury Festival starts own record label

The Glastonbury Festival has set up his own record label. The Glastonbury Phonographic Society has been put together specifically to release classic live Glastonbury performances on CD and DVD. The first album - 'Music From Glastonbury The Film' - is the live soundtrack to the recently released Julien Temple-directed 'Glastonbury' film

Classic FM's new record label to launch first album

Classic FM's latest brand extension - a record label that backs unsigned British artists - is to launch its first album this Autumn. The debut release from Classic FM Presents… will feature British singer Alfie Boe, whose album of tenor arias will be released in early September. Classic FM Presents… will be produced in association with Sony BMG, with whom the station already works on its compilation label

The Yardbirds Family Tree: Birds of a Feather

The very best of Mooreland St Records 1999-2006. Jim McCarty Band, Yardbirds Experience, British Invasion All-Stars, Pete French, The Ambulators with Dave Walker
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Syd Barrett, founder of Pink Floyd, dies

Syd Barrett, the troubled Pink Floyd co-founder who spent his last years in reclusive anonymity, has died, the band said Tuesday. He was 60. A spokeswoman for the band said Barrett died several days ago, but she did not disclose the cause of death. Barrett had suffered from diabetes for years

PickStation

PickStation - A music podcasting/blogging community where users submit, tag, discuss and vote for the tracks they like. The most popular tracks make it onto the frontpage. Users can subscribe to the podcast feed for any station (popular, incoming, tag, user), or place that station on their personal website as a flash widget

The Firm launches record label

Los Angeles-based management company The Firm is launching a new record label to be distributed by EMI in the United States. EMI has made an investment in the label, in return for the U.S. physical and digital distribution rights, as well as the right to license product to the rest of the world

Lindsay Tomasic: Big World

Los Angeles based singer/songwriter, Lindsay Tomasic's passionate blues/rock song, "Big World" is dedicated to the climate crisis cause and was inspired by Al Gore's film, "An Inconvenient Truth". Profits from this CD single will be donated to environmental crusaders who are actively engaged in the fight against global warming
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LOVE

LOVE - Celebrates the musical legacy of The Beatles. A unique soundscape was created by Sir George Martin and Giles Martin using the master tapes at Abbey Road studios

Vibe Streamer

Vibe Streamer - Free MP3 streaming server which allows users to play their music anywhere

The Tower of London Festival of Music

The Tower of London Festival of Music - Annual summer festival held at the Tower of London with world-renowned artists representing different genres. Ticket holders can picnic on the lawns of the Moat while enjoying the music

JazzizRadio

JazzizRadio - Online destination for fans of traditional and contemporary jazz and downbeat electronica

Tourb.us

Tourb.us - A social search site for live music that launched today. Track your favorite bands (via email/RSS/iCal), get reminders before concerts, find tonight's shows in your city, import favorites bands from iTunes & Last.fm, post reviews and photos of shows

Big Yellow Taxi: Unknown and Famous Songs of Joni Mitchell

Including 3 songs of a young inspired Joni Mitchell - songs she never released before ( approved by Joni Mitchell, Sony ATV)
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Black Grooves

Indiana University's Archives of African American Music and Culture has announced a new online music initiative, furthering its mission of black arts education and promotion. Black Grooves, launched on June 1 to kick off Black Music Month 2006, is a new website that provides information on new releases and reissues in gospel, blues, jazz, funk, soul, rhythm & blues, hip hop and other popular genres, as well as classical music composed or performed by black artists. An accompanying free newsletter will be available to subscribers and also distributed to various music-related email distribution lists

FeedBurner provides platform for Geffen Records

Geffen Records has selected FeedBurner, a feed management provider, to manage web feeds for its artists' content, including Mary J. Blige, Lifehouse, Weezer, Snoop Dogg, Rob Zombie, and others. FeedBurner's services will provide a platform on which Geffen can launch new artists and bring fans closer to performers via music communities. Using FeedBurner's FeedFlare service, Geffen will let fans interact directly with performers' sites by rating albums at iTunes or becoming a friend of the band through MySpace. The record label also plans to reach the millions of feed subscribers available through the FeedBurner Ad Network by placing media to coincide with upcoming album launches and other promotions

Color7 Music Editor

Color7 Music Editor is a visual audio editor and recorder software solution, which supports many advanced and powerful operations with audio data. You can use Color7 Music Editor to record your own music, voice, or other audio, edit it, mix it with other audio or musical parts, add effects like Reverb, Chorus, and Echo, and master it so that you can burn it to a CD, post it on the World Wide Web, or e-mail it

The Fray

The Fray - Official site for the pop-rock band The Fray, with news, tour dates, photos, audio/video clips, articles, and more

Don Omar

Don Omar - Official site for reggaeton singer Don Omar, with news, photos, show dates, downloads, audio/video clips, and more

Cherish

Cherish - Official site of Cherish, the R&B vocal group featuring sisters Farrah, Neosha, Felisha, and Fallon. News, bios, videos, photos, and extras

SWCast Network

SWCast Network - Community of independent Internet radio stations with tools for individuals to legally broadcast their music online

UpTo11.net

UpTo11.net - Allows users to get music artist recommendations, create and share their favorite playlists, and search for information about bands, songs, and albums

MusicStrands

MusicStrands - Download a free plugin and get instant music recommendations

Mercora

Mercora - Music search and Internet radio network

Mill Hill Music Festival

Mill Hill Music Festival - Live music festival featuring classical, rock, jazz, folk, gospel, choral, and R&B artists. Held annually in North West London

Audiri

Audiri - Allows musicians to upload their songs freely on their profile page, and for users to search, choose, and refine their results and get recommendations

uLinkx

uLinkx - Social video/music bookmarking service. Search videos from Google, Yahoo, iFilm and YouTube and bookmark them in form of playlist. Search for music and add them to a playlist, which you can play from your favorite music player

URGE

URGE is a digital music service from MTV Networks that makes it easy to enjoy, explore and get the music you want for your PC or portable music player. URGE gives you complete access to over 2 million songs, 18 music genres, countless styles and exclusives from MTV, VH1 and CMT. URGE gives you hundreds of playlists and radio stations, music feeds, blogs, interviews and feature stories from leading music voices

Independent Online Distribution Alliance (ioda)

Independent Online Distribution Alliance (ioda) - Digital distribution company for the global independent music community offering a full range of services to indie record labels, physical distributors, and artists

Music Discovery Engine

Music Discovery Engine - Enter an artist name and discover similar music you will enjoy. Each song serves as a departure point from which you can hear and discover an endless stream of music

beatles-discography.com

beatles-discography.com - A Beatles musical history through discography tracing British and American singles, EPs, and LPs. Allows users to browse by alphabet, years and album

Yahoo! Go TV

Yahoo! Go TV - Use Yahoo! Go to search for video clips and watch them on your TV via your broadband connection. Listen to music, watch videos on demand, and access your photos for free. Also works with your digital video recorder (DVR) allowing you to record and watch TV shows anytime

Free Pearl Jam video

Pearl Jam's new music video Life Wasted is now on Google Video for free! Be sure to check it out now, as free streaming and download is available only until next Wednesday

Jamendo

Jamendo - A new model for artists to promote, publish, and be paid for their music. Discover fresh music on P2P networks

US-THE BAND: GLOBAL WARNING

"Political Pop" from US-"The Band That Bush Built." The musical equivalent of The Daily Show and Colbert Report, combining clever originals and expertly produced parodies that stick it to the Bush Administration
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Skombo

Skombo - Allows consumers of music and music related items to search the inventories of independent record stores around the world. Search for hard to find music, imports, rare vinyl, used cds and more, read reviews, write reviews, discover new bands and friends. Launch pending

Santa Barbara Caribbean Festival

The Sixth Annual Santa Barbara Caribbean Festival happening June 10th, promises to be the best ever, with outstanding musical guests, spicy Caribbean food and a full day devoted to celebrating cultural diversity

Come Together Festival 06

Come Together Festival 06 - A festival which highlights Australian music, held at Luna Park, Sydney

SwitchDiscs

SwitchDiscs - A free and legal p2p media trading site. You can trade dvds, cds and video games, and build a member profile

YourSpins

YourSpins - Will allow users and members to instantly remix tracks provided by participating artists, producers and record labels. Mixing tools, including a Windows Media Player plug-in, allows users to save their remixes on their homepage, make custom ringtones, share them with other users and friends, or stream them from their blogs, webpages, or other social network profile pages

NPR: Music

NPR: Music - Song of the Day, live concerts, podcasts, music programming, reviews, artist interviews, and more from NPR

Opera Theatre and Music Festival of Lucca

Opera Theatre and Music Festival of Lucca - Five-week European study and performance experience for singers, instrumentalists, accompanists, assistant conductors, and stage technicians

Fabchannel

Fabchannel - Video on demand archive featuring full-length concerts, festivals, debates, and lectures. Everything from upcoming acts to headliners playing rock, hip-hop, folk, avant-garde, and everything in between

Blues Festival Guide

Blues Festival Guide - Online magazine and guide to blues festivals with sections on organizations, news letters, and industry directory

Rendezvous Rhythm and Blues Festival

Rendezvous Rhythm and Blues Festival - Official site of the Rendezvous Rhythm and Blues Festival in Oroville, Washington. Site includes ticket information, directions, camping guide, and photos

Monterey Bay Blues Festival

Monterey Bay Blues Festival - Official site of the Monterey Bay Blues Festival in Monterey, California. Site includes festival information, event schedule, tickets information, merchandise, historical backgrounder, and photos

Bresso.com

Bresso.com - Offers links to free music downloads as well as a MP3 search facility, music news, lyrics search, and more

Gabe Lopez

Gabe Lopez - Official site for Gabe Lopez, producer, singer, and writer whose own music is a blend of rock, pop, and R&B. Includes bio, photos, video, and MP3s from his album

The iTunes Library Scraper

The iTunes Library Scraper is a tool that will help you easily list the artist and/or albums from your iTunes library on your web page, blog, or anywhere else that allows HTML submissions

kSolo

kSolo is a web-based application that allows users to sing, record, and playback their favorite songs. KSolo presents high audio and recording quality with the most advanced sharing capabilities available today. The kSolo multi-featured online player, delivers popular lyrics, recording and sharing capabilities - all you need is a microphone and speakers. Other functions include listening to audio version, instrumental versions and more. Free to use

Streamload

Use Streamload to store, organize, and access all your media, including photos, videos, music, movies, and more! 25 GBs Free

Try Xdrive for FREE

Build a music library online and use playlists to organize your MP3's. Try Xdrive for FREE

Nikki Sixx

Nikki Sixx - Official site for the bass player and lead song writer for the hard rock band Motley Crue. Includes news, Nikki's online diary, his charity for runaway children, message board, and original photography

Ian McLagan & the Bump Band: Spiritual Boy

"This is an appreciation of Ronnie Lane, and released on what would have been his 60th birthday, April 1st, 2006, it's my tribute to a wonderful songwriter, bass player and dear friend"
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David Foster

David Foster - Official site for musician, producer, and composer David Foster, with news, sound clips, photos, and more

Big City Dick: Richard Peterson's First Movie

Big City Dick: Richard Peterson's First Movie - Documentary that takes a journey into the the world of Richard Peterson, a savant street musician, his lifelong search for love, and his struggle to find fame as a recording artist

Stamping Ground Dance Festival

Stamping Ground Dance Festival - Stamping Ground is an annual hip-hop dance festival held in Bellingen, New South Wales, each January

Porterville

Porterville - Los Angeles-based band who blend alternative, indie-rock, funk, electronic, and pop music

Cheyenne Kimball

Cheyenne Kimball - Official site for pop singer Cheyenne Kimball, with news, audio clips, photos, tour dates, journal entries, message board, and more

50 Worst Things to Happen to Music

50 Worst Things to Happen to Music - Watch, listen, rank, and test your knowledge of pop's all-time lowest moments courtesy of Blender and AOL Music

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

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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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

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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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

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

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

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

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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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

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

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

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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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

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

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

The State of Digital Music in 2006

The State of Digital Music in 2006 by Chris Nickson - Designtechnica

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