Stones' gig at racetrack stays on course

"The Rolling Stones will rock Belgrade this summer even if their performance at the city's main racetrack distresses hundreds of horses stabled at the venue, concert organizers said Friday" - AP

Aaron Tippin: Now & Then

Country with a southern rock flavor
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Pavlishyn Sisters: Dvi Sestrychky

European ethno-pop blending traditional melodies with contemporary sounds
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MotionBeatz

MotionBeatz - Social Musical Portal - Offers a social musical portal that lets musicians perform in front of a global audience. Find original music and videos from emerging artists - Social Musical Portal - Offers a social musical portal that lets musicians perform in front of a global audience. Find original music and videos from emerging artists

midomi

midomi is the ultimate music search tool because it is powered by your voice. Sing, hum, or whistle to instantly find your favorite music and connect with a community that shares your musical interests

MusicPlusTV

MusicPlusTV - A 24/7 television broadcast stream with social networking, a searchable, user-driven media archive, content hosting and much more

Live Earth Concert Information & Community Portal

Live Earth Concert Information & Community Portal - Find Live Earth concert updates and performer lineups. Portal also offers environmental news, information about global warming, and a place to chat about the upcoming concerts

Finetune desktop application

The Finetune desktop application was created utilizing Adobe’s Apollo, one of the year’s most interesting new platforms. Now Finetune users can place Finetune on their desktops and enjoy their music in a more direct sense

Radio Free Goombah

Goombah, the social music discovery site, is launching their Radio Free Goombah service, which lets users download tracks to play anywhere

Lawsuit: 'Cleaner threw out GBP700,000 of Beatles rarities'

Record label EMI has launched a lawsuit against a cleaning firm for allegedly disposing of GBP700,000 worth of rare Beatles photographs. The suit, filed at the High Court in London, claims a cleaner for Crystal Services binned seven Beatles photos - including the only surviving copy of the photo on the Please Please Me album cover - and 452 transparencies and negatives in January 2001

Madface

Madface - live TV station dedicated to the Rap and Hip Hop culture. Hip Hop performances, live Shows and much more

MediaMaster

MediaMaster - Sign up and upload your digital music to MediaMaster. Publish your music collection on blogs and social networks with our widget - a great way for you and your friends to keep up to date on the latest music! Enjoy your entire music collection on many devices. Plus become a DJ - host your own radio station

Charlie Parker: Overtime

The greatest saxophonist of all time: Charlie "Bird" Parker, is one of the founders of the "be-bop" movement and a key figure in jazz history
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Various Artists: Help! George W. Bush & Friends Need to Sell 57,000,000 Copies of this CD Every Day to Pay for the War in Iraq

"The treasury is depleted. Congress is cutting funds. Our allies are bailing out. It has come to this. President George W. Bush has turned to a talented group of artists to produce a CD to help pay for the war in Iraq. It's an expensive war, so GWB & Friends need to sell 57,000,000 copies of their CD every day to pay for the war. By the time you finish reading this, we will have wasted hundreds of thousands of dollars fighting in Iraq and need your Help! to pay for this. (Please note: No one will actually be killed with the proceeds of this CD, it's just a really funny album)"
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DJ Passion.co.uk

DJ Passion.co.uk - Online disc jockey community provides free MP3 mix osting, DJ help forum, and irc chat room

Jennifer Hall: Jennifer Hall Meets.....A West Coast Tribute to Gerry Mulligan

"Jennifer Hall's tribute to Gerry Mulligan brings ten west coast jazz veterans together for a celebration that explores Mulligan's music as well as his legacy. Jennifer played baritone saxophone with Jack Sheldon's big band and Ann Patterson's Maiden Voyage, but prefers a quintet format in this intimate session." - Sea Breeze Jazz
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The Beatles Tribute Project: Volume I

A supergroup of all-star musicians, whose credits include "Beatlemania", perform classics Beatles songs from the early "Black Suit" days up through the "Abbey Road" period
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Japanese set record for longest concert

Japanese musicians overcame fatigue and a major earthquake to set the record for the world's longest concert on Saturday, playing 184 hours non-stop in a program that ranged from The Beatles' classics to Japanese traditional harp music

The Definitive 200

The Definitive 200 - Official site of The Definitive 200, presented by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, a list of 200 ranked albums "that every music lover should own." Showcasing classic and iconic albums from all genres of music

Rock TV New Hits

Rock TV New Hits plays non-stop popular rock music from the top of the international charts

The Lockout: The Best New Music in the UK

This Album is a collection of some of the best brand new singer/songwriters & bands emerging from the UK today
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ThePoliceTour.com

ThePoliceTour.com - Office site for The Police. Includes information on their tour, newsletter, fan club, and merchandise

Another Cuban music legend, "El Guayabero," dies

Cuban musician Faustino Oramas, adored for his saucy ballads and one of the last remaining stars behind the acclaimed Buena Vista Social Club compact disc, died on Tuesday at age 95, Cuban state radio said. Nicknamed "El Guayabero" after a town that inspired him to write a song after he got into trouble there for flirting with a married woman, Oramas died of liver cancer in a hospital in his home town of Holguin, the radio said

Jamendo has gone Platinium

"Jamendo, the free music community, has distributed freely and legally more than one million albums using the popular peer to peer technology called BitTorrent. For sure, the Gold or Platinium record threshold depends of the country and Jamendo acts globally, anyway, we are very proud that our trackers have crossed the million mark"

Chop Shop Records coming soon

The woman behind the soundtracks to "The OC" and "Grey's Anatomy" is launching her own label. Alexandra Patsavas, the influential TV and film music supervisor who has helped put Death Cab for Cutie, Snow Patrol and the Fray on the mainstream map, has inked a deal with Atlantic Records to form a new imprint, Chop Shop Records. The label shares the name of Patsavas' 10-year-old California-based firm, Chop Shop Music Supervision

Amelia Haygood, founder of Delos Record Label, dies at 87

Amelia Haygood, the founder of the independent record label Delos International, died last week at age 87 after a 12-year struggle with cancer. Haygood launched Delos in 1973 because she believed that American music and artists were inadequately represented on disc. She was also a pioneer in digital recording: in 1979 she began working with Thomas Stockham on the Soundstream digital recording process. According to a statement, Delos was the first independent label to sell its CDs in the U.S.

I'm From Barcelona

I'm From Barcelona - Official site for the 29-member Swedish pop collective who play whimsical, twee, indie-rock music with a joyful, youthful bent

trebleNation

trebleNation - A site created to bring musicians/artists, venues and fans together in one community

Kompoz.com

Kompoz.com is an online workspace for musicians. Use it to compose new music with other artists around the world. Got an idea for a song? Record a track. Upload it. Then invite others to add drums, bass, vocals or anything else

Rhian Benson: Gold Coast

As the guitar softly sweeps it’s rhythm across her music, the horns play and her exquisite voice dances through your ears, the influence of her homeland Ghana and classic soul and jazz greats of yesteryear comes to mind when you hear Rhian Benson sing
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Rip the Runway

Rip the Runway - Official site for Rip the Runway, the BET show that combines a designer runway showcase and performances by R&B and Hip-Hop artists

The Five Jets: Together Again

50's & 60's rock & roll
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Patti Smith

Patti Smith - Official site for singer-songwriter Patti Smith, with news, album information, and randomness

The Shanghai Restoration Project

The Shanghai Restoration Project - Project of producer and songwriter Dave Liang, fusing Asian sounds and rhythms with hip-hop, electronic music, and pop

MadForTrad.com

MadForTrad.com - Irish Traditional music center with tutorials, artists, tunes, schools, news, and more

Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame 2007 inductees

On March 12, the 2007 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame inductees will be honored in a ceremony held at New York City's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel

Another Wilco album leaked online

"In what is becoming an unfortunate tradition, Wilco's new album, "Sky Blue Sky," has leaked online, more than two months prior to its May 15 release date. The group's 2002 album "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" was online for nine months before it was eventually released in stores, and 2004's "A Ghost Is Born" also hit the Internet well before street date. In the latter instance, Wilco fan site http://www.Justafan.org asked fans who had downloaded the album early to donate money to Doctors Without Borders, a fund which eventually grew to $15,000" - Yahoo

Indie Label Rhymesayers partners with Warner Music

Minneapolis based record label Rhymesayers Entertainment, home to underground favorites Atmosphere, MF Doom and Brother Ali, recently announced its new partnership with Warner Music's Independent Label Group

Chuck Berry documentary wins top honors at DVD Awards

Filmmaker Taylor Hackford's 1987 documentary Chuck Berry: Hail! Hail! Rock 'N' Roll was named Best of Show at the 2007 Music DVD Awards in Hollywood this week. The director - husband to Oscar winner Helen Mirren - beat over 100 contenders in Home Media Magazine's contest with the film about Berry's 60th birthday concert in 1986

Jimmy Hodges: Reminiscing

Smooth, classic R&B brought to you by former Motown artist and songwriter, Jimmy Hodges
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Au Revoir Simone

Au Revoir Simone - Brooklyn-based all-female trio who merge genteel femininity with electronic experimentation

Yesterday - A Tribute To The Beatles: Live From Las Vegas!

Yesterday performs Beatles music note for note perfect and in the original key
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Stephen Marley

Stephen Marley - Official site for reggae artist Stephen Marley, with video clips, photos, and mailing list info

Elvis Perkins

Elvis Perkins - Official site for the folk-rock singe-songwriter Elvis Perkins, with news, tour dates, photos, audio clips, and more

Bob Margolin

Bob Margolin - Official site for blues guitarist Bob Margolin, who played with the Muddy Waters Band. Includes news, tour dates, merchandise, bio, and details about his days with Muddy

Folklore and Folk Music Archivist

The complete backfile of the journal, Folklore and Folk Music Archivist, is now OpenAccess, thanks to the hard work of Indiana University's Archives of Traditional Music

Megan Lane: Wrapped In Plastic

Megan Lane's new album is an introspective blend of songs that characterize Megan's stellar songwriting skills, paralleled only by her gut-wrenching guitar style
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Lee Oskar: The Best of Lee Oskar Vol. 1

An eclectic collection of original compositions, smooth grooves, beautiful instrumental melodies from the harmonica master himself
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Last Press Label

Last Press Label - LPL represents musicians and bands, crafting effective distribution and promotional models that gets the music where it needs to be

Dixie Chicks are shut out of Academy of Country Music Awards nominations

"Sure they swept the Grammy Awards, but apparently the Dixie Chicks don't fly with the Academy of Country Music. Nominations were announced Monday for the annual ACM Awards and there was nary a Chick to be found despite the Texas trio's five Grammys for Taking the Long Way. The Chicks have won 10 ACMs in their career, including Entertainer of the Year in 2000, but have been shunned by the Nashville establishment since their President Bush-bashing comments in 2003"

American Musicals Project

American Musicals Project - a Social Studies and English Language Arts curriculum program developed in collaboration between the New-York Historical Society and the New York City Department of Education

BitTorrent launches Entertainment Network

BitTorrent, a provider of delivering media over the internet, has launched the BitTorrent Entertainment Network. The new network features a library of downloadable digital entertainment, including content from 20th Century Fox, Lions Gate, MTV Networks, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc. (MGM). The BitTorrent community will have the flexibility to rent movies, purchase television shows and music videos, and publish and share their own content to be displayed alongside titles from various studios

Lounging Sound

Lounging Sound - Online radio station playing signed and unsigned/independent artists who perform ambient, new age, psy-trance, lounge, and other various related genres

Shankar Ehsaan Loy

Shankar Ehsaan Loy - Official site of the Indian music composer trio Shankar Mahadevan, Ehsaan Noorani, and Loy Mendonsa. Features profile, filmography, and a photo gallery. Also includes a discussion forum

SonicLiving

SonicLiving - Large database of music concerts that you can browse through by artist, venue, date, popularity, or city

Warner Music says bid for EMI will be all cash

Warner Music Group said Wednesday any takeover offer for Britain's EMI Group Plc would probably all be in cash, briefly boosting the London-based company's shares - CNN Money

Interscope Geffen A&M forms new record label with Octone Records

Interscope Geffen A&M said it will launch a new label with Octone Records, calling it A&M/Octone. As part of the deal, A&M/Octone was also acquiring Sony BMG Music Entertainment's interest in OctJay, a joint venture between Sony BMG and Octone, Interscope said. Financial details were not disclosed

Recording industry targets colleges

Cracking down on college students, the music industry is sending thousands more complaints to top universities this school year than it did last year as it targets music illegally downloaded over campus computer networks. A few schools, including Ohio and Purdue universities, already have received more than 1,000 complaints accusing individual students since last fall - significant increases over the past school year. For students who are caught, punishments vary from e-mail warnings to semester-long suspensions from classes

SXSW Music releases huge showcase torrent

SXSW - 739 MP3s from 739 artists

BeatOne TV

BeatOne TV - Music and Entertainment IPTV Channel from Austria

Live Earth

Live Earth - SOS is designed to trigger a mass-scale movement to combat our climate crisis. Find out about the Live Earth concert series that will bring together more than 150 of the world's top musicians for 24-hours of music from 7 concerts across all 7 continents on July 7, 2007

Robyn

Robyn - Official site for the Swedish pop singer Robyn, with news, audio/video clips, photos, tour dates, and more

Illustrate

Illustrate - Offers dBpoweramp software which supports practically every audio type created including mp3, mp4, m4a, wma, and Ogg Vorbis

The MUSE Campaign

"This April 14th, tens of thousands of Americans will gather all across the country at meaningful, iconic places to call for action on climate change. We will hike, climb, walk, swim, kayak, canoe, or simply sit or stand with banners of our call to action.
The MUSE Campaign is calling out to all musicians to join Step it Up by writing a song that we can post on their site to bring music to the movement. Also contact any events near you and see if they need music"

Pop Montreal

Pop Montreal - Annual indie/pop music festival in Montreal, Quebec, that takes place in the first week of October

5 Grammys mark Dixie Chicks' comeback

The Dixie Chicks completed a defiant comeback on Sunday night, capturing five Grammy awards after being shunned by the country music establishment over the group's anti-Bush comments leading up to the Iraq invasion. The Texas trio won all the biggest categories, including record and song of the year for the no-regrets anthem "Not Ready to Make Nice." They also won best country album, which was especially ironic considering they don't consider themselves country artists anymore

Yottamusic

Yottamusic gives you fast and easy web-based access to all 3 million songs in the Rhapsody music library

KJER.com

KJER.com is a Scandinavian electronic label agency that offers independent record labels and artists from any country around the globe instant access to 250+ worldwide music online services including the world's largest digital music net stores iTunes (Apple), eMusic, RealNetworks/Rhapsody, Audiolunchbox, Napster, Sony Connect, Amazon, Beat Port, Classical Archive, Musicnet, MusicNow (AOL), Passalong (eBay), Peer Impact, Starbucks, T-Online etc.

Ray J

Ray J - Official site for R&B singer Ray J, with news, photos, audio/video clips, tour dates, merchandise, and more

Vipmp3.eu

Vipmp3.eu - Offers thousands of artists, tracks, and albums searchable by genre and alphabetical listing

Boomp3

Boomp3 - Visitors can upload their music and then embed audio players into blogs. Possible to record voice directly from a microphone. No registration required

Musicfinity

"Musicfinity was created by band managers and record labels to give artists a chance to promote themselves more easily and to help us find the best talents from around the world. Musicifnity works on a slightly different basis to other sites out there. For a start we want to provide you with free tools to promote yourselves and we want to promote you as well"

finetune

finetune - Pick any artist to build a custom playlist featuring music by your artist and related artists. Share your playlists, browse others selections, including professionally managed playlists

Thoughts on Music from Steve Jobs

Thoughts on Music from Steve Jobs: "With the stunning global success of Apple's iPod music player and iTunes online music store, some have called for Apple to "open" the digital rights management (DRM) system that Apple uses to protect its music against theft, so that music purchased from iTunes can be played on digital devices purchased from other companies, and protected music purchased from other online music stores can play on iPods. Let's examine the current situation and how we got here, then look at three possible alternatives for the future..."

betterPropaganda

betterPropaganda - Focuses on new, independent music and allows you to use interactive features to discover, hear, and collect it

iConcertCal

iConcertCal - Free iTunes plug-in that monitors your music library and generates a personalized calendar of upcoming concerts in your city. Available for both Mac OS X and Windows

Humble Voice

Humble Voice - Showcases new music, art, photography, writing, and video work from the community at large

Indie Music Takes on the Majors

Tommy Boy Records' Tom Silverman has said that independent record labels are responsible for 30 percent of music sales and 80 percent of all releases worldwide. If indie music were a major label, it would be the biggest in the world - and in a way, that's what's about to happen

Apple settles suit with Beatles' record label

Apple, the computer maker and seller of the iPod, and Apple Corps, the Beatles' record label, today agreed to settle a trademark lawsuit and let it be. The London-based music company had sued the technology company over the Apple name on its online iTunes music store, a move that it claimed violated a 1991 agreement between the two companies

Unsigned Band Web

Unsigned Band Web - Music community featuring unsigned music artists from all over the world. All genres are welcome

The RPM 2007 Challenge

The RPM 2007 Challenge - A challenge for musicians across the world to record an album during the month of February 2007

Mobile phones set to propel music industry into online age

Mobile phones are proving the savior of the struggling music industry and could be the vital springboard needed to propel the business finally into digital sales, industry experts have said. "I believe a lot of the new revenues for the music industry will definitely come through mobile phones," said Dominque Leguern, director of MIDEM, the premier trade fair for the world's music industry that closes its doors on Thursday. With the number of cellphone users predicted to hit the three billion mark in 2007, and 90 percent of the world's population expected to have mobile access by 2010, this could prove a powerful shot in the arm for the music industry

onlymusicmp3.com

onlymusicmp3.com - Sells music downloads form a variety of artist and genres

Musopen

Musopen is a database of online music - public domain music that is - which has been recorded by individuals or orchestras and stored here online for free access. It is completely community-driven. You can browse or search. Each record includes information about the piece and composer, sometimes images, and always the sound file itself (in MP3 format), which you can download or play on the site itself

Indies aim to grab share of online sales

Independent record labels behind artists like The White Stripes, Deep Purple and Arctic Monkeys announced a global deal Saturday to pool access to their catalogs, seeking to grab a bigger share of digital music sales from the major record companies. Indies and their trade groups from more than a dozen countries signed on to Merlin, a nonprofit licensing agency that will cut deals on their behalf with download sites and mobile services, under the terms of the agreement unveiled at Midem, a music industry gathering in the French Riviera town of Cannes

MOG

MOG - a social networking site for blogging music aficionados

iJigg

iJigg - A music site that allows artists to post their work while giving listeners a chance to discover new music

AOL names Napster as exclusive music subscription provider

AOL and Napster have announced that Napster will become the exclusive music subscription provider integrated into AOL Music, replacing AOL Music Now. The two companies will work together to migrate approximately 350,000 paid subscribers of the Music Now service to Napster's digital music subscription service. Additionally, AOL will promote Napster with links to the Napster service throughout AOL's free music site, AOL Music, a music destination on the web

Wikizic

Wikizic - A musician's resource database, available in English and French users, and soon German, Spanish and Italian users

Roots label Shanachie ventures into country music

Indie label Shanachie Entertainment, home to world, Celtic, jazz, reggae and blues music, is branching out into the country market. The 30-year-old New Jersey-based company has signed singers David Ball and Daryle Singletary, and country rock band Confederate Railroad. They join a roster that includes Ladysmith Black Mambazo, jazz saxophonist Everette Harp and R&B band Silk

Michael Brecker dies at age 57

Michael Brecker, a versatile and highly influential tenor saxophonist who won 11 Grammys over a career that spanned more than three decades, died Saturday at age 57. Brecker died in a hospital in New York City of leukemia, according to his longtime friend and manager, Darryl Pitt

Aziza Mustafa Zadeh

Aziza Mustafa Zadeh - Official site of operatic jazz artist Aziza Mustafa Zadeh. In German and English

Gutenberg! The Musical!

Gutenberg! The Musical! - Official site for Gutenberg!The Musical! by Doug Simon and Bud Davenport, featuring Christopher Fitzgerald and Jeremy Shamos as two writers appearing in a backer's audition for their musical about the inventor of the printing press

Overrated Underrated

Overrated Underrated - Social movie and music review site

Juanes launching label with Universal Music

Colombian rock star Juanes is launching a new record label in partnership with Universal Music. 4Js is a joint venture between Juanes and Universal Music Mexico. The label will be distributed worldwide by Universal Music. 4Js has four Colombian acts signed to its roster and plans to officially launch in the first quarter with a release by iconic folk singer/songwriter Octavio Mesa. Like Surco, the joint venture between Universal and producers Gustavo Santaolalla and Anibal Kerpel (to which Juanes is signed), 4Js will not be a stand-alone label but more of an A&R and production entity. Headed by Juanes, the label will focus on pinpointing talent from Colombia and the world

Ropeadope set to launch digital exclusive label in 2007

Ropeadope, the trend-setting independent record label, clothing company, Internet destination and all around lifestyle-defining endeavor, will launch a digital download exclusive label imprint, Ropeadope Digital, in February 2007. It will make its debut with releases from seven artists, including Aunt Jessica, DJ Klock, Electric City, The Frequency, Skip Heller, Larval and Reminder, offering full length albums exclusively via download at Ropeadope.com and all other major digital music retailers

Haystack

Haystack - Music social network developed to help people find music based on trusted opinions. Now in beta, launch version coming in late January

U.K. pop charts set for radical overhaul

The British pop chart will undergo one of the biggest shake-ups since its inception 54 years ago on Sunday when any song downloaded from the Internet will be able to compete for the number one single spot. Up to now, only songs which were physically available for purchase in shops counted toward the weekly chart. Downloads could be included, but only a week before an actual CD single went on sale and for two weeks after it stopped appearing in stores

Mogopop

Mogopop - Free, web-based service where members and visitors can create, publish, and download multimedia content for iPod

Label supports record shop campaign

The oldest record label in the world is backing a campaign to save the world's oldest record shop from closure. Spillers Records, in Cardiff, which sold the first wax phonograph cylinders when it was founded in 1894, has already attracted support from rock bands including the Manic Street Preachers. The band's frontman James Dean Bradfield still shops at the store, and he and bass player Nicky Wire used to busk outside before they became famous. Now the band's record label, Columbia Records, has added its weight to the campaign