TxtTunes

TxtTunes - Allows users to download songs as mp3s or ringtones and pay for them by charging the price to a cell phone. Users can also join an online music community and receive artist updates via text message

New Blog: Voice of America African Music Treasures

Enjoy African music? Now you can listen to it on a VOA blog. The Voice of America has launched African Music Treasures, its first blog designed especially for African music fans around the world. Matthew Lavoie, host of VOA's popular Music Time in Africa music show, will moderate the blog featuring music from VOA's extensive and rare African music collection, music commentary, audio clips, bios of interesting musicians, and chats with online participants. "Our archive is overflowing with rare music from every country in Africa," said Lavoie. "I'm excited to share it with my fellow enthusiasts," he added

A2IM

A2IM - American Association of Independent Music is a coalition of independent labels promoting fair music trade, musicians rights, and the distribution of independently produced music on mainstream radio and television

Free Music Zilla

Free Music Zilla - Find and download music from streams on social music sites like Pandora, Imeem, Last.fm, MySpace Music, and more. Site features a blog and forum

DanceJam

DanceJam - Hammer is back with this site for uploading and viewing hip hop dancing, rapping, and jamming. Users who upload the best dance videos win prizes and internet fame

TelevisionTunes.com

TelevisionTunes.com - "Here you will find tonnes of TV theme music and songs from yesterday and today. Browse our huge archive of 4,024 theme songs using the index above or below. All of the theme music is in MP3 format"

CDT Posts Music Download "Warning List"

"Center for Democracy and Technology has created a list to alert consumers about music download Web sites that charge fees and claim a large selection, but do not appear to have obtained licenses to ensure that users' downloads from the site are legal. Consumers looking to download music lawfully for the new computers and MP3 players they receive this holiday season may want to check CDT's list before paying money to unfamiliar but legitimate-looking music services. CDT hopes that warning consumers about these sites can help avoid confusion and promote the continued growth of the lawful online music market"

imeem

imeem is an online community where millions of fans and artists discover new music, videos, and photos, and share their tastes with friends

CD Art Display

CD Art Display - Displays music cover art based on what your media playing is currently playing, also adds player control features to the desktop

Dan Fogelberg - 1951-2007

Dan Fogelberg - Official site of of the late Dan Fogelberg includes a biography, discography, lyrics, and photos

RemixToolkit.com

RemixToolkit.com - Develops professional hip hop and R&B sample libraries for remixers, DJs, and producers

NewMusicBox

NewMusicBox is a Web-based advocacy magazine and portal dedicated to the music of American composers and improvisers and their champions. A multi-media publication from the American Music Center, NewMusicBox offers: in-depth profiles, articles, and discussions; up-to-the-minute industry news and commentary; coverage of upcoming performances and new books; plus a direct portal to our internet radio station, Counterstream, where visitors can hear recordings of American music as well as special programs

Free Christmas Music from Magnatune

Create an elegantly merry mood with the Magnatune Christmas Compilation, featuring over 60 minutes of the most timeless and classic carols of the season, by ten of Magnatune's best-selling artists

Listen for Life

Listen for Life - a global organization created for the preservation and advancement of musical culture by serving the needs of music, musicians and music listeners in every region of the world. Through our variety of outreach, education and media projects, we aim to create an international family of music listeners, in community with those who compose, teach, and perform all of the wonderfully diverse musical styles that can be heard on the planet

Anywhere.FM

Anywhere.FM is a powerful music player that makes it easy to:
Upload your entire music collection
Play it anywhere on the best web music player
Discover new music through Friend Radio

Barron's publishes Rock & Roll Heaven

Rock & Roll Heaven: A Fascinating Guide to 200 Musical Icons Who Have Joined the Great Gig in the Sky by Robert Dimery and Bruno MacDonald, published by Barron's

BoomShuffle

BoomShuffle - An online music experience that lets you and your friends collaborate to create great music mixes you can stream from anywhere on the Web. It's a fun way to make mixes that play back all the hottest tracks, in their entirety, for free. Think of BoomShuffle as an Internet radio station where you and your friends are the DJs. You all choose the songs that make up the mix.

Soundsnap

Soundsnap - Community-powered library with free sounds, sound effects, loops, and beats.

MuViBee

MuViBee - Search music videos from a variety of different sources. Browse by artist, album, genre, or charts. Build a video list and/or watch other users' video lists

NPR: Music

NPR: Music - Free, multi-genre multimedia site that presents the best of public radio music

Hitlab

Hitlab is an online lab where musicians can come and test out their songs to find out if they have a potential hit on their hands! Hitlab uses revolutionary DHS technology (Dynamic Hit Scoring) which compares your song's hit potential to the Top 100 Billboard hits of the past 6 years! And Hitlab is also holding a contest where you could see your dreams of getting a record deal fulfilled! With key players of the music industry on the jury listening in on your creations, your song could be the next one to top the charts!

TMF Pure

TMF Pure is a music video channel based in Netherlands, and is part of the MTV Networks Europe. It shows non stop pop music videos and occasionaly MTV's programmes like cribs, the Osbournes etc.

MTV Brand New

MTV Brand New shows alternative, punk and rock videos 24 hours a day without any commercial breaks. In the evening the channel also broadcasts MTV Live shows as well.

RCRD LBL

RCRD LBL is a network of ad-supported online record labels and blogs offering completely free music streams and downloads from emerging and established artists

Stairway to Digital Heaven

"Led Zeppelin joins the digital age by making their entire catalog available on iTunes. This is a big deal for digital music lovers, even if you're not a fan of Led Zeppelin (and really, who's not a fan of at least one Zep song?). Maybe this will force the hands of stubborn bands who continue to resist the way of the Web" - The Spark

EsFresh

EsFresh allows you to watch every version of music videos, lyrics and many more for each song by your favorite artists and make your own Playlist. You can discover new music using our new Radio Station where you type a Genre or an Artist and esFresh plays similar Music

Berkleemusic Directory

Berkleemusic Directory - Music network and directory of musicians, engineers, producers, web designers, composers, and instructors. From the Berklee College of Music in Boston

Project Playlist

Projectplaylist.com is an information location tool similar to Google and Yahoo! but devoted entirely to the world of music. Our purpose is to help you find and enjoy music legally throughout the web in the same way that other search engines help you find webpages, images, and other media, but we also add a social /community twist. We make it easy for you to create playlists, share your playlists with friends, and browse playlists of others

Nexstage

Nexstage has been created by writer-performer Brenda Baker to help emerging musical artists take their live shows to the next stage of development

Musician Leader

Musician Leader - allows musicians and bands to network, find members, join a band, and publish their music online. Site features listings for musicians, bands, venues, and recording studios

KylieKonnect

Singer Kylie Minogue has launched her own social networking website for her fans to communicate with each other. The KylieKonnect website enables fans to create personal profiles and upload images, as well as "keep up to date with all the very latest on Kylie"

Oomix

Oomix - a site that allows musicians to collaboratively make and sell music online while each getting paid a portion of the revenue. Has creative tools for both the amateur and professional musician

Music-Alerts

Music-Alerts - uses Amazon to deliver RSS album alerts when an artist is about to release a new album. There's no registration. Just type in a list of artists and create a feed. As soon as it's in Amazon's system, you'll see it in your feed

Xclusivetrax

Xclusivetrax - Offers digital access to exclusive hip-hop songs, videos, and news. Members can also upload their own songs, blog, bio, and photos

AFA Music Group to Launch Digital Music Label

AFA Music Group, Ltd. is pleased to announce that the Company is planning to launch its own full-service digital music label in early 2008. The label will encompass all aspects of a traditional record label including music distribution, marketing, publishing and merchandising. This endeavor will enable AFA Music Group to maximize revenues from its ownership in the master recordings. AFA Music Group plans to launch the label in the first quarter of 2008 and make music downloads, merchandise, art work, photos, and other artist information available through the Company's Web site, www.afamusic.com. At that time, the Company will announce additions to its roster of artists and simultaneously launch an aggressive marketing campaign, both domestically and internationally, to promote the label and the artists

Ruby Glover dead at 77

Vocalist Ruby Glover died a day after collapsing onstage during a benefit performance in East Baltimore, the Baltimore Sun said Monday. She was 77

International Music Score Library Project shut down

Feldmahler writes: "On Saturday October 13, 2007, I received a second Cease and Desist letter from Universal Edition. At first I thought this letter would be similar in content to the first Cease and Desist letter I received in August. However, after lengthy discussions with very knowledgeable lawyers and supporters, I became painfully aware of the fact that I, a normal college student, has neither the energy nor the money necessary to deal with this issue in any other way than to agree with the cease and desist, and take down the entire site. I cannot apologize enough to all IMSLP contributors, who have done so much for IMSLP in the last two years..."

Rhapsody on TiVo

"With Rhapsody on TiVo, you can choose from millions of songs, search for your favorites, tune in to continuous music on Rhapsody Channels, and build your own library straight from your TV using your TiVo remote. Whether you're in the mood for classical, hip-hop, or anything in between, it's all just a few clicks away. And with a Rhapsody membership, you can listen all you want, without the need to buy individual songs"

Jeff Beck announces rare shows

Legendary guitarist Jeff Beck has announced six shows in five days at the world-famous Ronnie Scott's Club in London’s Soho, running from November 27 to December 1. With a band featuring drummer Vinnie Colaiuta, keyboardist Jason Rebello and female bassist Tal Wilkenfeld, Jeff will be performing a wide selection of material over the week. Ronnie Scott's only holds 200 people and has recently had a GBP3 million makeover. No seat is more then 50 feet from the stage. So this is a rare opportunity to catch one of the world’s greatest guitarists in a very intimate environment

Rap Video

Rap Video - Featured rap artists, video spotlights and archives, reviews, and new DVD releases

The Hype Machine

The Hype Machine - A site that tracks music blog discussions from MP3 blogs. The goal? To make music discovery fun and promote artists

Hip Hop Roll

Hip Hop Roll - Hip Hop Roll is industry news, photos, and articles presented in a blog format and browsable by subjects like romance, sightings, rumors, interviews. Also includes bios for popular hip hop stars

Mixaloo

Mixaloo - brings the art of the mix-tape into the digital age. Explore a library of over three million songs and arrange unique music mixes that express your complex self

Lily branches out with record label

First it was fashion, and now pop princess Lily Allen is reportedly looking to expand her brand with her very own record label. The Smile singer, who is also in talks about producing her own TV show, is said to hope the stable will launch homegrown talent from around the world. It comes as the 22-year-old recently ditched her management company after she failed to break the US and pick up any major awards this year

Musopen

Musopen - "an online music library of copyright free music (public domain music). We want to give the world access to music, without the legal hassles so common today. There is a great deal of music that has expired copyrights, but almost no recordings of this music is in the public domain. We aim to record or obtain recordings that have no copyrights so that our visitors may listen, re-use, or in any way enjoy music"

Open Mouth Media

Open Mouth Media - Share Songs & Video. Blog. Create radio stations. Print On-Demand CD. Sell or Purchase Event Tickets. Create a Forum

Pitchfork Media

Pitchfork Media - Record reviews, plus daily music news, and features

ONE WAY Music Magazine

ONE WAY Music Magazine - Showcases new and classic rock, jazz, blues, singer-songwriter, acoustic, world, folk, and roots music with features, spotlights, and reviews of DVDs, soundtracks, music software, and audio equipment

TempoStand

TempoStand is an online musical portal that promotes independent bands, artists, and musicians in India by using CC-licenses. TempoStand records tracks for groups and then releases these recordings under a CC-India BY-SA License, allowing people to remix and redistribute the tracks as they see fit

Record companies win music sharing trial

"The recording industry hopes $222,000 will be enough to dissuade music lovers from downloading songs from the Internet without paying for them. That's the amount a federal jury ordered a Minnesota woman to pay for sharing copyrighted music online" - AP

Daniel Pearl Music Days

Daniel Pearl Music Days - An international network of concerts using the power of music to reaffirm commitment to tolerance and humanity. Inspired by the legacy of journalist and musician Daniel Pearl, World Music Days uses the universal language of music to spread a message of hope and unity across cultural divides

The Year the Music Died

The Year the Music Died (which was 1972) is packed with information, stories, trivia, and photos relating to the "golden era" of pop music between 1964 and 1972. Author Dwight Rounds covers the Beatles and their music in depth, including a separate chapter devoted to John Lennon. Subsequent chapters covering the Rolling Stones, Byrds, Doors and CSNY, are followed by sections on all the other influential groups of the era. Rounds also discusses the major music festivals of the time (Monterey Pop, Woodstock, and the Isle of Wight), followed by history and commentary of the social movements of the time

Rapture TV

Rapture TV mix quality music across all tastes and trends, also covering sports, comedy and different film genres

Out of the Shadows

Out of the Shadows - Amy Lee, the singer and song writer for the rock group Evanescence, represents and raises money for this campaign and fund for epilepsy research and awareness

Naija Jams

Naija Jams - Nigerian music blog featuring news, photo galleries, concert information, and discussion about afrobeat, hip hop, soul, juju, reggae, and highlife

Harptallica

Harptallica - Official site of Harptallica, the Metallica tribute duo of two female harpists playing old and recent Metallica classics. Site includes audio samples and their CD

musicOMH.com

musicOMH.com is a diverse and completely independent reviews and features publication, covering music, films and theatre in London, the UK and beyond. Editorially it occupies a space somewhere between newspapers and specialist music magazines

60's & 70's Asian Pop Record Covers Photo Gallery

60's & 70's Asian Pop Record Covers Photo Gallery - Gallery of rare Asian pop singles from the 1960s and '70s

Amazonmp3

Amazonmp3 - official site of Amazonmp3, offering MP3 downloads of popular and classical music, new releases, and more, in a format suited to any media player

Kompoz

Kompoz - A social workspace and music collaboration tool for musicians. Use it to compose new music with other artists around the world. Whenever you got an idea for a song, record a track, upload it, then invite others to add drums, bass, vocals or anything else to it

2007 MOBO Awards

The Music of Black Origin (Mobo) Awards 2007 will be held on 19 September

LastGraph

LastGraph - a web-based system for making pretty wavegraphs of your Last.fm musical profile. The charts have time along the horizontal axis, and number of plays on the vertical; think of it as sort of a stacked line graph, but centered, smoothed, and generally nicer

WeBot

WeBot - Stream your songs from more than one machine at a time. Is your music scattered across disparate PCs? Are you never sure which computer you'll be in front of next? Download the client software on each machine, select the directories where your music hides, and you can stream your songs from any web interface

Artist Management Resource

Artist Management Resource - Artist Management Resource from the Indie Managers Association provides music industry information and resources for artist managers and self-managed artists

The Mersey Beatles

The Mersey Beatles - Tribute band from Liverpool, U.K. Site features band info, reviews, show details, and photo gallery

Led Zeppelin reunite for Ertegun tribute

Led Zeppelin will perform a one-time comeback concert in memory of Ahmet Ertegun, a co-founder of Atlantic Records. The band will perform together for the first time in 19 years on Nov. 26, at London's The O2 venue, on the banks of the River Thames. Promoters said the concert would pay tribute to Ertegun - the label boss who popularized Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin and Led Zeppelin - who died in December at age 83

Musigy

Musigy - Our technology makes it possible for people to make live music together over the Internet. Just plug in your guitar, keyboard, microphone or whatever you've got, and make music with other members of the Musigy community. It's as if you're in the same room! You see each other on a video screen and play in synch. Musigy Maker offers high-quality sound and ultra-low delays. And best of all, it's free!

Opera legend Luciano Pavarotti dies at 71

World renowned tenor Luciano Pavarotti has died at his home in the northern Italian city of Modena. The singer, who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last year, was 71. His charismatic performances - particularly alongside fellow tenors Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras - helped bring a new audience to opera. Pavarotti had cancer surgery in July 2006 in New York, five months after his last performance. He had not made any public appearances since then

Soundcrank

Soundcrank - Rediscover the digital music experience with this new community. Voice your opinions, find people and information to connect with, and get recommendations from your peers

Music Arsenal

"Music Arsenal is a music industry business management tool. Our web application helps record labels, booking agents, managers, promoters and anyone else in the music industry manage their companies in an easy way"

Mubito

"Mubito gives musicians and independent record labels the tools to create and manage official music sites, and their online promotion and distribution. Mubito is so simple and powerful that you’ll never need a webmaster again"

SkreemR

"SkreemR is a search engine for locating audio files on the web. We don't actually host any files - we index what exists on the publicly accessible reaches of the internet. Our goal is to make this content as searchable and useable to the internet community as possible"

LaunchALabel.com

LaunchALabel.com will bring together 50,000 music fans to launch and run their own record label. These 50,000 fans will choose the label's name and the first 5 bands to sign to record contracts worth $200,000 each. From there they will have input into every aspect of how to market and promote the label and its artists. Joining LaunchALabel.com is free until 50,000 members have joined and expressed interest in being a part of music history. Once that threshold is reached, each of those members will be required to pay $25 for access to the nomination and voting area. In sum, this will raise $1.25 million to sign bands and to pay for expenses including office space and staff

Deezer

Deezer - The first on demand juke box online providing free music without download. The concept is simple: give consumers a full and free access to all their favorite songs, pay artists and their producers through a revenue share based on our advertising revenues, and help discover new artists through a wide audience.

Grooveshark

Grooveshark - An online service and web-based application used for sharing music within a community of music lovers distributing DRM-free MP3s across a p2p network. Also rewards you for sharing, reviewing, and discovering new music

Hip Hop Stars Understand The Real Business Models For The Music Industry

"It's funny every time we hear someone say that the music industry is in trouble. There's very little evidence that's true. More music is being produced today than ever before - and plenty of people are still making a ton of music in the music business. What's actually in trouble is the traditional recording industry, which is quite different than the music industry. When we point out business models for musicians, we seem to get a lot of pushback, but there's more and more evidence that artists are successfully embracing the model we've put forth -- and they're raking in the cash doing so. Forbes just came out with a report about how much money the top hip hop artists are making, and they're doing quite well. However, it's not because of just the music, but how they've used the music to sell all sorts of other things" - Techdirt

The Beatles Story

The Beatles Story - Beatles-themed exhibition in Liverpool located within the historic Albert Dock showcases the life, times, culture, and music of the Beatles

MixAlbum.com

MixAlbum.com - Fully automated mixing system where users can download dance tracks and create playlists which seamlessly merge from song to song just like a professional DJ

John Lennon solo catalog debuts on iTunes Store

Apple has announced the debut of the John Lennon solo catalog on the iTunes Store. Sixteen of Lennon's solo works from EMI Music are available for the first time on iTunes starting today, with the 'Lennon Legend' and 'Acoustic' collections making their worldwide digital debuts. For a limited period of 30 days, exclusive video content will be included with the albums 'John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band,' 'Sometime in New York City,' 'Walls and Bridges,' 'Milk and Honey' and the collections 'Anthology' and 'Working Class Hero.'

TuneCore

TuneCore - has arrangements with leading digital music retailers that let us place your music in their online stores and subscription services. You get 100% of the money that your music earns

Google, Universal Music partner to sell DRM-free music

Google and Universal Music Group will be partnering with gBox, Inc., an online music retailer, to sell DRM-free music tracks via Google search results. gBox, based in Apple's backyard of Cupertino, California, will begin selling Universal tracks, sans DRM, via their web site on August 21. Universal will purchase text ads on Google's searches to direct searchers to gBox sales pages.

Strayform

Strayform is community where artists and fans can thrive with no DRM, no commericals and no corporate middle-men. Fan funded proposals let artist get paid without giving up a big cut, without blowing money on ads, and without long term restrictive contracts. Since the Artists are paid up front and the Media is Creative Commons licenced, fans can use freely on any device and share on Peer to Peer networks

Opuzz

Opuzz - Royalty-free music for broadcast, film, video, and web. Opuzz features instant music downloads and CD options

Anywhere.FM

Anywhere.FM is a powerful music player that makes it easy to upload your entire music collection; play it anywhere on the best web music player; discover new music through Friend Radio

Big Green Gathering

Big Green Gathering - The Big Green Gathering is a five day camping event which is currently located in the Mendip Hills in Somerset. The festival offers music and theatrical performances along with workshops addressing green living, farming, business, and health

Soundboard.com

Soundboard.com - Audio resource with thousands of categorized clips. Also allows users to build and share their own soundboards

MusicNet licenses more than one million DRM-free tracks

"MusicNet, the music unit of the leading digital entertainment services provider MediaNet Digital, announced that it will make more than one million DRM-free tracks available to its partners in the third quarter. MusicNet has forged partnerships with EMI Music as well as several leading independent labels including Righteous Babe, Nettwerk, Madacy, Nitro and the labels represented by Digital Music Group, Inc. (DMGI), the Digital Rights Agency (DRA) and the Independent Recording Industry Services (IRIS) for their entire digital music catalogs. MusicNet will make the tracks available for distribution in the MP3 format at a higher sound quality"

Women On The Move: Beautiful

Fourteen independent female artists sing out against domestic violence. A CD of songs for women. Tears, triumph and empowerment. Blues, rock, folk. A range of styles and topics. Raising funds for domestic violence shelters. This CD comes with a 20 page book
Technorati Tag: Music

AnAmericanBand

AnAmericanBand - Social networking site for unsigned bands and their fans to discover each other

Mp3Crib

Mp3Crib - Free MP3 Storage, MP3 Streaming, and MP3 Hosting

ubroadcast

ubroadcast - Broadcast your own live radio show or listen to HD quality broadcasts online with this media player and station manager software

SmugglersMusic

SmugglersMusic is a new site for bands to promote and sell their songs. It operates as a web-based music player, featuring signed and unsigned bands. Viewing a band's profile will give you access to their cover art and other images as a slide show, with the option to download, the band's music as separated by album, the option of purchasing songs and bio information about the artist

Fab Again: A Tribute to The Beatles (2 volumes)

Fab Again: A Tribute to The Beatles - 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
Technorati Tag: Music
Volume 2 also available

Kendra Ross: New Voice

This stellar debut effort is steeped in Modern Soul and Jazz with solid songwriting and sultry vocals. Featuring appearances by Talib Kweli, Eric Roberson and more, "New Voice" is the culmination of years of experience and a passion for the art of music
Technorati Tag: Music

SoulCulture.co.uk

SoulCulture.co.uk - an online magazine that examines the culture and politics of soul, neo-soul, hip-hop, jazz, funk, and blues

TouchRadio

TouchRadio - gives the world a streamable and downloadable collection of nocturnal sounds on wetlands, nine records playing simultaneously, and other, similar sonic experiments

Brainwashed

Brainwashed - a streaming radio station, band web site host, news and review ezine, and small record label of independently produced experimental, alternative, and electronic music. Features podcasts, interviews, downloads, blogs, and features

Live Earth

Live Earth is a monumental music event that will bring together more than 2 billion people on 7/7/07 to raise awareness about global warming. With 24 hours of music across 7 continents, and performances by more than 150 of the world's top musicians, Live Earth will engage, connect, and inspire individuals, corporations and governments to take action to solve the climate crisis

SeeqPod

"SeeqPod is a totally different breed of search and discovery technology provider, because we believe that one day, everything will be 'playable'. Hence we have embraced the term 'Playable Search'. The team at SeeqPod is passionate about technology as well as music. So first we decided to apply some pretty sophisticated technology to music and video search so that anyone, anywhere can mine the deepest crevices and corners of the Web for media that is publicly available, yet not always easy to find"

AllofMP3 shut down, MP3sparks opens

AllofMP3 is a Russian web service that sells digital music at very low prices without any copy protection. As of July 2, AllofMP3.com has been shut down, reportedly by the Russian government. A new site, very similar to AllOfMP3 and also owned by Media Services, launched simultaneous with the shutdown. MP3Sparks looks to be a clone of AllOfMP3 in all but name.