Wanda Wilk dies at 88

Wanda Wilk, a philanthropist, musicologist and devoted champion of Polish classical music who co-founded the Polish Music Center at USC, has died. She was 88. Wilk died Feb. 18 at her Los Angeles home after a long illness, according to an announcement from the Polish Music Center at USC's Thornton School of Music
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Famecast

FameCast - The online music contest where fans watch music videos and vote for artists to win career-launching prizes and opportunities
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Michelle Branch joins Valley's Chicks with Picks Music Fest

National recording artist Michelle Branch will perform at Arizona's first of its kind Chicks with Picks music fest on Saturday, March 21 at Tempe Beach Park. In addition, the ACM's Top New Female Vocalist of the Year nominee Sarah Buxton, music legend Jessi Colter, and Arizona Idol winner Bethany Wright will be featured along with 70 local female singer/songwriters in an all day celebration of women in music
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Pitchfork Music Festival 2009

The Pitchfork Music Festival will return July 17-19 to Union Park on the West Side, promoters will announce Friday. The festival, named after the influential Chicago-based music site pitchforkmedia.com, has been a major mid-summer draw the last three years, with sold-out events attracting 45,000 fans from 45 states and 11 countries. The music e-zine previously curated the Intonation festival at the same site in 2005. Lineups will be announced before tickets go on sale March 13
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Lifetime award for Heart sisters

Ann and Nancy Wilson, founders of soft rock group Heart, are to receive a career achievement award from a US songwriters' organisation. The pair will receive their award at Ascap's annual ceremony on 22 April, which is being held in Hollywood. Singer Ann, 58, and guitarist Nancy, 54, rose to fame with the band in the 1970s, scoring hits over three decades including Crazy On You and Barracuda. Past award recipients have included Stevie Wonder and Neil Young
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Nokia launches music service in Singapore

Music lovers will be able to download as much music as they want for an annual fee with Nokia's new Come With Music service launched on Friday. The service has a catalogue of some two millions songs from the music industry's 'Big Four' labels: Warner, Sony BMG, EMI and Universal. Songs from a number of local labels are also available. Singapore is the second market the service is available in, the first being the United Kingdom, where it was launched in October
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The Music Week Awards 2009 shortlist

The Music Week Awards has announced the shortlist for 2009. The shortlist highlights the final contenders, as the Music Week Awards looks to recognise excellence in the industry encompassing retail, live, broadcasting, digital, marketing, promotions and PR.
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Pop Noise Records

The former frontman of a band who enjoyed indie-chart success in the 1990's has launched a record label in Tipton St John. Simon Bish, who also played bass for Thrilled Skinny, a favourite of late DJ John Peel, has set up Pop Noise Records to boost local acts looking for their big break in the music industry. Simon said: "I know from experience that it can be difficult for bands starting out to attract record label interest." The label currently boasts seven acts based in and around the Exeter area.
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Soundrangers launches new website/services

Soundrangers.com was the first online sound library to specialize in creating all original royalty free sound effects and music specifically designed for the emerging world of interactive and online media.
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beaTunes 2.0

tagtraum industries has announced beaTunes 2.0, a major update to their popular iTunes library management utility for Mac OS X and Windows. Working in parallel with iTunes, beaTunes can analyze any music library, fill in missing and fix existing information to generate better playlists. It can even help find the titles of tracks that have no artist or title associated with them.
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Former 'Idol' Clay Aiken confirms he's parted ways with RCA Records

Clay Aiken has confirmed he's parted ways with RCA Records. However according to the second-season American Idol runner-up, it was his decision to end the relationship with the recording label.
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Apple introduces iTunes Pass for following favorite bands

Apple this week is testing a new feature of its digital download service called iTunes Pass, which will buy shoppers access to all of their favorite bands' iTunes-related releases and exclusive material over a set time period
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College record label goes global

A record label has been created at South Nottingham College and its first release beckons. Students have taken on marketing, management and other business roles to promote SNC Recordings internationally. They could be the next Dizzee Rascals or ascend to the heights of Led Zeppelin. And whether they are dance music specialists or budding hellraisers, their musical productions are about to become available to a worldwide audience
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Hussein Fatal dropped from record label

Hussein Fatal has been dropped by his record label Global Music Group after just 6 months. On February 22, 2009 the former member of 2Pac's Outlawz was given a full release from Global Music Group, and dropped from the label
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Lil Wayne's rock album may not be released under Universal

Rumor has it, Lil Wayne's forthcoming rock-inspired album "REBIRTH" will not be released under Universal Music Group. The decision is withdrawn by the record label's executives because they fear that the album will fail and knock Wayne from being the top-selling singer.
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Stevie Wonder In Performance at the White House: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize

"Stevie Wonder In Performance at the White House: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize" will showcase an evening of celebration with President and Mrs. Obama at the White House in honor of musician Stevie Wonder's receipt of the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. The sixty-minute program, to be taped by WETA Washington, D.C., airs Thursday, February 26, 2009, at 8 p.m. ET on PBS stations nationwide. The concert takes place February 25 and will include performances by Wonder himself and Tony Bennett, Diana Krall, Martina McBride, Esperanza Spalding, Will.i.am, and the gospel duo Mary Mary, among others. President Obama will confer the Gershwin Prize upon Wonder during the event
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Record Rama Sound Archives is still looking for a new home

After 41 years of collecting, storing, and cataloguing, the Mawhinney family of Pittsburgh is hopeful of relocating their Record Rama Sound Archives for a fraction of its appraised value. The Library of Congress, the National Archive and the National Library of Canada have reportedly designated the collection as the largest privately owned archive of its kind.
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The Archive from Sean Dunne on Vimeo.

Live on 35mm by Valerio Berdini

Live on 35mm by Valerio Berdini - Contemporary live music photographed on glorious B&W film
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The Who's Quadrophenia makes stage debut, May

The Who's legendary cult rock opera Quadrophenia is being brought to the stage for the first time. The new musical, based on the band's classic 1973 album and subsequent film, will embark on a UK tour in Plymouth on 11 May 2009. Set in London and Brighton at the height of the Mod era, Quadrophenia is told through the eyes of Jimmy, a hedonistic, style-conscious teenager who embarks on a life-changing trip to Brighton. The 1979 film, which became a cult hit, starred Sting, Phil Daniels, Leslie Ash, Toyah Wilcox and a young Ray Winstone. The score includes "The Rock", “The Real Me”, “5:15”, "Love, Reign o'er Me" and the title track.
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New Orleans guitarist Snooks Eaglin dies at 72

Snooks Eaglin, the New Orleans rhythm & blues guitarist known for his dexterous finger-picking and boundless repertoire, died Wednesday afternoon. He was 72

Brit Awards winners 2009

Brit Awards winners 2009 full list available

tweetj

Discover the music people are tweeting about by simply including #tweetj in your tweets to add songs to a social playlist at tweetj
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30th Blues Music Awards

The 30th Blues Music Awards will be Thursday May 7, 2009 at the Cook Convention Center in Memphis, Tennessee
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iPodRobot

iPodRobot - Software to transfer songs, videos, photos, and playlists from your iPod to your computer folder, or import them to iTunes library
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BRIT Awards 2009 at Amazon UK

The nominations for this year's Brit awards are in. See the listings at Amazon UK
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Louie Bellson dies at 84

"Louie Bellson, a jazz drummer and bandleader who combined remarkable instrumental virtuosity with far-ranging compositional skills, has died. He was 84. According to his wife, Francine, Bellson died Saturday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles of complications of Parkinson's disease following a broken hip in November. Bellson's long, productive career stretched from his teens -- when, in competition with 40,000 other young players, he won the Slingerland National Gene Krupa drumming contest -- to the tours and seminars he continued until 2008. Best known as a superlative big band drummer as a result of his work in the 1940s and '50s with Tommy Dorsey, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Harry James, Duke Ellington and others, Bellson was also an adept small group player. His more than 200 recorded appearances as leader and sideman encompass sessions with Jazz at the Philharmonic, Woody Herman, Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, James Brown and dozens of others, including Ellington's Big Four alongside guitarist Joe Pass and bassist Ray Brown. - LA Times
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Sky and Omnifone to launch unlimited online music download service (UK)

UK Internet users will soon be able to enjoy unlimited, legal music downloads at home for a small additional monthly fee, after a British-based music company announced it had signed deals with internet service providers and major record labels. Omnifone, which already provides unlimited music downloads to mobile phone users, said its MusicStation Next Generation service would provide internet users with a legitimate alternative to illegal file sharing. It is on the verge of signing a deal with Sky which would enable Sky broadband customers to pay a little more for their monthly internet subscription in exchange for unlimited music downloads
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Record labels make ISPs ‘copyright cops’ for piracy

"The world's biggest record companies sued college students, a 12-year-old girl and a dead woman and still failed to stamp out music piracy. Now they’re turning to internet service providers (ISP). Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group Corp., EMI Group and Sony Music Entertainment have gained leverage through court and government actions to pressure ISPs into warning customers not to steal music - in some cases with a threat to cut service" - BusinessMirror
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The BRIT Awards 2009

Live Show
Date: 18th February 2009
Venue: Earls Court 1
Broadcast: ITV1 from 8pm (Live)
Hosts: Kylie, James Corden and Mathew Horne
Live Performances: Coldplay, Duffy, Pet Shop Boys, Girls Aloud, Kings Of Leon, Take That, U2
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From Hadyn to Hip Hop: Music at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh - video

"The story, told with a sense of humor, follows two library patrons wandering through the Music Department, meeting local musicians and discovering resources the library has to offer. The video is narrated by a well-known announcer from the local classical music station:

Van Zandt opens hard-rock label Lost Cathedral

Actor and guitarist "Little" Steven Van Zandt's rock 'n' roll empire is expanding yet again with a new record label, Lost Cathedral. The first project from the imprint, which will focus on hard rock, is Crown of Thorns' "Faith," due May 14. Lost Cathedral joins Van Zandt's garage rock label, Wicked Cool, under the banner of parent company Renegade Nation. - Reuters
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GUN closes

Great Unlimited Noises - also known as GUN - was launched in 1992 as a joint venture between music giant BMG and former label president Wolfgang Funk. The label continued business after its parent company merged with Sony records in 2005 but shut down this week. Artists currently on the label's roster, including Bullet For My Valentine and Lordi, will now be passed on to Sony's German subsidiaries - WENN

Twisten.FM

Grooveshark's brand new site showing you exactly what Twitter is listening to by aggregating what's posted to Twitter from tons of music sites, Twisten.FM shows you what's new and what's hot
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iShred

"Frontier Design Group has introduced iShred, a complete electric guitar application for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Based on the flexible and highly playable interface developed for Guitar, Frontier's advanced acoustic guitar app, iShred adds features that let users create their own custom electric guitar tones. iShred starts with a set of high-fidelity guitar samples, then feeds them through eight exciting effects pedals and an overdriven amp simulator. Whether you want a clean trebly surf sound, a spacey rock lead, or an all-out metal assault, iShred delivers the goods"

Motown celebrates its 50th Anniversary

"No other record company in history has exerted such an enormous influence on both the style and substance of popular music and culture. With more than 180 No. 1 hit songs worldwide and counting, that influence is still being felt today, from pop to hip-hop, Motown celebrates the 50th anniversary of the company’s founding"
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Song.ly

Song.ly - helps you share music on Twitter. Simply submit a link to an mp3 file you've found on the Web and tweet it. Your friends will get a short link to a page allowing them to play the song right in the browser
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Fairtilizer

Fairtilizer - a Do It Yourself Music Club providing tools and services for artists, labels, and media to share, promote, and distribute today's best new music
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Inez: Singsoulgirl

Inez: Singsoulgirl - Powerful female R&B and Hiphop music with influences from traditional Indigenous culture and language
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Huffduffer

Huffduffer - Create your own podcast by finding and adding links to audio files on the web. You can also subscribe to podcasts of other found sounds
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Canadian Music Week 2009

Canadian Music Week is Canada's leading annual entertainment event dedicated to the expression and growth of the country's music, media and entertainment industries. Combining four information-intensive conferences; a trade exposition; a film festival; four awards shows and the nation's largest New Music Festival, CMW spans a four-day period from March 11 to March 14, 2009 at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel and various downtown Toronto venues, attracting participants from across the globe
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US Mint unveils DC quarter showing Duke Ellington

The nation's capital now has its own quarter. The U.S. Mint on Monday released the coin featuring Washington native and jazz great Duke Ellington at his piano. It also has an inscription of the city's motto, "Justice for All." Collectors can go online or to banks to buy two-roll sets and bags of up to 1,000 quarters. D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton says officials are planning an event to celebrate the coin later this month. Last year, the U.S. Mint rejected designs that included the slogan "Taxation Without Representation." That refers to the long-running gripe that D.C. residents pay federal taxes without full representation in Congress. The Mint's state quarter program finished in November with Hawaii and is moving on to U.S. territories - Yahoo
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IFPI publishes Digital Music Report 2009

IFPI publishes Digital Music Report 2009 which "gives a comprehensive overview of trends in the music business internationally. It shows an industry that has shifted its approach from one based only on unit sales of music to 'monetising' access to music across a multitude of channels and platforms"

Bandcamp

"Bandcamp isn't Yet Another Place to Put Your Music. We power a site that's yours. So instead of our logo plastered between banner ads for Sexy Singles Chat, your fans see your design, your music, your name, your URL. You retain all ownership rights, and we just hang out in the background handling the tech stuff"


Bandcamp Screencast from Ethan Diamond on Vimeo.

CASH Music

CASH Music: "a Coalition of Artists and Stake Holders. CASH is a platform for engagement. A way for audiences and creators to exchange creative perspectives and ideas. Why is this good? Because it's how things are now - and in our humble opinion it's a change for the better. An engaged and participating audience has a vital stake in the continuation and existence of the artistic output. A truly engaged audience forms a healthy, vibrant 'scene' grown up around creative works"

Jazz musician David 'Fathead' Newman dies at 75

David "Fathead" Newman, a jazz musician who played with the Ray Charles Band and won fame as a tenor sax soloist, has died at age 75. Newman played and recorded with a wide range of jazz and soul luminaries, such as Herbie Mann, Aretha Franklin and Aaron Neville. He also led a successful solo career. He was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1990 for his work with Art Blakey and Dr. John. Manager Karen Nemman says the jazz musician died Tuesday of pancreatic cancer in a Kingston, N.Y., hospital. According to his Web site, Newman spent 12 years with the Ray Charles Band beginning in 1954. He began as the baritone sax player and became the star tenor sax soloist
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Songkick

Songkick - find out where your favourite bands are playing next, based on your music library
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Media Music Now

Media Music Now - Offers royalty-free music, and sound effects for use in media productions and multimedia applications
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Maverick via Exact Editions

Maverick is a monthy magazine for fans of country music and is breaking the mould of how country music is perceived in the UK. Now available via the Exact Editions platform

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has announced its 2009 Inductees, ticket availability to the Induction Ceremony and a weeklong schedule of events to celebrate the Induction's return to Cleveland. On April 4, 2009, the Induction Ceremony will take place in Cleveland for the first time since 1997. The 2009 Induction Ceremony will be broadcast live on Fuse TV
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Guys and Dolls

Guys and Dolls - Official site for the 2009 Broadway revival of Guys and Dolls, the musical by Jo Swerling, Abe Burrows and Frank Loesser, based on the stories of Damon Runyon, starring Oliver Platt, Lauren Graham, Craig Bierko, and Kate Jennings Grant
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SongNation

SongNation - A professional song pitching platform and community that connects songwriters and music publishers with those who are seeking material
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Music Blog Zeitgeist 2008

Hype Machine, Blog Fresh Radio, Musebin, and imeem have teamed up to deliver the Music Blog Zeitgeist 2008, an assessment of the years best albums, artists, and songs as decided by music bloggers. The Zeitgeist didn't poll bloggers directly but rather looked at the huge amount of data Hype Machine gathered over 2008 in regards to posting trends in the music blogosphere
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Pop singer Dave Dee dies aged 65

British pop star Dave Dee has died at the age of 65, following a three-year battle with cancer. The singer continued playing gigs with his band - Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich - until near to the end of his life, record plugger Sean Cooney said. "He didn't let it get him down. He was defying it," Mr Cooney added. The group had eight top 10 hits, including a UK number one single in 1968 with The Legend of Xanadu, in which Dee famously cracked a whip. They first entered the UK chart in December 1965 with You Make it Move, which peaked at number 26
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Brian Eno Condemns Israeli Attacks In Gaza

Brian Eno has condemned Israel's ongoing military action in Gaza - and accused the state of pretending to be the 'victim. More than 600 people are believed to have been killed since Israeli forces launched a full-scale campaign against the leaders of the Palestinian Sunni paramilitary organisation Hamas eleven days ago. Speaking at a rally in London over the weekend, Eno said: "What we're seeing in Gaza is an experiment in provocation conducted by the Israeli government"
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Mufin

Mufin - A music discovery engine that delivers a fresh and accurate system that introduces you to more of the music you'll enjoy based on your individual musical tastes. The team behind the app includes some of the original minds behind the MP3 format
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Kennedy Center Honors: Pete Townshend

Biography of musician Pete Townsend, 2008 Kennedy Center honoree
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Kennedy Center Honors: Barbra Streisand

Biography of singer and actor Barbra Streisand, 2008 Kennedy Center honoree
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Kennedy Center Honors: Roger Daltrey

Biography of musician Roger Daltry, 2008 Kennedy Center honoree
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Kennedy Center Honors: George Jones

Biography of singer George Jones, 2008 Kennedy Center honoree
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Dizzler

Dizzler free downloadable application allows users to search online and play free music, videos, games, and radio stations on their desktop or mobile device.
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Rock songwriter Delaney Bramlett dies at 69

Singer-songwriter-producer Delaney Bramlett, who penned such classic rock songs as "Let it Rain" and worked with musicians George Harrison and Eric Clapton, has died. He was 69. Bramlett died early Saturday at UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center in Los Angeles as a result of complications from gallbladder surgery, his wife Susan Lanier-Bramlett said.
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Maestro

Maestro - a new web-based social music platform where you can remotely access your entire music library from any browser, interact with your music and your friends' music, find out information about the music you are listening to, stream your playlists to MySpace or Facebook, send playlists to your friends or anyone else you want to...and purchase MP3s of the songs you hear as you discover new music
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WRMusicReview Podcast 04: December 2008

The 4th Episode of the WomensRadio Music Review Podcast features the finest Independent Female Musicians from around the world (and some unique Holiday inclusions)! Including tracks by Marienne Kreitlow, Naomi and the Courteous Rudeboys, Sharon Paquette, Anemo, The Action Design, Adrienne Pierce, Heidi Little, Sara Cox, Stacie Rose, 7 Horses, Tracy Newman & the Reinforcements, Taeko Kunishima, Amanda Abizaid, Noe Venable, Janie Becker, Kid Moxie & Angel Farringdon! …with genres spanning Singer-Songwriter, Grunge, Indie, Rock, Pop, Punk, Electronica, Folk, Alt. Rock, Country, Blues, Reggae, World, Hip-Hop and more!!

Audiolizer.com

Audiolizer.com - lets you listen to streaming music for free
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Project Playlist Announces Agreement with SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT

"Project Playlist, Inc., the leading social media network where music fans discover, create, and share playlists today announced an agreement with SONY BMG that will provide its users direct access to SONY BMG's extensive digital music library of audio and video. By adding SONY BMG's rich catalog to its service, Project Playlist will enhance fans' social networking and discovery experience, and ultimately increase the distribution and digital commerce of music content online. Project Playlist will provide instant access to SONY BMG's audio and video content including today's popular artists, catalog classics, and new emerging talent - which will increase user choice and music quality. Project Playlist has become one of the Web's most popular services where fans can connect with their favorite artists as well as share, discover and purchase music online. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. "We are pleased to enter into this content agreement with Project Playlist," commented Thomas Hesse, President of Global Digital Business, U.S. Sales, and Corporate Strategy for SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT. "We are excited about the company's efforts to create an attractive user experience around music discovery and support its plan to enhance its free streaming and playlist management service with new opportunities to drive commerce." "Collaborating with SONY BMG is a significant milestone in our effort to improve the access and quality of content on Project Playlist, and enhance the overall user experience," said Jeremy Riney, founder of Project Playlist. "We hope that we soon will be able to provide our users with ready access to even more of the music they want in the way that they want it." Project Playlist is one of the fastest growing Web sites and most popular widgets on the Internet, according to market research company comScore, with more than 40 million users. The service provides music fans with the ability to easily discover digital music, build custom playlists, and share with anyone, anywhere on the Web"

ArtistData

ArtistData - Enables musicians to update their information on multiple sites (MySpace, Virb, PureVolume, Jamebase, last.fm, etc) with a single mouse click
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Livekick

Livekick - helps you discover great local live concerts based on the artists you like, and to find the best and cheapest available tickets online
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The Cloud Player

The Cloud Player - A web-based music player that let’s you: Find and play all tracks from SoundCloud, Save playlists to your Google Account, Make smart playlists based on genre, BPM, etc, Share your ready-made playlists with your friends, and Collaborate in making the best playlists
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nodes.fm

nodes.fm is a freshly-launched elective payment music site. Artists upload their music and listeners electively pay the artist what they want to download their albums. All music is ranked by votes from listeners. There are no restrictions on which artists can post music. Accounts are 100% free

Orb

Orb has developed an award winning service that combines the use of an internet media portal and a proprietary software application. Orb leverages the best in already available technology (hi-speed broadband, Wi-Fi, wireless internet access and sophisticated portable devices) to provide a brand new way for people to connect with their digital media in the manner "how, when and where" they most desire. In short, Orb provides the ability to "MyCast". MyCasting gives the user instant access to photos, music, videos, live television, and other digital content on their home PC at anytime and from any internet-connected device, such as a mobile phone, PDA or laptop. MyCasting is media anywhere
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The Kennedy Center Honors: Roger Daltrey & Pete Townshend

The Kennedy Center honors singer Roger Daltrey and guitarist/songwriter Pete Townshend, the duo at the heart of rock-and-roll legends the Who, known for hits such as "My Generation," "Won't Get Fooled Again" and the rock opera "Tommy."
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Lil' Wayne heads Grammy nominees

US rapper Lil' Wayne has been nominated for eight Grammy awards, including album of the year for Tha Carter III. British rock band Coldplay followed close behind with seven nominations, while rappers Kanye West and Jay-Z, and R&B singer Ne-Yo each received six. Lil' Wayne, Coldplay and Ne-Yo will compete for the prestigious album of the year award, along with Radiohead and Robert Plant with Alison Krauss. Coldplay, Adele, M.I.A. and Leona Lewis are nominees for record of the year. The winners will be announced at a ceremony on 8 February
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Odetta, voice of civil rights movement, dies at 77 of heart disease

Odetta, the singer whose deep voice wove together the strongest songs of American folk music and the civil rights movement, died on Tuesday at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan. She was 77. The cause was heart disease, said her manager, Doug Yeager. He added that she had been hoping to sing at Barack Obama's inauguration.

Atlantic Records posts more digital sales than CDs

"Late last week, one of the largest music labels announced that its sales of digital files exceeded the revenue generated by CDs. As reported in the New York Times, Altantic Records saw 51% of its sales generated by digital sales. This was significantly more than Atlantic's parent company, Warner Music Group, which reported only 27% of its total sales from digital distribution. It should come as no surprise that digital music is quickly replacing physical media. One need only think of the weight and mess of thousands of CDs, versus a nearly unlimited amount on an iPod or streaming on demand. The question is when will other media follow? Some magazines are slowly getting rid of print in favor of online. It will be some time before display technology exceeds the user experience of print on paper. In some ways scholarly journal publishing is already headed down this path. The rest of publishing is slower to adapt. However, several tipping points will likely be reached fairly soon" - NISO blog

New music service will help fight Aids

Sir Elton John, Jay-Z and other leading artists have teamed up to offer world exclusive songs through a new music service to help fight Aids in Africa. Red Wire will act as a digital magazine, delivering news and music to members' desktops while donating half the GBP4 monthly fee to fund work alleviating the effects of the disease. It has been set up by Red, the project established by Bono and others to engage the private sector in raising awareness and help finance Aids programmes. To mark World Aids Day, music lovers will be able to view performances from U2, Coldplay, John Legend, Dixie Chicks, the Police, Elvis Costello and Sheryl Crow by logging on to red.msn.com later. Other performances include The Killers and Sir Elton's Christmas song Joseph, which is being released exclusive to Red Wire two weeks before its official release date. Half of each month's membership fee will go directly to the Global Fund set up to help buy life-saving medicines and other services for people living with HIV and Aids in Africa. Don MacKinnon, founder of Hear Music and former vice president of Music & Entertainment of Starbucks, is one of the men behind the new venture. He said: "Every week, when you receive this great music, you will know you are helping people in Africa get the medicine they need. It is that simple." U2 frontman, Bono, who is also a co-founder of Red, said: "Don MacKinnon just might be the penicillin the ailing music needs. He is an innovator by nature and I have no doubt that some of the music software we are working on at Red will help change the way music is received and change the lives of Africans who will die without Aids drugs that red can help provide."
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Didiom

With Didiom's new, all-in-one application, you can stream music from your PC to your phone wirelessly, for free. Choose from your own music library, or buy and download from the Didiom Marketplace of over 1 million songs

Tribe Of Noise launches One Billion Fans Project

Tribe Of Noise, a community driven music site, recently launched a new project, One Billion Fans, to help promote their growing pool of artists. Musicians, fans, and companies can all log in to support their favorite artist over the coming months with the winner being featured on the digital billboard at Times Square. Voting ends on February 28 2009

Musebin

Musebin - One line music reviews with ratings. As with Twitter, lines are limited to 140 characters. Rate other reviews with Yea or Nay buttons. Currently in beta; you can request an invite
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Open Music Wire

"Open Music Wire has been created by MusiK1 to provide our affiliates and Music Fans alike with FREE MUSIC DOWNLOAD OFFERS from artists and labels who wish to share their hard work under a specific Creative Commons license. Since Open Music Wire is heavily blog driven, only a chosen amount of songs will gain a music review from our contributors, though each song that is approved will be available in the Open Music Library for all to listen to and download"
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SonicSwap

SonicSwap - Put your iTunes on the internet. Lets you post your music and playlist collections on the net, and gives you and your friends access to play your music legally over the internet
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Into Infinity

Into Infinity is an art and music exhibition presented by DUBLAB and Creative Commons. It is built on audio loops and circular canvases that are available online to the public for sharing, remixing, and resubmission. Stay tuned for live exhibition dates and website developments

MusicBrainz

MusicBrainz - a community music metadatabase that attempts to create a comprehensive music information site. You can use the MusicBrainz data either by browsing this web site, or you can access the data from a client program - for example, a CD player program can use MusicBrainz to identify CDs and provide information about the CD, about the artist or about related information. You can also use the MusicBrainz Tagger to automatically identify and clean up the metadata tags in your digital music collections
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Songza

Songza - Search for and listen to any song or band. Songza searches a variety of different sources and plays video when available
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MTV MUSIC

MTV MUSIC - Watch any video that's ever appeared on MTV. Free, legal, and high quality
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Plugo.la

Plugo.la - a social music community for independent musicians and music fans of all genres and tastes. Completely community-driven, members can legally download/stream/(re)sell music and videos; they can vote, comment and plug their favorite bands/artists for a commission; discover the latest music and even make new friends. Musicians can keep current and new fans up-to-date, set their own prices and commissions for their content, and retain 100% full control and rights over their music
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Rock's Backpages Podcast

"Listen to a Podcast which provides an introduction to Rock's Backpages, including its main features and benefits for education as well as sample interviews. Rock's Backpages is an online database of rock music writing, with material dating from the early 1960s to the present day. The library of articles includes reviews, interviews and features, which are fully searchable and presented in full-text. The database also includes Mp3 audio files of original artist interviews, which are available for the first time"

SoundCloud

SoundCloud lets you move music fast & easy. The platform takes the daily hassle out of receiving, sending & distributing music for artists, record labels & other music professionals
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JamNow

JamNow - Jam with another musician online with this free social platform enabling real-time collaboration and musical creation
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Hobnox: Audiotool

Hobnox: Audiotool - Online electronic music studio. Features bass simulators, drum machine, and numerous effects
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EverHYPE

EverHYPE is a social community where users can hype their favorite music, movies, and games to the world
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International DJ via Exact Editions

International DJ is now available online via Exact Editions
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Asiavision Song Contest

Asiavision Song Contest - Official site for the Asiavision Song Contest event. Includes media, press, and event details
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Youlicense

Youlicense - an online music community offering free music licensing and giving music artists a platform to showcase and sell their music. Content buyers are then invited to search, bid for musical content and license the rights to them directly from the artist
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thesixtyone

thesixtyone - a community for people who love new music. Sign up to earn reputation for rating and recommending good music, bookmark songs and create personalized radio with your favorite artists, discover music with friends or follow others with similar tastes
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slotMusic

slotMusic - a versatile new physical music format for the 21st Century. slotMusic enables consumers to instantly and easily enjoy music from their favorite artists. slotMusic will offer exciting music from Universal Music Group, SONY BMG, Warner Music Group, and EMI Music
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Mixwit

Mixwit - Create your own mixtape and share it with your friends on social networks. Add pictures, photos, artwork, drawings... anything you want to style your mixtape
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Passionato

Passionato - New high-quality classical music store with over 18,000 downloadable recordings. All are free from DRM so you can transfer to any device or CD
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MixMatchMusic

MixMatchMusic - Collaborative music community website that aims to connect and benefit both musicians and fans. Includes such innovative features such as the MixMaker, an audio sequencer and editing tool, and the Remix wizard, a lightweight widget that artists can use to involve their fans in the creative process. Currently in beta
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MyVocal

MyVocal - Listen to audio content on your mobile phone. Dial the local MyVocal number to listen to podcasts, audio-magazines, news, interactive voice services, and more. Works on all phones, including mobiles, land lines, and VOIP services. Currently available in eight countries and the service is free while in private beta
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8tracks

8tracks is a simple way for people to create or listen to a mix, a short playlist containing at least 30 minutes - roughly 8 tracks - of music
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