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Free itunes songs blog keeps you up to date with the latest free downloads at the US iTunes Store.
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Radiohead is giving you the opportunity to remix their latest single “Nude,” letting you act as producer, as you’ll have the isolated tracks to create a masterpiece of your own.
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Popular celebrity blogger Perez Hilton is boycotting SonyBMG acts because the label is suing him over the use of song streams on his site.
Archive for the "Internet" Category
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The first MP3 player was introduced by MPMAN in 1998. It was expensive, awkward, and had 32MB of memory. 10 years later, we have flash players with 1000 times the capacity.
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MTV doesn’t show videos anymore, from what we hear, but the art of the music video is alive and well thanks to YouTube. Not only are hit videos great promotional vehicles, but large labels can claim a percentage of the revenue they generate for Google.
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Footage of the showcase most of us would have rather been at, via Vlaze.com
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A crazy scheme in which you pay a monthly fee and get unlimited music, huh? Imagine that.
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Virgin Media in the UK has announced that it is working with the music industry to chase down its file-sharing customers and disconnect them from the internet. At the same time, it will offer an enhanced service which will see its customers get free Usene
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The dead simple tool to submit your Rhapsody listening information to Last.FM
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How to be an Authority Maven: 21 Tips for Keeping Up to Date in Your Niche.
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Tesco is turning the screw on music companies by trying to slash the amount it pays them for CDs sold in its stores.
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The sleeveface pool.
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I have to admit that about the only surprising thing in the news last week from BMI that ringtone sales are likely to drop this year is the fact that it took this long.
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Universal Music Group Distribution, the sales and marketing division of Universal Music Group has entered into a strategic alliance with digital distributor INgrooves.
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More often than not, a typical response from an artist is that they are planning a digital only release and then they’ll see how it goes.
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Gizmodo ran a piece about how to build a 24-track digital home studio for $5,000. I wondered if I could do the same thing for £500 – bearing in mind that Gizmodo didn’t even include software. So, my rules are: You already have a decent PC (1ghz, 256mg ra
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Pop culture-focused social media site Buzznet, based in Los Angeles, has raised a big-ish third round of funding, as much as $25 million, we have learned, and that Universal Music-owned Interscope has invested a few million in it.
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Under the compulsory license for the use of sound recordings – the license which allows Internet radio services to use all legally recorded sound recordings by paying a royalty set by the Copyright Royalty Board – the designated collection agency can, onc
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Want to network with rapper 50 Cent? How about befriending Kylie Minogue? Or Ludacris, or the Pussycat Dolls, for that matter? If so, perhaps you should look elsewhere than, say, MySpace, the default service for most things musical on the social Web.
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If you are reading this article, it’s because you are a musician looking to build a fan-base that one day will enable you to make a decent living off of your talents.
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Friendfeed.com just opened its doors for everyone… you don’t need an invite anymore to use this site, which can act as your feed reader, social network, and twitter-style mini blog all in one. Here are some tips & tricks for Friendfeed.
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We learned (March 27th) that Warner Music, the third largest music label, is gunning for a $5/month music tax on U.S. residents.
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As I write this, iTunes ranks as the 2nd largest seller of music in the U.S. — only Wal-Mart’s physical stores sell more. Digital revenue is real, and there is a lot of it being earned. Sales from iTunes alone can provide a band enough revenue to achieve
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The Newsdump, Mar 31: from X Factor being back to Amy’s follow up to ‘Back To Black’.
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Bob Lefsetz is cranking the outrage to 11. Again. This time, Lefsetz — one of the music industry’s most influential analysts, and certainly the loudest — is seething about the state of the concert business.
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The first thing to notice when you join a private BitTorrent site is the eye-popping quality of the torrents. Each one is carefully culled, hand-picked through a strict moderation process. However, before you start hammering away on that download link – h
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Songbird, the open-source music player that makes finding music easy online, has been updated with new features and bug fixes. If you’ve been looking for a new way to listen to music on your computer, Songbird has a lot to recommend it.
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n February, Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of respected US technology magazine Wired, declared: “Every industry that becomes digital eventually becomes free”. Clearly, the embattled record labels will hope they can prove Anderson wrong by persuading cons
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The $249 Ion LPDock is a turntable designed to turn vinyl album tracks into digital music files and even play them right into your iPod, though the latter is more of a parlor trick than useful feature.
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There is a common perception that marketing campaigns on sites like Facebook and MySpace do not produce the ROI that other online marketing efforts do.
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This list has been narrowed down to the best of the best file storage options, guaranteed to be stable, free, generous with file size limits, offer lots of space, and top things off with some really cool features.
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The iPhone Dev Team’s Pwnage tool is set for public release tomorrow. The tool allows you to upgrade any iPhone with the latest firmware from Apple, modified to make it work with any compatible carrier in any part of the world.
A film came through the post this morning from Netflix called ‘I’m Reed Fish’, which I can’t for the life of me remember putting in my queue. Anyway, it was one of those cute OK movies I guess, not great and not bad either. When a movie is like that I have this awful habit of watching with my laptop open, just ‘in case’, y’know. And sure enough that ‘in case’ arose.
It usually means I’m going to be consulting the IMDB with some query about the film, like location, who was on the soundtrack and any other trivia only a blogger would care about. The trigger that had me reaching for the keyboard was seeing actress Schuyler Fisk sing in a bar scene in the movie.
By the end of the scene I’d managed to ascertain (via the Amazon owned IMDB) that Schuyler Fisk was actually singing the song in the movie, she was Sissy Spaceks daughter and the track was the wonderful, “From Where I’m Standing” (and I’m not usually a folk fan).
Googling the song title got me the lyrics and also a link to a YouTube video of the song in question. Trying to get my hands on a copy of the track in question wasn’t so simple. Bizarrely (as the most memorable track on the soundtrack) the track doesn’t even get a mention on the official soundtrack CD or her MySpace page.
It pops up as a ‘demo’ stream on her artist website but seems that the track is held up in major label (Universal Music) album limbo.
Searching various BitTorrent sites got me zilch, but an MP3 blog search eventually found me the track I was looking for (apparently it was on a 2006 EP called ‘Songs For Now’.
I don’t know, bar two tracks on iTunes and a couple of appearances on soundtracks (except the one that mattered!) I wasn’t able to actually buy any other music. Anyway as an aside, I also stumbled across (her boyfriend?) Joshua Radin’s folky cover of Yazoo’s classic, ‘Only You’ too which was an unexpected gem. You’ll find it on his album, ‘We Were Here’, which by marked contrast you can get quite easily from Amazon either as a traditional CD or as MP3 download.
Related Reading
Schuyler Fisk MySpace (MySpace)
Netflix Fan (Netflixfan.Blogspot)
Orbit Rich Media Downloader (OrbitDownloader.com)
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Here’s a fun one: Today’s Washington Post features a profile of music business renegade Bob Lefsetz, whose ongoing screed (or tirade, depending on your opinion), The Lefsetz Letter, is read by both working-class musicians and high-level industry types
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Trendrr, a fascinating site that recently went live. An offshoot of Wiredset, a New York agency that specializes in promoting media through the Web, social networks and mobile carriers, Trendrr lets users assemble and compare data from a dozen sources (mo
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Have you recently found yourself pining for year-end lists, those neat little summaries of the year’s best music that provide fodder for argument and giggling as the calendar counts down to Dec. 31? Well, then, you’ll want to plant a big, wet one on The G
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I saw a marketing dilemma at the hot new restaurant I went to the other night. We got there on time at 6:30 and the restaurant was about a third full. We were promptly seated at the worst table in the place, in the back, in the corner, cramped by the kitc
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The music industry is finally comfortable selling digital music without copy protection, but the huge shift hasn’t resulted in dramatically higher sales. Instead, it produced something that major music labels have long sought: a strong No. 2 competitor t
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This morning I read with some surprise in USA Today that Amazon is “No. 2 in digital [music] sales since opening nearly six months ago.” Amazon’s entry into this market last year was an important milestone in the continuing irrelevance of DRM and th
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A genuine crack for Windows Vista which allows a pirated, non-activated installation of Vista (Home Basic/Premium and Ultimate) to be properly activated and made fully-operational has just been released by a pirate group.
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I apparently had better things to do this weekend than hear the latest self-righteous, all music is free, the Web changes the fabric of reality post about the music business, this time from Michael Arrington of Techcrunch.
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In an op-ed piece in the New York Times on Saturday, British musician Billy Bragg suggests that social networks like Bebo and MySpace should pay royalties for the music that is made available through their services.
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Just six months after the launch of its mp3 music service, Amazon has emerged as the number two digital music retailer. While Apple still has a huge lead, that lead seems to be dwindling quickly.
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Here at Download Squad HQ, we’re (sadly) all-too-often reminded of the archaic buffoonery found in the world of big-business digital music and video. Whether it’s the notion that DRM prevents piracy (hint: it doesn’t) or the fact that by
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Radiohead is the poster child for web distribution and an autonomous strategy for controlling one’s own destiny (while still making money) as an artist in this day and age. So when we heard about th latest Radiohead “In Rainbows” widget, powered by
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FREE .PDF Download of the TuneCore Music Industry Survival Manual: Music Publishing and Copyright: Cover Songs.
hypebot: 100 Free and Affordable High and Low Tech Music Promotion Tips
100 Free & Affordable High & Low Tech Music Promotion Tips.
Create An Elaborate Plan – Bruce Warila’s Unsprung Wisdom
Revenue from the sale of music is slowing considerably for everyone. Reoccurring revenue, which is the ongoing stream of revenue you make outside of touring, is going to come from consumers that tune into and fall in love with your brand on the Internet.
Breeding Ground-AllHipHop.com
For most of the 16 years of Rap Coalition’s existence, we have assisted artists and indie labels with putting out their own records and negotiating major distribution deals for those who’ve done so successfully.
Stereophile: Chesky Launches High-Resolution Download Store
The founders of Chesky Records have soft-launched HDtracks, a download store that offers full-resolution FLAC files and 320kbps MP3 files.
Digital Destiny- New York Post
MySpace’s plan to launch a digital-music joint venture with the major record companies is picking up steam, as the social networking giant nears deals with Sony BMG and Warner Music Group.
Capitalizing On Fan Feedback – Music Think Tank
Imagine you’re an independent DIY artist that’s just starting out. You’ve recorded some music and started promoting it online. The initial response is overwhelmingly positive. You get emails from friends and strangers……
Music fans prefer Wikipedia to MySpace – Yahoo! News
Search for an artist on any of the popular search engines, and the top three results are practically guaranteed: the artist’s official Web site, Wikipedia entry and MySpace page — often in that order.
ToneShop now makes ringtones for Apple iPhone
Free multi-format Easy Phone Ringtone Creator for Windows. ToneShop Build 9 now creates .m4r ringtones for Apple’s iPhone.That means you can load your new ringtones into iTunes and sync them up to your iPhone in seconds.
Musicadium Blog – The 5 Things Every Band Needs on Their Myspace
You can’t read what you can’t see. So many myspace pages are destroyed by putting hard to read text over an incompatible background photo. Make sure your text is easily readable, easily accessible and logically set out.
IFPI – Digital Music Retailers
List of worldwide legal digital music download stores, listed by country and compiled by the music industry watchdog the IFPI.
Indistr.com
Indistr places all of the control, creativity, and financial gain back into the artists’ hands by allowing you to sell your own music online. Artists take 75% of all income and get paid instantly.
7 Steps to Successful Networking – Blogging Experiment
Yesterday I gave you the secret to networking with A-listers… they’re people too! Ok, so it wasn’t all that profound but believe it or not, realizing that will help you immensely in your networking efforts.
Extended Play Music News by Todd Martens – The Envelope – LA Times
As recently as four years ago, all the talk about a failing major label model didn’t seem to stop the annual South by Southwest Music Conference in Austin, Texas, from sending hordes of A&R reps and journalists on the prowl for the next big thing.
Audio: Rip It Good: From CD to MP3, by Dennis Burger – Electronic House
Whether you’re bringing a huge music collection into the 21st century, simply can’t stand the thought of buying all of your music in the digital domain, or just want to listen to some Beatles on your iPod or Zune, at some point or another you’re going to have to rip a CD.
Industry insiders look for model to replace failing ‘tip jar’ system — Chicagotribune.com
AUSTIN, Texas — While most of the 12,500 registrants at the South by Southwest Music Conference were out playing on a beautiful early spring afternoon a few days ago, the latest plan to save the music industry was being scrutinized at a dimly lit panel.
The media industry’s rising stars: top 40 under 40 – Times Online
They are the young guns tuned in to the accelerating pace of change in the media landscape – the trendspotters and entrepreneurs who stand to reap the biggest rewards over the next digital decade.
These Crazy Musicians Still Think They Should Get Paid For Recorded Music
Why is it the Brits have all the crazy-stupid ideas about how to screw up the music industry even more than it is already?
I’ve heard lots of stories and theories about how to get your website indexed by Google and the other major search bots, (which basically boil down to Yahoo and MSN) in rapid fashion and my record up to yesterday from starting a new site to seeing search bots/crawlers activity on my server stats has been two days.
That record was trashed yesterday when the Google bot came a calling (crawling?) within two hours of my first post going up on the Musicbizhacks site. And I got a hit from a search query, “how do i get my cd distributed on itunes” that someone Googled, minutes after I’d posted this.
That’s pretty good going by any standards and is a good indication of how much faster and efficient the indexers have become. How did they do that? One simple method actually. I posted an incoming link on my MySpace profile and another in the header of my music directory, Buzzsonic.dj and that was it.
So. Anyone who tells you you need to submit your site to a search engine, or tries to sell you a submission service is living in 2002! Though you can still submit just to make sure of course. Cant get anyone to link into your website (basically all you need is an inbound link from another site that has already been indexed). Then add a link to one of your social network profiles (you have one right?). It really is that simple.
Related Reading
Search Engine Watch (Searchenginewatch.com)
How To Get Indexed By Google (Problogger)
5 Ways To Get a New Site Indexed Within 48 Hours or Less (SEONoobs.com)
Search Engine Optimization Forums (Sitepoint.com)
Search Engine Optimization (Digital Point)
