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Radiohead have started a music video competition called the In Rainbows Contest over at independent video animation site AniBoom. It started two days ago - Monday 17th March - and storyboards can be sent in up until April 27.
Outline: Submitted work will be rated by the Aniboom community who will choose the 10 semi-finalists that […]

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With shake-ups and shake-downs fast becoming monnaie courante in the online music world, music discovery service Last.fm have shook a leg once again:
launching its on-demand service in the US, UK and Germany immediately, [Last.fm] plans to roll it out globally over the coming months…’the world’s biggest free music service‘.
The service allows anyone to tap […]

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Last.FM, the UK based, social-music platform - with over 20 million registered users - have launched their ‘Campaign for better music’ with the ‘Now form a band’ web site, designed to be a leg-up guide to the sites and softs that could prove helpful in the promotion of unsigned bands. From the site manifesto:
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Streamripping, as you no doubt know, is how folk record Internet radio to their hard drives. There’s plenty of available software to do this. A quick search for ’streaming audio recorder’ on SourceForge for example, has links to more than two thousand on-going projects, an idea of how popular it is. An open source […]

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“Deezer is the first juke box on demand totally free in the world!” that’s according to Deezer.
Brief recap: BlogMusik - French mp3 streaming site - is closed down by SACEM (equivalent to ASCAP or BMI in the US, or SOCAN in Canada). BlogMusik sheds skin, becomes Deezer. Deezer signs a deal with almighty SACEM (first […]

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Podemus, a popular French podcasting plate-form / directory / community (in French) have just launched the World Podcast Forum – WPF, ‘an information and communication portal for the diverse and global podcast community’. The WPF includes forums and a blog and is no doubt hoping to build up an international community around these.
One […]

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If you can you sing it or whistle it, or piece it together on a virtual piano, or even tap it’s rhythm on your PC keyboard, then there is a chance you might find out where that song comes from with a little help from The Open Music Encyclopedia.
Musipedia has been under constant development since […]

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Jamendo is a free share site where you can listen to over 2000 albums. The jamplayer works well - quick with a relatively good sound considering the hardware in my PC. Like an album? Download it. Then you can make a donation to the band, visit their website, buy the cd or not - […]

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