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AIM Announces UK Indie Music Podcasting License

December 08, 2005

AIM Digital, the new media arm of the UK’s Association of Independent Music (AIM), has launched a global trial license for podcasting, enabling UK independent repertoire to be used in podcasts around the world.

The six month license will provide a means for broadcasters to legally podcast a variety of UK indie music. According to AIM, "The agreement will facilitate the development of a legal market, enabling all concerned to gather usage data and gauge advertising potential towards establishing a long-term business model."

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Norwegian Site Features Podcast-Legal Music

September 22, 2005

Uhort.no, a Norwegian indie music site, has added an index of podcast-legal music.

"The list of podsafe music is very recent," notes webmaster Øystein Holmen, "but we expect it to grow."

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Promonet Offers Podcasters Pre-Cleared Music Tracks

September 16, 2005

The Independent Online Distribution Alliance (IODA) has unveiled Promonet, a promotional distribution network which will provide podcasters, bloggers, Internet radio stations, e-zines and other promotional music sites with thousands of pre-cleared, legal music tracks, videos, artwork, and other promotional assets from IODA’s roster of over 750 leading independent labels.

Promonet is accepting applications from qualified promotional partners, with a full launch expected by the end of the month.

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Electronica Site Makes it Easy to find Music for Podcasts

August 10, 2005

Pioneering music site Electromancer is making it easy to find electronic music that can legally be played in podcasts.

The site's new Podcast Arena lets podcasters browse through all of the podcast-legal tracks on the site, from newest to oldest. To access the music, just select a track and click. This opens the track's information page, where you can stream it or download it and put it your podcast.

"Podcasters are the new breed of unsigned music consumer, providing exposure for unsigned artists and it made perfect sense to me to allow them to find what they want with the minimum of fuss," explains site creator Marvey Mills. "I know the artists will be thrilled to know their music is being used in podcasts."

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Cruisebox Tells the FCC to Stick It

August 06, 2005

PodcastSong.com is the online home of the band Cruisebox, best known for their podcasting anthem On a Podcast.

Podcasters interested in telling the FCC to stick it can download the Creative Commons licensed track in all its explicit glory at the site.

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Podcast-Legal Music: LobeCandy Records

July 06, 2005

LobeCandy Records is a source for podcast-legal music. All their tracks are published under a Creative-Commons license. Tracks are free for non-commercial use in podcasts.

The label's latest single is Druk's Just a Feeling is a "downtempo number somewhat reminiscent of Moby+Tricky".

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Podcast Legal Music: Creative Collective Issues Call to Podcasters

June 30, 2005

Creative Collective is a fast-growing Creative Commons-based community of musicians that has issued a call to podcasters to check out their music:

"Podcasters of the world. You are more than welcome to use our growing archives. Together we can make Creative Commons get bigger and bigger. Let others deal with so called "goods" and "rights". We do music!"

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Podcast Legal Music: gidgets ga ga

June 27, 2005

"Imagine the replacements getting jumped by the beatles and the monkees, then molested by the who and nirvana"....then you might have an idea of the sound of gidgets ga ga.

The Chicago-based power pop group is making their tracks available for podcasters to use. Their music is podcast-legal, so check them out if you're looking for music for your show.

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Sub Pop Records Says Podcast Our Music, Before We Change Our Mind

June 07, 2005

Sub Pop Records, home of bands like Nirvana, Afghan Whigs, Combustible Edison, The Reverend Horton Heat, Sleater-Kinney and Soundgarden, has announced that they are encouraging podcasters to use their promotional tracks within podcasts.

The label has added a podcast of their free music. According to Sub Pop's Dean Hudson, "We've basically set up our MP3 downloads (which we were offering as promotional freebees already) as an RSS 2.0 feed, so folks can suck them into their iPods ala iPodder and the like."

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Netlabel Kahvi Releases Music for Podcasts

May 21, 2005

Podcasters looking for podcast-legal music have a new option. Online netlabel Kahvi Collective has announced that its "open source" electronic music is "completely free for distribution and use via internet radio stations and podcasts".

The music, created by unsigned artists, is released freely to give new artists a way to get their music heard.

The Kahvi Collective is a London, UK netlabel that specializes in electronic music, including instrumental, idm, chill, ambient, and experimental. It was founded in 1997 and has over 145 releases available by artists from around the world.

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