March 09: Every day this month, we’re highlighting a free music podcast – for 31 Days of Free Music. It’s all stuff that you’re not likely to hear on mainstream radio – so get ready to free your ears! Have you recovered from yesterday’s barrage of FCC-banned music? If so, maybe you’re ready for some [...]

Gizmodo is calling for a boycott on the RIAA in March: Gizmodo is declaring the month of March Boycott the RIAA month. We want to get the word out to as many people as humanly possible that we can all send a message by refusing to buy any album put out by an RIAA label. [...]

Vocalist and pianist Norah Jones is using a video podcast, Norah Jones Not Too Late, to promote her new album, Not Too Late, which will be releasted January 30th on Blue Note Records. The video podcast features behind-the-scenes footage from the making of the new album.

The LA Opera has committed to producing an additional fourteen episodes of its Behind the Curtain at the LA Opera podcast series, based on enthusiasm for the initial episodes. Listeners to the first 4 episodes, which featured an inside look at LA Opera’s Manon, outnumbered actual seats at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion by more than [...]

The Smithsonian has introduced the Folkways Collection Podcast, a series of 24 one-hour programs that explore the collection of music, spoken word, and sound recordings that make up the Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. The music of modern day giants like Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan and Ani Difranco is interwoven with original Folkways recordings to demonstrate the [...]

Thomas Dolby’s Sole Inhabitant video podcast offers an unique look into the English electronica artist and entrepreneur’s November-December tour. Dolby uses the video podcast format effectively and does some interesting things with video viewpoints, including using a camera that provides a first-person perspective of what he’s doing during a performance. The series includes live performances [...]

Minnesota Public Radio’s The Current has launched a new podcast, The Current’s Song of the Day — a free new music download available each weekday. The podcast features stellar tracks, exclusive performances, rare cuts and previews of anticipated releases by favorite artists, available as free downloads. In addition, songs from emerging Minnesota artists will be [...]

Digital music consumers listen to more music, enjoy more new music, talk more about music and attend more concerts, according to a survey released today by the Digital Media Association (DiMA). Nearly 60 percent of consumers report that they are listening to more music since they started using an online service. The 1008 consumers surveyed [...]

The Jazz Video Podcast offers a swinging look at some of the giants of jazz. The podcast, created by Bret Primack, is formatted for video iPod and features performances and interviews with Sonny Rollins, Joe Lovano, Billy Taylor, David Liebman and others. The podcast is designed to introduce new listeners to jazz and its artists. [...]

PlayNetwork, a provider of branded audio and video media services for businesses, today announced it has launched a promotional music podcasting service. The company plans to offer “branded podcasts” that use music to create a “brand-building entertainment relationship”.”Branded Podcasts take branded entertainment experiences outside of the store environment and put them directly into the listening [...]