R&B star Usher has launched a video podcast, Ucast, to coincide with the release of his latest CD, Here I Stand 10 initial video podcast episodes are planned, offering viewers a behind the scenes view of launching an album, producing a video and preparing for a tour. “The entertainment business is much more than the [...]

Microsoft’s downloadable media portal, the Zune Marketplace, announced the publication of Zune’s first video podcast, a behind-the-scenes profile of metalcore band The Black Dahlia Murder. Zune sent a video crew out to shadow The Black Dahlia Murder on the New York City stop of their current US headlining tour, capturing a day in the life [...]

The Guardian reports that the BBC is introducing music podcasts, featuring highlights from their radio programming and short music clips in “top 40″ style format. Starting Saturday, November 17, the offerings will include Folk & Acoustic with Mike Harding from Radio 2, Stuart Maconie’s Freak Zone from 6 Music and the Asian Network Chart. 1Xtra [...]

The Lyric Opera of Chicago has introduced a new podcast series, Backstage at Lyric. The audio programs will feature interviews with the singers, conductors and creative team members behind the productions in Lyric Opera’s 2007-08 season. The debut episode, hosted by staff dramaturg Roger Pines, presents a conversation with soprano Elizabeth Futral and tenor Joseph [...]

Blue Note, a record label known for its classic jazz recordings, has released a series of podcasts. The new shows focus on current releases by Blue Note artists, including Floratone, Norah Jones, Amos Lee, Ron Carter and Suzanne Vega. Here are the podcast details…..

  PowWows.com has introduced a new podcast that features Native American music and interviews, IndigiTunes. The first episode featureed Pow Wow music. More recent episodes have featured 49 songs, Fiddle music and music from Kenny Merrick Jr. You can preview the podcast below, or subscribe by adding this feed URL to your podcast client software: [...]

It looks like the good people at Soundtrack.net have figured out one of the tried and true ways to get covered by Podcasting News: do something that involves pirates and podcasting. Their latest podcast looks at the music for Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End. In our longest podcast to date, SoundtrackNet talks with [...]

Warner Music has announced that it is cutting 400 jobs in response to quarterly losses that were larger than expected. The world’s fourth-largest music company reported a fiscal second-quarter net loss of $27 million, or 19 cents a share, compared with a loss of $7 million, or 5 cents a share, a year earlier. “The [...]

A federal court ruled yesterday that music performance and royalty fees don’t apply to music downloads and movie downloads that feature music. The U.S. District Court in the Southern District of New York affirmed a lower court ruling that found that digital music and media downloads aren‚Äôt public performances. Because they aren’t public performances, they [...]

Bluegrass Podcaster and humorist Wichita Rutherford tells us that he and his podcasts have made the jump from the Sirius satellite radio network to soon-to-be-acquired competitor XM. His new weekly program, The Grand Old Time Machine, debuted last Friday, April 6, on XM. He describes the new show this way: “The new show, ‘The Grand [...]