Trent Reznor today announced another free music download, Lights In The Sky – an EP that features the work of Nine Inch Nails’ touring band: I am proud to announce the final personnel lineup of nine inch nails for the foreseeable future. We’ve added, we’ve subtracted and we’ve wound up with unquestionably the strongest lineup I’ve [...]

Nine Inch Nails has released a new free mp3 single, Echoplex, via the music site iLike. You can check it out below. NIN has become the band to watch, if you’re interested in the future of music: The group recently released Ghosts I-IV under a Creative Commons license, which means you can share it or [...]

Hundreds of U.S. commercial webcasters are going silent today, June 26, to protest to an impending royalty rate increase that could threaten their ability to make money broadcasting mainstream music. Yahoo! is one of the Internet radio broadcasters that has announced that it is going silent: “Apologies to anyone who was hoping to listen to [...]

PennSound, a project of the University of Pennsylvania, is a Web-based archive for noncommercial distribution of the largest collection of poetry sound files on the Internet. PennSound offers a large variety of digital recordings of poems — currently 1,500 and fast growing — mostly as song-length singles. “This has never been done before,” said Al [...]

Emergent Music, developer of the Goombah music recommendation and social networking community, has expanded its offerings with the launch of Radio Free Goombah. The new service allows listeners to download tracks, and to share them via email or by posting on web pages. Users can enjoy playlists created or selected by Goombah, stock up on [...]

March 22: We‚Äôre on our way back from the Corporate Podcasting Summit, and we’re stuck in Detroit for a couple of days. There’s nothing like travelling 24 hours, to be almost home and then to find out your flight has been cancelled. We’re a little behind as a result, but we expect to get caught [...]

March 20: It‚Äôs 31 Days of Free Music month at Podcasting News. Every day in March, we‚Äôre going to do our best to hook you up a great free music podcast. And if we should skip a day because we’ve got jet-lag and we’re suffering from nights of 2 hours of sleep, don’t worry. We’ve [...]

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 [...]

March 08: It‚Äôs 31 Days of Free Music month at Podcasting News. Every day in March, we‚Äôre highlighting a free music podcast. The University of Washington’s KEXP is a great example of what public radio can do. They play an eclectic music mix of rock, hip-hop, electronic, country, blues and world music. You can stream [...]

March 07: It‚Äôs 31 Days of Free Music month at Podcasting News. Every day in March, we‚Äôre highlighting a free music podcast. This week, we’ve looked at classical music for piano, dj mixes from DJ Steveboy, guitar music from Ottmar Liebert, soundtrack music from ReGenesis, Flyinshoes Radio‚Äôs free americana music, and the world of 8-bit [...]