“Niche songwriter” Ben Walker has released his wry take on the state of the Internet, You’re no one if you’re not on Twitte:
The Free Music Archive is a new online digital library of music that will allow music fans, webcasters and podcasters to listen, download, and stream for free, with no restrictions, registration or fees. And it will all be legal.
The site’s still a work in progress, but you can download a free selection of music from [...]
Rhapsody is offering 100,000 free album downloads through July 4th to promote its DRM-free digital music service:
If youre one of the first 100,000 to create an account by Independence Day, well automatically apply a $10 credit to your first album purchase. The credit must be used by midnight Pacific time, July 4, 2008. Limit one [...]
Torrent site isoHunt has added 10,000 albums of free downloadable music from Jamendo, a site that publishes music licenced with Creative Commons license:
“I’m proud to announce our partnership with Jamendo, a premier archive of Creative Commons music from a network of independent musicians. You can now see Jamendo originated torrents highlighted by white tabs labeled [...]
OT: Cosmo’s Bethany Heitman has a got a tip for Your Fabulous Life: you can save money on music through wholesale music piracy!
Heitman writes:
“Having new tunes is ideal, but shelling out the cash to buy said music hurts.
Call up friends, and ask them to burn you a CD of songs they think you’ll like. Tell [...]
Nine Inch Nails has announced that it is giving away its latest album, The Slip, for free:
as a thank you to our fans for your continued support, we are giving away the new nine inch nails album one hundred percent free, exclusively via nin.com.
the music is available in a variety of formats including high-quality MP3, [...]
Scott at Bitnotic sent us word about their new generative ambient music application, chill.
The concept of generative music - popularized by Brian Eno - is that complex music can be created by setting relatively simple processes into motion.
You can think of chill as a royalty-free music generator. It uses generative music processes to create new [...]
The Open Rights Group has an in-depth look at Magnatune, a pioneering record label that licenses its releases under Creative Commons licenses.
This means that Magnatune’s music is:
Shareable: Users are invited to share their purchased tracks with up to three friends, can listen to the entire catalogue for free via the website’s 128kbps streams, and can [...]
Apple confirmed the rumor we reported earlier, announcing that the iTunes Store had surpassed Wal-Mart to become the number one music retailer in the US.
“We launched iTunes less than five years ago, and it has now become the number one music retailer in the world,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s vice president of iTunes. “We are [...]
Moby is offering a variety of unreleased tracks for you to use freely in your non-profit video projects at MobyGratis.com.
this portion of moby.com, ‘film music’, is for independent and non-profit filmmakers, film students, and anyone in need of free music for their independent, non-profit film, video, or short.
to use the site you log in(or on?) [...]
