Sessions from last fall’s Podcast and New Media Expo (PNME) continue to be released via Gigavox Media’s Podcast Academy site. The latest session is of interest to any podcaster who wants or needs to include music in their episodes. “Music Licensing for Podcasts and New Media” covers a lot of ground in under an [...]

London-based social networking/music website Last.fm has announced that it will be using its connections with major and independent record labels to bring video recommendations to the site this week.
This new offering enables users to create their own personalised video “channels” filtered according to their musical tastes - much like the way that users can already [...]

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 tracks [...]

Toronto, ON-based digital music store Puretracks has announced that it will sell a full catalog of MP3 music files for purchase and download, free of Digital Rights Management (DRM) restrictions. The new DRM-free MP3 catalogue will initially feature 50,000 titles from a number of major independent labels, priced from $0.79 cents per song. Additional tracks [...]

Kiptronic, an ad marketplace for the podcasting industry, and IODA, the Independent Online Distribution Alliance, have announced a partnership to help promote artists and record labels via podcasts. Kiptronic will provide a customized version of the Kiptronic Podcast Marketplace for use by IODA and its alliance of more than 2,700 independent record labels, covering over [...]