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MySpace has announced a music merchandise deal with Zazzle that allows musicians and bands to sell music related merch to the MySpace community.
You can choose from 350+ products and there are lots of templates available. Once you submit your design, Zazzle handle the processing, production, shipping, and customer support. Using the Zazzle Merch [...]

The AAA/Indie music magazine Paste are using Radiohead’s tip jar approach to attract new and renewing subscribers. For a limited time, you can name your own price for a one-year subscription. Of course, gift subscriptions are encouraged and in the event you didn’t know, each issue also comes with a CD sampler.
Seems the idea [...]

iMeem is an online community where users can stream music for free. Imeem offers both music and video streaming from major and independent record labels.
Imeem just signed an agreement with EMI to offer their comprehensive music and video content that will give users free, on-demand access to the label’s catalog. Similar deals were recently inked [...]

Grüvr is an interactive map that lets bands and their fans find each other geographically. Bands can add Grüvr tour maps on their social profile pages to let fans track them. Fans can share band maps, monitor artist schedules, get alerts when the band plays locally, and get email reminders a day before the show.
Here’s [...]

The Register reported last week that Universal Music (UK) will be releasing USB singles at the end of this month.
Today, GigWise reported that the Rolling Stones are releasing an updated version of their 1975 “Rolled Gold” on November 5th. It will be available on CD, LP, some special edition package and will be [...]

NBC Universal and New Corporation are set to launch an online video joint venture called Hulu early next week in private beta mode. Hulu is now accepting sign ups for invitations to the web site.
With this new site NBC and News Corp. eventually intend on challenging YouTube’s dominance. Perhaps one of the reasons why NBC [...]

ReverbNation now offers record labels and artist management companies a way to promote their label/roster of artists via a profile page. They also offer free tools such as FanReach, a mailing-list-management system and a Street Team tool for encouraging fans to help out.
Then there’s TuneWidget, which ReverbNation introduced about a month ago, allowing labels and [...]

Arcade Fire have taken the concept of videos to the next level, offering fans an interactive video. The video for Neon Bible allows users to play around as it unfolds. Make sure you scroll your mouse all over the place to fully engage. Just click on the image to be redirected to their site.

MySpace has announced that it will open up to third party developers within the next few months, offering outside parties a chance to create and integrate their applications into MySpace.
This move finally allows MySpace to compete and keep up with Facebook, who opened up its API’s this past May and has been rewarded with a [...]

According to Forbes, Radiohead’s digital experiment was a success on several levels but even free can stop online pirates from looting.
Forbes reports that In Rainbows was downloaded over 240,000 times from various P2P networks on it’s first day of release and is expected to surpass the one million mark in the coming days.
The [...]