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The Pirate Bay added new feature to their music torrent section last night. The new feature offers users more information about the torrent they are interested in by simply clicking on the “show detailed artist info” link. A drop down panel appears with the name of the artist, a photo, a list of albums (with [...]

com.motion, a new offering from Veritas Communications just released the results of their social media survey, where they polled over 400 Canadian business and marketing leaders as well as the general public.
The good news is that one in two business leaders say social media is becoming more important than mass media. The bad news, half [...]

It’s perhaps old news to some but I recently discovered SkreemR - The World’s Greatest Mp3 Search Site for locating files on the web. SkreemR’s vision is to make audio content as searchable and useable to the internet community as possible.
If your a blogger, podcaster and/or musician and have some music you wish to [...]

EMI Music are releasing their first-ever video album featuring John Lennon’s music videos via iTunes on December 4. All Starbucks locations across the US will be selling a iTunes Digital Release card for about $25.00.
iTunes will offer Digital Release collectible cards, distinguished with a silver-toned photo of Lennon and may be redeemed on the iTunes [...]

As I reported two months ago, Apple’s iPod commercials can clearly send your song to the top of the charts. Just look what it did for Feist.
For any developing or indie band, having your music featured in any commercial can impact your sales but having your music associated with iPod ads will sell you [...]

As we all know, getting your music included on a popular music oriented video game like Rock Star or Guitar Hero has it’s benefits.
The folks at Ars Technica created a chart using SoundScan’s data for five tracks which were included in Guitar Hero III before and after the game’s release.
Their chart shows a four week [...]

Séparadisques, a new Montreal based label recently teamed up with QuebecTorrent, a file sharing community to help spread the word for Maleteau, a new label signing. The label and artist offered some free music and the site promoted the release with banner ads throughout its community of users.
It provided the label a marketing opportunity [...]

INDISTR allows indie artists to set up a store and sell their music directly to the public without any setup charges, contracts and it’s a non-exclusive deal. All you need is music in MP3 format, album artwork, a bio, a PayPal account and you ready to set up your own digital music store. You [...]

Kaltura is a online video sharing site allowing a group of users to collaborate on the creation of a video.
Users can mash up videos, images and add music to make videos, not a bad method for musicians to engage fans to create clips to your music. You can even collaborate on editing the videos with [...]

RCRD LBL is a network of labels offering DRM-free music in an ad-supported music blog format. You can listen and download music from emerging and established artists like Bloc Party, Gnarls Barkley and Mos Def to name a few.
Every element of RCRD LBL blog is presented as a branded widget, which can be embedded [...]