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Steve Hofstetter, a comedian with a strong online following has released his latest comedy album, The Dark Side of the Room using the same approach as Radiohead did a month or so ago.
So far, the results have been extremely positive and encouraging. Hofstetter states that he’s averaging about $6 an album and the most common [...]

Songza is a music search engine that also doubles as a online jukebox. Just type in what you’re looking for and it finds music (and YouTube clips as well). The simple and elegant menu effortlessly adds your selections to a playlist, which also acts as your jukebox. Music can be shared and embedded via [...]

Jackass 2.5, the sequel to the popular MTV Jackass series and movie franchise will be distributed online for free for a limited time only. According to Thomas Lesinski, President of Paramount Pictures Digital Entertainment, this is the “first broadband movie ever distributed by a major studio in this manner.”
Blockbuster will present “Jackass 2.5″ free of [...]

MOG is part social network and part music discovery service. It’s essentially a community centered around blogging, reviewing and music sharing.
Starting today, MOG has fully integrated the Rhapsody Music Service, offering it’s community of users the ability to listen full-length tracks (if you live in the US). For everyone else, you still get 30 second [...]

Producer, singer, songwriter Daniel Lanois will release his new album Here Is What Is digitally via Red Floor Records on December 15th.
What I think is a great gesture is the fact that he’s offering fans the option of downloading this new record in either MP3 or a CD-quality WAV file at the same price. [...]

Imeem for those of you that are not aware, is an online community that encourages users to discover music, videos, photos and share it with friends. Imeem users can also create and share their custom music and video playlists with friends.
Imeem already had deals in place with EMI, Sony BMG and Warner Music and just [...]

Jamiroquai has just launched a new website that’s targeting the web 2.0 crowd. What it essentially means it that fans can interact, participate and more importantly, virally promote their content.
For example, any news and calendar item posted on this new site can be emailed to a friend, syndicated via RSS feeds and users are encouraged [...]

MySpace has launched a new music program called Transmissions that will provide exclusive video segments from established artists. It also includes an audio player where users can buy music as well as a private recording session and video Q&A with artists.
The program is described as “a music program that empowers top recording artists with [...]

Colbie Caillat sent an email and posted a blog informing her fans that due to a new policy at her record company, Universal Music, only 90 second song samples of her music were now available for fans to listen to on her MySpace page.
According to Billboard magazine, streaming music will be limited to either 90-second [...]