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Myspace CEO Chris DeWolfe announced at Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech conference yesterday that they will launch a new music service in September.
Fortune reported that this new offering will enable MySpace members to listen to music for free as well as purchase downloads, ringtones, T-shirts and concert tickets.
TechCrunch offers a little more info adding that MySpace [...]

eMusic are now offering their users a slew of new features that will allow them to share content outside of the eMusic community. Users can now bookmark the eMusic album page they are interested in or send it to a number of social network sites, including some of the most popular like Facebook, Digg, Del.icio.us, [...]

iLike announced a new advertising platform which empowers concert promoters to reach concert goers based on location and musical tastes.
Advertisers are provided with tools to retrieve data about the total number of people who saw their ad, how many interacted with it and how many people clicked on the link to buy tickets. Advertising rates [...]

Radiohead just released a new video for “House of Cards” treating its fans to an another unconventional art form. This time without the use of cameras or lighting. Instead they used two types of technologies to capture 3D images: Geometric Informatics and Velodyne LIDAR.
You can learn about how the video was made, the 3D [...]

Apple just announced that they sold 1 million of these new 3G iPhones in just three days since its launch on Friday, July 11, which was made available across 21 countries. Still no word on how many were sold in Canada.
Some iPhone customers decided to take a slightly different approach to using their new phone. [...]

if you live above the 49th parallel, then you’re probably in the loop about the iPhone and the fact that it’s officially available in Canada today via Rogers Communications.
To be honest, I really want one of these “jesus phones” as it would eventually eliminate the need to carry a laptop to and from meetings [...]

Some time ago, Last.fm announced plans to launch their Artist Royalty Program that would enable artists who upload content to earn royalties whenever their music was streamed.
Well, that day has come. Last.fm officially announced the launch their Artist Royalty Program today. This new initiative now gives unsigned and independent artists the opportunity to accumulate royalities [...]

I am pleased to announce that Two Hours Traffic, an indie act I’ve been working for some time now were among the ten artists selected for this year’s Polaris Music Prize. Two Hours Traffic were nominated for Little Jabs (Bumstead Productions).
For those who are not in the know, The Polaris Prize is somewhat similar [...]

According to Nielsen SoundScan, more than 1 million long playing records were sold in the US last year. Now Best Buy are getting into the scene and have just launched a pilot project at an undisclosed number of their US stores. Prices for vinyl will range between $10 and $30 depending on packaging and the [...]

I just came across this video and thought it was so incredible, I just had to share. James Houston is the mastermind behind this concept. He used an array of hard drives, a scanner, a printer and other assorted computing relics to re-create Radiohead’s “Nude”. The video editing really enhances his effort as well. Check [...]