SXSW has all of its participating bands’ mp3s available for download on the festival’s web page, totaling 1267 songs. But who has the patience to download every individual song? Well, for the 2009 edition, Ben Stolt has taken it upon himself to group all the mp3’s together into several large torrent files, available here. Continue reading...
14.3.09
Free Legal SXSW 2009 Mp3 Downloads Via BitTorrent
Wii Music Becomes Part of US School Curriculums
Wii Music, instead of being an “after your homework” activity, is now part of the classroom. H.D. Cooke Elementary School in Washington D.C. will use the video game system and music game as an incentive for kids to have fun with music. J.C. Rodrigo, a marketing support specialist at Nintendo who demonstrated the title at Cooke, said:
Read more...“This is about kids learning about how to have fun with music. It’s providing a unique experience where kids can try out different instruments and find that creative spark.”
Sellaband Arrives in the States With Chuck D as its “Ambassador”
Sellaband, a platform where fans can help pay for their favorite musician’s recordings, is finally arriving in the US as the result of a deal with Public Enemy front man Chuck D’s music company BTN (Bring The Noise) Management. Sellaband has been available in Europe since 2001, and tries to help bands produce their albums through fan-funding. Read more...
DropPlay Mixes YouTube, Facebook and Pandora
DropPlay, a new music service launched yesterday, combines the social nature of Facebook with the free streaming YouTube policy, and throws in a suggestion service like Pandora’s to boot. The service lets you search for any song, which streams as a YouTube player, and create and save playlists. The company claims it’s the “free online version of iTunes.” Continue reading...
Jack White Starts New Band ‘The Dead Weather’
The White Stripes’ Jack White has formed a new band with The Kills’ Alison Mosshart called The Dead Weather.
The band also counts with Jack Lawrence of The Raconteurs and Dean Fertita of Queens Of The Stone Age. The group will release their debut album, ‘Horehound’, in June on White’s label Third Man Records. Read more...
Van Halen, Seal, Billy Corgan Support Live Nation Ticket Merger
Unlike Bruce Springsteen, music stars Eddie Van Halen, Seal and Billy Corgan are in favor of the merger between Ticket Master and Live Nation. It might come as a surprise, but the artists actually sent letters to Congress expressing their support of the deal, and their belief that the merger can help the artist-to-fan relationship. Read more...
Songbird 1.1 Trounces iTunes
Finally, iTunes has some serious competition. Songbird, with its newest update, brings an array of new features and major improvements that might make Apple tremble on its throne as music distribution king. Continue reading...
13.3.09
Billy Corgan Testifies in Congress for Radio Royalties
Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan has testified before the U.S. Congress in support of a new legislation, called the Performance Rights Act, which would make radio stations pay royalties to musicians in the same way that internet and satellite radio companies already pay. Continue reading...
Myspace Music Upgrades and Promises More
After a sluggish start, Myspace Music is starting to upgrade its services. The President of Mypace Music, Courtney Holt, explains that the recent introduction of quicker, lightweight music player is just the beginning. The service plans to launch “album pages”, as opposed to the normal user page, and improve search utility. Continue reading...
12.3.09
Music Stars Form Coalition To Balance Power
The top musicians of the world have united to form the Featured Artists’ Coalition (FAC), a lobby group designed to give greater weight to the artists in industry licensing deals. Revenue from music is being quickly divided up between the major labels and new digital distribution services, and the actual musicians, it seems, are feeling left behind. Continue reading...
Apple’s New iPod Shuffle Has A Voice
The new version of the iPod Shuffle has been presented by Apple. It’s touted as the world’s smallest music player at just 45.2mm high, 17.5mm wide and 7.8mm deep, which is the size of an average key. The new device features Apple’s new voice technology, called VoiceOver, which tells you what song and artist you’re listening to. Read more...
11.3.09
YouTube Stops Broadcasting Itself in the UK
Youtube is blocking access to all premium music videos that were previously available to UK internet users, after failing to reach a licensing deal with the Performing Rights Society (PRS). The BBC reports that “thousands” of music videos were suddenly gone starting late March 9th, punishing UK consumers for the lack of an agreement. Continue reading...
Wayne Coyne vs. Arcade Fire, Free Music in 2011, Japanese Gadget "Mimi Switch"
There must be something in the water this week. We expect Kanye West to go around shouting his mouth off, dissing other artists, but Wayne Coyne? Bono? Miley Cyrus?! We expected better from these people. Also: Festivals! Free Music! Weird Japanese Gadgets! Read Noripcord's Weekly News Digest...
Tom Morello from Rage Against The Machine Has a New Band
Guitarist Tom Morello from Rage Against The Machine has a new band, called Street Sweeper, with Boots Riley from political hip hop group The Coup. The band’s debut album is recorded, and the single Fight! Smash! Win! can be heard at streetsweepermusic.com. The music is very much in the style of Tom Morello’s usual, he describes the sound as “huge steamroller riffs combined with depth, charge, funk.” Continue reading...
TheSixtyOne: A Digg Site For Indie Music
A Digg-like site where users vote on their favorite songs has been tried before, but thesixtyone does it differently. Besides streaming songs and allowing comments, users can vote on artists and garner attention for their choices, while gaining reputation as “scouts” for upcoming bands. Read more...
Music Business Models, What Will Work?
Scottish-American musician David Byrne, known best for being a founding member of the Talking Heads, has summed up the future of the music industry: changes in the past decade have reduced the value of its services to artists. With new business models (he counts six total), free distribution and low recording costs, Byrne believes that “at some point [the music industry] became the business of selling CDs in plastic cases, and that business will soon be over.” Continue reading...
10.3.09
Kutiman Remixes YouTube Musicians
Israeli artist Kutiman has developed a new project called ThruYou, which combines samples from a wide range of uploaded videos on Youtube, and remixes the sounds to make full compositions. Basically, he cuts a desired sample from a video of someone singing, for example, and sequences it with a multitude of other sounds taken from YouTube videos. Continue reading...
Real Guitar Controller for Guitar Hero in 2009
Minneapolis-based start-up Zivix LLC is developing a controller for Guitar Hero that is actually a real guitar, to be available 2009. The company believes that Guitar Hero enthusiasts will prefer the real thing to the plastic counterpart, but will they pay $249.99 for the Zivix’s Headliner guitar when they can get a PlayStation 2 guitar controller for $39.99? Read more...
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