Tag: MUSICAL-WEB

In an act of corporate insanity that reminds me of military behavior as described in Catch 22, Sony BMG removed the videos from Beyonce's official YouTube channel for "copyright infringement." It is her channel, and she is their artist. This is awesome! I mean, talk about caring for your musicians! Way to go, BMG! This is just one example of the heights of madness that copyright "protection" ...

LinuxUser reports that the Ubuntu music store is now apparently open for business. Above you can see the screenshot for the Prodigy's Invaders Must Die (awesome album, by the way). It integrates well with powerful iPod sync functionality introduced in 10.04, so you can now easily buy an MP3 off the store and drag-and-drop it onto your iPod, all from within Ubuntu's Rythmbox music management ...

Dig.ccmixter.org is a section of ccmixter.org dedicated solely to helping you find awesome Creative-Commons licensed music for your free or commercial project. They boast an incredible statistic, claiming that one in six tracks featured on the site is already in use for some project. From what I've sampled, the music does seem to be of very high quality. Each track is clearly labeled with ...

YouTube has had some troubles in the past with labels asking them to remove music videos and generally giving them a hard time for users infringing copyrights. But users are still looking for music on YouTube, and now YouTube has found a way to embrace this and help out budding musicians in the process via their new Musicians Wanted program. Musicians and bands on the program get paid when ...

On paper, Jelli looks like a good idea. It's an online radio station which brodcasts an m3u playlist file that you can load in any player of your choice. The actual music which gets played is determined by the users who are online -- who can vote songs up and down the list, making it all "democratic" and "social." The trouble is that the site's design is so over-the-top, it's barely ...

One day, I will play the bass guitar. Seriously. I will, I'm telling you. And when I do, I will definitely be supplementing my lessons with studybass.com. The website was created by a bass teacher so the information seems solid, but it's also surprisingly rich in technology. Some lessons come with video demos, and some come with Flash-based exercises you can do (like the one in the screenshot). ...

The Warner Music Group, who represent artists such as R.E.M and Genesis (and more importantly for me, Death Cab for Cutie and Faith No More), have just announced that they no longer wish to license their music for online streaming services such as Spotify, Grooveshark and others. It's not clear at this point whether they will be taking their music down, or just not sign any more licensing deals ...

Real Networks are setting free (or letting go of? Depends how you look at it, I guess) their on-demand music streaming service, Rhapsody. They are not leaving it completely -- they're spinning it off, but will still remain on its board and put $18 million into the service. This is in addition to the $33 million the service is already getting in ad revenue from MTV. Rhapsody has been one of ...

Grooveshark is a fantastic music service; it lets you immediately listen to almost any song or album you can think of. They've got an enormous library, and the quality is usually decent. We've covered it before, but what makes it special for me is that it is actually one of the few services that work in my geotarded neck of the woods (no Hulu or Spotify for me). And now, Universal Music ...

So, music site TheSixtyOne underwent a massive redesign. Old news, right? I was thrilled, others less so. Those disgruntled souls left plenty of comments sharing their feelings, and one of them was kind enough to set me up with a few of TheSixtyOne's top users. These are people who have been with the site for a year or two, day in, day out, and accumulated gazillions of "points". Amongst ...

Promoting your music online is not an easy task; MySpace is notoriously crappy, and that means there's room for other options. One of these other options is Bandcamp. Gratuitous American Pie cracks aside, the service seems pretty solid. It has a nice minimalistic feel to it, while leaving enough space for a band to brand itself. It's a bit less artsy than Muxtape, but that's not necessarily ...