Posts under ‘online’

Music fans cling to CDs, but discover music online- I’m not surprised with this news, really.  CDs are tangible items whereby if anything goes wrong (hard disk failure, etc), you have hard copies available to ‘resurrect’ your valuable collection.  Via Ars Technica.

Hayley Williams on Twitter- If you’re on Twitter and want to follow Hayley, she can be found under the username of @yelyahwilliams – Many thanks to @elleb87 for the tip.

Last.fm to charge for streaming- Internet radio and social music site Last.fm is to start charging listeners outside the UK, US, and Germany.  Scrobbling and other goodness will remain free.  Via BBC

Stream free, legal music with Spotify- This is certainly not a hoax.  Stream as much music as you want for free whilst listening to the occasional radio-style advert.  Don’t want adverts?  £9.99 a month for an ad-free, all you can eat service.  With most music labels signed up, there’s certainly plenty of choice.

iTunes Plus drops all-or-nothing upgrades, goes a la carte- iTunes users who want to upgrade their DRMed library to iTunes Plus can now do so on a song-by-song or album-by-album basis. Apple has dropped its restriction that forced users to upgrade their entire libraries at once, but if you’re feeling lazy, you might still want [...]

New Found Glory have posted their new single ‘Listen To Your Friends’ on their Myspace page.
The song comes from new album ‘Not Without A Fight’, produced by Mark Hoppus and released on March 9th.

Chicago emo heroes Madina Lake have given fans an exclusive first listen to a track from their upcoming new album, Attics To Eden, today. (09.01.09) Sign up for the newsletter to have a listen. Attics To Eden will hit stores in the UK on April 27.
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Who Put The ‘M’ Back In MTV?- An excellent in-depth article by Jake Marsh covering MTV’s new music video site (currently in beta).  I’ll be trying it out soon, but in the meantime you can see for yourself at mtvmusic.com