Turntable.fm lands $7 million for 24/7 streaming music club – CNN Money

SAN FRANCISCO (CNNMoney) — Turntable.fm, one of the tech scene’s most-buzzed about startups, has opened its online music venue to the public. The addictive site took Silicon Valley by storm when it launched in January to a select group of

Artists welcome EU music copyright extension – Reuters UK
LONDON (Reuters) – Artists welcomed a European decision to extend copyright for recorded music to 70 from 50 years, after a years-long campaign by performers including Paul McCartney and Cliff Richard who faced their rights expiring in their

“Memphis Soul: The Music of Stax Records,” with Steve Cropper, Duck Dunn, Eddie Floyd, Lester Snell & Steve Potts, coming to Park City – Salt Lake Tribune
Postponed since earlier this year, “Memphis Soul: The Music of Stax Records” will finally come to the Eccles Center on Saturday, Oct. 1 at 7:30 p.m. as part of Park City’s Performing Arts Foundation’s 2011-2012 season. The show will feature

Country Music Pioneer Wade Mainer Dies At 104, At His Home In Flint, Mich. – NPR News
There might be no bluegrass music as we know it without Wade Mainer. Here’s what this amiable North Carolina native did in the 1930s that set the stage for Bill Monroe, Earl Scruggs and their hot new brand of mountain music: He brought the banjo

New music: Summer Camp – Better Off Without You – The Guardian
Swoon-pop duo Summer Camp – aka Elizabeth Sankey and Jeremy Warmsley – are finally ready to release their debut album, the Steve Mackey-produced Welcome to Condale. It’s a record partly funded through donations via Pledge Music so for a

Jane Lynch Joins National PSA for Music Education – WonderWall
Jane Lynch is using her Sue Sylvester persona to help raise awareness for arts education in schools as the Glee star is set to star in a national PSA that debuts today! This year’s Emmy host will be the featured spokesperson in the PSA that is expected to

Cricket’s Muve Music attracts 200,000 subscribers – Yahoo Finance
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Muve Music, the unlimited music plan offered by prepaid cellphone company Cricket, has doubled the number of subscribers it has to 200,000 in the past two months. The milestone announced Thursday makes Muve the clear No. 2 in the

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Meteoric Download Manager Is The File Downloader/Uploader Your iPhone Needs – Lifehacker

On top of that, it supports Firefox Sync, can upload to Dropbox, stream MP3s to other iDevices, accelerate downloads, and much more. I’ve never really considered download managers as a very important category on iOS because I don’t need many files on

Can Wal-Mart’s Vudu Do Better Than MP3s? – Inside Fidelity
NEW YORK (TheStreet (Symbol : TST)) — Wal-Mart (Symbol : WMT) is becoming more aggressive with its streaming video business. But will it ultimately face the same fate as its MP3 division? The discount giant announced on Wednesday that it is bringing its

Introducing Pitchfork at 15 – Pitchfork
In the late summer of 1996, when Pitchfork launched as a daily music review site, the web itself had just turned five, and the tools that now power our daily online lives– search engines, social networks, and mp3s– were either embryonic or years away from invention.

Google Launches A Music Blog To Remind People That Google Music Beta Still Exists – TechCrunch
In order to get music into Music Beta, you have to upload your own MP3s. Now Magnifier offers a second way, but again, it’s only for a few songs that Google has acquired the rights to give away for free. Presumably, they’re still negotiating with the

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Top 10 mp3s of the Week (8/5) – Consequence of Sound
Well, folks, it’s officially August. The summer is coming to a close, which is sad on all counts. One of the best ways I know to get over a bout of depression (like the one the ending of summer will certainly bring) is to dive headfirst into music, new

Spreadstrum: A Ticking Time Bomb – Seekingalpha.com

In fact, as a pure commodity seller of low end chips, its probably even worse. I have had my share of experiences in everything from mp3s, dvds, fpds, and IPTV fabless flameouts and the script never changes. This is not a place for long term return on equity.

Free stuff: Have you been to the library lately? – WTOP
Many libraries let you borrow mp3s and iPod-compatible audio books as well. One good thing about electronic items you check out is, as the Montgomery County Public Library explains on its website, they “return themselves.” They’re never overdue

Call, listen to music and run with this watch – CNET Asia
This chunky watch has a 1.5-inch touchscreen and allows you to make phone calls, listen to your MP3s and even take pictures. There’s also Bluetooth support and 8GB worth of storage for your songs. Additionally, should anything happen to you while jogging

Hypnosis MP3s Support You to Be Nutritious Rich and Wise – PR-USA.net
If you have trouble examining training books on self hypnosis, you can obtain and use a guide on tape or obtain a single for the several looking at aides. In the case of your scripted sessions, you can use older technological innovation this sort of as

Country Music Legend Vince Gill Plays Not My Job – NPR News

If you lose track of how many belt buckles you have, you’re country. And if you lose track of how many Grammys you have, you’re a country music legend. Country Music Hall of Famer Vince Gill falls into the latter category. We’ve invited Gill to play a game

Music Review: Selena Gomez sounds generic on 3rd album – Atlantic City Press
Nickelodeon star tries to make the transition to official recording artist. This is Selena Gomez’s moment. Musically speaking, Gomez is no Miley Cyrus or Vanessa Hudgens – because she’s better. She’s got a decent voice, and showcased it on last year’s “A

Essence Music Festival kicks off in New Orleans, 400,000 attendees expected – Los Angeles Times
The sounds of bounce music and hip-hop pouring out of every club on Bourbon Street in New Orleans on Thursday evening wasn’t necessarily an unfamiliar sight.  Neither were the tourists clutching frozen alcohol concoctions as they gawked at invitations

Fishing remains part of the country music tradition – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
A weak, sickly infant from an east Tennessee children’s center was adopted but returned by two families who said the burden of caring for him was overwhelming. In time, he was taken home by Allan and Margaret Atkins, who mentored the frail boy in an

During birthday bash, formerJennings bandmaterecalls music legend – Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
As thousands of Waylon Jennings fans flocked to Littlefield to celebrate the late hometown country music legend’s belated birthday, one of his earliest bandmates recalled Jennings’ beginnings in the South Plains community. During a day featuring a parade

Acid House Kings Offer Free Remix MP3s – Phoenix New Times

Swedish indie pop band Acid House Kings have garnered quite a bit of praise for their latest album, Music Sounds Better with You . Pitchfork called the twee pop quartet’s album “their strongest-sounding record,” and Pop Matters says “it’s nearly impossible

Underworld, Data Romance, Disclosure – Free MP3s – NME
Here are a few Tuesday afternoon freebies for you lot. The first item on offer is a rework of Underworld ‘s excellently-titled track, ‘Diamond Jigsaw’ (from the band’s sixth album, ‘Barking’). Underworld’s new EP, which was released yesterday, features

Song Premiere: Sonic Youth, ‘Out And In’ – NPR News
It makes me sound like an old crank, but something’s amiss when any Joe Tumblr can upload a mixtape to his preferred sharing site — MP3s untagged and artwork askew — but all it does is collect the promotional MP3s record labels release to bloggers.

JavaScript decoder lets MP3s play in Firefox without Flash – Geek.Com
The introduction of HTML5 and super-fast JavaScript engines to the latest web browsers has brought with it a wealth of new functionality. The focus seems to have been put on the ability to play video in a browser without Flash, or making games. But a

What Makes a Great Downloadable Sound Effects Library? – Salon
Time is money so if you find yourself twiddling your thumbs for a preview to load, go to another site. 4. Format: Many sites offer only .mp3s for downloading, which are lower quality than .wav files or .aiff files. Choose a site that offers both .wav and

5 Unexpected Ways Tech Can Keep You in Touch on Father’s Day – MyFox Philadelphia
The audio mp3s create a vault of recorded memories that your child can listen to any day of the week. That way they won’t have to wait until it’s “dad’s weekend” to hear your voice. 3) Go big on Flickr: Put together a photo stream or slideshow on

Pay for your groceries with ultrasonic MP3s – DVICE
With NFC wireless payment technology taking its sweet time to integrate itself into anything useful, the market is wide open for some clever new system to save us all from the hassle of having to carry around and use credit cards to pay for stuff. One

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