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"In a world where many people get their music for free, we wanted to create a site where bands we loved could put their music out there for free AND get paid for it."
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Radiohead Results: 38% Forked Over $6 Average
"Paying downloaders forked over an average of $6, with U.S. consumers paying almost twice as much ($8.05) as those from other countries ($4.64)."
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Vinyl May Be Final Nail in CD's Coffin
"San Francisco indie band The Society of Rockets, for example, plans to release its next album strictly on vinyl and as MP3 files."
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Oink founder: We're just like Google
"If Google directed someone to a site they can illegally download music they are doing the same as what I have been accused of. I am not making any Oink users break the law. People don’t pay to use the site.�
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"I wrote “3pm� in an Outlook email this morning, and the spell checker asked me if I meant MP3."
"Design Matters" with Debbie Millman Content Library
Download old shows with some of the most interesting designers on the planet.
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The Right Price for Digital Music
Record companies want to raise prices, is the answer a real-time market where price increasess or decreases based on demand?
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2005's Largehearted Favorite Albums
Leargehearted Boy's top eleven albums of the year with lots of good MP3s to download. Yum yum.
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52 of the top MP3s of the year.
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The Top 40 Bands in America Today - 2005 Edition
"I emailed over 40 "music/MP3 bloggers" (since we are our own genre now) and asked them to send me a list, ranked 1-10, of the 10 best American bands that they've seen or heard in the last year."
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Actually, this is Largehearted Boy's top 10 with free MP3s.
Battle for the Soul of the MP3 Phone
"Consumers want an iPod phone that will play any song, anytime, anywhere. Just four little problems: the cell carriers, the record labels, the handset makers, and Apple itself. The inside story of why the ROKR went wrong."
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Mycroft search plugin for The Hype Machine
Nice easy way to search for MP3s straight from Firefox.
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The World's Most Dangerous Geek : News
"Justin Frankel, the man who popularized file-sharing, has even bigger plans"
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Why we're releasing our latest album for free on the Internet
Harvey Danger is giving their latest album, Little by little . . . away for free. No catch. They're hoping it will get the music to the people. They are right.
Dan Dickinson recorded a song Ted Leo had written the morning of the South Street Seaport show
Little-Known Bands Get Lift Through Word-of-Blog
NYTimes: "Only a handful of music blogs, with names like Fluxblog, Stereogum and Largehearted Boy, have any influence, but even those still have a long way to go to fundamentally alter the landscape of the music industry."
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A collection of MP3 blogs organized by genre and alphabetically
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MP3s gathered from blogs across the web.
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Rare mixes, mastermixes, remixes, bootlegs and pirate radio from the mid-80s converted to MP3.
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GreaseMonkey - "Amazon Free Music" helper
Sverstimulate: "It is a pain to click through to download, so I decided to write a quick userscript for GreaseMonkey which skips the step of having to click to another page, and lets you get the music."
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Lots o' Andrew Bird Live Shows
Largehearted Boy Daily Downloads that includes eight Andrew Bird shows
MP3 blogs are growing in popularity, attracting thousands of users daily. But while bloggers see their relationship with the industry as one of cooperation, it is a legally grey area. Chris Alden reports
MusicPublisher is an utility to share your iPod, or any similar music device, and make them directly available to iTunes.
David Byrne launches internet radio station
Boing Boing: "There's value in being exposed to things you didn't know you want. When you walk down the street, you have experiences that are unplanned and accidental that may expose you to new ideas, new things... it isn't just a matter of running an err
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Sleepbot Environmental Broadcast
Featuring a random cycling of some of the most sleep-worthy tracks ever created.
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Pez to dispense MP3s instead of candy
They're making Pez MP3 players. A possible iPod killer?
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MP3s from Ryan Adams' lost Destroyer Sessions
Her semi-new album Extraordinary Machine album available for free download at 192kbps
The iTunes $.99 Breakdown: Will Online Music Stores Ever Make Money?
Some speculative number crunching over just how much money online music stores really make
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A helpful guide for finding MP3s using Google
That's a lot of free music
Odd music industry silence regarding Allofmp3.com
Interesting article on how Allofmp3.com can legally exist thanks to Russian law
iPod/MP3 Player Adoption At Tipping Point
More data from the Pew study on MP3 player adoption
11 percent of the US population owns an MP3 player
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Some great free MP3 downloads
MP3 Blogs are a great opportunity for lesser known artists to reach a mainstream audience without giving away a lot of music
smashTheTONES will take almost any MP3 or MIDI file from your computer and send it to your cellular phone as a short ringtone for free!
Why Napster will be a fully-integrated flop
The Register suggests that when you do the math Napster just doesn't make sense
My Top 50 list gets a shoutout from Largehearted Boy
This is my list, with MP3s
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These Are the Things I Listened To This Year
Great best of list with lots of MP3s
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Stereogum's Top Catorce Of 2004
Includes some MP3s
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Christmas songs by Sufjan Stevens
Unreleased up to this point
Music site with lots of unsigned artists and MP3 downloads
Cheap Russian music downloads (english version)
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Salon's top 10 albums of the year and top 25 legal downloads
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The Music Man – King Of The Pirates Has A Goal – Own It All!
“I spent the day with a guy who spends every free moment collecting music. So far his music collection rivals Apple’s iTunes Music Store, and his goal is to own a copy of every song ever recorded. Can he do it? Maybe, but you know what they say; it’
Kings of Convenience MP3 Downloads
Some great quality MP3s of live Kings of Convenience shows