) October 23, 2008 -- After listening to thousands of submissions from musicians all over the nation, WeMix.com, the fast-growing, user-generated music creation and record label community for independent artists and Grammy award winning artist Mike Shinoda is pleased to announce the selection of five finalists for the "Mike Shinoda: The Glorious (WeMix)" songwriting contest.

) August 5, 2009 -- Phonezoo.com, http://www.phonezoo.com, the leading online & mobile entertainment site in the US, today announced that it has crossed an important milestone of 10 million registered users. An important differentiator for Phonezoo is the fact that 96% of this user base is in the US & actively using every feature of the site. User engagement continues to be strong with an average visit time of 16 minutes, 28 pageviews per visit leading to over 130 million pageviews for July 2009.

Phonezoo Logo

) October 6, 2008 -- Didiom, an award-winning mobile media service provider, announced today a license agreement with CD Baby, the world's largest online retailer of independent music. Didiom and CD Baby joined forces to allow music fans to sample, buy, and download music from CD Baby artists through Didiom's newly redesigned mobile music service. Under the agreement, CD Baby will provide 2 million DRM-free full-track music downloads on Didiom's downloadable music marketplace.

Companies announce partnership to enhance targeting capabilities for mobile advertisers (PRWeb Jan 8, 2009)

Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/01/prweb1833164.htm

) July 14, 2009 -- Executives of JamBuzzer.com, a Warrenville, Ill.-based technology start-up, today announced the launch of AdJams, a novel online music marketing service that enables both artists and fans to share music-generated revenue and profits.

JamBuzzer.com Represents A New Music Industry

"AdJams paves the way for a revitalized global music industry that will provide fans with free access to a huge selection of high quality songs by thousands of talented artists," said JamBuzzer.com president Aaron Bradley.

Fast growing mobile content and social networking site breaks into US top-10 beating out bigger and established players. (PRWeb Jan 6, 2009)

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) June 16, 2009 -- Knoxville, Tenn. based Web Services Corporation has launched a user-friendly website where musicians and artists can sell music online and instantly deliver digital music, ring tones, or any type of digital content. The sale of tangible merchandise items like t-shirts, hats, pins, and event tickets is included too. This virtual utopia known as TheTuneDepot.com is the answer to many digital prayers. The beauty of the site is that the seller can sell directly from his or her own website and keep 100% of their royalties.

) August 20, 2009 -- Mobilespin Inc. is proud to announce the launch of its new mobile community: http://www.mobilespin.net. Mobilespin provides mobile phone users with a comprehensive list of free personalization tools and content for their mobile phones. In addition, Mobilespin provides a platform for members to connect with friends and other community members via chat, text messaging, email feeds as well as a community forum.

) September 24, 2009 -- LP33.tv (www.lp33.tv), a company devoted to the discovery, enjoyment and sharing of new music, today announced the launch of two new music channels. The Exclusive channel features the company's exclusive music and video content. The addition of this channel, along with a new Alternative channel, brings LP33.tv's genre selection to ten separate channels for music fans looking for a variety of new music choices.

) June 8, 2009 -- Broadjam.com (http://www.broadjam.com) , an independent music website featuring free music promotion, music licensing opportunities, and music contests, launched the 2009 6-Pack Songwriting contest, now in its fifth year.

The 6-Pack Contest consists of six individual songwriting challenges, which take place between June and September 2009. Prizes are awarded at each challenge step, but each challenge is also designed to be a little more difficult than the previous. By the sixth challenge, the level of difficulty is high and the results very exciting. This year, prizes to be awarded are valued at over $85,000.

) September 29, 2009 -- Totem Records, Inc., www.totem-artists.com announced today that the company has launched as an Independent Record Company to be the marketing, advertising, promotion and distribution entity for T.J. Doyle whose debut CD "One True Thing" is scheduled for release on October 23, 2009.

Totem Artists, Inc. specializes in working with online media, publicity, promotion and distribution but also employs traditional music promotion avenues for recording artists.

September 11, 2008 --
Austin, Texas- Local musicians unable to get airplay on Austin’s commercially owned radio stations will find respite in Affordable Sound Radio Online, launching September 1, 2008. The radio station which will be available online at AffordableSound.FM, will specialize in playing artists that aren’t heard on any other station.

) December 23, 2008 -- Thumbplay® (http://www.thumbplay.com), the #1 mobile entertainment provider and destination in the U.S., has won an award for "Best Mobile Infotainment Portal" for News/Entertainment in Visiongain's 2008 Mobile Entertainment Awards and Conference. Hosted in central London, the Mobile Entertainment Awards recognizes the technologies, companies, innovations and campaigns that have enabled the industry to move forward over the years. The winners were chosen by a panel of judges, not affiliated with either Visiongain or any other participating company, who reviewed all of the submissions and sent in their votes for the winners without conferring with each other.

Supernova.com announces that they have eclipsed the 20,000 band mark in community sign ups. By creating a free artist profile on Supernova.com, indie bands and new music artists gain exposure on a community network which includes over 180,000 registered users, all sharing the passion for new music. Supernova.com also produces over 250 live Battle of the Bands® concerts each year to showcase new talent from their online community. (PRWeb Jul 8, 2009)

Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/07/prweb2613374.htm

) September 24, 2008 -- There's never been a wiser time to get your music legally. We live in a climate where illegal MP3 sharing can bring you sharply into focus on the RIAA's radar and can have devastating financial consequences at $750 per infringed song. Just ask Jeffrey Howell, who was recently found liable for multiple acts of infringement and ordered to pay $40850 in damages.

YouLicense.com, the global online music licensing platform, announced today that it is giving music artists, composers, publishers, record labels and music libraries the chance to create and launch their own branded music licensing website with the same advanced features and tools found on YouLicense.com and offer their catalog to licensees looking for music for film, TV, ads, games and more.Create your own branded music licensing site http://www.youlicense.com/LicensingSite/ (PRWeb Mar 26, 2009)

Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/03/prweb2269244.htm

) September 9, 2009 -- WaTunes, the world's first free online music distribution service that enables artists and record labels to sell their music entirely free on iTunes has announced its official release date of their social music site WaTunes New Experience. WaTunes New Experience (or WaTunes N.E.) is WaTunes next generation social platform that enables music artists and fans to communicate directly with one another and engage in social activities like listening to music, buying ringtones, and watching music videos and trends. WaTunes New Experience aims to provide a different approach to interact and discover new music.

) May 13, 2009 -- The launch of GlobalTraxOnline helps make online music distribution possible for the independent artist. For a small setup fee, GlobalTraxOnline allows musical artists to sell their music on up to 400 top digital music stores and provides global music distribution to 40 countries around the world. Artists working with GlobalTraxOnline will see their songs or album on iTunes, eMusic, Rhapsody, Napster, Amazon MP3, and many more.

Online Music Distribution

) February 24, 2009 -- JamBase, the largest database of show listings and ticket information, announced today the availability of its free iPhone™ application. Recently hailed by Rolling Stone as one of the "best music apps to pimp your iPhone with," the new application delivers to the on-the-go music fan mobile access to its database of 70,000 live show listings. The JamBase iPhone Application is available for free from the iTunes® Application Store at: http://jambase.com/iphone/app.

) October 3, 2008 -- Didiom, an award-winning mobile media service provider, today announced the beta launch of the first mobile application to integrate a mobile music placeshifting service and a pay-per-download, full-track service that offers over 1 million MP3 songs. The free, all-in-one Didiom application allows music fans to wirelessly access their home computer's iTunes® library from over two hundred mobile devices, including BlackBerry® and Windows Mobile® phones. The beta period will give users an opportunity to test the service and to provide valuable feedback, which will help shape Didiom's over-the-air service and new user interface.

Didiom's new, all-in-one application

) April 1, 2009 -- SellaBand (www.sellaband.com), the online music company where music fans invest in up-and-coming artists, today announces its collaboration with CreateSpace, part of the Amazon.com group of companies. As of today, consumers will be able to buy SellaBand albums from a dedicated SellaBand Store (www.amazon.com/Sellaband) using CreateSpace’s Disc on Demand service, an inventory-free solution in which discs are manufactured only after a customer places an order.

) September 29, 2008 -- The sleek new look and enhanced functionality of www.mobango.com received the internal thumbs' up last night, and was today opened (in beta) to all internet users and mobile phone enthusiasts around the World.

On the new Mobango web and mobile sites users can find close to one million items of mobile content available to download free to any handset in the world: everything in one place, simple to find, free to download and validated by the ratings and comments of other users.

) December 3, 2008 -- YouTube™, the world's most popular online video community, has partnered with the sonic branding and music licensing agency, Rumblefish, providing millions of video creators access to fully licensed music from the Rumblefish catalog of independent artists.

) March 31, 2009 -- The modern day music enthusiast is a demanding consumer. They provide open access to their lives and expect the same level of transparency and authenticity from their favorite artists. More and more, they demand a voice - an opportunity to engage in meaningful dialog with the artists themselves and with the community that surrounds them. Accordingly, Atlantic Records and AgencyNet have partnered to extend the Fanbase platform into the mobile space.

) February 10, 2009 -- Nashville-based company, Volum LLC, is thinking outside the box with it's first product release, volumMonster.com. Using what the creators call the "Power of Free," volumMonster offers a valuable service to both fans and artists. While at first glance you might be tempted to think of volumMonster as just one more digital music service, the players behind it, co-founders and music industry veterans, Sean Smith and Kelly Poe, confess that while their core service offers digital downloads, that's where all similarities end. "volumMonster is unlike anything out there right now," says Smith.

volumMonster.com logo

) April 9, 2009 -- With today's launch of NewTunes.com, music fans who enjoy seeking truly new, unheard and unsigned music now have a web site that recommends songs that sound similar to their favorites -- without any bias toward popularity or sales rank.

NewTunes.com

) October 14, 2009 -- Building on Wikia, Inc.'s (http://www.wikia.com/) expansive fan-based wikis, today the company announced it has acquired LyricWiki (http://lyrics.wikia.com/) to provide music fans with the broadest coverage of licensed songs on the Internet. LyricWiki is the quintessential online destination to reference the words to almost one million songs, and to share information with other music fans about the songs and artists they love.

) May 18, 2009 -- OOiZiT.com, one of the UKs latest internet start-ups, has secured a six figure investment from a digital investment group - Zooki Digital. The deal comes after a range of offers from an undisclosed list of investors and is said to have been in negotiations since Nov last year.

OOiZiT.com new music social network

) July 20, 2009 -- 101 Distribution (www.101d.com, the nation's only full service music and video distributor and Warehouse Agency 2 unveiled 101D Infomusicials, a series of online viral videos that spotlight the benefits of independent distribution. Embeddable and designed to spread virally, 101D Infomusicials leverage the power of the DIY approach to reach music fans, artists, labels and producers everywhere online.

) August 19, 2009 -- The great world of web holds a lot to attract the attention of those who wish to spend their time online; happily. Whether it is playing online games or downloading free ringtones or the latest stuff for their mobile phones web has always something new and exciting which compels people from all the regions and ages to pay regular visits.

) September 17, 2008 -- Fans of electro music are getting ready to riot with the debut of the Electro Riot Compilation trueWidgets (www.trueAnthem.com/electroriot/). Launched this week, the new viral music player contains songs from 10 of the hottest artists in the underground West Coast electro music scene. Also launching today is a trueWidget from Lucky Boys Confusion (www.trueAnthem.com/luckyboysconfusion/).

) October 14, 2008 -- ihiphop.com, the rapidly growing cultural hub and market dominating social network experience for the urban youth consumer/demographic, leaps toward Web 3.0 (and music biz 2.0) with the announcement of a tour sponsorship/partnership with rising star emcee MURS.

ihiphop.com is sponsoring Murs' national tour, which kicked off last week in San Francisco, hot on the heels of the #45 Billboard debut of Murs' first major label offering, "Murs For President," in a deal that further illustrates the link between web-based grassroots initiatives, organic artist development through direct fan outreach and overall
brand fortification.

) March 11, 2009 -- Traffic Marketplace, the leading independent online advertising network, announced today a new strategic distribution agreement with ARTISTdirect Internet Group, Inc. ("ADIG"), making Traffic Marketplace the exclusive advertising and sponsorship sales agency for ARTISTdirect.com and the ARTISTdirect Internet Group Network.

Traffic Marketplace

) February 19, 2009 -- The 2009 RedGorilla Music Festival is invading Austin in full force this March, releasing an incredible line-up of 350 artists representing the best in independent and emerging music.

The official RedGorilla line up includes artists such as The Matches, Cage The Elephant, Dremnt The End, Inward Eye, Danger Is My Middle Name, Dot Dot Dot, Divide The Day, Sequoyah Prep School, The Hollywood Kills, Liam and Me, Green River Ordinance, and that doesn't even scratch the surface.

Company day parties include showcases for UR Label, Right Bank Music, BroadJam.com, Indie Extreme, Old Flame Records, Mad Dragon Records, PLAY:stl Music Festival and more.

MyToons.com, the world’s premiere online animation and art community, today announced the launch of its latest art competition, The Concrete Jungle. MyToons has teamed up with Grammy award winner and platinum music and film producer Quincy Jones III to give artists from around the world an opportunity to help brand his upcoming hip-hop and skateboard movie, Concrete Jungle. Artists everywhere are invited to submit original artwork and designs for a chance to have their work incorporated into the movie collateral and marketing materials of this ground-breaking new film. In addition, artists will also have a chance at over $10,000 in cash and prizes. (PRWeb Sep 11, 2008)

) July 22, 2009 -- In a year that continues a downward trend in the music industry, where 95% of digital downloads come from unauthorized sources, where the fallout from a damaged economy continues to make major waves in the business community, and where arts funding is being slashed and burned… independent artists wonder how to survive and how to continue creating…Feed The Muse presents a simple model for creators and audiences to join together and keep the arts flourishing.

) June 10, 2009 -- MusicPlacements.com, the closely watched online music publishing and social network start-up, posted a recent interview with Co-Founder Albert Young talking about their hot new business model, music, technology, and the current state of the music industry. In a short period, this company is quickly becoming one of the rising stars of digital music publishing and a source of fresh ideas on how to make monetize music on the internet. They have landed published content on two Billboard Top Ten albums in the last 18 months - working with some of the biggest names in the industry. We wanted to find out more about MusicPlacements unique business model and thoughts on the music, the internet, and the state of the industry today.

) April 2, 2009 -- How are up-and-coming bands marketing themselves more effectively than signed artists--and putting the final nail in the record company coffin in the process?

Music web design website

The answer: new online web design platforms like Wix.com that let non-tech savvy musicians create Flash website and MySpace pages (for free) that not only rival, but exceed the quality of professionally made sites.

) June 3, 2009 -- Gx5 announces Ringtone Expressions, a new service that provides the fastest, coolest and most efficient way to get custom ringtones on to modern day mobile phones and Smartphones. Its Windows desktop application lets users instantly create their own ringtones from any .MP3 music file in their ever growing music library. It lets users express these ringtones to their Facebook friends and Twitter followers in a unique way and in the process discover new ones from their friends on these social networks.

Ringtone Expressions

) February 17, 2009 -- YouTube™, the world's most popular online video community, has added the library of digital music distribution firm DashGo providing millions of video creators access with fully licensed music from the DashGo catalog of independent artists and labels.

The DashGo music catalog on YouTube will be accessible for users today through YouTube's free AudioSwapTM tool. AudioSwap is a new YouTube feature that allows users to automatically add licensed music to their YouTube videos.