US audiences are in for a listening treat. It turns out that Swedish on-demand streaming music service Spotify is set to officially launch to US audiences in the late Summer. Continue reading »

Bill Tancer, Hitwise GM of Global tweetmeme_url = 'http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/one_time_in_bandcamp_challenging_myspace_music.php'; tweetmeme_source = 'rww'; Research recently wrote about MySpace's departure as a top traffic generator for entertainment and music sites. Says Tancer, Continue reading »

According to The Leading Question's recent research tweetmeme_url = 'http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/18_streaming_music_resources.php'; tweetmeme_source = 'rww'; report, as many as 65% of UK teens are streaming music on a monthly basis. Meanwhile, file-sharing Continue reading »

Microsoft is planning on launching its own streaming music service by the end of July, Emma Barnett reported today in the UK Telegraph. A Microsoft exec told Barnett that the Continue reading »

Pandora is one of the Internet's slow and steady success stories. After years of work and more than $20 million dollars invested, the company is finally looking at the light Continue reading »

imeem, which describes itself as the "world's largest social music service," just told its community members that it plans to delete all photos and videos that users have uploaded to Continue reading »

Next time you're out and about and can't recall the name of a song or the artist who sang it, try out Twitter song-lookup service LyricRat. It's a simple app Continue reading »

Livekick is a startup for the would-be concert-goers among us. We're busy. We don't have time to troll a half dozen websites for bands we like at venues that are Continue reading »

Awesome New York band Sonic Youth today unveiled The Eternal, the 16th album of its 27 year career. The band chose to bring the album into the light of day Continue reading »

Ten years ago yesterday, Napster revolutionized commercial music by - we're all grownups; let's call a spade a spade - democratizing piracy. Without doubt, consumers in 1999 needed better access Continue reading »