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Microsoft is planning on launching its own streaming music service by the end of July, Emma Barnett reported

Next time you're out and about and can't recall the name of a song or the artist who

Livekick is a startup for the would-be concert-goers among us. We're busy. We don't have time to troll

Awesome New York band Sonic Youth today unveiled The Eternal, the 16th album of its 27 year career.

Ten years ago yesterday, Napster revolutionized commercial music by - we're all grownups; let's call a spade a

We Are Hunted, the Billboard of the social web, has launched a new page to show users the

We have seen our fair share of doom and gloom this year, but, according to a report from

Imeem, the popular but financially troubled streaming media and music discovery service, launched its iPhone and Android application

Last.fm, the popular online music discovery service, just launched its new Personalized Visual Music player today, which, at

It looks like live streaming could be coming to a future generation of the iPhone and/or iPod devices.

On the internet, there are a number of places you can go to get free music, but when

Early in 2008, Google, in cooperation with Chinese online music service Top100.cn, started a free music download service

Popular but legally challenged MP3 search engine Seeqpod will soon start charging developers for access to its data,

The CBS-acquired streaming music service Last.fm announced this morning that it will "soon" require users outside of the

A few days ago, over at Gina Trapani's new Smarterware blog, I read about another new web-based music

A new social networking site for music called WorldSings wants to "unite artists and music fans from around

YouTube just announced that it wasn't able to reach a new deal with the UK's Performing Rights Society

The Republic Project, a new online music business, officially launched its service this morning. At its core, the

People's Music Store is a newly launched DIY online music store. It was created by the founder of