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When MySpace first launched, one of its main draws was the music offered by independent artists on the site, something which generated a strong following among new musicians and their

Today, social music site Last.fm announced that they would be sponsoring a new music category in Mozilla's Extend Firefox 3 contest. The contest, which encourages developers to build add-ons for

Hype Machine, the much-loved MP3 blog aggregator service, has long been the place to go to find great tracks and music reviews on the net. In October of last year,

Major social networking site Imeem launched a developer platform tonight that will enable read/write access to user information and more. Imeem is a site where users can upload music, create

There was a lot of chatter over the weekend about folk punk rocker Billy Bragg's New York Times editorial where he argues that music artists who uploaded material to social

Leave it to Radiohead, the pioneering alt-rock band that released its latest album last fall under a pay-what-you-want price scheme to a lot of fan fare (and some criticism of

LimeWire has just opened their online music store in beta form at store.limewire.com. The store which is reported to currently have a catalog of 500,000 tunes, features DRM-free MP3s encoded

Are you into multimedia? Do you stream music over the web, share photos on Flickr and Picassa, watch videos at YouTube, share links with friends, and hang out in social

Songbird, the little music player/web browser mashup that everyone has high hopes for, has just released a new version: 0.5RC1. This is their first official release towards their goal of

P2P music service Grooveshark is at SXSW Music this week, promoting the upcoming release of an Analytics suite for music artists and labels. The company is also generously offering ReadWriteWeb