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garageband, the innovative record company that brings music lovers and musicians together on the Internet, today announced “The New Deal,” a marketing and distribution program for aspiring yet unsigned musicians. The New Deal extends the company’s proprietary, patent-pending technology for singling out bands based on the opinions of hundreds of thousands of on-line reviewers to now also gauge real-world commercial appeal. As Napster has proven, the $40 billion record industry is at a crossroads as both artists and the labels wrestle with how to harness the power (and excitement) of the Internet. garageband’s New Deal program sets out to do… Read more »

MUSICMATCH, Inc. today announced plans to provide an on-demand music service, based on its just-released MUSICMATCH Radio MX(TM) (announced separately today). With the introduction of Radio MX, the company now offers its millions of customers subscriptions to “near music-on-demand” at CD quality. MUSICMATCH will use this infrastructure to add true “on-demand” music selections to Radio MX as required licenses are obtained from labels and publishers. The company expects to launch its next generation on-demand music services this summer. Built on the technology of the acclaimed MUSICMATCH Radio, the MUSICMATCH next generation on-demand music services will give subscribers access to an… Read more »

Rebel without a mandate? Listen.com fails to run its Napster strategy past either its major label investors or Napster Listen.com, a music directory service partly funded by major record labels, is shedding a little of its squeaky-clean image with a new song-search service that plugs directly into Napster’s software. The new service replicates all the music search and recommendation functions of Listen.com’s Web site but lives on an individual’s PC desktop. The company has added a function that triggers the Napster application, booting up the file-swapping service to help find music reviewed or recommended by Listen.com. The company did not… Read more »

Bertelsmann AG chairman and CEO Thomas Middelhoff has asked the record companies to “keep Napster alive” until an effective transition into a legitimate model occurs July 1. Otherwise, Middelhoff said Monday, 70 million users will be forced to go to other services – a move that he thinks would be a major loss for the record industry. However, if Napster fails to have a legitimate solution by July 1, Middelhoff said, the file-swapping service should be shut down. Bertelsmann and Napster entered into a strategic alliance in October. Middelhoff’s speech during a town hall meeting at the Beverly Hilton was… Read more »