EMusic.com, the Internet’s most popular MP3 music service, today announced licensing and digital distribution agreements with six internationally-recognized independent record labels in a wide range of popular music genres: OM Records (Electronic/Hip-Hop), Olympia (Classical), JSP (Jazz/Blues/Soul), Minty Fresh (Alternative Pop/Children’s Music), Checkered Past (Roots/Americana) and Emperor Norton (Indie Pop). Starting today, EMusic members will be able to download hundreds of high-quality MP3s from the catalogs of these leading labels. EMusic is now offering a free two-week trial to its digital music subscription service at http://www.emusic.com/subscription/. Designed for the avid music fan, EMusic allows members to download as much music as… Read more »
XM Satellite Radio, the first U.S. digital satellite radio service, will bring music to the New York City Marathon at 10 locations along the 26-mile course, featuring a variety of XM’s 100 channels, which it calls “Radio to the Power of X.” Working with retail partner Best Buy and the New York City Roadrunners Club, XM will broadcast great digital music representative of its 71 music channels – ranging from rock to jazz, hip-hop to country, blues to classical – to help the marathoners as they make their way through the five boroughs of New York. “XM will bring the… Read more »
Apple Computer Inc. unveiled on Tuesday a portable music player that can hold an entire music collection and takes Apple outside its core computer business for the first time in eight years. Apple’s “iPod” is the size and shape of a deck of cards, with a small LCD screen and round dial on a white front and a stainless steel back. It holds about 1,000 songs in the MP3 music format and has a battery life of 8-10 hours. Apple will begin selling iPods, which only work with its Macintosh computers, on Nov. 10 at a suggested retail price of… Read more »
The Smashing Pumpkins will release their upcoming greatest hits package, Rotten Apples, on November 20th. Along with the prerequisite never before seen band photos, the album features songs from all five of the Pumpkins’ studio releases, as well as the song “Drown,” which was featured on the soundtrack to the film Singles. “Real Love,” a previously unreleased track from the Internet only release Machina II: Friends and Enemies of Modern Music and “Untitled,” a new track, are also included on the hits disc. Along with Rotten Apples the band’s former label Virgin Records will release a limited edition double-disc set… Read more »
This week on Add To Library, hosts Shawn Kupfer & Brian LaCour bring you their annual Halloween Spooktacular Double Feature! In Hour 1, Brian brings you a playlist filled with awesome Metal tracks that remind him of certain scenes/parts in Horror Films, and in Hour 2, Shawn scores his very own Giallo with a killer soundtrack of his own! Subscribe to Add To Library on Apple Music and Spotify Follow Add To Library on Facebook, Instagram, and Bluesky Tune in live Fridays @ 9pmET for new episodes every week!
This week on Add To Library, hosts Shawn Kupfer & Brian LaCour dive deep into an instant classic from 2023 as they’re talking all about Blackbraid’s 2023 record Blackbraid II! Subscribe to Add To Library on Apple Music and Spotify Follow Add To Library on Facebook, Instagram, and Bluesky Tune in live Fridays @ 9pmET for new episodes every week!
This week on Add To Library, Shawn & Brian dive deep into a band that Shawn discovered at a live show as they’re talking all about the amazing Desert Metal stylings of The Black Moriah’s Road Agents Of The Blast Furnace! Subscribe to Add To Library on Apple Music and Spotify Follow Add To Library on Facebook, Instagram, and Bluesky Tune in live Fridays @ 9pmET for new episodes every week!
This week on Add To Library, Shawn & Brian dive deep into a truly mesmerizing album combining instrumental grind, math, dbeat, sludge from 2019 as they’re talking all about Pound’s second album ••! Subscribe to Add To Library on Apple Music and Spotify Follow Add To Library on Facebook, Instagram, and Bluesky Tune in live Fridays @ 9pmET for new episodes every week!
This week on Add To Library, Shawn & Brian dive deep into a rad album from 2016 as they discuss Mountain Witch’s 3rd album, 2016’s Burning Village! Subscribe to Add To Library on Apple Music and Spotify Follow Add To Library on Facebook, Instagram, and Bluesky Tune in live Fridays @ 9pmET for new episodes every week!
This week on Add To Library, sEPtember continues as Shawn & Brian dive deep into a rad EP from 2017 that combines some doom, black metal and much more as they’re talking all about Vamacara’s Mantras For The Manifold! Subscribe to Add To Library on Apple Music and Spotify Follow Add To Library on Facebook, Instagram, and Bluesky Tune in live Fridays @ 9pmET for new EP breakdowns throughout the month of sEPtember!
