A very informative article was written at Manuel Marino’s blog. It covers the current state of the music business.
Exerpts:

The State of Music Business
I’m, first of all, a passionate for music. My passion for music before I can recall it, and grew with the fact that I had the luck to have older brother and sisters [...]

PRESS RELEASE (from deezer.com)

ALL MUSIC IS FINALLY FREE THANKS TO DEEZER.COM
DEEZER.COM LAUNCHES THE FIRST FREE AND LEGAL MUSIC ON DEMAND WEBSITE
After SACEM1 closed down Blogmusik.net in February 2007, the site, which is now called Deezer.com, has announced that an agreement has been reached with the societies that protect copyright royalties. Deezer.com is now the first [...]

Time to tell the world about your band - and be ready to handle it!
So, you’ve completed your band lineup. The members all get along (for now) ansd you’re making some seriously rocking music. Great! But what now? Well, for starters, you have to complete the rest of the puzzle. What is the puzzle, well [...]

More Music Web 2.0 Style!
Following on my recent article of new music websites technologies, and music companies, there are some additional newsworthy web 2.0 sites and services that have recently launched. Most of them fall under the social networking concept.
bigeardigital - Hear your music from any computer!

Wouldn’t you like to hear your music library from any computer? Or better, [...]

If you’ve ever needed to upload your music or videos to a website, or send them elsewhere, chances are you’ve experienced one of the following annoynances:
- file size too large
5mb typically is the limit for email, and most audio related websites like have the files under 5mb
- file type not supported
an mp3 file can be [...]

As the old saying goes, if it’s too loud, you’re too old! Loudness is not always a good thing though, and if you have the right equipment, you don’t need excessive volume. v-moda has released the Vibe series of hi definition luxury earphones. These are the first “high definition” luxury earphones. Quality over quantity in [...]

Musicians with home studios should carefully consider upgrading or not. Sometimes the old addage “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” applies. If you upgrade, plan on adding more memory, and other unforeseen expenses to keep your DAW in top running condition. Vista utilises different driver models and your hardware may not work. Take the [...]

You’re a Rockstar, well almost…
Technology, gadgets, internet yadda yadda yadda. I wanna rock! Most musicians spend enough time writing rehearsing and polishing up their material to have any time left for promoting and marketing. The sad truth is unless you’ve got a huge fan base, you cannot make a buzz in the industry without [...]

Finally, a portable recording solution that integrates into your everyday life without any extra gadgets or power supplies and cables! For the commuter, the public transit user, or the “quick…record it before I forget it” like me, the XtremeMac Ipod recorder is a welcomed innovation! Can you tell I love it? even before I’ve used [...]

Today, a new Indie music “1 stop shop” service launches. This is not your average sell your song and get a cut of the proceeds type of service. The new service called nimbit has all the bells and whistles to get your indie product noticed!
The competition such as itunes, snocap, napster, cdbaby, indie911, tunecore and [...]