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42 Percent of the Time, 'Discovery Moments' Involve a New Artist... Recommendation, recommendation, recommendation, recommendation... it's worse than 'monetization'!  But ten years later, why hasn't anyone figured this puzzle out?  Why is old-school FM radio still dictating the favorite songs of a majority of music fans?    At NARM, power-attorney Ken Hertz said there's a [...]

Good Morning! Spotify, Grooveshark, DMN, UMG, WMG, Sony... More Spotify truthiness?  Facebook now shows nearly 20 million Spotify users, roughly double the advertised active user estimate from Spotify itself.  The running conspiracy theory is that Spotify is actively lowering its active userbase to plump its paid conversion percentages (or something like that.)  In Grooveshark's push [...]

Download the new single "Rep Dem Right" by Kraft Moore. New EP SNT: With No Breaks In Stores Everywhere April 5 , 2011

Download this amazing song by Diana Polenova & BastArt

Disrespect, or Disruption? Beastie Boys File-Sharing Volumes Are Surging... So how do you justify file-swapping Adam Yauch? After all, you can't say you're going to the show anymore! Maybe the flip side is that many of these swappers are discovering earlier Beastie Boys stuff for the first time, and merely going to the platform they [...]

Counting Crows: 'BitTorrent Is the New Radio...' But is it, really? We keep seeing evidence that radio - as in, FM radio - remains the strongest promotional platform, by a longshot. That is, despite its tendency towards endless repitition, homogenization, commercial breaks, and deejay spasms. Or maybe, because of those tendencies. In fact, radio is [...]

The Latest! NPR, Thinglink, Thrillcall, Thefuture.fm, DEV, Coachella, Sigur Rós, CBGB's, Pledge Music, Ben Folds... These are the stories we're tracking late in the day. Check back for late-evening and early-morning developments. NPR is now beefing its 'All Tech Considered' series, a '2.0 upgrade' that means broader dive-ins and expanded analysis. The same thing goes [...]

Download and share We Bout It by Derby Girl

Download and share this single from Suzanna's debut EP "Mrs. Lonely" due out Feb. 14.2012.