Peer to peer file sharing leader Lime Wire and independent label KUFALA Recordings will partner up to distribute KUFALA music via the LimeWire network and the LimeWire-owned MagnetMix site. For the first time, famed artists in the jam band circuit including Soul Coughing (under exclusive license from Warner Bros. Records), The Slip, and New Riders of the Purple Sage can be downloaded an...

Trent Reznor has released a version of Nine Inch Nails' current release The Hand That Feeds in GarageBand format, allowing anyone who has a newer Mac to gain total control of the music. In a document written by Trent that accompanies the 70MB file, he suggests that the user "Change the tempo. Add new loops. Chop up the vocals. Turn me into a woman. Replay the guitar. Anything you'd like". Included as part of iLife, Apple Computer's suite of digital lifestyle applications which includes iPhoto, iDVD and the ever popular iTunes, GarageBand is an easy to use yet very powerful audio pro...

TapeOpCon is a conference and get-together aimed at producers, engineers, studio owners, musicians, the growing legion of home-recordists and anyone with an interest in the creative side of the music recording industry. It's a chance to meet, greet and soak up the knowledge and opinions of an incredibly wide range of studio talent in workshops, panel discussions, live shows, a trade show exhibit area and the inevitable after-hours encounters. And for the second year in a row it's in the great city of New Orleans, a perfect setting for the kind of easy-going and down-to-earth atmosphere that th...

Us3, the brainchild of London-based Geoff Wilkinson is gearing up to release its first US album in 7 years, Questions. Us3's 2001 title An Ordinary Day In An Unusual Place was only available as an import stateside. The group first made its way into mainstream consciousness with its clever sampling of Herbie Hancock's "Cantaloupe Island" track. The infectious rhythm and club meets café coolness of "Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)" catapulted the band's debut album on the Blue Note label Hand On The Torch to multi-million sales status around the world, giving Blue Note its first US platinu...

Two new releases hit the stores in May courtesy of a new Los Angeles-based record label called Lunaticworks. Their mission, to seek out new music from bedroom based electronic music producers whose creations might otherwise never see the light of day, distributing the music using BMG's massive distribution network. Horse Noodles, a collection of groovy San Fernando Valley hip-hop from Horace Noonkowics and Tha Fruitbat, drum 'n bass with an organic feel from Sacramento, hope to bring something new to the listener who may be feeling a little bored with the usual fayre. Another recent ...

Arturia's Minimoog V software, unveiled at this years NAMM, will offer all the features of the original Minimoog and most of the features available on the latest version from the Moog factory, Voyager. Highlights include polyphony, enhanced MIDI management and more than 500 presets made by a selection of talented sound designers. Robert A. Moog, the inventor of the Moog synthesizer in all it's various shapes and sizes, says that the sound quality of the Minimoog V "captures the magic of the original classic Minimoog". He goes on to say "The graphic interface looks classy and responds...

Peter Gabriel, with the support of Brian Eno, today announced the launch of the Magnificent Union of Digitally Downloading Artists, or MUDDA for short, which hopes to raise the awareness of musicians who may not yet be fully aware of the internet's marketing potential. The arrival of Magnificent Union of Digitally Downloading Artists comes at a time when the rules of the digital download game are just now being written. Record companies only recently agreed to work closely with their counterparts in the computer industry, to help slow the bleeding of their catalogs through peer to peer ne...

The biggest promotion of downloadable digital audio from the web to date kicks off during this years Superbowl XXXVIII, and the giant sized ad campaign will be featuring teens who were recently sued by the RIAA, for downloading copyrighted materials from peer to peer file sharing networks such as Napster and Kazaa. The message will be simple. Drink Pepsi, get a chance to win a free song from iTunes, and don't get sued while listening to it. Accompanied by a specially commisioned rework by Green Day of Continue Reading