LiveEarth is a series of megaconcerts which will take place all over the world.

LiveEarth is a series of megaconcerts which will take place all over the world - USA, Europe, Japan, Australia, China - and feature some of the biggest music stars like Red Hot Chili Peppers, Madonna, Beastie Boys, The Police, Dave Matthews Band, Pussycat Dolls and many others. The concerts should raise awareness about global warming and climate change, and it might even affect climate itself with all that gas-guzzling air-polluting cars gathering at the actual shows.

As far as live coverage goes, MSN has exclusive rights in 24 countries, and they’re working with ControlRoom, the organizers of Live 8, to make sure it all goes smoothly. The shows will be available live on LiveEarth website, and up to eight shows will be broadcasted simultaneously. That’s right, kids, you’ll be able to hear Enrique Iglesias and 7 other artists wailing about the state of global climate at the same time!

90+ Essential Music and Audio Websites.

Online music has always been popular, and now social networks, peer recommendations and personalized radio stations are helping fans find bands faster than ever before. Here are more than 90 sites for musicians, fans, and everyone who enjoys music.

Internet Radio

Last.FM - one of the most popular music communities around, with personalized radio stations, a stunning array of social networking features, RSS support and lots more.
Slacker - personalized Internet radio which offers a desktop version of the application and a hardware portable music player. Available only in the United States.
ShoutCast - A large directory of Internet radio stations, categorized by genre. Streams work in Winamp.
Live365 - A directory of web-based Internet radio stations - expect popups.
Yahoo! Music - listen to Internet radio and watch music videos on Yahoo’s music portal.
AOL Music - AOL’s take on internet radio. Offers music from XM as well.
Pandora - a very popular Internet radio/community which brings you new music based on stuff you like. Works only in the US & Canada at the moment.
Yottamusic - a huge music library boasting over 3.4 million songs, accessible from your web browser.

Music Discovery Tools

MusicMesh - browse through artists based on their similarities; find tracklists and reviews for albums.
Blogmusik - browse through top lists and listen to popular artists for free.
Musicovery - discover new music with this cool take on Internet radio.

Social Networks

See also: 12 of the Best Music Social Networks

iLike - a community that lets you discover new music based on you and your friends’ tastes.
PureVolume - a “MySpace for music”, albeit with a classier design.
ProjectPlaylist - popular site for sharing playlists and posting them to other social networks.
Imeem - another playlist-sharing community for artists and fans that also supports embedding of tracks on other social sites and blogs.
MP3.com - the famous music site is now a social network similar to MySpace Music.
iJigg - a place for indie bands and artists to post their music, which the users can download for free.
MOG - a place to share your music and video library and exchange thoughts on music with others.
Fuzz - discover new music; artists can sell their music, but there are also free songs to be found on the site.
eListeningPost - convert your tracks into preview files, then sell them and keep 94% of the profits.
ProjectOpus - Music community for indie bands, complete with widgets to post on MySpace and blogs.
Rapspace.tv - social networking for rap and hiphop.
Musocity - a music community with profiles for fans, artists, retailers and music venues.
Haystack - social networking, playlist sharing and band profiles.
Bandbuzz - find and rate music playlists in a Digg-like interface.
Midomi - find songs by humming or singing the tune. Then explore profile pages and network with others.
Buzznet - large pop culture community with news, videos, photos and member profiles.
JukeboxAlive - Upload music and share tracks with friends. Bands can sell their CDs, write a blog and post events to a calendar.
MusicHawk - track bands and see band-related news and reviews, as well as information on gigs and new releases.
ReverbNation - social network connecting bands, fans and venues.
MusicNation - find new music, watch music videos; if you’re an indie/unsigned artist, join for a chance to get exposure or even a record contract.
Grooveshark - an online service that rewards you for sharing, reviewing, and discovering new music (currently in private testing - enter you email address on the homepage to be notified of the launch).
Dopetracks - upload and share your tracks and beats, and record music online.
Funk Player - a music sharing community where authors can upload songs, while everyone can bookmark, select, listen and comment on them.
FIQL - social playlist sharing.
Soundflavor - create playlists and share them with other users; meet people with similar taste and discover new music.
FineTune - pick an artist and receive a custom playlist featuring music by that artists and other related artists.
MusicMobs - browse through playlists and create your own in a simple interface.

Music Sharing Applications and Widgets

uPlayMe - a downloadable application that lets you meet people with similar music tastes.
DotTunes - share your iTunes collection with friends through your web browser.
Audiozue - A Mac OSX application that posts your recently-played iTunes tracks to your MySpace page or blog.
Sonific - a music network where you can store the music you hold the rights to, and syndicate it to other sites with SongSpot widgets.
Mediamaster - upload your entire music collection and access it from anywhere in the world. You can also publish this music via widgets to any website.
BooMP3 - upload and share your MP3s; unlimited hosting.
Goombah - an application that scans your iTunes library and connects you with like minded users.
Maestro - upload your entire music library and access it from anywhere.

Music Marketplaces

iTunes - Apple’s overwhelmingly popular music download store is a service that requires little in the way of introduction.
Amie Street - music market where music starts with free price, and the price increases as a track becomes more popular (the price never goes above 1 dollar).
Emusic - one of the most successful “indie” music stores, with over 100 million DRM-free tracks sold.
Bleep - high-quality MP3s with prices that are a bit high, but offering a great assortment of quality music.
MP3 Tunes - an online music store offering 30,000 albums and some 360,000 songs in its catalog.
Amazon - a soon-to-come music store which should have a huge assortment of music from big and indie labels alike.
PayPlay.FM - choose between over 1.4 million indie music tracks, and buy them in either MP3 or WMA format.
Beatport - a Flash-based music store with an embeddable player.
Audio Lunchbox - choose between 2 million DRM-free songs in MP3 or OGG format.
Indiepad - buy music from indie artists; if you’re an artist, sell music to people directly on the site.
Indistr - another audio marketplace that connects indie artists with the listeners.
Mtraks - an indie music marketplace with a very interesting and quite strong music collection in store.
MagnaTune - here you’ll find an assortment of music from various genres, ranging from electronica, rock and chillout to metal & punk.
Jamendo - an online music repository offering thousands of albums for free while still protecting the artists’ intellectual rights.
Musicane - buy and sell audio, video and ringtones.
Musiclovr - music search, recommendations and a store. Purchases are made via Amazon and iTunes.
MySpace Music / Snocap - through Snocap’s embedded music stores, bands on MySpace sell tunes to the social network’s huge audience. Bands can also sign up for Snocap independently and sell music elsewhere.

Jamming

Ejamming - jam with other musicians and record music online.
Kompoz - compose music with other musicians. Record a track, then invite other musicians to add their own instruments.
Jamnow - a musical collaboration site where you can jam with other musicians. Jam sessions can be broadcast live.
Indaba - listen to completed music or works in progress and give your feedback; join in the music-making sessions or start your own.
JamJunky - have a song that’s not quite finished yet? Or, better yet, have a dozen? Organize them with JamJunky.

Karaoke

Singshot - the “YouTube of Karaoke”: record yourself singing along to popular music and listen to others doing the same.
kSolo - sing along to backing tracks, and rate the recordings of others.

Remixing

Jamglue - remix your music online and listen to other users’ mixes.
Splice - upload samples, remix them and post them for others to hear.
YourSpins - mix your own version of your favorite track, share it and post it to your blog or MySpace page.

Mobile Music Services

Flotones - a mobile social network which allows indie bands and artists to sell their content for use on mobiles.
Entertonement - a large directory of ringtones, with top lists and categorization for easier browsing.
Mercora - a social radio network that enables you to search and listen to over 3.5 million songs; offers an application for listening to music on your smartphone.

Music Charts

Billboard - home of the Billboard charts, with music videos and reviews.
MTV’s music charts - MTV charts and videos. Videos playable only in the US.
ChartU - a “Digg for music”: vote on tracks to boost them up the chart.

Artist Databases

Allmusic - probably the most comprehensive music database on the Internet. If your favorite artists aren’t there, well, then you’re listening to some pretty unknown artists.
Pandora Backstage - artist profiles and discographies from the personalized streaming service. You can create a custom radio station straight from an artist’s page.

Lyric Databases

AbsoluteLyrics - Lyrics for all major artists.
Hot Lyrics - huge alphabetized lyrics database. Hard to navigate, but lots of content.

Music Search Engines

Qloud - Music search meets social networking. Currently back in private testing once, but Mashable has a review here. The service that launches next may be substantially different, however.
FindSounds - a search engine for sound effects and music instrument samples.
Musipedia - find and listen to songs based on keywords you provide.

Audio Conversion Tools

Zamzar - converts all sorts of file formats, including several audio formats.
Media Convert - a media converter with a huge amount of options.
MediaConverter - a media converter that can be slow and needs polishing, but can sometimes yield really good results.

Miscellaneous Music and Audio Tools

Bluegrind - converts text to audio.
BePopular - find gigs in UK and Ireland and get your tickets.
Getabuz - create voicemail and audio e-cards online.
iden.tify.us - can’t figure out where a certain melody comes from? Identify it with the help of this service.
Houndbite - share funny audio clips from your life with other users, with the possibility to earn prizes.

Insert Songs in Emails and Blogs.

FoxyTunes is releasing a new version that has several upgrades, and a new feature, Signatunes, letting you add music to your emails and blog posts. The new version will be launched tomorrow.

Signatunes comes with the new FoxyTunes upgrade, and shows up in your message editor in services like Yahoo Mail. The FoxyTunes icon, when clicked, will add your currently playing song to your email message or blog post. Signatunes currently works with Facebook Notes and Mail, Yahoo, GMail, MySpace blogs, AOL Mail, Horde, WordPress, Hotmail and SquirrelMail. The song appears to the recipients as a link for the song directing to FoxyTunes’ website.

Additional feature upgrades include a web search or lyrics, artist images, videos, etc., a desktop widget to let you listen to music outside of your Firefox browser, and a podcast preview to find music that you’d like to subscribe to. There’s also an info box for your dashboard to offer more data on songs, album art, recent history and more. There is not yet a Mac version. FoxyTunes’ last announcement was a Twitter inclusion to its service.

Baeble Music : the online site for finding professional videos of live concerts.

Baeble Music, the online site for finding professional videos of live concerts, is partnering with online video site Babelgum to syndicate its catalog of live music performances.

Babelgum will stream several selections from Baeble’s music library, which currently has over 70 videos of live concert footage for up and coming indie band across a handful of genres (indie-rock, pop and heavy metal). This is a good way for Baeble to get its content out and spread further. It’s niche service is still appealing to enough people across the board for it to be able to leverage a deal with Babelgum in order to improve its distribution channels. This is also an interesting move for Babelgum, which has spent a lot of time garnering relationships with other media companies for the provision of premium content through its service.

LINK: http://www.baeblemusic.com/default.aspx

The best way to share your music taste.

pikkat is the best way to share your music taste and only for Mac OS X users at the moment, released by Brad.




LINK: http://www.pikkat.com/

Youlicense: An online music licensing marketplace.

YouLicense aims to gain traction in the growing market for direct music licensing deals.
An online music licensing marketplace, YouLicense enables artists and those seeking musical content to conduct business directly without the need to deal with music companies.

Content is indexed and easily searchable. YouLicense provides standardized contracts so that both buyer and seller immediately know the legalities of a deal, allowing for a quick and easy transaction.



The obvious competitors to this site are the variety of Podcast focused free and paid music marketplaces. Whilst music licensed by YouLicense can be used for podcasts and other forms of web created content, the site aims at the full spectrum of music uses: Film & Television, Advertising Campaigns, Music on Hold, Mobile Phone Content and Audio Projects. Items offered are also not limited by format. Ringtones, sheet music and beats can be listed along with the traditional pre-recorded music.

A database that tracks listening habits and does wonderful things with statistics.

The Audioscrobbler system is a massive database that tracks listening habits and calculates relationships and recommendations based on the music people listen to.

After installing an Audioscrobbler plugin for your media player (eg iTunes, Winamp, Amarok) the name of every song you listen to is sent to the Audioscrobbler server and added to your music profile. The Audioscrobbler system powers our main site, Last.fm, as well as exposing data via webservices so other projects can make interesting things from the data and recommendations we provide.


Audioscrobbler was initially released by Richard Jones in 2002, with support for Winamp and XMMS. The protocol was publicly documented and support has been added to dozens of different media players and devices since then. To name a few: iTunes, Winamp, Windows Media Player, Foobar, iPod, Amarok, Rhythmbox, mpd, Xbox media center, Slimserver, Jinzora, mpg321, Muine, Rhapsody, YME, Soundbridge, VLC... and loads of other scripts and tools exist to scrobble and fetch data from our webservices.

search engine that can find songs by acoustic similarity.

Audiobaba is a next generation music search engine that allows you to find songs by acoustic similarity. Until now, there was no easy to way to browse for new music.



Audiobaba lets you tell it what kind of music you like and returns results that sound like it but are in fact different. Because deep down we just want more of the stuff we already like.

New way to discover music and build your collection.

Goombah is a new way to discover music and build your collection. It is free to users and completely independent.

Goombah analyzes your iTunes collection and finds a unique set of matching members that share your taste - your iPod's soul mates. It recommends their favorite tracks that are not in your collection. Goombah also suggests specific free tracks to download, or you can browse our entire Free Music collection of professionally produced music. Goombah currently draws recommendations from more than 7 million tracks in our members' collections. Recommendations are changing all the time and new free tracks are added every week on "Free Music Fridays"
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Finding other people, and working on recording, mixing, or mastering projects easier.

Indaba Music is an international community of musicians, music professionals, and fans exploring the creative possibilities of making music with people in different places. It makes finding other people, and working on recording, mixing, or mastering projects easier. For fans, Indaba provides unprecedented access to artists and to the creative process.

With recording hardware and software now available on almost any budget, it's easier than ever for artists of all levels and backgrounds to record and produce professional quality music. Artists are also harnessing the internet to get their music heard by more people than ever before. We think this is a big deal for the future of music, and we built Indaba to be an environment for artists to harness these trends and create music in new ways.

Buy DRM-free mp3s that will play on any device.

AnywhereCD is a music store where for the first time you'll find thousands of CD & MP3s from popular artists you know and love. All albums you buy you can listen to immediately, download MP3 files, plus you get the physical CD. With your support we hope to convince everyone to offer CDs with MP3s so please browse a chart or genre and buy some music.

Link: http://www.anywherecd.com

Bongo5 : a social network/video/music site for tanzanians around the world.

Bongo5 is the social network/video/music site for tanzanians around the world. Here you'll get the latest music from bongoflava to taarab and old east african bands, news from Tanzania Kenya and Uganda, you'll be able to make new friends and meet the ones you haven't see in a while.
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Artists and fans have one goal, Make music and money together.

Artists and fans have one goal. Make music and money together. Artists upload their music and profile. Fans find artists they like and believe in. $10 (plus transaction costs) buys them a piece of the action. $50,000 gets the artist in the studio. Fans get an exclusive CD send to their homes. Artists make their dream come true. From now on bands and believers are in business together.

create profiles ,videos, images, and audio for the general viewing public to vote on.

Famesource is free service allows users to create descriptive profiles and to upload videos, images, and audio for the general viewing public to vote on. Voters choose to "Fame" or "Shame" a talent and can add themselves as a "Fan" of talent they like. Users with the highest number of votes in each category then make it to the front page of the website, where they gain an enormous amount of exposure and judgment. The talent with a combination of the most votes and fans in all of the categories will be considered the "Featured Talent", and will be highlighted in its own section on the main page. Every visitor to Famesource.com will notice them as the current "web celeb".
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A new P2P music sharing & social networking service .

Guruger is a web based p2p service where you can share your playlists with your friends.. it's still buggy and all.. but please check it out and see how it feels like.

the point of this service is not just sharing MP3s illegally among random people.. the point is to share your taste and interest in music with people you know already.. that's why you can only share your playlists among 30 limited friends in this service. one of the reasons why we started this project was our personal, simple demands such as "'I wannna enjoy my music with my friends.' and "you want to listen to my music playlists at home or at the office from anywhere you go.. " they will probably try to add some features that can help you find people who have similar taste of music in the futures.
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Mp3 Search Engine .

Mp3Realm is an evolving search engine focused distinctively on audio in Mp3 format. Mp3Realm allows you to search for your favorite songs and clips, and filter them out by file duration. Your searches can be based on artist, title, genre or album. Mp3Realm also index's lyrics, so you can sing along to your favorite songs. Our index of mp3's is constantly growing and is updated daily with fresh links, and removal of dead links. The speed of the download's you find, will vary. This is because the files you download are not hosted by Mp3Realm servers, they are gathered from crawling the web. Mp3Realm hosts no mp3 files

Get rewarded for sharing your songs and music.

GroovesharkTM is an online service that rewards you for sharing, reviewing, and discovering new music. Come take a dip.

Why use GroovesharkTM?

* Get rewarded for sharing your songs and music
* Keep all of your current songs and import your own playlists
* Discover music and receive personalized recommendations
* Sync your library with any player from iPods to iRivers

use of XML Audio Feeds as a means of distrobution in the Independent Music scene.

AudioFeeds.org was created to help promote the use of XML Audio Feeds as a means of distrobution in the Independent Music scene. The labels and artists generating these feeds are more interested in making great music & making it available & accessible to the fans.

AudioFeeds.org indexes independent music that is freely and legally available online. You will not find illegal copyrighted music here. What you will find is a wide variety of music from talented musicians around the world who just love making art good tunes. We have music from nearly every genre available. Music or feeds that do not belong to a specific genre are placed in the Miscellaneous category.

Connect with old friends, make new friends and connect with local businesses.

Zooped.com Is a new Business Music and Personal Social Network.Connect with old friends, make new friends and connect with local businesses.Build your own play list up to 15 songs for your profile page.Musicians can share up to 10 songs with their fans.

Zooped.com is compatible with any MSRS, customize your profiles easily

Here's some features:
Business Profiles,Musician Profiles,Personal Profiles,Bulletin Filters,Add up to 15 songs to your play list,Musician can share up to 10 songs,1400 Arcade Games,News Feeds,Videos,Blogging,Caption sharing,Business networking,Private and Public Groups
Top Friends,Top Musicians,Top Businesses,Unique URL,Profile Tracking,Top Inviter Prizes.

upload and share songs with friends and family.

Wixd.com aims to be a media portal where people will be able to upload and share songs with friends and family. They have launched our alpha version which is sorta like a preview release.