Vosotros presents: the years is the latest release from CC-friendly label Vosotros. Described as a “a musical journey through time”, the CC By-nc-sa licensed album is being released as a free download through out the month of July while simultaneously being sold through a variety of digital outlets. Read more »

The Fronte popolare per la musica libera (Free music popular front), a collective of indipendent music artists, is working on the last steps of Fapper3, their indipendent distribution project, produced by Free hardware foundation, with the help of Isotype. The aim is to skip most of the intermediaries, through a direct selling to fair trade shops, fair buying groups (gas) and other realities interested to the project.

Fapper3 could be an interesting experiment also for international artists that want to distribute their works (music, videos, texts…) on the Italian market in a totally indipendent way. Read more »

On 4th April 2009, WFMU celebrated the launch of its new website, The Free Music Archive, open to the public in its beta version.

From FMA’s Jason Sigal:

Every track [on the FMA] will be offered in high-quality without restrictions, registration, advertisements or fees. Many grant additional rights under Creative Commons agreements, making the FMA a valuable resource for podcasters, video producers, remix artists, and others in search of legal audio.  […] Radio has always offered free access to curated audio, and the Free Music Archive is a continuation of that purpose designed for the Internet era.

Since there is so much content on the site, the FMA is featuring particular curators such as WFMU, KEXP, and dublab.

So go register an account, and start downloading some of the 5,000 tracks already posted, or search by license type (special kudos to WFMU for incorporating some non-standard license search options here), and help one of the world’s greatest independent stations thrive on the net!

More opportunities for music authors to promote their own music

Buma/Stemra and Creative Commons Nederland are starting a pilot, Buma/Stemra, 8/27/2007.