The Music Ontology Specification provides main concepts and properties fo describing the music universe (i.e. artists, albums, tracks, but also performances, arrangements, etc.) on the Semantic Web. Read more »

Project el-ajo.ru has organized a free competition for designers, photographers, artists, creatives and generally anyone who is interested, for the design of the last Creative Commons album of the Russian musical band Электрогуманные уничтожители (ElektroHumans destroyers). 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!

Marco Masini, a famous San Remo Festival singer, has signed an anomalous contract with Universal, managing an album of new songs, containing San Remo’s Italy, a greatest hits for the twenty years of career that will be published in 2010, and other 24 songs.
Not an another album, but 24 songs, each one with its own price. From 2011 will not distribute more cds. No more physical supprts – Masini reports words by Universal and continues – I have signed a contract calculating the price for each song. Read more »