HOW TO: Use Social Media for Sharing Music

Over the last few years, social media sites for sharing music have blossomed. With great companies such as Last.fm, Pandora, and Apple revolutionizing how we consume music, listening has become a richer and more meaningful experience.Social media gives people the opportunity to find, discovery, share, and reinvent music in new and interesting ways. The following is a step-by-step guide on how to share the audio experience with friends using web-based tools. … Continue Reading

Music News Toolbox: 50+ Links For Discovering New Music

Is your music collection getting a bit stale? Have you run out of places where you can get fresh info about new artists, releases and concert dates? If so, you’re in luck, because we’ve assembled a list of 50 sites which will keep you up to speed with what’s happening in the world of music. … Continue Reading

Online Music: 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. … Continue Reading

18 of the Best Music Tumblelogs

Tumblr has long been a site that promotes outside-of-the-box blogging with inside-of-the-box restrictions. Originally just a short-form way to tumble across the web and quickly post photos, videos, audio, text, and quotes, Tumblrs everywhere now appear in all shapes and sizes. One very popular niche approach is to focus tumblelogs around celebrating the art form that is music.

The tumblelogs featured here are using the eclectic medium to creatively express and share their passion for music. From sites dedicated to educating you about the history of sampled tracks to quirky video-centric music hubs, and even oversharing music-making lifecasters, we’ve found 18 of the best tumblelogs to put you in a groovy music mindset. … Continue Reading

30+ Awesome Sites for Streaming Music

Recently we brought you a list of free & legal music downloads, but we understand that not everyone wants to eat up space on their hard drive or MP3 player.  So we’ve compiled a list of 30+ awesome streaming music sites we know you’ll enjoy.

Whether you’re interested in general streaming music, mixtapes, music discovery, or more, the Internet () offers a plethora of streaming music services. Tell us which are your favorites. … Continue Reading

10 Ways to Share Music on Twitter

Twitter is fast becoming one of the most important ways to share information quickly, easily, and instantly over the web. Users and developers have found a lot of innovative ways to pack a ton of utility into just 140 characters, including sharing images, sharing video, and sharing documents. What about music? Turns out, there are plenty of ways to share tunes on Twitter as well. Below are ten of the best ways to tweet about what you’re listening to. … Continue Reading

MUSIC: Peven Everett – Woman (JOHNNYJM Vocal Mix) CDR

JohnnyJM delivers an in progress vocal mix of Peven Everett’s WOMAN.

One word: Fiyah!

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Fat Beats Record Store to Close

FAT BEATS, a hub for hip-hop vinyl since 1994, is becoming another chapter in the story of the death of record stores big and small. Fat Beats’ stores at 406 Avenue of the Americas and in Los Angeles are closing; its e-commerce Web site, music-distribution business and Brooklyn-based record label will continue. James Heinz, 27, an assistant manager who goes by the name J57 in the hip-hop group Brown Bag AllStars, said that since about 2007, fewer and fewer record collectors had climbed the crooked, graffiti-streaked flight of stairs to browse the bins at Fat Beats or gaze at the hundreds of autographed pictures lining its walls and ceiling. Pointing to a stack of albums by Nas, Common and D. J. Premier, Mr. Heinz said, “It’s easy to get a lot of this classic stuff online now.” He said that what he and his customers would miss the most were the “in-stores,” live appearances by up-and-coming stars. “In 1998, Eminem  came here when he launched ‘Slim Shady,’ and there was a line wrapping around the block and back again,” he recalled. “It was epic.”

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House Music in Jordan

UT a hollow, silver flashing cube atop a mountain of sand five miles north of Saudi Arabia two weeks before Ramadan, and you certainly win originality points for a dance space.

It’s a site that a month ago was nothing but empty sand. In a few years it will be an 18-hole golf course. But on July 29 it was home to Distant Heat, a nighttime marathon of electronic dance music in a Red Sea setting to impress even the most jaded concertgoer.

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Clubbed to Death

The trendy Meatpacking District nightclub where the underage daughter of a US ambassador partied before plunging to her death from a Midtown apartment will be the focus of a criminal probe by the Manhattan DA’s Office, sources told The Post.

Investigators plan to interview owners, bartenders, cocktail waitresses and bouncers about how Nicole John, 17, was allowed entry to the hotspot with a bogus ID and what she did while inside the club on Little West 12th Street.

Potential criminal charges could range from a misdemeanor, serving alcohol to a minor, up to the more serious, although unlikely, felony charge of involuntary manslaughter, said a law-enforcement source.

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