Amazon.com, the internet retailer, wants to launch an online music store next month to challenge Apple and is working on plans to sell music with reduced protection against copyright infringement. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago

Cambridge-educated economist-... (Pink Floyd, The Clash, Ian Dury And The Blockheads, Billy Bragg) Peter Jenner put a figure on how much each music fan who buys music would have to pay in order for access to every song ever recorded while maintaining or increasing music sales. picked by charbarred 3 years ago

Led Zep, The Beatles, Pink Floyd and Britney Spears may have hidden secret backwards messages in their music, but beardy grinning weirdo music man Richard D James (or rather Aphex Twin) went one further and hid pictures in his music. Presumably just because he's clever enough to do it.

A chap who may or may not go by the name of Bastwood goes one further by finding the things. picked by pocksucket 2 years ago

Honda goes out and makes some really neat music on a rural road in Lancaster, CA by cutting groves in the road that when driven over plays the William Tell Overture. The residents complained and now its getting paved over. Here is a video of the musical road. (Other musical roads in comments) picked by muppetmaker 1 year ago

Music could one day be used as a therapeutic tool for blood pressure control and heart patient rehabilitation, according to a new study.

Previous studies have shown that music with faster tempos resulted in increased breathing, heart rate and blood pressure. picked by AutumnLotus 5 months ago

Deerhoof has released "Friend Opportunity" to critical acclaim and updated their tour schedule. picked by monkeyman 3 years ago

Want to read and talk better - practice music. A new study found that music exercises improve verbal communication skills. picked by maxriter 2 years ago

Where has all the elevator music gone?
Like so many other cultural reference points, the elevator-music has faded away. And barely anybody noticed.

The breaking point came in February, when Muzak, the company that introduced us to elevator music, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. picked by bingo 8 months ago

These 5 stellar services will transform your music listening experiences into music learning courses, and help you expand your auditory horizons. picked by cactushair 10 months ago

Due to launch later today, Qtrax signifies that the music business is finally coming to accept the reality of free music downloads. Instead of charging you for the music, Qtrax will feed you adverts while you download, but without spyware or any other malicious software required (at least they claim). What makes this really significant is that it has the backing of the major labels and they are... read full post picked by Pocksucket 2 years ago

Anybody with a set of XY chromosomes dreams of ditching everything after high school or college, and taking an RV with some buddies to travel around the country in a massive road trip adventure. Few follow through on this dream of dreams, but these guys from Japan decided to build a two story, fully outfitted, transforming masterpiece of travel to do just that. picked by AutumnLotus 12 months ago

The new Copyright Royalty Board ruling increases fees for all internet radio. The founder of Pandora asks for help. picked by Fascha 3 years ago

A collection of links to web-based interactive works that allow you to explore the nature of sound, music creation and the history of music. The list of sound toys includes music games, music remixing tools, virtual instruments, music discovery and lots more. picked by 2manyusernames 3 years ago

Definitely something for all music fans. The sound clip links don't work on this site, but you can hear the samples here or on iTunes. Everyone should own this. picked by kxmk 2 years ago

Personalized news portal Spotback's team of experts managed to map a huge amount of music resources. As a result you can get a personalized fix of music news and MP3's. Think Pandora for music news. picked by charbarred 3 years ago

Pandora is a music discovery service designed to help you find and enjoy music that you'll love. Submit one of your favorite songs or artists and we'll launch a streaming station to explore that part of the music universe. picked by thetick 3 years ago

HAL's inspiration is the last track from Bell Labs in 1963. picked by suebe 3 years ago

Friends, Motorists, Plimates.... give me your ears.

NPR's listeners selected favorite songs in several categories, sure to satisfy anyone's taste in music and give you ideas for your next road trip milieu. picked by meggysue 1 year ago

Categories include Internet radio, music discovery, social networks, music sharing applications and widgets, mobile music services, music marketplaces and charts, lyric and chart databases, music search engines and audio conversion tools. picked by holdtheonion 2 years ago

Media-Convert is a fairly impressive web service that will convert a file from one file format to another. Convert a file located on your computer or from the url, There's a good chance Media-Convert supports almost every document on you computer, including dozens of audio and video formats, image formats, documents from Microsoft Office, OpenOffice.org, and others, compressed archives, and more.I... read full post picked by haibinh 3 years ago