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Internet Talk Radio - Internet Streaming Media Broadcasting - Internet Radio Station from Voice America: Voice America offers Internet talk radio shows and popular programs on a variety of topics. Listen to Internet radio broadcastings or host your own Internet talk radio show on.
MSN Music: Find the World Music Services at Msn Music. Listen and buy Here !
CHONDO Net: "CHONDO means "drum" in Swahili, a language widely spoken in East Africa. The drum is one of the most important and ubiquitous instruments to be found in global black culture. Like the drum, CHONDO.NET aims to serve as an instrument of communication, unity, and celebration of the rich music and spoken word culture of African people around the world. We welcome artists and fans of global black music regardless of race, country, language or religion.

Our catalogue focuses on the next great wave of talent, not major label artists. We cover all of the genres...from hip hop to neosoul; from blues to jazz; from kwaito to samba and everything in between. The bulk of our catalogue covers the five world renown music genres that were created by African Americans in the 20th century (jazz, blues, soul, gospel, and hip hop), but we include some independent music from Africa, the Caribbean, and South America.

We are dedicated to providing a platform for underground musicians around the world to showcase and sell their music and spoken work content. All of our content is sold as MP3s and is compatible with all MP3 players including the iPod. You can burn it to a CD or play it on your computer or MP3 player."
CD BABY: CD Baby is a little online record store that sells CDs by independent musicians. [In•de•pen•dent: (adj.) Not having sold one's life, career, and creative works over to a corporation.] We're just a few people (details here) in a cool Portland, Oregon, CD warehouse that looks like a playground. We listen to every CD we sell before we sell it, so we can help you find other albums you'll like. We only sell CDs that come directly from the musicians. No distributors. Musicians send us CDs. We warehouse them, sell them to you, and pay the musicians directly. Cool thing: in a regular record deal or distribution deal, musicians only make $1-$2 per CD, if they ever get paid by their label. When selling through CD Baby, musicians make $6-$12 per CD, and get paid weekly. In business, and thriving, since March 1998. We're the largest seller of independent CDs on the web. History: I was just selling my own CD in 1997, making my living by touring and doing sessions, and asked some fellow musicians if they'd like me to sell their CD, too. It was supposed to be a hobby. (Making music was my real career!) For the first year, CD Baby was just me. I'd put the day's orders in my backpack and ride my bike down to the post office.. But then friends told friends, and now my little hobby has sold over $25 MILLION in independent CDs to people around the world. Current Numbers: 192,608 artists sell their CD at CD Baby. 3,479,700 CDs sold online to customers. $52,836,470 paid to artists. $21,214,292 digital distribution income. CD Baby Privacy Policy We NEVER give or sell your personal info to any other company - EVER! (No not even your email address!) Only the musician whose CD you buy will know who you are. If you don't even want the musician to know about you, just say so at the bottom of your order form. Your credit card info is never stored, and never seen by anyone. We don't store it in your permanent customer info. The card number is erased immediately after the sale, for extra protection. There is nothing of yours here to steal. Yes this means you'll have to type your card number again when you return, but we hope you appreciate the extra safety and privacy it gives you. Tech things Our servers are running FreeBSD, Apache, PHP, and MySQL. No Microsoft products were used in the creation of this website. Full 128-bit secure SSL connection protects all of your private information from snooping eyes. Our secure certificate issued by Thawte - a division of Verisign. We try to stay HTML 4.0 compliant. No special web browser needed. (I recommend the FireFox and Opera web browsers for their speed and standards.) CD Baby website (front end and back end) made by me - Derek Sivers. It's my favorite hobby. Most important of all... You can reach us during Pacific west-coast business hours at (503)595-3000 or email cdbaby@cdbaby.com anytime
GROUPIE TUNES: GroupieTunes was the first company to offer independent and unsigned bands the ability to sell their music as ringtones & bill directly on their fans' cell phone bills - no credit cards, no micropayments. The brainchild of tech vet Todd McGee and entertainment industry professional Bryce Graves, GroupieTunes was formed in late 2004 and recently launched their 2.0 MCNE (mobile community network enabler) platform.

With an ever-growing catalog that's going to be featuring most of your favorite independent, unsigned, and signed bands & artists, GroupieTunes wants to be your first, last, and only stop for mobile content.

Todd McGee (CEO/Co-Founder) - Todd is a highly respected technology and new media entrepreneur, specializing in Internet strategies, Internet marketing and mobile Internet solutions since 1994. He is founder or co-founder of more than a dozen successful startups including Co-Owner and SVP of Sales and Marketing of Integrated Consulting in 1996, later i.con interactive. In 1999, i.con was merged with seven companies by businessman Michael Jordan (now CEO of EDS) and taken public under the name Luminant Worldwide. In 2000, Luminant was one of the top 10 largest Internet professional services organizations in the world.

Bryce Graves (Co-Founder) - Bryce Graves has been successful in many aspects of the music and entertainment industries. He co-created, produced, and directed the #1 national TV show True Music, on HDNet, Mark Cuban's all-high-definition network. He manages national TV personalities, rock bands, and even the world-famous Bros. Grim Side Show. Bryce partners with the largest entertainment law firm and booking agency in the world, Loeb & Loeb and Creative Artists Agency, in developing TV personalities and bands. He has produced and executive produced music videos and records for emerging artists.

Russell Morgan (COO) - COO of GroupieTunes and its associated consulting business, appliedSB. Directs all project and operational management for the firms, including program management, release content and management and customer service. Provides strategic direction on marketing plans and strategies for GroupieTunes and private label clients. Strong telecommunications, technology and marketing background based on experience as a consultant to major telecom services and technology hardware manufacturers including HP, Microsoft, Intel and Ericsson, as well as a lengthy career at AT&T (including President of the Southwest Region). Varied industry experience includes product management, marketing, a stint as a CIO of a mid-sized firm, billing and customer service operations and product development. Speciality is the integration of marketing strategy with operational execution.

Greg Kefalas (CTO/Platform Architect) - Greg brings a valuable blend of music and technology expertise to the GroupieTunes team. He was one of the first artists in the world to use podcasting as a promotional tool and has been invited to speak on the subject throughout the U.S. and Canada. No stranger to using the internet for community building, he was an editor and administrator on some of the largest fan-created gaming websites from 1999-2001. His music has been heard in clubs and college radio and featured in small independent films in Ohio, NY, Toronto, and LA.
MUSIC IS HERE: We are a digital online music shop founded in 2003. Our main goal is to offer you a wide range of independent musicians and record labels, as well as to provide you with the flexibility of formats for the music you want to download.
BITMUNK: Digital Bazaar, Inc. provides technology and services to enable individuals and businesses to buy and sell digital content via the Internet. Our secure file distribution technology has been used across verticals switching to digital content distribution including the music, television, movie, and electronic book industries.

Our technology is flexible and has been used in the medical industry to provide medical record transfer, blinded case study sales, and training material content sales between medical professionals.

If you have digital content, there is a market for it. Our solutions get you to that market quickly and efficiently.

This blog is our way of letting the world know where we are going and how we plan to get there.
PASSALONG Networks: PassAlong Networks is an innovative technology company passionate about the future of digital media. Our goal is to enable new pathways to connect content creators and consumers. Founded in 2002, PassAlong Networks is based in Nashville, Tennessee where it began its foray into digital media distribution by launching (PassAlong.com) the company's own music download store. At launch, the PassAlong™ music service offered several distinctive features including Passing & Points™. Passing occurs when consumers pass music to their friends via instant messaging services by MSN, Yahoo! and AOL or by e-mail. Points, which are redeemable for free music, are earned when consumers pass music to each other and a sale results. PassAlong Networks' primary business model is B2B, and the company has developed several innovative consumer products including OnTour®, Speakerheart™ and FreedomMP3™. These products help demonstrate the power of the company's media distribution engine. PassAlong is now leveraging the company's media services engine to deliver content to wireless consumer electronics devices including mobile phones, media players and devices found in the connected home. Another feature of PassAlong is a "highly-scalable" Web Services platform. StoreBlocks™ allows the company to quickly launch custom digital download stores for individuals, organizations and businesses who wish to distribute digital music and media. PassAlong Networks inspires and equips people through innovative solutions in digital media honoring an audience of one.
FAITHMP3: We're dedicated to providing audio content in the MP3 format that supports spiritual and personal development, a conscious lifestyle, and protection of the environment.

We license and sell music and spoken word content in the digital MP3 format that can be burned to a CD, transferred to an MP3 player(such as an iPod), or played on a computer. Our featured artists, ministers, life coaches, and spiritual leaders seek to make humanity kinder to the earth, more compassionate and loving to all people and living things, and better equipped for personal development.

We welcome all people of good will to submit music and spoken word content that has the potential to make the world a better, more loving, and compassionate place.
NEXHIT: Nexhit was born based on the notion that the music industry, as we have all come to know it, is in a rapid state of decline. A new frontier in music challenged the industry, and the frontier won.

Never before has there been a better time to be a musician or a fan, and we’re here to unite the two in a nexus that will enable the music industry to re-define itself once again and, in so doing, bring the power back to the two most fundamental elements of the music world: the artists and the fans. Those who create and those who appreciate, coming together to shape the future of music - that’s what Nexhit is all about.

In keeping with that, here is some more specific information about Nexhit . . .

Nexhit is an online, digital media distribution and social networking community that currently hosts nearly 500,000 tracks of the best new and independent music - a number that we are constantly adding to.

The Nexhit community consists of independent artists and fans who believe that there is more to music than just the Top 40. We offer our own charts, based on the real-time response to the music found within the Nexhit system by the members of the Nexhit community.

Members of the Nexhit community have full access to the Nexhit catalog, giving you the ability to preview and download the tracks that you like and add them to your digital music library. Depending on what level of membership you choose, you could potentially have unlimited access to the entire catalog - yours to download permenently. Without restriction.

As a member, you will also have the ability to review everything found within the Nexhit catalog, even if you don’t download it. Let artists know what you like and don’t like about their music - it will only help them get better as they work to master their craft.

Nexhit also offers you a vast network - called the NeXwork - of music enthusiasts that you are immediately connected to once you join. Find friends. Make friends. Add friends to your NeXwork. Friends are fun!
E M U S I C: eMusic has been selling downloads since 1999, they're a GREAT service that especially appeals to my Music. Please Make a eMUSIC Playlist including all "FALACIEN" album. EMusic sells real MP3 files, so buy my MP3s there, You'll be able to play them on ANY computer and ANY device.
SONIFIC: Sonific is a San Francisco - based company that creates music applications and services for what we like to call Music2.0 or the 'new' music industry. The Founder and CEO of Sonific is Gerd Leonhard, the co-author of the book "The Future of Music" which you may be familiar with. Sonific licenses music from artists and record labels, and creates services based on widgets (embedded flash players) that stream full-length songs - we call them SongSpots. 100s of 1000s of SongSpots are already live at over 40 different online platforms, blogs and communities such as Myspace, Wordpress, Blogger, Xanga, Piczo, Friendster, Vox, live.com, etc; 45.000 bands and artists are already participating.

Please find the Sonific Team here : http://sonific.com/home

Thank much to Kimmo Pekari and the Sonific Team.
BEST BUY Co: Best Buy delivers the best in independent music. You'll find thousands of hard-to-find titles, reviews and preview streams in our indie music store, powered by CD Baby.
INDIE-MUSIC.COM: Indie-Music.com connects musicians, music industry, & music fans.

Indie-Music.com - Where Serious Musicians Surf

Our Company facilitates connections between the major players in the music business - musicians, music industry professionals, and music fans. Our cumulative 100+ years experience in the media and music industries is leveraged for our members and clients through specialized website content, including artist profiles and features; how-to articles, underground music news, reviews, & interviews; charts; radio stations; marketplace; and massive music industry search engine. Indie-Music.com is a destination for independent musicians.

The community-based system attracts vocal supporters from the music industry, media, and music fan segments. Both amateur and veteran musicians regularly log on to Indie-Music.com for the latest news, CD reviews, articles, and contact directory updates. Thousands subscribe to the twice-monthly Indie-Music.com Indie News tip sheet.

Indie-Music.com's success is rooted in core knowledge of its customers. They didn't start out as a "dot.com". Instead, they started back in the 80's as musicians and engineers, experiencing the music industry first hand, sometimes learning the hard way.

In 1996, a conjunction of events occurred -

The Internet appeared in general society for the first time, allowing quantum leaps in information sharing. The price of recording a CD became affordable for average musicians. Musicians discovered the web as a huge promotional tool. Major recording label consolidation created a stale market in hit music. Technology was introduced to transmit music files digitally in sonically acceptable form, allowing independent artists a chance to avoid the middleman and sell directly to the consumer - music fans. Meanwhile, back in Indiana, Indie-Music.com founder Suzanne Glass had also discovered the Internet. She eagerly began using it as a research tool to advance her music career, and began amassing a great collection of bookmarks. She got a free homepage and posted the links, along with articles she had recently begun to write about the music industry. Enmeshed in her career as a music professional offline, Glass considered the website a fun project.

As musicians discovered Indie-Music.com, a large collection of independent bands, record labels, studios, venues, and more were added to the site's database, always screened by Glass, who used it as her personal contact list. This created unique and original content not available elsewhere. Empowered by the digital age, musicians were thrilled to find the information.

Working in a strictly grassroots manner, Glass and Vice President Paul Bultman, expanded the site from 5 pages in 1996 to thousands of pages today. More than 7,000 bands are registered with Indie-Music.com, and over 17,000 subscribe to the twice monthly email newsletter. Dozens of independent CDs are reviewed each month in our online Magazine.

In 2002, Indie-Music.com began offering paid Membership Subscription accounts offering premium access to an extensive music industry database, plus other features designed to make the life of musicians easier.

In 2005, Indie-Music began featuring streaming audio and video from our members, including stations, charts, and editorial presentation of the best new music. The company also earns revenue through advertising, product sales, and additional services.
AirPlay DIRECT: AirPlay Direct is a new, revolutionary, efficient and cost effective way to securely deliver your “broadcast-quality” music and artist press kits to music industry professionals around the world.

AirPlay Direct makes life a little easier for radio stations and programmers that are looking for new music. AirPlay Direct’s “broadcast-quality” digital library includes all formats / genres of music. If you are a radio programmer / station and would like to use this FREE service, Only radio stations will be permitted to download “broadcast-quality” music from this site. They must obtain a highly secure password to enter and download. AirPlay Direct protects your "valuable music assets" by screening and verifying all radio member applicants, password protected downloads, limiting / monitoring # of downloads, and by utilizing the latest technologies in security software.
Just Plain Folks: We are an ever growing group of Songwriters, Recording Artists, Music Publishers, Record Labels, Performing Arts Societies, Educational Institutions, Recording Studios and Engineers, Producers, Legal Professionals, Publicists and Journalists, Publications, Music Manufacturers and Retailers and about every other type of member of the Music Industry.

Our members have won Grammys, Emmys, CMA Awards, Academy Awards, Clios and about every local and regional music related award there is. Our members belong to and are staff and board members of the finest National and International organizations such as NARAS, BMI, ASCAP, SESAC, SOCAN, PRS, NAMM, AES, NARM, NAPM, SGA, AFTRA/SAG, Indiegrrl, CMA, NSAI, TAXI and most of the regional and local songwriter and music industry organizations around the world.
BANDVILLAGE: Paving the way for Independent Musicians.
UNSIGNED COM: Unsigned.com is owned by First Beat Media Inc., an online entertainment media company that is committed to being the best source of information to discover unsigned artists.

Our dynamic team of independent music junkies, from around the world, have an ear for the underground and new exciting sounds. We are always listening for fresh sounds, bands or artists that really have the potential to become something big. We have developed this website with you in mind. Unsigned.com is dedicated to providing independent Artists from solo, trio to bands, the best outlet possible to be heard globally on the Internet. Just as important is our goal to provide you, the Artists, with a new revenue and distribution model for your music.