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Paris-based digital audio firm Musinaut has introduced its new online community, the MXP4Café for artists using its new MXP4 digital audio format.
The company has also made it possible for artists and fans to embed MXP4 tracks inside their blogs, MySpace pages or websites and plans training days for musicians in London in November, artist users already include Margaux.
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Japanese iPhone users have a TV treat, with local mobile carrier Softbank’s introduction of a combined digital TV tuner-cum-recharger for iPhone users.
The move is similar to that which Elgato is said to be engaged in in to offer a means by which iPhone users can enjoy Freeview digital TV on their phone.
The 80-gram tuner provides TV over WiFi and doubles as a battery extender when plugged into the iPhone 3G’s dock connector, allowing three hours of continuous viewing. You watch TV using the free 1-Seg iPhone application.
UK TV broadcaster E4 has signed-up to offer its shows through the iTunes Store in the UK, spearheading the introduction with the offering of hit TV show, ‘Dead Set’, through the service.
‘Dead Set’ is a gripping five-part zombie horror series set in a fictional Big Brother house house and written by acclaimed penman, Charlie Brooker. If you’ve missed it, it has been shown every night this week and is set to come to an end tomorrow night.
Also available from E4 through the iTunes service, ‘Fonejacker’, ‘Skins’ and new six-part comedy, the ‘In-Betweeners’.
A new all-you-can-eat music service is offering subscribers the chance to download as much music as they like over the course of a year for just £100.
Datz, the online music download store and community website, today announced the launch of the Datz Music Lounge which lets you download as many tracks as you want over the course of a year for a one off cost of £99.99.
Walmart has re-launched its online music store, storming in with a US price cut on the music it sells – 74-cents will buy a track, well under the 99-cents per track offered by iTunes or Amazon.
Walmart has exclusively sold MP3s through its online store since February 2008 and now offers more than 3 million MP3s with content from all major labels. The enhanced MP3 online store is supported by multiple elements in Walmart stores, including a free MP3 download with every CD purchased in stores or online.
With over ten million units sold, Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch have become new tools for music promotion, with Snow Patrol and Pink in the vanguard of artists introducing promo applications for the devices through the App Store this week.
The news confirms our September 1 report that Snow Patrol and Apple have been working together to develop an interactive iPhone application to promote the band’s new album, ‘A Hundred Million Suns’ (available now).
The App is available for free download and as predicted offers a ton of interesting content, including art, lyrics and three video reports explaining the making of the album.
EMI Music has hitched a deal with InMotion under which the label’s music catalogue will be made available for sale at the latter firm’s airport-based kiosks across the US.
Music fans will be able to buy and download a selection of EMI Music’s key current and catalogue albums and singles directly to portable devices at major US airports using its in-store PlayPoint Media Hotspot kiosks.
The infamous Shockwaves NME Awards are back. 2009 will see the iconic music venue Brixton Academy host the rock and roll party of the year on 25 February and NME have proudly named The Cure as the recipients of Shockwaves NME Awards Godlike Genius, 2009.
Beginning today, Disney-ABC Domestic Television is offering US viewers an extended preview of its highly-anticipated epic fantasy series “Legend of the Seeker” before its November 1st premiere weekend.
The network is offering a sneak preview of the nationally-syndicated series as a free download, making this exclusively available through iTunes.
Coil were a hugely influential UK experimental/industrial music group formed in 1982 by John Balance and his lover Peter Christopherson. Following the tragic death of John Balance on 13 November 2004, Peter Christopherson announced that Coil as an entity had ceased to exist.
I was fortunate to interview both men around thirteen years ago. I came across this interview in my archive today, and thought it worth re-publishing, as it was only ever made available in a limited circulation print title I then ran. It’s available here now as a gesture of respect for the band.
JR: Tell us about your new album?
COIL: I had this Lovecraftian idea that somehow something from another planet, an intelligence was guiding our music. We did an album as ELPH and that was absolutely this – the idea that something was guiding you rather than just doing a rock album.
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