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Last.fm expands mobile offering with Android platform

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Last.fm has launched on the Android platform, offering an ‘on-the-go’ music application enabling users to access all the best of Last.fm from their mobile phones.

Features include similar artists and genre-specific streaming radio stations, personalized streaming radio, up-to-date concert information and the ability to track users’ listening habits to their Last.fm profile. The launch of Last.fm on Android marks the latest step in Last.fm’s expansion into the mobile music space.

Using the Last.fm application, users can listen to streaming radio stations such as personal recommendations, similar artists, and genre-specific tracks. Users can also share tracks with their friends on Last.fm and stream other users’ stations. The new ‘Background Playback’ feature enables users to listen to Last.fm’s streaming music while accessing other programs, such as email, without interrupting the music experience.

Last.fm users can view an on-the-go version of their personal music profiles that includes mobile versions of Last.fm Charts page and Artist pages, with biographies, tags, similar artists and top listeners, all optimized for the Android platform. Users can access Last.fm’s Events listings to browse artists on tour, search for events, view Last.fm recommendations and view mapped directions to music venues.

Originally posted on January 23, 2009 @ 11:49 am

Linkin Park to stream Road to Revolution

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Linkin Park is treating fans to a free holiday showing of the international broadcast version of their new concert DVD Road to Revolution– Live At Milton Keynes (Machine Shop Recordings/Warner Bros. Records). The footage will stream for 24 hours beginning 12:01 am on December 24 via the Linkin Park Media Player on linkinpark.com. At the same time, Meebo will let fans discuss the new DVD in real time in the Linkin Park Meebo Room.


“We wanted to give the fans something special for the holidays,” says Linkin Park vocalist Chester Bennington. “The Milton Keynes show was a special concert for us and by streaming it online, we can share that experience with all of our fans around the world.”



The Linkin Park media player gives fans the opportunity to engage with Linkin Park content online through their own web sites and communities. Viewers get instant access to exclusive content, and can enjoy a rich catalog of live performances and music videos. In addition to keeping in touch with the band, fans use the media player as a form of expression on their own sites, and as a communication tool among other fans. Hosted on more than 20,000 sites across the web, the player empowers Linkin Park fans to own a piece of one of their favorite bands. The band will also use a Meebo Room to enable real-time social interactions between fans during the free streaming event on December 24th. Fans can download the Linkin Park Media Player, which will be featured along with the band’s Meebo Room. Linkin Park will also integrate the Meebo Room into linkinpark.com on a permanent basis to let fans continue conversations about the band that began during the DVD showing.

Originally posted on December 23, 2008 @ 11:48 am

eJamming signs licensing deal with MTV Networks

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Online music collaboration technology company eJamming, Inc. has licensed its flagship product, eJamming AUDiiO, to MTV Networks Music Group, a division of Viacom’s MTV Networks.

The software licensing and development agreement will allow MTVN’s Music Group to utilize eJamming AUDiiO for future projects, including the company’s virtual worlds and new music sites, among others. eJamming AUDiiO is the first and only software application and online social network that enables musicians to find collaborators, and then create and play together live in real time over the Internet. The players’ audio streams are synchronized from multiple locations by eJamming’s patented technology.

Originally posted on December 2, 2008 @ 2:14 pm

A cleaner music download site?

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PositiveMusicandDownloads.com, a web site devoted to positive, values-based music, has launched to fill a void in the music industry. Patterned after iTunes, songs can be downloaded to MP3 players or shipped through mail. Individual songs sell for 99 cents. CDs are priced between $8 and $16.95 and albums at $9.99.

“The site will have broad appeal to those who don’t like negotiating a landmine of questionable material on the typical download sites,” said Rust. “Too often the industry has dictated what type of music we should be listening too. Artists who have a more positive message can’t always get past music industry gatekeepers,” Gaylen Rust, founder of PositiveMusicandDownloads.com said.

Artists associated with major record labels as well as independent and emerging musicians are represented.

Originally posted on December 1, 2008 @ 6:00 am

Fans can listen and embed Britney’s Circus for one week prior to release

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Imeem and Jive/Zomba announced the premiere of Circus, Britney Spears’ highly-anticipated new album, on social music service Imeem.

Fans can visit imeem.com/britneyspears to listen to Circus, 13 tracks in total, in its entirety, one week before its official release. Fans can also check out videos and playlists of Britney’s hits, including her latest single, “Womanizer.” Using Imeem’s embeddable music playlist widgets, fans can easily embed Circus on their blogs, web sites, and profiles on Facebook, MySpace and other social networking services. Fans can also pre-order the album from the iTunes Store via Britney’s Imeem profile.

imeem’s exclusive premiere of Circus comes one week before its release on December 2nd, Britney’s 27th birthday.

Originally posted on November 25, 2008 @ 1:22 am