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Holiday STS9 Giveaway! Or That’s What I Call Quality Merch

By Andrew Apanov | December 8, 2009

Enter to win a pack of spectacular STS9 merchandise! This electronic jam band not only make great tunes, it also services fans with really great products.

Gama Bomb: ‘Music Should Be Free’

By Robert Gray | November 27, 2009

Irish thrash act Gama Bomb, a stalwart amongst thrash’s revival, made third album Tales From the Grave In Space freely available to download through earache.com. The label has partnered with RapidShare, the largest file-hosting website.

Metal Band Sybreed Asks Fans To Film An Ad For New Album

By Alex Gilbert | November 26, 2009

Industrial metal monsters Sybreed is offering a pretty innovative contest in promotion of their new Listenable Records release, The Pulse of Awakening.

10 Years After Napster: Welcome To 1998

By Tony Berman | November 25, 2009

Ten years after Napster tried to make a deal with the record labels, the record labels have found themselves offering exactly the same thing Napster proposed. Consumers have proven that they pay money when there is a good value for their money.

Dotted Music Monday: Free MP3s From STS9, Bosques de mi Mente, Atlantic Connection

By Andrew Apanov | November 23, 2009

Monday has been declared a “Dotted Music Monday” here on DM, so today I’m free to speak about music as music, not a business. And today I will share some music that I discovered for myself last week.

Google OneBox: Improving Your Music Search Results

By Andrew Apanov | November 4, 2009

Last week Google announced the launch of a new search feature, called Music Onebox, which allows you to stream songs for free via partner services Lala and MySpace’s iLike (as well as Pandora, imeem and Rhapsody).