If you're a musician, here's one instrument we bet you've never used before. Owls. Not live ones, but the sounds that they make. One set of developers at the London...

Read More: Create music using Owls, it’s a real hoot

I love music. You love music. I love playing music, and you probably do as well. But what you might not know is that conducting, or directing music, is also...

Read More: HTML5 makes this band your personal music box

If you're stuck with your family today for Thanksgiving and you're not really into (American) football, why not grab a game for free that will hold your attention for a...

Read More: If you love The Muppets, why not tap along to their music?

London-based digital music provider 7digital has announced a partnership that will see it power T-Mobile Mall's music sales. Launched in the UK in 2004, 7digital’s download store and mobile applications...

Read More: 7digital to power T-Mobile Mall for US music fans

To celebrate the launch of its new Lumia 800 Windows Phone handset, Nokia has announced that it will take over London's Millbank Tower and bring together world-renowned music producer deadmau5...

Read More: Nokia to launch Lumia 800 with deadmau5 music and 4D light show in London

How is Nokia differentiating its first Windows Phone 7 device from the competition from the likes of HTC? Unique services. At Nokia World, the company has unveiled three services it is...

Read More: Nokia differentiates its Windows Phone offering with navigation, music and ESPN partnership

With its SVP of Mobile Andy Rubin already declaring that Google would look to release its new Music Store "soon" and launching "with a twist", new details have emerged suggesting...

Read More: Google’s new Music Store reportedly to feature tight integration with Google+

YouTube’s library of licensed music just got a whole lot bigger thanks to a new deal with Merlin, the world’s fifth largest music label after Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group and EMI Group.  Merlin represents 14,000 artists including Aphex Twin and The Prodigy and now, when YouTubers upload videos with music from Merlin artists, instead of having the soundtrack removed from the video, the artists will receive royalties.


Read More: YouTube Scores Licensing Deal With World’s 5th Largest Music Label

Motorola has today announced Motoactv, a small iPod nano-shaped device with built in sensors and music playing technology to "enhance your workout." The device holds up to 4000 songs and...

Read More: Motorola announces Motoactv music and fitness device and F700 Bluetooth headset

London-based digital music provider 7digital is expanding its service into Asia-Pacific making its 16 million plus track catalogue available in Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia and Singapore. The move from company,...

Read More: Digital music service 7digital moves into Asia-Pacific

Streaming music services like Spotify, Rdio, and Pandora are all the rage. Amongst some circles, months have gone by since they have purchased and downloaded 99 cent songs from Apple's...

Read More: Reprise for iOS brings your iTunes music library back to life

YouTube has just become the next site to hop on the social commerce bandwagon with the announcement that they are launching a new feature called the Merch Store through which YouTube partners can offer merchandise directly from their channels.  The store will be rolled out over the coming weeks, starting with music partners.  Through the Merch Store, fans will be able to buy anything from digital downloads, concert tickets, meetups, t-shirts and more.


Read More: YouTube Launches Merch Store, Lets Music Partners Sell Merchandise On Their Channels

Rdio's charges $4.99 per month for desktop web music streaming and $9.99 for unlimited web and mobile streaming. However, Rdio just announced that free (and ad-free) music streaming is available now if you login with your Facebook account.


Read More: Rdio Offering Free Streaming Music with a Facebook Login. But, Mobile Streaming Limited

It's been a busy year for Spotify, what with its US launch and tight Facebook integration. And now it has announced it's integrating more tightly with the livingroom, as it...

Read More: Spotify teams up with Western Digital to bring music to the livingroom

It's been a busy year for Spotify, what with its US launch and tight Facebook integration. And now it has announced it's integrating more tightly with the livingroom, as it has teamed up with Western Digital (WD) to bring the music-streaming service to the WD TV media player. In yet another incentive to sign-up to [...]

Read More: Spotify teams up with Western Digital to bring music to the livingroom

Last week at its f8 developer conference, after months (years, even) of rumors and speculation, Facebook finally got its music service. Well, it got a bunch of them: Spotify, Rdio, MOG, and others are now deeply integrated with the social network, and, for better or for worse, your friends' song choices are streaming through your Facebook Ticker as we speak.

To coincide with these integrations, Facebook also launched a Music dashboard, which is now featured in the left navigation sidebar (it's [...]

Read More: Traces Of Facebook’s Music App Were Spotted… 20 Months Ago

The world of music is an almost terrifyingly large place that grows and dimishes (in almost equal measures) with time. As cultures change they both shed and develop styles and, unless older genres are documented, they run the risk of vanishing into the historical ether forever — even more so in cases where musical instruction is passed on almost entirely through oral instruction. Elder's Corner, a documentary that understands the need to capture nearly bygone eras of music, is a film that [...]

Read More: Help Document Nigerian Music with “Elder’s Corner”

After yesterday's announcement of its expanded Open Graph capabilities, Facebook has been sharing your music listening activity over its News Ticker, allowing for music discovery and the realization that as TechCrunch co-founder Michael Arrington put it, "A lot of you have just really terrible taste in music."

Read More: Go Beyond Ticker, Use Facebook Music Dashboard To See What Your Friends Listen To

Want the full story from F8? Here's everything you need to know. We’ve just found that Facebook is doing a lot with music integration, as part of their new Open...

Read More: Facebook announces new Music integrations including Listen with a Friend at F8

This morning Vimeo has got some big news—they’re launching a music store to help users deal with the pesky issue of music licensing.  Now, instead of finding royalty free tracks or licensing music outside of Vimeo, Vimeo users can discover and license affordable music in the Vimeo Music Store.


Read More: Vimeo Music Store Launches To Make Music Licensing Simple