Weepr is a new free music application that is sort of like a software Tenori-On.
Not much information is available yet, and the site is in Italian, but you can download and try Weepr out here. Adobe’s Air is required.
It’s limited in terms of what sounds are available, and timing is a little shaky, but it’s [...]

Nine Inch Nails is riding high on the publicity of its heavily hyped Ghosts I-IV release and is capitalizing on that buzz with a new free album release, The Slip. It’s available exclusively as a free download, but physical releases are in the works.
There’s a 2008 Nine Inch Nails Tour coming up this fall, and [...]

 

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Nine Inch Nails has announced that it is giving away its latest album, The Slip, for free:
as a thank you to our fans for your continued support, we are giving away the new nine inch nails album one hundred percent free, exclusively via nin.com.
the music is available in a variety of formats including high-quality MP3, [...]

Not only is the deluxe edition of NIN Ghosts I-IV one of the most beautiful box sets ever, they’ve thrown in some extra music.
The deluxe edition was limited to 2,500 copies ,which sold out within 36 hours at $300 each. It includes two CDs, a data DVD with multi-tracks for remixing, a 24 bit/96 kHz [...]

There’s a new free Nine Inch Nails single, Echoplex, that they are distributing via iLike.
NIN has become the band to watch, if you’re interested in the future of music:

The group recently released Ghosts I-IV under a Creative Commons license, which means you can share it or use it in your podcast,
The group offers an [...]

 

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Kompoz.com has released a new version of its music collaboration platform, officially marking its emergence from beta.
Kompoz is an online community for musicians creating new independent music based on the open licensing models of the Creative Commons, which promotes sharing, re-use, and derivative works, while still retaining attribution and other rights for the original artists. [...]

Creative Commons, a non-profit organization that releases licenses for sharing music and other creations freely over the Internet, is retiring one of its sampling licenses, citing lack of use.
Here’s CC’s Lawrence Lessig’s explanation of the decision to retire the license:
Until today, we have offered three versions of the Sampling license. Two of those versions permit [...]

Musicians using samplers are faced with an unique set of legal problems. Using samples of copyrighted works has become a minefield, often just best avoided. Now new licenses from Creative Commons promise to make it easier for samplists to find samples they can use without fear of getting sued.
Sampling and lawsuits have gone hand and [...]

Creative Commons is devoted to expanding the range of creative work that is freely available for others to build upon and share. Their goal is to provide an alternative approach to standard copyright, to expand the world of open content, and to help musicians, artists, and other content creators find ways to deliver their work [...]