Get a free EPK (Electronic Press Kit) and publicize your music with OurStage. Creating an EPK with OurStage is simple. Just register at OurStage online, and then make a profile with your bio, photos, songs, videos and upcoming gigs.

From there, just keep your OurStage EPK updated with your info and email it for free to venues, booking agents, talent scouts, etc.
The internet is littered with radio stations that are all about the same, and then thereare stations like 3WK Internet Radio.

While they also have a “Classic” stream, what makes them different is their indie stream which offers you an endless stream of original and unique music.
Creative Commons is a non profit organization that offers a variety of licenses with “some rights reserved”. Basically is is built to allow artists to legally share their work without losing copyright protection over it.
There’s a lot of great music out there licensed under one of the CC licenses, and even entire record labels built on the concept.
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If you love listening to new and original music then take a look at Pandora.
Pandora is a special type of Internet radio station website that allows you to create your own radio station. Just enter your favorite artist, song or composer and a radio station will be created featuring that music and similar music.
Taltopia, a social network for artistic talent and fans, is sponsoring a “Best Original Music Contest” for a chance to win $100 at Guitar Center. The contest runs through the end of this month. To enter, sign up at Taltopia for free, and upload a video or audio file of your own original music.

WorkshopLive is an online music education web site offering lessons for guitar playing, keyboards, bass drums and much more. WorkshopLive offers nearly 2000 different music lessons with video, animated music, printed exercises and interactive practice music players.
Join the WorkshopLive community of music teachers and students and learn how to play music with online lessons. Best of all, you can try the lessons for free for 7 days.

eMusic is an online retailer of independent music and is the world’s second-largest digital music retailer. eMusic offers over 3.5 million tracks from over 27,000 independent labels.
At eMusic you can download up to 25 MP3s over 7 days free of charge.
MP3DownloadNet provides instant access to unlimited music with no download fees !
MP3DownloadNet provides music, movies and videos and has more than 50 million users connected to this system every day.
And best of all, MP3DownloadNet provides all of the tools to make your own CDs for your car, home stereo, parties etc
Whether you call them media players, jukeboxes, mp3 apps, music managers, or whatever - we all need a proggy to listen to our digital music with, so we decided it was time for the Online Music Blog media player review. For the sake of this article I am only going to discuss players you can get for free and I am not going to go into p2p apps.
So with that, lets dive right in. For my money there are are only 3 choices - Winamp, iTunes, or Windows Media Players - but I’ll talk a little about RealPlayer 10 as well. All of these applications share baseline features - playing various media files, cataloging digital media, etc. We’ll focus on things about them that are different. (more…)