This Friday, CBS will be airing “Movies Rock” that was recently recorded at the Kodak Theatre. The show will highlight the relationship between movies and music. Performances include Usher’s singing “Singin’ in the Rain”, Busta Rhymes and LL Cool J singing the theme from “Shaft”, Jennifer Hudson singing “Somewhere” from West Side Story, and Carrie Underwood’s rendition of “The Sound of Music.” We are currently polling our own subscribers to compile a list of the best movie songs to be released at the end of this month.

Have you ever wished that you could play songs from your old CD collection on your iPod or MP3 Player? In a CD collection of only 50 CDs, there are 600 songs alone that you must download online to listen to now, usually with less quality than the CD version.

Now with music services from Riptopia you can convert your entire CD music collection into digital music. The process is straight forward. Just visit the Riptopia web site and let them know how many CDs you want to convert. Riptopia will then send you a customer kit including spindles to hold your CDs along with a protective padded, pre-paid UPS package to send back to them. After converting your CDs, Riptopia will return your new digital music library via UPS, along with your original CDs. Costs vary, but are less than the fees involved in downloading the same music online at a lesser quality.

MusicEtc is an economical way to download songs, movies, games and more online. With just a single monthly fee (as low as $1.39 per month), MusicEtc provides members with access to millions of MP3 songs, video games, movies and software.

The MusicEtc is easy to use and downloading is quick and error free. MusicEtc also provides members with free software and tools to burn downloads to CD for play away from a PC.

Stop paying per song and get unlimited downloads for a single low cost fee by trying MusicEtc.

Apple has set June 29^th as the official release date of the new iPhone. The first shipments of the iPhone will carry a price tag of between $500 and $600. The new iPhone is being marketed as a Cell Phone / MP3 player / Video Player / PDA hybrid.

The new iPhone will have many features including the ability to access the Internet from any location and send email from any location, a color touch screen for playing videos and music, a built in camera for taking photos and videos; and full wi-fi and cell phone capabilities.

You can get more information on the new iPhone at the Apple Store

The 2007 MTV Move Awards was hosted by Sarah Silverman and featured stars such as Jessica Alba, Samuel L. Jackson, Robin Williams and others making presentations.

Sarah Silverman started the show offer by hammering Paris Hilton with jokes about prison and her sexual promiscuity as Paris sat in the audience dumbfounded as usual. And speaking of hammered, what was in that flask Jack Nicholson sat down before accepting his award for best villain? It appeared that Jack “departed” the awards show long before it officially started.

One of the funnier moments of the night came when Will Ferrell and Sacha Baron Cohen won for best kiss and couldn’t resist reliving the moment as they rolled around the floor in a long passionate man kiss. Not to be outdone for gayness, Gerard Butler and the movie 300 won for best fight. I hear the “The Uber Immortal” wasn’t present to accept his award because he’s currently touring as a roadie for Clay Aiken.

Lastly, with what can only be considered perfect irony, British singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse performed her hit song “Rehab” for the celebrity filled audience. Only a cameo by Lindsay Lohan on backup vocals would have made for a more perfect evening.

The following is a list of new merchant additions to the OnlineMusicBlog.com music store over the past 2 weeks:

WorkShopLive
Tune1000
MusicStack
HitKaraoke
Royalty Free Music
Ringtone Channel
Push Posters
ProSound

You can get more information about these new merchant additions by clicking here

The new ALOT Music Toolbar is a free download that allows users to search for music online. The music toolbar allows you to search by song title, artist and/or album. You can even search for specific lyrics by song, artist, or album. In addition, the ALOT Music Toolbar allows you to download free MP3 music as well as listen to over 2500 radio stations streaming live over the Internet.

The Radio Free Ithaca playlist is from Ithaca’s thriving original music scene, with diverse blends of various American and world styles. New music is arriving regularly, including studio work (new and old) and live tracks.

Radio Free Ithaca is now available through Live365 Internet Radio. Live365 Internet Radio currently offers radio stations spanning over 20 genres including Independent music stations as well as music talk radio stations.

Earlier this week, Apple introduced its new iPhone. The iPhone is actually the combination of three products — a mobile phone, a widescreen Apple iPod and a Internet communications device. The Internet features available on the new iPod include email, web browsing, web search, maps and more. You can get more information on the iPhone as well as sign up for future updates and buying information at the Apple Store.

MP3Musicgrams.com’s free Indie Band and Artist music promotion service for sharing online music is now available for sign-ups by artists and fans. The new interactive and viral musicgrams were created for new artists to be able to spread their music around in a new format. Users can upload or download an MP3 audio file, image and add in a personal message to send to online music fans, friends and industry. Once uploaded, fans can get involved and help spread the word on new artists. (more…)