(UPDATED EXCLUSIVE) It's been a busy week for Muziic's 16 year old co-founder David Nelson. First, Nelson cleverly used YouTube's openly available API to add VEVO's music videos to his music discovery site. Muziic.com. But VEVO and YouTube (who share... Read more »

Internet music-ranking platform Rank ‘em will enter public beta on January 19th, but Hypebot has exclusive pre-public invites now. Based in Athens, GA, Rank 'em is crowdsourcing music discovery by asking fans to rank their favorite songs. Then fan favorites... Read more »

Best Buy is offering a free bonus with every purchase of a $9.99 - $13.99 album from an Interscope label act like Black Eyed Peas, 50 Cent, Timbaland and others. The only problem is that what their offering in exchange... Read more »

"As of '09, bands have an official life span of about nine months dating from the launch of their MySpace pages, thanks to the comically accelerated, DSL-enhanced hype cycle. Faster than you can tweet "Serena Maneesh," entire genres of music... Read more »

(UPDATED) VEVO and YouTube may soon close a loophole in their shared API which Muziic used to grab their videos. "VEVO does not authorize, condone or otherwise endorse, in any way whatsoever, the actions of Muziic which involve our licensed... Read more »

Continuing what feels like an unprecedented string of false starts and missed deadlines, ad supported music service Qtrax canceled a Christmas eve press conference. What's the excuse this time? Apparently only one person is capable of speaking for the company... Read more »

"In their own way, all artists are entre­pre­neurs, and all entre­pre­neurs are artists. Though their tools and pro­ducts may dif­fer, both entre­pre­neurs and artists are in the same game– the making and selling of work that is per­so­nally and emo­tio­nally... Read more »