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Featured artist of the week, #19

jampat — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:12:30 +0000

This week’s artist is a seasonal selection. The Bronx-based hip hop label Drop Zone has just uploaded a little album of Holiday songs. Quite unexpected from Mr. Tac aka “Chocolate” and his crew, but so fitting, a week away from Christmas!

What better occasion to wish you all very happy holidays; see you in 2010!

Music from Jamendo, now on Deezer.com

jampat — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:55:46 +0000

We are proud to officially announce the signing of a partnership with Deezer.com, Europe’s number one free music streaming website. Deezer users will now be able to listen to some of the independent artists from Jamendo’s 200,000 track catalog of free music.

For Jamendo artists, it’s an additional way to gain exposure and be discovered by an increasingly diverse audience. For Deezer, this partnership extends its legal offer of free, quality music streaming.

Jamendo, always helping free music reach new places (and eventually take over the world)!

Tweet about your favorite music!

jampat — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:29:08 +0000

You certainly have noticed the little Twitter symbol that has recently appeared next to every Jamendo artist and album.

Have you tried clicking it? If you have a Twitter account, it will automatically post a little message to your profile saying you are a fan of this artist or album, along with a link so that your friends can go and check them out on Jamendo.

You know us, always striving to make promoting good artists easier… Now go ahead tweet away!

Jamendo teams up with ccMixter!

jampat — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:40:31 +0000

As you may already know, ccMixter is a community of musicians who make remixes in the spirit of and based on the legal backbone of Creative Commons. The management of the site and community was recently passed on from the Creative Commons organization to ArtisTech Media, a forward-looking music label that embraces open formats, based in San Diego.

We have seized this opportunity and teamed up with ArtisTech Media to better promote and remunerate artists of the ccMixter community who use CC licenses to publish their music, just like artists on Jamendo.

The first result of this new partnership is the album “Peace of Winter“, a compilation of Holiday music remixed by a host of artists and curated by a pillar of the ccMixter community and member of the board of ArtistTech Media, Snowflake.

This is the first of many to come! Keep an eye out for future ccMixter releases on jamendo.

Creative Commons needs your support!

jampat — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:26:55 +0000

As you may know, Creative Commons, creator of the licenses under which is published all the music on Jamendo, is a non profit organization. Founded six years ago, it functions thanks to the generosity of its supporters.

Like every year, CC just launched last October its fall fundraising campaign. As a user of jamendo, you are also a user of Creative Commons: without CC, jamendo simply wouldn’t exist as it is. So if you want to manifest your support with a small financial contribution, just click here.

Thanks!

It’s Christmas time!

jampat — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:05:00 +0000

Here’s a little seasonal playlist we put together, just to put you in that Christmas mood. Enjoy!

Keep an eye on what your Facebook friends are listening to!

jampat — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:31:37 +0000

Ok, it’s time for a little more talk about the Jamendo application for Facebook.
Did you know that in the “My Network” tab, you could see in real time what your Facebook/Jamendo friends are listening to? What better way to share hidden gems and discover new music…

To be listed in there, your friends need to have checked the “Make my musical discoveries visible for “My Network”” box in the settings section of their Jamendo application. Make sure you do the same, and keep the sharing rolling!

Featured artist of the week, #18

jampat — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:49:24 +0000

It is a quite belated 18th featured artist of the week we’re presenting you today. Sorry about that.

Anyway, the wait was worthwhile: ladies and gentlemen, here is Koriza, a band from St Petersburg, Russia, that will relentlessly kick out your jams. Call it emocore, math rock or post-hardcore, the bottom line is, these guitars shred and these screams are for real.

Keep young children away!

Liven up your Facebook status with Jamendo music!

jampat — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:28:09 +0000

More Facebook-related news this week: did you know you could use the Jamendo application to directly link a track to illustrate your status updates? Just like you would link a video or url, only this feature comes with a complete search engine too!

Pick a genre, a mood, a keyword, and find a Jamendo track that fits your status perfectly:

Basically, you can now impress your friends, make your profile page cooler and promote independent artists all at once, in just a few clicks. Pretty cool if you ask us…

This is where it’s all happening:

Jamendo on Facebook

Enjoy Jamendo on Facebook all the way!

jampat — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:08:16 +0000

Install the Jamendo application on your Facebook profile and enjoy the Jamendo experience in a Facebook environment!

In addition to linking your accounts and posting your Jamendo activity on Facebook, when you install the Jamendo application for Facebook, you can search for music, listen to it, add it to your favorites and share whatever you do with your friends, straight from your Facebook account.

What’s more, you will have a Jamendo tab on your Facebook profile on which you can feature your favorites and show off those hidden gems you discovered on Jamendo!

Install the Jamendo application for Facebook today!