Somojo Magazine – Independent and Unsigned Music & the Creative Arts

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Featuring interviews with
Mason Taylor of a’tris
Singer/Songwriter Ben McMaster
Photographer Rob Wilkinson
Artist Janine Flynn
‘Interviews with Jen’ chats with Lovewhip
There are also the regular [...]

We’re looking for some reviews of the new compilation!

Hi readers, we are currently looking for anyone who could offer a good, well written review of our latest release of the Atom Sounds Compilation Vol 2 album.
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The album featuring 13 tracks by 13 artists is currently available at Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com, ShockHound, Lala, Rhapsody, iTunes (Just Added), eMusic (Just [...]

Atom Sounds Compilation Vol 2 OUT NOW!

We are proud to announce that the second Atom Sounds Compilation album has now started hitting the stores, the album features 13 tracks from a selection of our artists..
You can currently get the album from the following stores:

Amazon.co.uk
Amazon.com
ShockHound
Lala
Rhapsody

More coming soon, so keeps your eyes peeled, or better still subscribe to our RSS feed for further [...]

TuneCore starts the Amazon On Demand Service

I’ve just posted about TuneCore starts Amazon On Demand on my Blazing Minds blog so here’s an excerpt:
Now for those that are wondering what TuneCore is then read my post “Getting Your Music Released – Tunecore Vs CD Baby”
So what’s this “On Demand” all about then, well to put it simply, TuneCore now has he [...]

WaTunes offers 100% free distribution to artists

We have been hearing about WaTunes quite a bit lately specially that they are now offering artists free distribution of their music to sites such as iTunes and a 100% payout of sales to the artists.
Which sounds great, but we would love to here from anyone that is using WaTunes to hear their success stories [...]

Why don’t young people listen to classical music?

Tom Service: Why don’t young people listen to classical music? | Music | guardian.co.uk.

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Last.fm to Start Charging for Radio Streaming

It seems to be all the buzz at the moment, the announcement from Last.fm that they will start charging for their Radio service.
If you live in the UK, United States and Germany, you will not have to pay for the service, but other countries will have to pay to listen to the Radio service with [...]

Music lovers try to keep indie alive in Ellesmere Port

FOUR music-loving friends are bringing indie music back to the town in a bid to uncover the region’s next big band.
Shaun Price, Mike Bladen, James Guthrie and John Russel, all from Ellesmere Port, aim to bring new blood to the indie scene and give up-and-coming bands the chance to become as big as Oasis or [...]

The Future Sound for Online Music!

Surfing the internet today I came across an interesting, if not small, article on the BBC World Service website about the future sound of online music.
So I thought I would take the opportunity to share the link with our readers, RSS Subscribers and Twitters, so without further ado check it out on the BBC Word [...]