The playlist of the new game from Electronic Arts, "Facebreaker", features a track from South Africa's Tone Deaf Junkies. They are just one of a number of pioneering acts from South Africa, grouped around the African Dope label.

For details, visit http://www.music-wire.com/south-africas-tone-deaf-junkies-showcased-on-facebreaker-game/

A few days ago while browsing iTunes Music Store I found Vampire Weekend as one of my recommendations and I was hooked immediately. They have a unique sound blending Soukous guitars and other African styles with western classical and Ska-influenced indie rock. Their self titled debut album is my favorite album since Neon Bible.

Gogol Bordello frontman Eugene Hutz has three words to describe the New York via Ukraine punk rock on his band's forthcoming effort, "Super Taranta."

We7 is an innovative new music download community co-founded by Peter Gabriel. We7 will let you legally download free unlocked MP3s, and the artists get paid, thanks to their ad-supported model.

My name is Johnathan J. Stegeman/MidiMacMan, and I am a composer, web master, photographer, graphic artist, and freelance writer from Denver, Colorado.

In what is probably a world premiere, a reggae track featuring some toasting in Lingala has been released solely to the web. "Strong" is a dancehall-flavoured reggae tune featuring the reggae grrrrl Mika and the inimitable Full Contact poet Dread Litoko toasting in Lingala.

Mon Electric Bijou create a dignified, country/post-punk sound quite obviously inspired by the likes of The Flying Burrito Brothers, The Only Ones, Neu! and Archers Of Loaf whether they intended to or not. Fronted by Martin Saz, the band was formed in the summer of 2002 in Montreal, Canada. Mon Electric Bijou's debut album, Songs Made From Plastic (2002), on which Martin Saz was the only musician, was considered by many as raw and experimental rock n’ roll. After the album was released, Saz needed a time-tested band to recreate the emotional vibes of the album. He then called his collaborators, Jason Sanchez and Martin Guilbo, to join his speeding wagon.

A new Indie Music promotional website seems to be gaining traction and a lot of popularity on the Net. To date http://www.gigzter.com has about eighty (80) artists and bands online, but the pace is accelerating quickly.

There are many unique aspects to gigzter.com, but perhaps the most intriguing is the professionalism and selectiveness that is portrayed on the site. For instance, gigzter.com will not allow artists to profile themselves. Rather, all applicants are screened for quality music and talent, and then gigzter will spend the time to manually create each end every profile so that it fits the sites consistency and quality standards. Additional features of the site include full-length streaming audio for each profile page, playlists, voting, charts and more. These 'extras' seem to be key features that make the site fun and competitive for not only the artists, but their fans and numerous visitors too.

"Major Overlooked Band Promotional Ideas"

I'm going to lay out a couple of easy-to-use band promotional ideas for you...

"Tricks To Selling More CD's At Gigs"

First make sure at every gig you are placing your CD sales table in the correct place. I can't tell you how many times I have seen bands who setup their CD sales table in the darkest corner of the venue.

Thursday, August 11th 2005 marked a milestone for Iranian Underground Rock Music. This was the first time, at least to our knowledge, that underground music from Iran became available for Digital Download over the internet.
The addition of Kiosk : Ordinary Man to the iTunes music catalog is important in many ways , but most importantly freedom from restrictions for publishing and performing music in Iran.