Spotify continues its conquest to become the leading music streaming service in the cloud as it prepares to launch a mobile app specifically made for BlackBerry handsets. The Spotify BlackBerry app which is currently available in preview mode promises to bring in great features that will keep you listening to your favorite music wherever you more »

Trent Reznor seems to get the net and the power of giving away something for free. He is at it again with tracks from the upcoming movie “The Social Network”, this time five tracks are available free for download. There are also pre-order links for the complete work. The site is also announcing a special more »

ReverbNation just announced their plan to have 1000 of their artists to start participating in a new Sponsored Songs program. This program will actually pay the bands $0.50 each time one of their songs is downloaded for free by a user. Yup, you get it free and the band gets paid.

Now, of course the question is where does the money to pay the band come from? You guessed it. Ads. A small branded ad will be placed within the album cover art of each download. The value to the advertiser is that it is passed along in the embedded work as the song is passed along by fans via P2P. They want you to share the song with as many people as you like.