Google has partnered with several major providers of online music to launch a music search engine. Now when you type in the name of a song, artist or title, you can access audio or video previews of your music search query. The previews will be available via links to MySpace, Pandora, iLike, Lala and Rhapsody. more »

After Nine Inch Nails, Radiohead and other musicians have utilized the power of the web to promote and sell their music along comes REM with their latest album Accelerate. REM is making their 14th album available through audio streaming at a social music discovery service iLike.

To promote the release of REM’s album on its online music service, iLike will be holding a Worldwide Listening Party beginning March 24 and will be running through March 26, which is a full 6 days before the album will be release in North America on April 1, 2008.