Time for a roundup of what's going on in the busy world of Weed!
In the newsRock Legend Heart Breaks New Ground With Simultaneous Retail and File-Sharing Release of 'Jupiters Darling':
With sales of more than 30,000 CDs and 2,000 digital tracks, the album is yielding significant sales via the secure Weed format redistributed through peer-to-peer (P2P) software programs such as Kazaa and Grokster, which are offered by DCIA Members. In the past week, the number of tracks purchased through the Weed file-sharing process has outnumbered those purchased through iTunes.
Morpheus owner StreamCast Networks has signed a deal with Sovereign Artists and SML:
(...) the Heart / Morpheus p2p distribution promotion illustrates another substantial legitimate use of p2p applications and just how valuable certain providers find p2p apps, like Morpheus, to be for their own livelihood. The more content providers embrace p2p companies for promotion, distribution and sales, the better it'll be for everyone.
P2Pers: we can make file-sharing secure and outsell iTunes:
In a bid to persuade the music industry that P2P networks can encourage legal file-sharing, P2P companies today claimed that more people have bought tracks from Heart's new album, 'Jupiter's Darling', via the likes of Grokster, Morpheus and Kazaa than through Apple's iTunes Music Store.
New sites2 newcomers to
weed sharing, the original webring of Weed download sites:
- Cyryx: very synthesizer-focused music from Claes Haglund and Clark Chinawski
- Richard Scott: 8 string guitarist and luthier offering Weed files and custom instruments
The following 11 new websites have been added to the links page:
New musicGilli Moon's "Woman" and
Mara's "It's Who I Am" are the latest albums featured on weedgrrl.com.
ChristianWeed.com has got freshly weedified tracks from
Bible In Song and
Lee Lumley.
Following their #1 listing for "Between Sunlight and Shadow" on the Weed top 10,
Singularity have released their debut CD "
Color of Space" in Weed format and it's available from the WeedStash.
Natural musical chameleon adept at performing traditional and contemporary jazz, funk, hip-hop, electronica and R&B,
Darrius Willrich has just had both of his albums weedified.
Weed Harvest presents 8 songs from Dayton, Ohio,
rhe. Rhonda Everitt has been compared to the likes of Tori Amos, Ani Difranco and Sarah McLachlan, yet this is no mere sound-alike artist.
weedgroove has announced the completion of
Mateo Mblem's "P.O.W." album while Mateo himself was on the USS Kennedy heading for Afghanistan.
New tunes from
Toast,
The Abe Lincoln Story, and
Funk/Mason are available from Weedtunes.
