V-fib Recordings offers free CC-licensed compilations of underexposed music, from both the past and present. The Winter 2006 mix features great tracks from bands like Koester, A Don Piper Situation, and Rank Strangers. Check it out!

During last week’s Senate hearing on the Broadcast Flag, Senator Ted Stevens revealed that his daughter had recently bought him an iPod — and that he enjoys using it to listen to ripped CDs. In turn, IPac has launched a drive to collect money to buy iPods for other senators who work on technology legislation.…

The Cylinder Presservation and Digitization Project has placed online amazing collection of over 5000 recordings from the late 1800s and early 1900s. Unrestored digitizations available as large .wav files are in the public domain, while restored mp3s are licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial, as described in the project’s note on copyright. Browse the collection. Listen to a…

Scott Andrew LePera founded the lo-fi folk-rock project the Walkingbirds in 1998, around the same time he discovered the Web. Since then he’s actively recorded and released songs in MP3 format directly onto the Web from his little bedroom studio in Northern California. The Walkingbirds’ website sees several hundred downloads each month from all over…

The Independent Media & Arts organization is holding its Sixth Annual Expo for Artists & Musicians on September 10, 2005 from 11:00am to 6:00pm at SomArts in San Francisco. The Expo is Bay Area’s only grassroots connection festival for independent arts, music and culture. It features over 100 arts organizations, free workshops, performances and hundreds…

ccMixter-meister Victor Stone points to the definitive list for the moment of podcasting safe music resources at Dave’s Imaginary Sound Space. Many CC-licensed music sites are listed, including many I hadn’t seen before. Dave’s list is a great place to start if you’re looking for CC-licensed music for your podcast or otherwise. We have an…

For those in the New York area tonight, tune in to WFUV (90.7), which is broadcast from Fordham University, at 9:30pm (Eastern Time) for an an hour-long program examining how the race to get online affects not only musicians, but music fans and the music business in general. The program will feature interviews with Creative…

… musical group, Tryad, today announced that its four members formed a virtual band across the ocean through the copyright reform organizationfrom 24-7PressRelease.com (press release) – USA

… But, there’s hope. She took a nice little walk with Larry Lessig and is coming around quite nicely to this idea of creative commons licenses.from p2pnet.net – Ontario,Canada

From iTunes’ UK launch and Napster’s rebirth to the Creative Commons and piracy, Jo Best looks back at the highlights of 2004 for digital musicfrom Silicon.com – UK