Good Crew, a pop-rock band from Japan, have released the vocal tracks for all the songs from their new album, Nippon Husky, under a CC BY-NC-SA license. While this in itself is great news (we always love to hear about people using licenses!) this is especially noteworthy in that Good Crew are signed to Columbia…

Austria now has a music platform, Orange Music, featuring exclusively CC licensed music with over 88 bands on board for launch day. Orange Music seems to accept submissions rather readily, and while the platform focuses primarily on Austrian groups, international contributions seem welcome as well.

Indaba Music, in their words, is “an international community of musicians, music professionals, and fans exploring the creative possibilities of making music with people in different places”. Enabling exciting forms of online musical creation, Indaba allows musicians to work with each other in ways that are both fresh and exciting, facilitating new and interesting means…

CASH Music (who we blogged about glowingly here) has recentlly added new media from both seminal rocker Donita Sparks and experimental indie act Xiu Xiu. Donita Spark’s page has CC licensed free downloads as well as the ability for people to own a share of a percentage of the sync license royalty check for Spark’s…

LugRadio Live 2008 USA (previously mentioned; register here) is looking to feature CC-licensed music at the conference: At LugRadio Live in the UK, we traditionally play a lot of rock music in-between talks – it keeps the atmosphere loose and fun. With LugRadio Live USA 2008 on the horizon, and well aware of the dictatorship…

CASH Music, an acronym for Coalition of Artists & Stake Holders, recently launched with great promise. Focusing on the ability for “read-write” culture to foster a better artistic community, their mission statement lays out some big ideas with equally large potential: The community we hope to foster at CASH Music is participatory, supportive, and beneficial…

Our good friends over at Magnatune are offering a sweet holiday deal–free music! Create an elegantly merry mood with the Magnatune Christmas Compilation, featuring over 60 minutes of the most timeless and classic carols of the season, by ten of Magnatune’s best-selling artists. When you download this album, you’ll be able to choose from one…

Propellerhead Software, makers of electronic-music production tool Reason, have recently re-released their “Teaching Music With Reason” lesson set under a CC BY-NC license. Originally intended for educators teaching courses on electronic music at the high school and college level, “Teaching” was made for Reason 2.5 and provided, among other things, lessons, source material, and student…

Indaba Music, “an international community of musicians, music professionals, and fans exploring the creative possibilities of making music with people in different places”, has recently added the ability to CC-license tracks to its user interface. This is great news, especially for a community that is firmly based around of the concept of new and interesting…

Matt Haughey (CC’s Creative Director 2002-2005) on how to see the future of the music business in today’s classical music business. Lucas Gonze (worked on an early version of ccMixter in 2004) on the business of artist services, see comments on followup posts (roundup) for insightful discussion of the role of artists, artist services, labels,…