Coldplay have made their latest single Violet Hill available via free download at the bands website www.coldplay.com.
The single was made available from April 29th and after 24 hours had been downloaded 600,000 times. The download will be available until May 5th after which time it will be released as a paid digital download.
The new album Viva La Vida Or [...]

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REM will stream their forthcoming album Accelerate, through the iLike application, that is used on the popular social networking site Facebook.
Users will be able to preview the album and even share it with others in the network, a week before the official release.
As bands search for new ways to get their albums heard, this is [...]

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The Charlatans latest album, You Cross My Path, has been downloaded 30,000 times since its release on Monday.
The album is available as a free download only at present, through the XFM Radio site, but the 30,000 copies would put it at number 2 in the charts, if the album had been sold conventionally.
Charlatan’s frontman Tim [...]

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The Charlatans have released the second single from their upcoming album, You Cross My Path, and it is available as a free download on the excellent XFM Radio site.
The single is called Oh Vanity and is available right now. The album will be released on March 3rd, and once again it will be available as [...]

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In a surprise turnaround Radiohead have agreed with computer giant  Apple to allow the sale of their new material through iTunes.
Following the release of their album In Rainbows on the internet via download only, the CD is now available via the conventional High Street record store as well as from the iTunes store.
Radiohead had previously [...]

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