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Grooveshark is a free international music streaming service that had music for every ‘rare’ band I searched for. I was and still am impressed. Goodbye iTunes and perhaps the final nail in the coffin for CDs? Highly recommended and perfect for parties! I even searched for Japanese bands and they came up. You can read more about it here via wikipedia and use it even without registering.

If you are a musician (or wish to be one) who learns by playing along with a CD or mp3,  Capo may be for you. It lets you slow down your favorite songs, so you can hear the notes and learn how they are played (49USD).

The same company also has TapeDeck, which “…is a powerful and fun new audio recorder for Mac OS X Leopard. It’s just like your old analog tape recorder, only better. A lot better.” (25USD)

Next, you have searched for your Creative Commons photos on Flickr for your presentation or video. Why not go all the way and use creative commons music for the soundtrack? “ccMixter is a community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons where you can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in whatever way you want.” You may view a list of other ccMusic sites here.

School Drama Production? 55 Great Websites To Download Free Sound Effects (via Hongkiat)

Create some music on the go: The best music-making apps on the iPhone (via Music Radar)

Numerology is a modular sequencing environment designed for performing musicians. It works by giving the user an organized workspace within which they can quickly create and connect together a variety of highly functional sequencing and MIDI event generating modules. As a fully modular environment, the user can construct sequencing instruments that fit their own unique and twisted requirements. Download a 14 day trial (119USD to buy).

Finally, have a look at this article to get inspired for all the above: 7 Places to Find Inspiration for Songs (via AudioTuts)

UPDATE: also check out 25 Free Digital Audio Editors You Should Know

Above is a video created by Stephen Heppell and prepared for the Department of Children, Schools and Families to engender a debate about 21st century schools, personalisation, etc

Untitled from Christian Cerrito on Vimeo.

Shouting and waving your arms at buggy technology doesn’t normally do anything useful. With these robots, it makes art. FULL STORY FROM WIRED HERE.

Lastly, the Globe and Mail will run multipart features under the umbrella “The Download Decade.” Part 1 is on Napster. (Can you believe that was 10 years ago already?!) There are a few other interesting side stories as well. GO HERE.