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More Facebook-related news this week: did you know you could use the Jamendo application to directly link a track to illustrate your status updates? Just like you would link a video or url, only this feature comes with a complete search engine too!

Basically, you can now impress your friends, make your ...

Install the Jamendo application on your Facebook profile and enjoy the Jamendo experience in a Facebook environment!

In addition to linking your accounts and posting your Jamendo activity on Facebook, when you install the Jamendo application for Facebook, you can search for music, listen to it, add it to your favorites and share whatever you do with your friends, straight from your Facebook accoun...

As you well know, it was 20 years today the Berlin Wall came down, symbolically signifying all at once the end of the Cold War and the reunification of Germany.

Of couse, jamendo wasn’t there. Which is not a reason not to commemorate this historical event with a special playlist of great German tunes of today. And, fittingly for the commemoration of a struggle for freedom, you’re entirely free to ...

Breaking news: the jamendo application for Facebook is now up and running!

Synchronize your jamendo and Facebook accounts in just a few clicks, and let your friends on both sites know what music you’re discovering, sharing, playlisting…

Bets are running among the jamendo team as to how many users this great new application will have within a month. So get going: click on the Facebook link on the ...

Jamendo recently signed a partnership with the International Hotel & Restaurant Association (IH&RA), based in Geneva, Switzerland. This association gathers 300,000 hotels and 8 million restaurants worldwide.

The aim is to promote Jamendo PRO with these numerous public places that might be interested in resorting to free music for their musical atmospheres.

We’re looking forward to what we hope wi...

They are quite big at home in Sweden; their music is like no other, mixing together metal, jazz, gypsy folk, swing, rock and half a dozen other genres; and they are also one of the most popular artists on jamendo.

This week’s featured artist is Diablo Swing Orchestra. We’re all the more thrilled to see the response their music is receiving on jamendo, ever since they joined us last summer, as thei...

Arthur Pope is a newcomer on jamendo. His album “From Thorns to Roses” was uploaded only a week ago.

An American songwriter from St Louis, Pope’s sound is acoustic and bare, but his songs are heartfelt and emotional. And with a name like his, it won’t come as a surprise that he he adds a christian element to his lyrics (sorry, couldn’t resist the pun).

Welcome Arthur!

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Yesterday, the CC-themed blog The Creative Uncommons published a long interview of our very own Chief of music, Patrick Haour. Now, we’re not sure we really qualify as the “orange world eater” the site calls jamendo, but it’s always nice to get some recognition in the free music world, so thank you TCUC!

Go ahead and read it, it’s right here.

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Professor Kliq, aka Mike, a young hip electronic music producer from Chicago, has been a favorite on jamendo for awhile. The reason we’re featuring him this week is because he entirely re-uploaded his stack of available tracks on jamendo.

The good news is there’s now more Professor Kliq available for free download than ever, now neatly wrapped up in two soberly titled albums: “Community Service” ...

Hox Vox is a progressive rock project by Italian artist Gianluca Missero. His track “Zimniy Vorets (the Winter Palace)” is an experimental piano piece evoking the Russian revolution.

The video that goes with it is an interesting assemblage of old footage from the early 20th century and animated film made with collages, set in the Winter Palace in St Petersburg. Not your typical pop music video; t...

Groove Savor is a Swiss DJ who produces dance/house music. He has worked with many local electro artists, and you’ll find several singles, complete with various remix versions, on jamendo.

Such as this one, “To The Beat“:

Lots of new albums published on jamendo, and a great quantity of electro artists this past week!

Below is our new selection of new releases, voluntarily electronic music-oriented. From deep to minimal, acid, 8bits, and even new wave!

Till next week..

Tracklisting:

#1 Ristoo19 - Weak memory

#2 Anorak Djs - Get up if ya here

#3 Sonic Astrionics - Words

#4 Peter Sharp - Do you read music? No...

DJ Esoph is a young abstract hip hop producer from Rome is very active in the local underground scene. He joined jamendo a few months ago with an album chock-full of relaxed and bouncy beats, the aptly named “Beat Source vol. 1“. Check it out.

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Sylvain The Librarian, from Avignon, in the south of France, makes quirky and melodic indie pop. He also made a video for his track “Money Well Spnt”, on his album “Staff Only No Vikings“. Enjoy the voluntarily off-synch editing…

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The brand new version of Jamendo PRO, jamendo’s branch for professional music licensing, went live today! Below is the official announcement. Spread the word…!

After having satisfied several thousand clients around the world in just a few months, Jamendo PRO has completely renewed itself. Even more user-friendly, clearer and quicker, it’s now easier than ever to access the world’s largest online ...

It’s back to school for our weekly selections of new releases on jamendo too! Today, we have a selection of reggae, hip hop, indie rock, deep techno, crunk and ska lined up for you.

Like we say, open your ears!

Tracklisting:

1/ Jahmac – Reggae and unity

2/ Free drink – Cops

3/ Djoko Blind - Meetmeinthestreets

4/ Desgavell – Desgavell ShowTime

5/ Mordechai Ben David – We are one

6/ Black Bart – Kingston, London

7/ El refugio de Iris – Sombra en mis ojos

8/ Klaudia – By your side

9/ Television Dream - We can

10/ Mon-Peg – Cloud one

11/ Humeka – Am-back

Three weeks ago, we wrote about French funk-rock band Cool Cavemen and the fact that they needed your votes to increase their chances of winning an Audi Talents Award.

Well, the deadline has passed and they didn’t make it. But they came out 4th out of 12 finalists, thanks in part to those last minute votes that came from you, our beloved jamendo users.

So we wanted to forward their thanks to you. ...

The 1.1 version of the jamendo application for iPhone and iPod Touch was released yesterday. A few bugs have been fixed, but more importantly, it is now available in German, Italian, Spanish and Polish (in addition to French and English)!

Download it from here. And of course, it’s free as always…!

Oh and also, don’t forget jamendo is available on Android too! Download the application from here....

They joined jamendo this summer. Please welcome an excellent heavy rock band hailing from Brisbane, Australia: TenPenny Joke.

Their album, “Ambush On All Sides“, combines catchy melodies and heavy guitars. Fans of Incubus, Disturbed and Linkin Park are in for a treat. Enjoy below without moderation:

Till next week!

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If you spend a little time on jamendo, chances are you already know Sean Fournier. His catchy indie pop songs have been a massive favorite on the site for a while.

Well, now he wants his songs to be covered by a bunch of artists. His new project “Oh Brother Take Cover” will be a compilation of covers of his songs from the album “Oh My“, by various artists. He just doesn’t know who yet.

Interested ...

This is real good stuff. If you’re into melodic, sensitive pop-rock à la Coldplay, you have got to stop whatever you’re doing right now and listen to Stephane TV.
This five-piece band from Pavia, Italy, has got it all right: the melodies, the sound, the songwriting, it’s all pretty much perfect, really. They should be touring arenas and getting massive airplay. In the meantime, we’re thrilled the...

After a year of collaboration, we are proud to finally offer artists an additional means of certification, with our partners Safe Creative, a reference in intellectual property protection, with whom we share many values around Creative Commons licenses.

Jamendo is now offering you a new way to protect your music, in addition to your Creative Commons license: a SafeCreative certificate. Your CC li...

The Black Atlantic is an acoustic indie pop band from Groningen, Netherlands. A few months ago they took part in the TV show “In A Cabin With”. The show’s concept is as simple as it’s great: every two months, one or more Dutch musicians are invited to travel to somewhere in the world to record an album in collaboration with local musicians.

The show will start airing in September; up to now, the i...

Pea Sized is a German duo who also happens to be a couple. Pia and Karsten started making music together in 2008 only, but their style has had enough time to be very well defined. Somewhere between Björk and CocoRosie, they mix atmospheric pop, electronica and experimental music for a result that’s just as pleasant as interesting to listen to.

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Audi, the car maker, organizes every year its Talents Awards to distinguish creative people in many fields. One of those fields is music, and this year, out of 1300 candidates, jamendo old timers Cool Cavemen, a funk-rock outfit from Lille, France, were selected as one of only 48 finalists.

You have until today, 26 August, to support them by voting here. As you’ll see, the band is among those havi...