Can Lime Wire Reinvent Itself As A Legitimate Music Service? Lime Wire best known for file sharing and music pirates has opened a store that offers two million+ songs for 99 cents. “We’d love to work with the entire music industry,” said Lime Wire CEO George Searle. “I think there are some people in the majors who see the potential of Lime Wire.”
We have iTunes, eMusic, MSN Music, Music Match, Amazon, Music Now, Napster, Rhapsody, etc., and music label EMI is planning to setup their own digital music store. How many digital stores do we need selling music?
Some of the most added songs this week to rock radio are Hoobastank “My Turn”, Five Finger Death Punch “Stranger Than Fiction”, Rise Against “Re-Education (Through Labor)”, Smashing Pumpkins “G.L.O.W.”, Tantric “Fall Down”, Slipknot “Dead Memories”, All That Remains “Two Weeks”, Mudvayne “Do What You Do” and Nickelback “Gotta Be Somebody. Will these artists rejuvenate rock radio?
Recommended Show: A Company of Thieves tonight at Mercury Lounge (NYC).
New Video Stream: Check out the new video from Alterbridge for the song
‘Watch Over You‘ that splices in Celebrity Rehab footage. Will this breathe new life into the record? It could with the recent sales spike, the single jumped from 107 to 1,315.
New Music: what is the Long Island music scene producing these days? If you like Blink 182 and New Found Glory, then try Friday Nights In Elwood.