PlayLouder
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Playlouder is a digital music and media company. Playlouder.com is one of the most popular alternative music websites in the United Kingdom. It is a music site which provides news, reviews, and other related content. It also claims to be the world's first Music Service Provider or MSP — a broadband, Internet Service Provider that bundles access to music content with broadband internet access.
The company also presented the world's first virtual music festival in partnership with Glastonbury Festival in 2001, and has been online partner for Glastonbury Festival since 2000, webcasting full performances from bands including Basement Jaxx, White Stripes, Orbital, Coldplay, Flaming Lips, Sigur Ros, Franz Ferdinand, Muse, Bloc Party.
[edit] History
Playlouder.com was founded in the UK in 2000 as a music site which provided news, reviews, and digital music delivery. In 2003, Playlouder teamed up with state51 to form Playlouder MSP — a next-generation ISP that offers broadband internet access combined with unlimited legal music downloading and other music applications for a monthly subscription fee. The service licenses the right for its subscribers to legally share music and in return to pay royalties to music rights owners.
Playlouder MSP was awarded the Popkomm IMEA award for innovation in 2004 and has since announced deals with EMI and Sony BMG, as well as UK indie label association AIM and UK publisher body MCPS-PRS. Commercial launch of the service has been scheduled for summer of 2007.
[edit] Featured Artists
Musical acts and personalities who have been interviewed or reviewed by Playlouder include (but not limited to):
- The Fall
- Voxtrot
- Patrick Wolf
- Boards of Canada
- White Stripes
- Mika
- Gnarls Barkley
- Gay For Johnny Depp
- Guided by Voices
- Archie Bronson Outfit
- Har Mar Superstar
- Grinderman
- Serena-Maneesh
- HK 119
- Jamie Lidell
- Kaito
- LCD Soundsystem
- Peter Jackson
- Arcade Fire
- Lemon Jelly
- Luke Haines
- Mclusky
- QOTSA's Nick Oliveri
- Travis
- Stereolab
- The Go-Betweens
[edit] External links
- Official site
- PlayLouder MSP
- Playlouder development blog
- PlayLouder launches first 'Music ISP' Press release
- Customers of new UK ISP get to share all Sony music on P2P from Boing Boing
- MusicWeek article
- Music ISP Playlouder Signs With Sony BMG; EMI and UMG To Follow from Billboard Magazine blog
- File swapping MSPs - the future of digital music? from The Register
- Music file sharing to be offered legally news story from The Guardian
- Sony frees music for file-sharers from the BBC
- PlayLouder launches royalty paying music share service from The Register
- PlayLouder Gets License from SonyBMG from DRMwatch
- PlayLouder: Collective Music Licensing Done Wrong
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