I think things are looking up for music and musicians especially. More and more (if not all) bands are getting themselves on the internet, and there are some great services cropping up to provide support, distribution and promotion of good music.

Take Jamendo. The aim is to let members "discover fresh music on P2P networks; listen to 805 albums from talented artists for free; download them on BitTorrent or eMule; review, tag and rate albums; get personalized recommendations; discuss them on the forums..." Phew. It also provides podcasts streamable playlists via RSS for a nice easy way to check out an album before you grab it via BitTorrent.

I've had a listen to a fair bit on Jamendo now, but my fave so far has to be an album called Luo by a group called bad loop. Its awesome. Here: have a new fangly Web 2.0 advertiRSSfeedbloggerblock:

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