Category Archives: social networking

5 Ways to Find Free New Music Online

 Check this list out as well!

1. Spiral Frog

Register for a free account and then it says all downloads are legal and free. This site did not work well on Firefox on a Mac. Hmmmmm. Worth a try for you PC users.

2. Ruckus

Ruckus is free if your college joins up and gets a membership. Ruckus offers unlimited free downloads from a music library of over 2.5 Million tracks and over 4,000 movies and TV programs. Ruckus music downloads are 100% legal, virus free and available to anyone who has a valid school (.edu) email address and whose school signs up. I couldn’t find another way for students to sign up. If you know another way, please email us and let us know. Seems like a great site.

3. Jamendo

Free legal downloads from emerging artists from all over the world.

4. Songza

Songza doesn’t allow downloading but acts like an Internet jukebox for music and then makes a custom playlist of the music you find. I search for Jason Reeves for example and found several live tracks that I never heard before. Jason Reeves is amazing by the way.

5. Free Music Zilla

This site features a program that you download which enables you to download legally from Last.fm, IMEEN and Pandora. Says that it has no adware or spyware and that the program is super light. Let us know if you check it out. Worth taking a look I think. Not supported by Mac so that lets us out.

SPORE’s DRM setting make users trash the game!

images3.jpg

New from the creator of the  popular “The Sims” and “SimCity” videogames, is “Spore.” It’s great reviews are indicative of its status on Amazon.com as well; the game has rocketed to the #1 spot on the site. But all is not well in the word of mouth world for Spore. Digital Rights Management (DRM) settings on the game, which allow installation of the game only three times, have gamers in an uproar. Their [huge] response: trash the Amazon rating of “Spore.” At last check, 92% of the over 2,000 ratings were a measly one out of five stars.

More from The Consumerist

Be an Intern This Fall-Mandatory meeting 8-27 at 7pm

img_3484.jpg

So you want to film interviews, be on camera, edit, meet rock stars or work on the website? Any or all of these jobs are available to our Fall interns.

Mandatory meeting Wednesday evening August 27th at the new Boca Raton Library Conference Room

1501 NW Spanish River Road, Boca Raton 33431 near the back entrance to FAU.

For more info: email us at info (at) the rock starstories.com. Bring your school paperwork if you have any. Also check out www.loonatictv.com for an idea of the kinds of stories you’ll be working on!

The Weepies Video Contest

 images37.jpeg

The Weepies announced a video challenge  to craft the official music video for first single, “Hideaway.” Hosted by social network, Imeem, the video challenge offers a $10,000 cash prize, premier and feature promotions through Imeem, video servicing to major television and online video outlets, and of course, attention as a professional film maker.  You want to win this-you know it!

For more information head over here!