Looking for music, wanting to create music, check this site out... this list was complied while I was coordinating the Swinburne National Institute of Design Research NIDR masters of multimedia design course.

Sampling, Mashing, Sharing

This is a community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons, where you can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in whatever way you want.

Remixers If you're into sampling, remixing and mash-ups grab the sample packs and a cappellas for download and you can upload your version back into ccMixter, for others to enjoy and re-sample. All legal.

Podcasters, directors and music lovers If you're into music, browse this site to hear some of the great remixes people have built from sampling music on this site, all licensed for use under Creative Commons license.

Editors' Picks and Listener Favorites
http://ccmixter.org/media/view/media/picks

Remixes
http://ccmixter.org/media/view/media/remix

Samples
http://ccmixter.org/media/view/media/samples

There is plenty of great tunes, when you think it's all Creative Commons, like the sample below, it's not bad...
Noite de Carnaval by Code
http://ccmixter.org/media/files/Mixro/5337

Here is another Music site, http://garageband.com/ which uses Creative Commons.

"We've recently added several heavy-hitters to our team. With the expanded team, we plan to expand our services by developing a brand new consumer service (code-named iJam) for the iPod and MySpace generation. The new service will focus on social music discovery in a broader sense, by including mainstream artists and including your friends. These ideas will remain true to our historic mission of creating opportunity for musicians and redefining how music is discovered. http://www.ijam.com

We also operate Gcast, a service that lets anybody create and share their own podcast for free, going beyond music to allow anybody to get their voice heard.
http://www.gcast.com"

I found it at this Music site http://www.downhillbattle.org/

Downhill Battle is a non-profit organization working to support participatory culture and build a fairer music industry.

Activists and Non-Profits

The Campaign for Audiovisual Free Expression (CAFE) empowers the creative
community in cyberspace by protecting the public's access to and use of
audiovisual technologies. The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the
leading civil liberties organization working to protect rights in the
digital world. Founded in 1990, EFF actively encourages and challenges
industry and government to support free expression and privacy online. EFF
is a member-supported organization and maintains one of the most-linked-to
websites in the world

Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
ACLU for the internet.
http://eff.org/

Public Knowledge
Tech policy public interest group.
http://www.publicknowledge.org/

Free Press
The number one force in media reform.
http://www.mediareform.net/

Click the Vote
Electoral activism for P2P.
http://clickthevote.org/

Prometheus Radio Project
Tireless low power radio (LPFM) advocates.
http://www.prometheusradio.org/

Creative Commons
Using copyright to change copyright.
http://creativecommons.org/

Freeculture.org
Student movement for free culture.
http://freeculture.org/

Illegal Art
Repository of artwork outlawed by copyright.
http://illegal-art.org/

Copyfight
Absolute best copyright news / analysis.
http://corante.com/copyfight

Lawrence Lessig
Leading public intellectual for free culture.
http://lessig.org/blog

Jessica Litman
Copyright intellectual and activist.
http://www.law.wayne.edu/litman/#recent

Finding New Music

Brainwashed
Independent music reviews.
http://brainwashed.com/

Dusted Magazine
More music reviews.
http://www.dustedmagazine.com/

Bleep.com
Gold standard of label-run music stores.
http://www.bleep.com/

GarageBand.com
Smarter than A&R, uses Creative Commons.
http://garageband.com/

PureVolume
Like the late mp3.com, but better.
http://www.purevolume.com/

hXcmp3.com
Punk / hardcore band space and mp3 host.
http://www.hxcmp3.com/

Key Technologies

Freenet
Anonymous filesharing, free speech.
http://freenet.sourceforge.net/

CivicSpace
Dynamic websites for activists + NGOs.
http://civicspacelabs.com/

Community Wireless Networks
A clear guide to public WiFi.
http://www.freepress.net/wifi/guideintro.php

RIAA Radar
Tells you what music not to pay for.
http://magnetbox.com/riaa/

BitTorrent
Distributed web-based p2p.
http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/download.html

Torrent sites
What to do with Bittorrent
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en& … tnG=Search

Torrentocracy
Torrents+RSS+Myth= Democratized TV.
http://www.torrentocracy.com/

MusicBrainz
Tags your mp3s, builds public metadata.
http://musicbrainz.org/

Sharing Music

p2pnet
Leading P2P news site.
http://p2pnet.net/

Slyck.com
Another P2P news site.
http://slyck.com/

Zeropaid
Filesharing news & software portal.
http://zeropaid.com/

KCeasy
Great open-source Windows filesharing.
http://kceasy.com/

Acquisition
Flawless Mac p2p app. Also see Poisoned.
http://www.acquisitionx.com/

Mercora
p2p radio: free and fully authorized.
http://mercora.com/

Soulseek
Best p2p for indy music (mac version).
http://www.slsknet.org/

RadioBlog
Flash music player and mp3 search spot.
http://www.radioblogclub.com/

Music Projects and Organizations

Future of Music Coalition
Music policy coalition-builders.
http://futureofmusic.org/

Moses Avalon
Music industry gadfly and educator.
http://www.mosesavalon.com/

CD Baby
Innovative online CD / digital distribution.
http://www.cdbaby.com/

Music for America
Politicizing young people through music.
http://musicforamerica.org/

The Pho List
A debate forum for digital music issues.
http://www.62chevy.com/pho.htm

http://www.dnalounge.com/
http://www.musork.com/trouble/
http://www.villette-numerique.com/
http://ma.asso.free.fr/
http://www.tigerbeat6.com/
http://www.fatcat.co.uk/
http://www.tsoft.com/~aelison/555

Here is a Blog with links to a CC contest where some of the top creative commons music was chosen... enjoy

Links to CC songs and albums to download, some really good stuff.
http://biotic.blogspot.com/

Mix contest - now over - of the http://ccmixter.org/
http://ccmixter.org/crammed/

For hundrets of mixes of the world leading dj's like jori holkonnen, akufen, laurent garnier, antonelli electra, martinez ...... visit

http://www.samurai.fm/

and record the steams with audio hijack or sim., grate music there!
http://www.rogueamoeba.com/audiohijack/

DESCRIPTION
Audio Hijack Pro drastically changes the way you use audio on your computer, giving you the freedom to listen to audio when you want and how you want. Record and enhance any audio with Audio Hijack Pro - it's the cornerstone of your digital audio experience.
Audio Hijack Pro will allow you to record any application's audio, from internet streams to DVD audio and everywhere in between. If your machine can play it, Audio Hijack Pro can record it. And that's not all - Audio Hijack Pro will also enhance any audio, unsing industry-standard VST and AudioUnit audio effects more...

WHAT'S NEW Version 2.6.6:
Official Intel Chip-Based Mac (ICBM) support
Schedule Helper 1.0.4
Assorted minor bug fixes

REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later, QuickTime 7 or later.

.. just want to remind, that you can use the free soundflower to do what AudioHijack does for free.

I just uped a intel version of this great tool to rapidshare:
http://rapidshare.de/files/14898711/Sou … t.zip.html
or get the free official one:
http://www.cycling74.com/products/soundflower

Instruction on how to use in the msj thread:
soundflower for intel macs...

The Hype Machine | Audio Blog Aggregator
http://hype.non-standard.net/

What's this?
The Hype Machine keeps track of new songs posted on the best blogs
about music. Easily listen, discover and buy songs that everyone is
talking about! Learn more
http://hype.non-standard.net/about.php

What's on this page?
This page lists all of the latest tracks posted to the MP3 blogs we
regularly check. You can browse as far back as April 2005, and
preview a few of the recently posted tracks.

IMPORTANT
Song listings that appear on this website are automatically gathered
from music blogs all over the internet.

We do this to let people discover new artists, fall in love, buy
their CDs and go to their shows.

If you are an artist (or represent an artist) and are concerned about
tracks appearing in our listings, you can find more information here
and are welcome to contact us directly.
http://hype.non-standard.net/about#copyright
http://hype.non-standard.net/contact

http://www.side-line.com/index_uk.php

http://www.pandora.com/

Ever since we started the Music Genome Project, our friends would ask:
Can you help me discover more music that I'll like?
http://www.pandora.com/mgp.shtml

Those questions often evolved into great conversations. Each friend told us their favorite artists and songs, explored the music we suggested, gave us feedback, and we in turn made new suggestions. Everybody started joking that we were now their personal DJs.

We created Pandora so that we can have that same kind of conversation with you.

http://www.nventa.net
French creative music studio

Have some nice audio for download... enjoy