For some time rumors have swirled around Facebook either making their own music service or partnering up with someone else. Come September 22nd at the social networking giant’s F8 conference, the truth may finally be set free. But unlike past rumors, the actual announcement may prove quite surprising… CNBC is now reporting that Facebook will in fact announce a new streaming service at the F8 conference later this month. But instead of launching their own...

Users of Last.fm in the U.S. UK, and Germany will have some hard choices to make in the near future. Popular music streaming service and Pandora competitor, Last.fm, has announced that the aforementioned countries will now have to pay extra for mobile access and Last.fm usage on desktop/laptop devices. While the move to a pay-to-play scenario has already been enacted in many other places of the world under Last.fm’s reach, the U.S., UK, and Germany remained free of...

It appears that popular online streaming music service, Pandora, is getting cold feet in regards to making the move to Windows Phone 7. The tweet before you was pushed out several days back, and highlights the Pandroa team’s apparent lack of Windows Phone 7 plans. What’s particularly odd about this is that they were specifically announced as a WP7 launch partner. Of course, there was that whole little issue with Microsoft slapping an Angry Birds icon on their...

In what is another example of major music label’s massive mishandling of their own industry, Billboard has revealed some information tonight that is rather depressing — Spotify’s US ventures “are back to square one”. The cause is as many would guess, money. Specifically, the inability of the labels to agree to a reasonable dollar amount to charge Spotify as well as apprehension with the freemium model Spotify has perfected over seas. Years of...

Oh geeze, another one of those music industry posts. Just stay with me for a minute. It’s actually quite important. Do you use any streaming services such as Last.fm, Pandora, and for those lucky humans outside of the US, Spotify? If so, you may want to get ready for a much thinner library of music to pull from. Warner music has announced that they see this “free” streaming business as detrimental to the music industry their business model and as...