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After a successful beta phase Swiss-based Movielocker SA officially launches a new integrated HD enabled online video platform next Monday. Targeting a global generation of independent filmmakers and semi professionals as well as the niche interest with content segment the company offers a platform enabling hosting and streaming of HD content, a state of the art payment gateway and 2 step licensing. Movielocker, as the service will be called, joins an exclusive group of companies that is catering to a booming market where digital video clips are made available for sale directly by the producer.

Crafted with groovy, positive, energetic but also melow and meditative music, "The Best of African Music (One World - One Love edition) is definitely one of the best compilation to come out this year.

Results of the 15th Annual USA Songwriting Competition have been announced. Canadian singer-songwriter Alannah Myles and prolific Los Angeles songwriter Ken Hirsch won the top two positions of the 15th Annual USA Songwriting Competition. This also marks the first time that music industry veterans dominate the top two positions of the USA Songwriting Competition fifteen year history.

Mar Creation presents to us, for its 2nd year in a row, a lovely package of holiday sparkle with enough ribbons and bows to put a smile on any music lover's face. This year, the ladies take center stage with music from Japan, Brazil, and Finland – and all with that unique synthesis of genres that Mar is known for here and in Japan!

The architect of Progressive Fusion hits the mark with the release of his latest track "Touchdown," one of five tracks available on his latest album 'Triple Ripple'. "Touchdown" can be purchased digitally through various online retailers such as iTunes, Napster and is available in CD format through Amazon.

Songwriting team MarilynMusic has released another new single from their expanding collection. "Carry Me Home" features singer/songwriter Luther Russell who has had several successful solo records, and also previously formed and headed the band The Freewheelers. The track is available now on iTunes and shortly on Napster, Amazon, eMusic and other major online retailers.

Take an accomplished singer, a talented pianist, and experienced arranger, combine them, and you get the dynamic and dazzling artist known as Diane Marino.

Northern-Spy Records, Brooklyn’s fastest growing indie, is proud to announce the signing of Bird Names to their diverse roster of artists. Stately yet shadowed in the pop music underground, Bird Names has been chopping at their tree since 2005. They have three previous well-acclaimed releases inspired by imagination, ambiguous intuition, a light-hearted spirit of play, and the certainty of death. After a long stint holding it down in the Chicago experimental scene, Bird Names recently relocated to the breezy living of Athens, GA.

"Turn My Swag On" by Alexa Goddard entered the UK Top 40 singles chart at number 26 , the third Ditto artist to have a Top 40 hit in just three weeks.

Without having played a single live gig, working from her tiny apartment in Copenhagen, Kat Boelskov has earned a big crowd of fans from all around the world, deeply dedicated to her music. In less than a year, she has reached no.1 on the Reverbnation Alternative chart for Denmark, and has 4000+ fans on her facebook page alone.