Hoping to boost revenue, MySpace Music has begun experimenting with audio advertisements that users must hear if they want to listen to music for free online.

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Continuing their "Exclusive First Listen" series, NPR Music (boasting a fancy new site design) is streaming The Golden Archipeligo , the new album from Austin's Shearwater . According to the news outlet, guitarist Jonathan Meiburg (also a member of Okkervil River ) "assembled an elaborate and appropriately oblique 75-page "dossier" to go with deluxe editions of the record. Filled with maps ...

ALBANY -- Albany Broadcasting says it will get rid of its daily news talk radio program on WROW and replace it with its music format currently broadcasting under Magic FM.

Hoping to boost revenue, MySpace Music has begun experimenting with audio advertisements that users must hear before listening to music for free online.