A young artist from Winnipeg, Canada, Jamie Rumley mixes folksy acoustic songwriting with more pop-rock elements. Think Tracy Chapman, Alanis Morrisette or Indigo Girls. She has a great and widely appreciated EP on Jamendo, “Renovations”, as well as a recently uploaded acoustic single, “Fade Away”.

Check her out!

This week’s artist is a seasonal selection. The Bronx-based hip hop label Drop Zone has just uploaded a little album of Holiday songs. Quite unexpected from Mr. Tac aka “Chocolate” and his crew, but so fitting, a week away from Christmas!

We are proud to officially announce the signing of a partnership with Deezer.com, Europe’s number one free music streaming website. Deezer users will now be able to listen to some of the independent artists from Jamendo’s 200,000 track catalog of free music.

For Jamendo artists, it’s an additional way to gain exposure and be discovered by an increasingly diverse audience. For Deezer, this partnership extends its legal offer of free, quality music streaming.

Jamendo, always helping free music reach new places (and eventually take over the world)!

You certainly have noticed the little Twitter symbol that has recently appeared next to every Jamendo artist and album.

Have you tried clicking it? If you have a Twitter account, it will automatically post a little message to your profile saying you are a fan of this artist or album, along with a link so that your friends can go and check them out on Jamendo.

You know us, always striving to make promoting good artists easier… Now go ahead tweet away!

As you may already know, ccMixter is a community of musicians who make remixes in the spirit of and based on the legal backbone of Creative Commons. The management of the site and community was recently passed on from the Creative Commons organization to ArtisTech Media, a forward-looking music label that embraces open formats, based in San Diego.

We have seized this opportunity and teamed up with ArtisTech Media to better promote and remunerate  artists of the ccMixter community who use CC licenses to publish their music, just like artists on Jamendo.

The first result of this new partnership is the album “Peace of Winter“, a compilation of Holiday music remixed by a host of artists and curated by a pillar of the ccMixter community and member of the board of ArtistTech Media, Snowflake.

As you may know, Creative Commons, creator of the licenses under which is published all the music on Jamendo, is a non profit organization. Founded six years ago, it functions thanks to the generosity of its supporters.

Like every year, CC just launched last October its fall fundraising campaign. As a user of jamendo, you are also a user of Creative Commons: without CC, jamendo simply wouldn’t exist as it is. So if you want to manifest your support with a small financial contribution, just click here.

Thanks!

Here’s a little seasonal playlist we put together, just to put you in that Christmas mood. Enjoy!

Ok, it’s time for a little more talk about the Jamendo application for Facebook.
Did you know that in the “My Network” tab, you could see in real time what your Facebook/Jamendo friends are listening to? What better way to share hidden gems and discover new music…

To be listed in there, your friends need to have checked the “Make my musical discoveries visible for “My Network”” box in the settings section of their Jamendo application. Make sure you do the same, and keep the sharing rolling!

It is a quite belated 18th featured artist of the week we’re presenting you today. Sorry about that.

Anyway, the wait was worthwhile: ladies and gentlemen, here is Koriza, a band from St Petersburg, Russia, that will relentlessly kick out your jams. Call it emocore, math rock or post-hardcore, the bottom line is, these guitars shred and these screams are for real.

Keep young children away!