Glimpse at area entertainment and a free MP3 download
Welcome to the Mountain Empire, the buckle of the bluegrass belt. That’s essentially the message behind Ralph Stanley’s 43rd Annual Memorial Weekend Bluegrass Festival.

Glimpse at area entertainment and a free MP3 download from Dolly Parton
Posted: Thursday, May 9, 2013 9:45 am | Updated: 2:07 pm, Thu May 9, 2013. Youth and bluegrass amounted to an anomaly in years past. Not anymore. Just look around. Or attend The Second Annual Crooked Road Youth Music Festival at Heartwood on May 11 in Abingdon.

Short Takes: Glimpse at area entertainment and a free MP3 download from The Presidents of the United States of America
Posted: Thursday, April 25, 2013 9:45 am | Updated: 2:15 pm, Thu Apr 25, 2013. Southern gothic aspects swirl about the music of Driftin’ Westward like angels wayward in the night.

Spotify rushes to fix download flaw
Music streaming site Spotify has been forced to fix a loophole that allowed users free downloads of MP3 song files.

Glimpse at area entertainment and a free MP3 download from Lukas Nelson
Had the Sex Pistols worked with Lester Flatt and conjured Irish accents and ways, they’d have sounded something like Cutthroat Shamrock. Wild and wooly practitioners of green beer-infused Appalachian punk rock, Cutthroat Shamrock has long since carved a strong following in the Tri-Cities.

Spotify Web Player Vulnerability Allowed For DRM-Free MP3 Downloads
The Spotify web player was recently exploited, and the vulnerability allowed users to illegally download DRM-free copies of MP3′s. A Google Chrome extension by the name of Downloadify used the discovered exploit to download MP3 files that were free of copyright software that would restrict their ability to play. After noticing the exploit the team [...] Spotify Web Player Vulnerability Allowed ...

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Free music downloads from Chch City Libraries
Christchurch City Libraries adds another flagship service to its impressive range of Digital Libraries resources today (Wednesday 1 May) - Freegal Music, enabling library members to download and keep up to three songs a week from Sony Music’s catalogue. Coinciding with the celebration of New Zealand Music Month - and its free performances found in libraries across Christchurch throughout May ...

Spotify flaw allows songs to be downloaded for free
Encryption flaw allows users to download Spotify tracks as MP3 files

Updated: Downloadify patched: Chrome plug-in can no longer download Spotify tracks
Update : Spotify has patched the hole in its Web Player that was allowing the Downloadify plug-in to download songs from the streaming service. The Chrome extension is no longer able to connect to Spotify, with a more secure protocol now in place to stop it being able to access songs that have been stored locally (in offline playlists). Original story continues: A duplicitous Chrome plug-in ...