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Ever since the likes of Michel Gondry went from directing music videos to directing feature films, we've seen an increasing number of innovative music videos. 

My favorite site to keep up on the best new releases is videos.antville.org. Directors often embed their own videos to the site to receive feedback from the often-vocal commenters. 

It's time again for the best industry festival in the country. The South by Southwest Music, Film and Interactive Festival is held in Austin, Texas from March 13 to 22. The Music festival begins on the 18th.

This blog was contributed by Adam Brawerman, Zoom In Online's music channel assistant.

Today NME.com ran a story about Spotify, a new and legal online music service that, they say, "offers users unlimited music for free." Sounds too good to be true, right? Apparently not. Everyone I know who's tried it says it's every bit as wonderful as you can imagine.

Spotify is made to look like iTunes, but you can stream full length songs for free rather than pay to download them. 

This blog was submitted by Adam Brawerman, Zoom In Online's Music Channel assistant. 

This blog was contributed by Adam Brawerman, Zoom In Online's newest Music Channel assistant. 

THESE QUESTIONS GO TO ELEVEN is a new ZIO blog series. Each week the same 11 questions are answered by a different musician via email. Check out Zoom In Music every Wednesday for a new installment or subscribe here for the RSS feed.

Today marks the very first time that Americans who've never heard of bit torrent will hear Glasvegas' debut album. Loved by critics and fans alike, the self-titled album will probably receive the same acclaim over here. (mostly because it already has)

The ever-elusive British dubstep producer Burial has tackled the fifth DJ Kicks compilation.

From Billboard News:
 
Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton was found dead this morning (Jan. 6) at his home in Ann Arbor, Mich., according to local police. He was 60.
 
Ann Arbor Detective Bill Stanford tells Billboard.com that police were called to Asheton's house early this morning by Dara Hytinen, his personal assistant, who had not been able to reach him for several days.