If you just can’t get enough of early Depeche Mode, you’ll be happy to know that Vince Clarke & Martin Gore are working on a techno-ish track called Zaat.

[via Vince Clarke]

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Sony is reported to be readying a launch announcement for a new music and video service set to take on the might of Apple’s iTunes.

Sony is set to make the announcement at this year’s IFA event in Berlin, according to ‘sources in the media industry’ cited by The Financial Times this week.

PS3 and PSP to lead

The Financial Times claims that the new service from Sony will use the PlayStation 3 and PSP consoles as a launch point.

Other Sony devices including Vaio PCs, Bravia TVs, Walkman media players and Sony Ericsson mobile phones are also in the roadmap for the service, according to the FT’s sources.

Sony’s $260m acquisition of music-identifying service Gracenote back in 2008 is said to play a significant role in the new service.

The service is expected to be launched at some point in 2011.

Apple is set to make a slew of new product announcements at its own music-themed press conference in California later this evening.

[via techradar.com]

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London Music Show 2010 is coming soon! From 8-10 October, ExCel London will be transformed into a world buzzing with music and creativity. There will be interactive lessons from famous musicians, invaluable advice on how to make it in the music industry and unmissable performances from exciting star guests.

Highlights include Joe Bonamassa‘s exclusive blues masterclass, Newton Faulkner’s group percussion lesson at the Guitar Zone, Fender giving away a guitar every hour (!) of the duration of the three day show, superstar DJ John 00 Fleming’s exclusive appearance in theSound and Recording Technology Zone plus in the Rhythm Live drum area, appearances from Ian Matthews (Kasabian), Dave Mackintosh (Dragonforce), Karl Brazil (Feeder/Robbie Williams) plus star duo Steve White and Craig Blundell.

For all the aspiring rock stars among you, there’s still time to enter Guitarist magazine’s Guitarist Of The Year competition (enter here). The final for this and Rhythm’s Drummer of the Year competition (read all about it here) with be held at London Music Show on Sunday 10 October.

Tickets are on sale now – visit www.londonmusicshow.com to book tickets or click here for the chance to win a pair of weekend passes – the competition closes on 08/08/10 so get clicking sharpish!

However London Music Show is all about you, your interests and what you want to experience – which is why we’ve set up this survey*. Click here to enter, let us know what you think and you could win £200 of Amazon vouchers!

Click here to take the survey – and good luck!

*Survey open to UK residents of 16 years and over. Terms & Conditions apply to the prize draw. Click here for more info.

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Digital music distributor TuneCore has made several improvements to their service that will enable artists’ music to go live more quickly at digital retail, be categorized more accurately and show up in more searches.  Artists can now do bulk uploads, allowing them to upload up to 20 songs at once and have their music delivered faster to stores and fans.

read more on hypebot.com

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Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour and Roger Waters just can’t keep away from each other, no matter how much they try. After years of discord, the duo, who played a short set together last weekend at a benefit for the Hoping Foundation in Oxfordshire, England, plan to reunite once again, performing Comfortably Numb at a to-be-determined stop on Waters’ upcoming tour celebrating the 30th anniversary of The Wall.

Posting the news on Facebook, Waters describes how he initially received an e-mail from Gilmour, who had performed for the Hoping Foundation in 2009, proposing that the two do a version of The Teddy Bears’ classic To Know Him Is To Love Him for the gig just past.

read more on musicradar.com

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Pandora and Facebook will be deeply integrated according to an announcement at the F8 Developer Conference today.  using Facebook’s new Open Graph protocol, Pandora  will stream music directly onto the social networker from bands that fans have “liked” using Facebook buttons placed on other web sites. Users can also see what kind of music their friends are “liking” as well.

read more on hypebot.com

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