Amie Street

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) has acquired Amie Street, an online music store specialized for indie music. Amazon plans to absorb the retail operations and shut down the service. Amazon.com was one of Amie Street’s investors as of four years ago. Amie Street’s offices will remain open in New York and will continue to run independently. The Amie Street team will focus on Songza, a company that Amie Street acquired last year. Amie Street grew in popularity when Ashley Alexandra Dupré, Eliot...Read Full Story

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) has acquired Amie Street, an online music store specialized for indie music. Amazon plans to absorb the retail operations and shut down the service. Amazon.com was one of Amie Street’s investors as of four years ago. Amie Street’s offices will remain open in New York and will continue to run independently. The Amie Street team will focus on Songza, a company that Amie Street acquired last year. Amie Street grew in popularity when Ashley Alexandra Dupré, Eliot...Read Full Story

Digital music site Amie Street has been bought by Amazon, but the founders of the user-fueled music service aren’t abandoning their efforts to bring social networking to music lovers. “We’ve been straddling two spaces for years now — streaming and download,” Amie Street co-founder Elias Roman told The Reg. “We’ve basically been splitting our attention. This is a fundamental change in focus from retail and streaming to just streaming.” Co-founder Josh Boltuch stressed to The Reg that customer...Read Full Story

Amazon has acquired music startup Amie Street, which the company actually helped fund. Unfortunately for Amie Street users, the service will be shut down. Amie Street has an interesting business model, which lets musicians upload music, which starts out free to users. The more downloads the songs get, the more the price goes up (up to a $1). Interesting as it may be, it apparently didn't work.  According to Michael Arrington, the Amie Street team will focus on Amazon's Songza, a custom...Read Full Story

Amazon.com Inc., seeking to expand its position in the music download market against rivals such as Apple Inc.'s iTunes Store, has purchased online music retailer Amie Street for an undisclosed amount.In an e-mail to users Wednesday, Amie Street acknowledged the sale and said Amazon first invested in the company nearly four years ago.Unlike online music stores like Amazon MP3 and the iTunes Store, the site has allowed users to buy songs that start free and become increasingly expensive as...Read Full Story

Mashable Amie Street, the online music community and store Amazon has invested in back in August 2007, has now been acquired by Amazon for an undisclosed amount. Starting with September 22 this year, all AmieStreet.com pages will be forwarded to Amazon.com.Users that have an Amie Street account should download all their purchased music by September 22, and spend their remaining balance by that date, as it will not be transferred to Amazon.Discussion: AllThingsD - MashableRead Full Story

This is probably a question that a lot of people are asking these days, what with the recession going on and lack of money in our pockets. So how do you get your hands on music from the internet that is legal to download? A great way to artist that you enjoy is to be a member of Last.FM, on the home page when you are logged in you’ll see down towards the bottom of the page a “Free Downloads” section, this will have a selection of free legal music downloads that your favourite artists have...Read Full Story

Welcome one and all to a new Wednesday feature, don’t worry the Wordless Wednesday is still around, it’s just a case of what to post on Wednesday and sometimes it will be the WW and sometimes it will be the new feature Amie St Music Wednesday. So what’s it all about? I’m an avid fan of some of the music on Amie St and their are a lot of tracks on there that are either free to download or cost hardly anything, I will be posting my fave pick of the week for you to check out. Ok say here’s this...Read Full Story

Thanks to those wonderful people over at Amie Street, you know who you are They have kindly updated our releases so that now they all fall under the same artist name. Previously our latest album Lux Lucis Quod Vis Somnium had to be listed separately due to us uploading it ourselves, but now you can find it listed with our other releases that were already listed on Amie Street, so this will certainly stop the confusion that people were having thinking that there were two artists with the same...Read Full Story

Yes you read that right we have just re-released the Last Train Home single over at Amie Street and it is currently free, but you better hurry up as it won’t be for much longer, but still, it’s going to be cheap either way and it is currently an exclusive at Amie Street, so hurry…. The release feature the original album version and three mixes, on eof which can be found below. Brought to you by: #ASMW Uber Tracker Post from: Remergence Electronica Duo Blog Please Support us and our sponsors...Read Full Story