San Francisco - GarageBand.com, an online music community and digital music store, announced that it will shutter on July 15 after more than ten years in operation, TechCrunch reported. The company spawned social music discovery service iLike -- which was acquired by MySpace -- and said that users' music and profile data from GarageBand can be ported to iLike.read more

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Mountain View, Calif. - Google (NASD: GOOG) announced on Wednesday the launch of a new music-focused search feature, "OneBox," which adds streaming songs via Lala and MySpace's (NYSE: NWS) iLike, along with links to an artist's website. Along with Lala and iLike, Google will also include links to digital music services Pandora, imeem and Rhapsody (NASD: RNWK). The feature will in many cases allow users to listen to the full song they are searching for right there from the search results page; licensing issues mean that some songs will only feature 30-second samples, and that subsequent searches after a song is streamed in full once will only provide a 30-second sample.read more

DMW Vlog: In anticipation of the secretive Oct. 28 event hosted by Google (probably), LaLa, iLike and others at Capitol Studios in LA to DISCOVER MUSIC!, here's a exclusive short video interview DMW's Jay Baage did a few weeks ago with Ali Partovi, CEO & Co-Founder, iLike, at Digital Music Forum West. In it, Partovi talks about a new golden era for music, what iLike will bring to MySpace, which recently acquired the company, and where he sees iLike and MySpace going from here (new verticals etc). read more

San Francisco - Google (NASD: GOOG) is gearing up to launch a new music-related search service, likely called One Box, according to published reports. CNET News.com reports that One Box will organize music-related search query results, to include artist bios, videos and song samples from partners Lala and MySpace-owned iLike -- which have licensing deals with the major labels.read more