Nokia is taking on Apple’s Itunes store with their own free music package. The company has recently released their new touch screen phone that will compete with Apple called 5800 Express Music. Apparently for the cost of the phone and a one year contract, you get all the music in the world for free on your phone. Read the article here for more details.

Metallica have posted their second newest track titled “My Apocalypse” right here. The new singles are available for purchase off of Itunes or you can wait to buy the new album “Death Magnetic” on September 12th.

Runner Runner, the band that features members of Over It, have posted their new ep on Itunes. Get 5 songs for $4.95. Click here to get their Itunes page.

You can buy the new Finch ep on Itunes right now. Go get it!

Apparently games like Rock Band and Guitar Hero are selling more singles than the other digital retailers like Itunes. Motley Crue released their new single to Rock Band (Xbox 360 version) and was downloaded over 47,000 times. By comparison, the same single was downloaded 10,000 times on Itunes and Amazon (among others).

At $1.99 a pop for the song on Rock Band, these labels are making bank!

[punknews.org]

Motion City Soundtrack will release an Itunes exclusive ep of all acoustic songs on May 6th. Mark your calendars! [absolutepunk.net]

I’ve been mulling over this for a bit now and would be interested to hear your thoughts on whether you would pay an extra $100 for you iPod or iPhone if you were guarenteed unlimited downloads for the life of the device?  The article here from the financial times talks about the deal that Apple is apparently trying to work out with the record companies.  I wonder if what Josh just posted changes things though…because that would make the life of the iPod quite a bit longer and the capacity enormously larger.