New York - Digital music retailer AmieStreet.com said on Tuesday rock band the Walkmen have made their new album available for download exclusively on its site for $5 as part of AmieStreet's Download To Make A Difference campaign benefitting the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. The band's latest effort "You & Me" will be available only on AmieStreet for the next three weeks.

San Diego - RoyaltyShare, a service that provides labels and musicians with distribution of their tracks to a range of digital music services, announced that it has signed new deals to expand its offering to include Amie Street, Hot Topic's ShockHound, PassAlong Networks, Puretracks and Spiral Frog. RoyaltyShare also provides labels automatic calculation of royalties owed to all parties on each song.

New York - AmieStreet.com, an online music retailer that offers variable song pricing, announced on Tuesday that top independent labels Beggars Group, Matador Records and Polyvinyl Recording have signed on to use its service. The Amazon.com-backed company offers "fan-driven" pricing, where songs are initially free and then rise in price based on popularity, up to 98 cents. With the new deals, AmieStreet.com will now offer songs from artists including Cat Power, Sigur Ros, Pavement, Yo La Tengo and Interpol.

Tokyo - Turbolinux, a distributor of Linux-based software, said this week that its Japanese unit has partnered with digital music distributor Amie Street to launch a music download service in Japan for independent music, Billboard reported. New York-based Amie Street, where user demand is used to determine song pricing, will also take an undisclosed stake in the new Tokyo-based venture, to be called Amie Street Japan.