Deerfield Beach, Fla. - Myxer, a distributor of ad-supported mobile content, announced on Thursday a deal with digital music distributor The Orchard (NASD: ORCD) that will add over 1 million new ringtones to its mobile content library. Myxer will convert the tracks from The Orchard's catalog of independent label songs into premium ringtones, which will then be made available to Myxer's community of over 11 million users.

New York - The Orchard (NASD: ORCD), a digital distributor of independent label music, announced on Wednesday a partnership with digital music retailer AmieStreet.com, that will bring The Orchard's catalog of over 1.1 million songs to the Web store, where song pricing varies based on consumer demand.

New York - The Orchard (NASD: ORCD), a digital distributor of independent music and other media, announced on Friday that it is the winning bidder in a bankruptcy auction to purchase TVT Records, an independent music label founded in 1985.

Los Angeles - Microsoft (NASD: MSFT) recently doled out one-time bonus checks to independent digital music distributors including The Orchard (NASD: ORCD) and IODA, apparently to balance out the reported $1 per Zune sold it has granted to major labels including Universal Music Group, Hypebot reported. Both distributors plan to share the revenue with their label and artist partners.

New York - The Orchard (NASD: ORCD), a digital distributor of independent music and video, announced that it has signed a worldwide distribution and marketing deal with U.K. independent label Gut Records. The Gut repertoire includes albums and singles from artists such as Tears for Fears, Polyphonic Spree and Rights Said Fred.

New York - The Orchard (NASD: ORCD), a digital distributor of independent music and video, on Tuesday announced the launch of a toolset for artist and label clients. The Artist/Label Workstation includes features that offer control over catalogue and new release management, digital marketing reporting and analysis, accounting administration and royalty analysis. Separately, Gydget said that its viral fan widgets will be integrated into the new Orchard toolset. The company said that over 800 artists have begun using its widgets since launching nearly four months ago.

Cannes, France - The Orchard, a digital distributor of independent label music, on Wednesday partnered with Chinese mobile firm ZTE, to develop marketing programs and content bundles to bring Orchard content to ZTE partners, including China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom. ZTE delivered 30 million mobile handsets globally during 2007, is also adding applications such as music downloading and playing to its handset product range.

Cannes, France - Txttunes, a provider of wireless payment and artist-to-fan mobile services, announced on Monday that it has signed a deal to add the entire catalog of digital music distributor The Orchard to its offering. Txttunes lets consumers purchase songs on their computers, and have charges billed to their mobile phone accounts rather than a credit card. The service is currently available only in the U.S., but launches are planned in Canada, Australia and the U.K. in coming months.

New York - The Orchard, a digital distributor of independent music and video, said this week that it has signed a deal to distribute the catalog of Vee-Jay, a label that made early recordings of artists including Little Richard, Jimmy Reed, The Staple Singers and John Lee Hooker.

New York - The Orchard has completed its merger with Digital Music Group, Inc. (NASD: DMGI), a fellow provider of digital distribution services for music and video. Under terms of the all-stock transaction, shareholders of The Orchard will own about 60% of the combined company, which will be based out of New York, and continue to be led by Orchard president and CEO Greg Scholl.

New York - The Orchard, a digital distributor of independent music and video, announced that it has partnered with Sellaband, an online music platform where fans invest in unsigned artist, and get a share of profits from future advertising revenues and album sales. Under the deal, The Orchard will provide global digital distribution and marketing for each Sellaband artist that raises the $50,000 required by Sellaband to record a qualifying album. To date, Sellaband said that 11 artists from seven countries have raised $50,000 through "crowdsourcing" on the service, while $1.2 million has been invested in unsigned talent, and three albums have been released.

New York - The Orchard, a digital distributor of independent music, on Wednesday announced that it has signed new distribution deals with labels including Reader's Digest Music, MC Records and Gigantic Music. The additions include many jazz recordings from Reader's Digest Music, in addition to albums from O'Death, Devo and Bill Laswell's Ohm Resistance label.

New York - The Orchard, a digital distributor of independent label music and video, announced this week that it has signed an agreement to distribute the entire library of Boosey & Hawkes Production Music. The deal comprises a total of over 100,000 tracks, including the Cavendish, Sonoton and Abaco Music libraries, as well as theme songs from "SpongeBob SquarePants," "The Archers" and "Ski Sunday."

San Francisco - Groove Mobile, a provider of mobile music subscription services to wireless carriers, announced on Wednesday that it has partnered with digital music distributor The Orchard, to create a full-track, off-portal music download service. The companies will promote the service with a free download of hip-hop artist Aceyalone's track "Can't Hold Back," which will be available across multiple carriers to any user with a music-capable phone, simply by sending a text message.

Cupertino, Calif. - Confirming a report from yesterday, Apple on Wednesday announced that it has cut the price for DRM-free tracks at its iTunes Plus store from $1.29 to 99 cents, and expanded its catalog to include tracks from independent labels and distributors including Sub Pop, Beggars Group, IODA and The Orchard.

Sacramento, Calif. - Digital Music Group, Inc. (DMGI), an owner and digital distributor of independent music, TV and video catalogs, said on Thursday that it has scheduled a special stockholder meeting to vote on its proposed merger with fellow digital distributor The Orchard.

Berlin - The Orchard, a digital distributor of independent label music, said on Wednesday that it has licensed its music, video and ringtone catalog to U.K. wireless carrier 3 UK, for use across the company's unlimited, full-track mobile download service.

San Francisco - Ecast, a maker of digital jukeboxes found in bars and restaurants, announced on Thursday that it has partnered with independent digital music distributor The Orchard, to license tracks from The Orchard's catalog for play on its over 10,000 Internet-connected jukeboxes. San Francisco-based Ecast said that in addition to making The Orchard's tracks available on-demand, it will draw from The Orchard's catalog to program its Indie Expansion playlist.

New York - The Orchard, a digital distributor and marketer of independent music, announced on Wednesday that it has agreed to a reverse merger agreement with fellow digital music and video distributor Digital Music Group, Inc.

New York - The Orchard, a digital distributor of independent music, announced that it has launched a tool on its website that allows music supervisors to quickly browse and purchase rights to music from the company's catalog for commercial use. The Trackdown service will allow for search of independent artists' songs in The Orchard's catalog using technology from MusicIP, which has a database of over 29 million songs analyzed for acoustic and social relationships. The companies said they are also collaborating on a consumer version of the service with Web and music device access.