THE much-vaunted internet music revolution has been embraced by Blackburn band Nilstar.

The media has been filled with speculation that internet music could sound the death-knell for record shops following record giant EMI's move this week towards internet music supply. The key term in internet music at present is MP3 - a new format which allows tracks to be downloaded on to home PCs with CD sound quality.

Nilstar, formerly Russian For Money, have signed up with mp3.com - one of the web's most popular sites. Two of their songs - new release Hold On and former single Wormhole - can be heard from the web page or downloaded for free. Hold On was engineered and produced by Baz, the house band drummer for the first series of The Mrs Merton Show.

Wormhole was released when the band were still called Russian For Money and sold about 1,000 copies in the UK, Europe and Japan.

To find out more about MP3, including how to download the software necessary to play songs, read the Evening Telegraph's Web World column at thisislancashire.co.uk

Nilstar play the Cellar Bar, Blackburn tonight.

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