Spotify announced today a large group of indie record labels can put releases behind a two week paywall:
Continuing a successful nine-year partnership, the agreement is structured to reflect and promote the value of Merlin’s collective offering of its members’ repertoire, while offering improved marketing and advertising opportunities and enhanced access to data. Merlin member labels can also participate in Spotify’s recently announced flexible release policy.
Cayetana’s new song, “Bus Ticket,” can be streamed below.
The bands that will be playing full album sets at Riot Fest this year can be found below. Two more will be announced in the near future.
Portugal. The Man will be releasing a custom cannabis blend called “Feel it Still.” The full press-release can be found below.
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Ashlee Kieler, writing at Consumerist:
Nostalgia lovers who missed out on scoring one of Nintendo’s mini-Classic console systems before the company discontinued the product last week, could have another chance to walk down memory lane: The gaming company is reportedly planning to follow up on that system’s popularity with a miniature Super Nintendo version. Though, if the report is true, you’ll have to wait until the holidays.
I’d buy one. I still don’t understand why Nintendo discontinued the mini-NES though.
In the year after Prince’s death on April 21, 2016, the Purple One’s catalog of albums and songs have sold a combined 7.7 million copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen Music, through the week ending April 13. Of that sum, 2.3 million were in traditional album sales, and 5.4 million were from digital song downloads.
The bulk of his album and songs sales occurred in the month after his death: 5.65 million were registered between April 21 and May 19, 2016.
Incredibly, for the full year of 2016, Prince sold more albums than any other artist — even Adele — with 2.23 million copies sold. (Adele sold 2.21 million albums last year.)
Eighteen Visions will release their new album, XVIII, on June 2nd via Rise Records. They’ve released a new video today for the first single, “Oath.”
Pitchfork will be broadcasting Explosions in the Sky’s concert on April 22nd live on their homepage.
Some new Phoenix music can be heard in a new Calvin Klein ad directed by Sofia Coppola.
Born Without Bones’ new song “Young” can be streamed below.
Fiona Apple’s debut album, Tidal, is getting its first ever vinyl release through the Vinyl Me Please subscription service:
In addition to this being one of the longest in planning Records of the Month ever—we started the ball rolling on this more than two years ago—this presented us with a challenge: the album’s master tapes had been sitting in the vault at Sony without a vinyl release, so we had to dust them off and have them remastered.
The War on Drugs have shared a teaser of new music on Facebook.
Sarah Perez, writing for TechCrunch:
The company announced today that its roughly half-priced version of its Premium service is now available to students who qualify in 33 new countries, in addition to the U.S., U.K., and Germany where student pricing is already offered.
The new countries where student pricing is now available includes: Austria, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Columbia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Latvia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Philippines, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, and Turkey.
Ten Foot Pole will release their new album, Setlist, on May 26th. It’s the band’s first album in over a decade and it’ll contain new recordings of 11 previously released songs and two new tracks.
“The Getaway” was one of my most played songs as one of the youths.