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USA's incumbent President Barack Obama has compiled a cool 28-track Spotify playlist to soundtrack his up coming election campaign.The official mixtape, which you can check out here , features songs from the likes of Bruce Springsteen , Aretha Franklin , Florence and the Machine , No Doubt , U2 , [...]

Ich kann sie nicht mehr hören, die Klagen von Musikern und Labelvertretern, dass Spotify und dessen Mitbewerber ihnen zu wenig Geld bezahlen würden. Eine Richtigstellung. Gewiss, 0.007 Euro pro Stream (je nach Quelle ist es etwas mehr oder etwas weniger, offizielle Zahlen gibt es nicht) klingt nicht gerade nach viel. Die Zahl alleine sagt aber wenig aus, wenn man den Kontext ausblendet. Es ist an der Zeit, mal ein paar Fakten festzuhalten. 1. Jeder Rechteinhaber entscheidet selber, ob seine Musik bei Spotify und anderen Streamingdiensten verfügbar ist. Wer [...]

Tweet "Django Django" is an album of two halfs. The opening seven tracks are a mad art-pop romp, absolutely living up to the hype that surrounded Django Django on the release of their debut single "Storm/Love's Dart" back in 2009. Come the last six tracks, though, Django Django seem to be completely out of ideas, reviving their first single and rehashing the same sounds with far less enthusiasm and imagination. [...]

This interview by Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm with Spotify CEO Daniel Ek originally appeared on GRAMMY.com . Ek is keynoting the GRAMMY Foundation's Entertainment Law Initiative Luncheon & Scholarship Presentation today. For more information on the GRAMMY Foundation, visit vwww.grammyfoundation.org . The 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards airs live on Sunday, Feb. 12 on CBS. Evolver.fm: Can you give us a preview of what you intend to discuss today at the luncheon? [...]

The POTUS has put together a 28-track Spotify playlist to get the drawlz as part of his re-election campaign. Selections from James Taylor, Darius Rucker, Wilco, Ricky Martin (??), Raphael Saadiq and more are on here. If you've got Spotify, you can check the playlist out by clicking here . What songs do you think were on Herman Cain's Spotify playlist? Previously in Obama Doing Things, Obama sings Al Green . TRACKLIST: 01 No Doubt – "Different People" 02 Earth Wind & [...]

Todavía quedan unos meses hasta que llegue el día de las elecciones presidenciales de Estados Unidos (el 12 de noviembre), pero Obama y su equipo ya se han puesto las pilas para volver a estar en el poder cuatro años más. Así, teniendo en cuenta la viralidad y el éxito de su campaña de 2008, se le está dando una gran importancia a la comunicación a través de las plataformas sociales. La última estrategia ha sido publicar una lista Spotify con las 28 canciones elegidas por Obama para poner música al proceso en estos meses. [...]

Tal y como lo hizo hace 4 años, cuando competía por la presidencia de los Estados Unidos, el presidente Barack Obama acaba de publicar un playlist con sus canciones favoritas del momento. La gran diferencia en esta ocasión, aparte de que esta vez está tratando de ser reelegido, es que el playlist se puede escuchar integro en su página de Facebook usando Spotify. El playlist que se armó Obama tiene de todo y para todos. Pasa por No Doubt, Florence and the Machine, Wilco, Arcade Fire y Noah and the Whale, hasta Bruce Springsteen, Aretha [...]

With due respect to Saint Valentine, the upcoming lovey-dovey holiday gave us an excuse to do what we should've done by now anyway - compile the TOP 100 EMO ANTHEMS OF ALL TIME. Over the last three... Support indie media! Read the rest at thephoenix.com . . .

Kid Amnesiac Edition A while back, I did a little write-up for my version of Kid Amnesiac . For those unfamiliar, the name explains it all: Kid Amnesiac albums are combined versions of both Radiohead 's Kid A and Amnesiac . Since both LPs were products of the same recording session and were released only eight months apart from each other, Kid Amnesiac mixes serve as a way to take two great albums, trim away some of the lesser strong [...]

"I made you this new mixtape playlist for your car." Consequence of Sound has partnered with Spotify for a weekly playlist series featuring artists and their own playlists. We're kicking off this series with Kevin Barnes, lead singer of the prolific avant-pop band of Montreal. Barnes has led of Montreal through a variety musical pastures over the band's prolific career, from acid-folk to pure soul-funk and every pop genre in between. This playlist created by Barnes paints a backdrop for their latest album, the expansive and daring Paralytic Stalks, and showcases some of Barnes favorite tunes at [...]

Look, we're a bit tired, we've foolishly agreed to cook Sunday lunch today, and we still have to trudge down the shops to buy a big slab of meat to cook for it. With much of the UK currently under 2 inches of snow, can you blame us for going with an obvious topic this Sunday? That's why we've gone for the bleedingly obvious choice of a Winter-themed Sunday Slaylist. And yes, it's got Immortal on it. WE TOLD YOU WE WERE BEING OBVIOUS. [...]

Hace varias semanas estuvimos anunciando que Coldplay había decidido incluir su último disco de estudio, Mylo Xyloto , en Spotify. Aunque teníamos la confirmación por parte del representante de la banda, no sabíamos a partir de qué fecha podría escucharse el álbum en este servicio de streaming. La respuesta ha venido de la mano del mes de febrero porque a partir de hoy mismo ya está disponible para todos los usuarios. Como era de esperar, y más teniendo en cuenta el revuelo mediático que ocasionó en su [...]

Spotify and other streaming services were the talk of the Midem conference which just wrapped up in Cannes. During the gathering, U2 manager Paul McGuiness labeled Spotify as nothing more than a "promotional medium" , while Sony's Denis Kooker claimed that streaming services "do not cannibalize sales". 2011 saw Spotify's reach widen and it subscriber base increase considerably, but how does this affect independent artists? THE REAL STATS Tunecore's new simplified dashboard makes comparing your different revenue streams an easy [...]

Last month I asked if you guys would be interested in a monthly Ninebullets Spotify playlist. You seemed pretty responsive to the idea so here is the first one. This playlist features every band that was featured on ninebullets in the month of January that was also on Spotify. I hope you enjoy it and if you do, pass it along to some friends. Like I keep saying, every new pair of ears these bands reach is a potential fan/head at show. This month's playlist features: Lauderdale, Ryan Adams, Jason Isbell, The Far West, Will Hoge, [...]

Folksy Edition This week's Hump Day Power Play draws inspiration from the gentle picks of the banjo, the soft puffs of the harmonica, the crunchy strums of the guitar, and the campfire howls that make up the indie folk genre. I really have a hard time classifying this style of music, and I feel that "folksy" is a misnomer. If anyone has a better name to describe this playlist, I'm open for suggestions. However, improperly named or not, it shouldn't hold you back from enjoying this week's playlist. Enjoy, and [...]

Filed under: News Glassnote I'm a huge fan of Spotify and tend to be outspoken when technophobes in the music industry make things difficult for companies helping to develop solutions for the broken system. Remember Lars Ulrich 's anti-Napster commercials? He's since learned a thing or two about the web, yet somehow Coldplay still choose money over access . Isn't it a bit ironic that Daughtry was the first [...]

Nytt år och dags att ändra upplägget på den här grejen en aning. Framförallt för att jag mest lyssnar på svensk musik och alltid har svårt att hitta tillräckligt bra utländska album. Jag struntar i att lista svenskt/utländskt och ta ett visst antal varje månad. Det som är intressant kommer med helt enkelt. Upplägget på spellistorna är dock oförändrat. Här har ni januari:s spellista . Bra album: You Say France, I Whistle – Angry Men Framförallt är låten Prom Queens precis min kopp te, en av [...]

Spotify arrived in the U.S. with lots of promise. After overtaking Europe the streaming music was hyped as the next ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/news/ spotify-needs-more-money-gets- slammed-by-u2s-manag/61173/

Spotify arrived in the U.S. with lots of promise. After overtaking Europe the streaming music was hyped as the next ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/news/ spotify-needs-more-money-gets- slammed-by-u2s-manag/61172/

Well, this week Sonisphere finally broke their silence and announced some of the bands that will be playing their Spanish and Finnish festivals this year. As yet there's still no names for Knebworth, and as Metal Hammer noted , some of the names that are playing in Madrid and Helsinki are playing Download in the UK, and therefore seem highly unlikely to make the UK edition of Sonisphere. But it got us thinking - what bands could be playing at Knebworth this year? Now if [...]