The Tied are an up and coming band from Kent in the UK. They have been gigging a lot and have even found some success in a battle of the bands contest recently. The Tied has joined RouteNote and their music is available via RouteNote Direct.
This morning I came across a great DJ who I thought I would share. DJ Benzi is based in the USA and he produces some cool remixes of more popular tracks. Here is 2 of his best.
Check out his official site.
Kevin Rudolf x Lil Wayne “I Made It (Benzi & Willy Joy Remix)” by benzi
Young Money “Bedrock (DJ Benzi Valentine’s Day Remix)” by benzi
Aerosmith have announced dates of a North American tour this year starting this month (June) after a tasty warm-up at Donnington Park Download festival in the UK.
After rumours that Steve was leaving the band and the remaining members were in fact holding auditions for a new signer, Aerosmith haven’t seemed this healthy and busy with dates for a while.
Date for the tour are as follows:
July
Oakland, CA Oracle Arena (23)
Paso Robles, CA State Fair (26)
Irvine, CA Verizon Wireless Amphitheater (29)
Las Vegas, NV MGM Grand Garden Arena (31)
August
Dallas, TX Superpages.com Amphitheatre (3)
Woodlands, TX Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion (5)
Tampa, FL Ford Amphitheatre (7)
Fort Lauderdale, FL BankAtlantic Center (9)
Wantagh, NY Nikon at Jones Beach Theater (12)
Boston, MA Fenway Park (14)
Toronto, ON Air Canada Centre (17)
Omaha, NE Qwest Center (19)
Tinley Park, IL First Midwest Bank Amphitheater (22)
Holmdel, NJ PNC Bank Arts Center (24)
Syracuse, NY NY State Fair (26)
Atlantic City, NJ Boardwalk Hall (28)
Detroit, MI The Palace at Auburn Hills (31)
September
Cincinnati, OH Riverbend Music Center (2)
Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun Arena (4)
Trent Reznor who has put togehter his new band with his wife Mariqueen Maandig, will release a free six track EP on June 1st. The EP will be made available via the band’s website, HowToDestroyAngels.com.
There will also be an HD version of the EP, which is available for download; the ‘hi-def’ release will include a music video for “The Space In Between,” with a price of $2.
If you pre-order now, they’ll send you one track, “The Believers,” immediately. You’ll then be automatically emailed on June 1st as soon as the full EP download is ready.
The EP is set for a CD release on July 6. Vinyl edition to follow.
How To Destroy Angels track listing:
Interpol has released a new track for free download. The track is called Lights which will be on their upcoming fourth album.
Sia is an Australian electronic pop singer who rose to fame with Zero 7 before embarking on a successful solo career, is no stranger to being remixed.
Sia has released ‘Clap Your Hands’ which is a free single from her upcoming studio album.
Sia – Clap Your Hands (Diplo Remix) by routenote
p.s. On the right hand side of the music player there is a down arrow. If you click on that you can download the original music file for FREE!
We’re big fans of Fink, one of Ninja Tune’s artists – if you are too, then you’ll be interested to see that he’s got a free, previously unreleased download of a B-side track that didn’t make it onto ‘Sort Of Revolution’ up on his site at the moment. You will need to swap him your email for it though…
Hypebot have revealed in a blog post that We7 are set to launch a paid-for premium plus service, over and above their £3.99 ad-free service, that will compete more directly with services like Spotify and Napster. No more information has yet been released either on Hypebot or on We7′s own site, so the rumour that the service will launch on the 1st of Feb may be overstated. We’ll keep an eye out.
Tunespro is a new music download store that I just came across and its seems to be to good to be true. A few years ago there was a music download store called Allofmp3.com which operated out of Russia and offered top music from the major labels at hugely discounted rates. Of course Allofmp3 was not backed by the major labels and was soon sued and taken down. Tunespro seems to be the next Allofmp3.
Tunespro has a great design and has some of the newest tracks from all of the biggest artists worldwide. However, Im sure that the major labels would like to hear that their music is being sold at only $0.19 per single and $2.99 per album. Compare that to iTunes who sell their tracks at approximately $0.99 per single and $9.99 per album.
Looking at Tunespro there is completely no information about the company running the service and the only way to get in touch is via their very basic contact form. Its shouting illegal!
Napster, the pioneer of digital music, today announced subscribers can now access their account at m.napster.com from most web-enabled phones, regardless of carrier. Subscribers can now browse, search, preview and use account credits to download tracks “over the air” from Napster’s library of more than nine million songs.
Napster customers currently receive five MP3s and unlimited listening on the PC for $5 per month. Beginning today, they can redeem credits and download tracks “over the air,” as well as receive a back-up MP3 copy for their PC – at no additional cost. Consumers can also create a new account or add credits to an existing account directly from their phone using a Napster prepaid card.
“Napster subscribers can now discover and download music at anytime on more phones from just about any carrier,” said Brad Duea, Napster president. “This is one of the strongest steps we’ve made to date toward our goal of making Napster and music accessible anytime, anywhere.”
To promote the debut of m.napster.com, and celebrate September as “Music Month,” Best Buy will offer $15 worth of Napster music (15 songs to keep and three months of unlimited listening on the PC) at no charge with the purchase of any contract mobile phone.
“Mobile phones are becoming the focal point for how people connect with their world, and music is a big piece of that,” said Jude Buckley, chief marketing and merchant officer for Best Buy Mobile. “Our customers want to be able to download and listen to music no matter where they are, and now Napster makes it accessible and simple to get music on any type of mobile phone.”
Today’s debut of m.napster.com is the first of many initiatives coming from Napster in the near future that exemplify the company’s strategy of making music instantly available from everywhere one might be.
