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22/11/2023

💸 Spotify Announces Significant Changes in Royalty Payment Policies

Spotify has confirmed it will cease payments for songs with fewer than 1,000 annual streams starting in 2024. Additionally, the platform aims to tackle fraudulent streams and reduce payments for content considered "functional noise."

Spotify has identified that approximately 0.5% of tracks in its library, representing "tens of millions," have fewer than 1,000 annual streams. This generates around $3, below the minimum required by many distributors. The new policy will withhold these royalties until songs surpass 1,000 streams.

The company aims to penalise labels and distributors for artificial streams and short-form "functional noise" content. This includes publishing noise tracks like whale sounds with the intention of securing disproportionate payments. Spotify plans to increase the minimum length for generating royalties from 30 seconds to two minutes and devalue noise streams in collaboration with licensors. Specific details on penalties and criteria have not yet been disclosed by Spotify.

08/11/2023

🌍 King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard have just announced their extensive 2024 world tour. The journey kicks off in March with a series of performances at Lollapalooza in Argentina, Chile, and Brazil. From there, the band will head to Europe in the spring and tour North America in both late summer and fall. Grace Cummings is set to open for select dates.

🎸 Notably, four of the shows are billed as "marathon shows," featuring three-hour performances each night. These special sets will be held in Forest Hills, New York (August 17), Chicago, Illinois (September 1), Quincy, Washington (September 14), and Austin, Texas (November 15).

🗓️ The tour is in support of the band’s latest album, "The Silver Cord," which was released in October. This marks their second album of the year, following the intense thrash-metal record, "PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation." Stay tuned for updates and be sure to mark your calendars for a night of musical excellence.

16/10/2022

Brazilian rapper Djonga () presents another masterpiece, "O Dono do Lugar.

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16/10/2022

Kendrick

09/09/2022

🎧Good things that came out in August

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Live At Bonnaroo’22

Jippy & Dan O. - Fresh Tracks for Autodidacts

OC from NC - The List God Sent Us

Hiss Golden Messenger - Wise Eyes: Live at The Neptune, Seattle, WA, 2/25/22
50% of sales proceeds benefit the National Network of Abortion Funds.

Thanya Iyer - rest

05/09/2022

Is there any way to get it right on the first album? ✨

The californian band Thee Sacred Souls () proved that it is possible. The homonymous work features twelve impeccable tracks with a dip in the 60s and 70s.

The musicians present in their first record an elegant sound, where everything is well built, as if they had thought of everything. Strings, keys, percussion, backing vocals, all colliding with beautiful and charming lyrics.

A work to be heard over and over again.

31/08/2022

Starting our 'Find a Sound' series with Laura Mvula.

Born in Birmingham, England, Laura performs original and innovative sounds, mixing jazz, soul, R&B and more.

She has 3 albums, 'Sing to the Moon' (2013), 'The Dreaming Room' (2016) and 'Pink Noise' (2021).

Laura is a versatile singer, and her lyrical themes are important to society. His audiovisual works are beautiful and evoke art in every frame.

We have to keep an eye on your upcoming works.

31/08/2022

31/08/2022

Are Arctic Monkeys the only band that has reinvented itself in a certain way? 🐵

Among contemporary bands it seems that only Arctic Monkeys took a different path after the acclaimed AM. You see, recent work by Strokes, Kings of Leon, Interpol is solid, well-executed but not very groundbreaking.

The latest album by the Sheffield boys Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino featured a diversity of sounds throughout the entire oeuvre. There are many elements between percussions, strings and synthesizers, all colliding for a masterpiece. And it also had a very well developed lyric with criticism of society and an imaginary futuristic world on the moon.

In the next work, the album The Car, the band, as drummer Matt Helders said, starts from the point where it left off and we can already see that with There'd Better Be A Mirrorball, the beautiful clip released.

Here the many elements present in Tranquility Base are also heard. The fans liked it, some others wanted something like the first records, but then they are asking the band not to grow, not to innovate. And well, that's not in the band's plans.

For those who found the music a little stagnant, it is worth mentioning that every artist has their romantic ballads, and the band does not aim to make an entire album like this, as we have already seen with I Ain't Quite Where I Think I Am. In fact, re-listening to Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino with a time gap, today, it sounds like an even more psychedelic record.

Anyway, it's always good to remember, that what we say about Arctic Monkeys is what they are not.

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Are Arctic Monkeys the only band that has reinvented itself in a certain way? 🐵 Among contemporary bands it seems that only Arctic Monkeys took a different path after the acclaimed AM. You see, recent work by Strokes, Kings of Leon, Interpol is solid, well-executed but not very groundbreaking. The latest album by the Sheffield boys Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino featured a diversity of sounds throughout the entire oeuvre. There are many elements between percussions, strings and synthesizers, all colliding for a masterpiece. And it also had a very well developed lyric with criticism of society and an imaginary futuristic world on the moon. In the next work, the album The Car, the band, as drummer Matt Helders said, starts from the point where it left off and we can already see that with There'd Better Be A Mirrorball, the beautiful clip released. Here the many elements present in Tranquility Base are also heard. The fans liked it, some others wanted something like the first records, but then they are asking the band not to grow, not to innovate. And well, that's not in the band's plans. For those who found the music a little stagnant, it is worth mentioning that every artist has their romantic ballads, and the band does not aim to make an entire album like this, as we have already seen with I Ain't Quite Where I Think I Am. In fact, re-listening to Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino with a time gap, today, it sounds like an even more psychedelic record. Anyway, it's always good to remember, that what we say about Arctic Monkeys is what they are not. #arcticmonkeys #theredbetterbeamirrorball #thecar #indie #new