New and Noteworthy Additions to US Spotify

you didn't even know about it half an hour ago

true true. i've not given up on it.

(though that isn't really true. i saw the pfork review at ~1 am 'last night' and listened first thing this morning bc i like grouper.)

Dan Bodan - Soft

http://open.spotify.com/album/75hStVuzBkV8rRf7b2zqQ0

Riot on Sunset Strip! Haven't seen this one since the last time I looked for 60's punk albums. Working on a playlist of new stuff.

The new iPad version is out now, by the way.

can it speak horse?

No, but I think we've established that if you meet a friendly horse, you can communicate by Morse.

It has "your music", yayyy!

One thing I would like is multiple "folders" of albums. Like here's my folder of albums to check out, here's my folder of string quartets, here's my folder of minimal techno mixes, etc

Wish one could search for releases by label too, oh wish i had a river too

You can use playlists to make collections of albums. You can also use Playlist Folders to make multiple levels, but you have to create and manage them in the desktop client.

On the desktop client you can also type label:"Sarah Records" or whatever in the search box to find stuff from a given label.

right on. Yeah i know you can use playlists to make collections of albums but scrolling through them song-by-song is a pain.
did not know about Playlist folders or the label search, awesome

label: "Document" gets nothing?

oh, has it gotta be on the desktop version?

Yes, and no space between the colon and the quotation mark (but you only need quotes for multi-word label names).

label:Document

ah, thanks.
damn, i would pay for spotify if it were just the complete document quite frankly

well, if it were sortable.

goddamn if that isn't exciting the hell outta me tho'

heh, so of course i waited for it all to load and tried to create a playlist to futz with and spotify is not keen on creation of an 18,862 track playlist

spotify has lots of issues with big playlists, it's kind of annoying

A workaround I've used for huge playlists is to split the tracks into a few smaller playlists, then put those into a playlist folder. If you click on the playlist folder itself, it displays all the files and you can sort and search them together as though they were a single playlist.

That's also what I do except it backfired on me when I started to use Roku as my main spotify player as it doesn't allow you to play folders, only single playlists

the "issue" such as it is with the sorting hat is that i consistently find more music in a given two month period than I could comprehensively listen to in a year. I'm having to start back up to the back up playlists to hold stuff for the slow winter months.

that said:
Teyana Taylor - VII
Bauer - B
Tears or Fears - Songs from the Big Chair (Super Deluxe 59 track version of which most of the tracks are US unavailable)
Ski Beatz - 24 Horas Escuela de Karate
Emmylou Harris - The 70's Studio Album Collection (62 tracks!)
Excepter - Familiar
Beardyman - Distractions

plus new singles from Chvrches, Pink Floyd, Mary J, K Michelle, Elle Varner, Kacey Musgraves, Rick Ross, Culture Club, E-40, Sarkodie

And three new tracks from Wu Tang!

glenn! i just saw you in harper's magazine!!

Yeah, that was cool. I didn't think they picked the funniest genres, personally, but I suppose I'm by definition a bad judge of this.

Emmylou Harris - The 70's Studio Album Collection (62 tracks!)

^^nice long overdue for me to check out

wanted to check this out but the link isn't working atm:
Sali Sidibe · Musique traditionnelle du Mali

That Sali Sidibe album is available now. http://open.spotify.com/artist/0AnQPsEoPg66EB2NhKPTaf

Er, I mean: http://open.spotify.com/album/6hS8fpbZJdJtIhvpebzww5

danke!

past two weeks skim:

Far East Movement - KTown Riot
Mykki Blanco - Gay Dog Food
Kitty Wells - Heartbreak USA 1953 to 1962 (60 tracks!)
Antony and The Johnsons - Turning
Nick Jonas - s/t
Big Krit - Cadillactica
Pink Floyd - The Endless River
Royskopp - The Inevitable End
Federico Aubele - Gran Hotel Buenos Aires
Whitney Houston - Live
Gregory Isaacs - Love Songs: The Box Set (80 tracks!)
Future - Monster
Freddie Gibbs - Knicks Remix
Ariel Pink - pom pom
Willow - 3
Giorgio Moroder - 74 is the New 24
iamsu - Sincerely Yours 1.5
Otis Taylor - Collection
DJ Raff - Echoes

Singles from Kevin Gates, Ghostface, A$AP Ferg

lol at Howard Zinn being grouped under comedy/stand-up in the sorting hat.

this bey song really sounds like d'angelo, you guys. this is a timely topic of conversation.

i'm presuming you mean rocket? Yeah, pretty sure there was some discussion on that point somewhere in the middle of the beyonce thread.

That's still my favorite track on the album.

yeah, it is great. getting awesome megastar albums on spotify much later than the rest of ilm is kinda like waiting to buy the Beyonce addition xbox complete with strategy guide. it is its own kind of pleasure.

ha, that's an interesting perspective.
I listened to the beyonce for about a week so it's been pleasant to come back to it nine months later and see how it has developed. It's improved! Or I have.

maybe i'll like it this time (w/out lex's voice screaming the background)

glenn when is spotify going to give achievements for listening to 50/100/500 classic doom metal albums?

unlock the ability to spoof other people's "so-and-so has been listening to a lot of this artist" posts that can be shared with facebook

A couple old things I love just made it to Spotify this week: Game Theory's Dead Center and the self-titled album by Rick Springfield's 1997 "band" project Sahara Snow. Oh, and Beyoncé.

New stuff I flagged includes a Tove Styrke EP, a new Kate Boy song; wintry Skálmöld and Primordial albums; a rousing Xilent single, a new album by the j-metal band AREA51 and a new song by Lacroix Despheres; a punk record by We Will Fly; gothic metal by Sin7sins, Divine Ascension and Ideogram; four new songs by indefatigable electroist June 1974 and a lot of odd noises by the A.M. Experiment; and a new album by one of my favorite Slovenian singers, Alya.

And you might be thinking "yeah, whatever, I don't have a favorite Slovenian singer". But I didn't, either, until I discovered Alya, who did one of my favorite songs of any kind ever, which is this soaring pop-rock thing:

http://open.spotify.com/track/0oeMp3IJJKggaPa4MfrOrb

The new album is this:

http://open.spotify.com/album/5sHG5G3ZDZvbukDMGyEaaX

I do indeed like this Alya's music, ty

New this week is, finally, the complete album by atmospheric Swedish-pop (one-woman) band Full of Keys! Somewhere in between Bat for Lashes and Tove Lo. http://open.spotify.com/album/5YqXjWkNBt2kbftjpuDq9h

added full of keys to the pile.

Also:
Mary J Blige - The London Sessions
Wu Tang Clan - A Better Tomorrow (shows up but is somehow not playable or transferrable to lists?)
Bonobo - Flashlight EP
Darq E Freaker - Minger
Omarion - Sex Playlist
Hiatus Kaiyote - By Fire
Willie Nelson - December Day
Mogwai - Music Industry 3. Fitness Industry 1.
Little Boots - Business Pleasure
The Chameleons - John Peel Sessions Remastered
Nobuo Uematsu - Symphonic Fantasies Tokyo Live (Final Fantasy music by the Tokyo Philharmonic)

Singles from Travis Scott/Rich Homie Quan/Young Thug, Theesatisfaction, sun kil moon, scissor sisters, neka, k-os, rachel Yamagata and John Medeski

Omarion - Sex Playlist

lol

you know you're curious

highly recommend Verckys & L'Orchestre Vévé · Verckys & L'Orchestre Vévé (Congolose Funk, Afrobeat & Psychedelic Rumba 1969-1978) which you might otherwise miss since it's not categorized

K Michelle - Anybody Wanna Buy a Heart
E-40 - Sharp on All 4 Corners
Ghostface - 36 Seasons

New this week: Charli XCX's Sucker and D'Angelo's Black Messiah.

Also new singles by Milo Greene, Dan Deacon, a collaboration between Lali Puna and Korean synthpop artist Trampauline, and the Waterboys.

Also power/symphonic/various metal by Sleeping Romance, Shadow Icon, Umbra et Imago, Witchbreed, VII ARC and Leah.

Also epic film-trailer-style bombast by Alexey Soloviev, and sputtery glitchstep by Igorrr + Ruby My Dear.

Also UK indie rock by A Plastic Rose and Whales in Cubicles, and a Canadian equivalent from Those Gulls. And the Swedish version, Garbo STHLM.

In the reissue department, deluxe editions of several HIM albums, an omnibus edition of a couple early My Favorite records, and Marilyn McCoo's awesome/hilarious Solid Gold album.