New and Noteworthy Additions to US Spotify

again glenn: thanks for this. Really revolutionizing the way i listen to spotify and find new music for the past few weeks.

otm, and if this thread is any indication so far, it opens up a great way to talk about some new music on ilx (that can be hard to find a good place for otherwise)

ok just checked out sorting hat, that's really cool glenn

My preliminary list of things to check out this week: Children of Technology, Pallbearer, The Moon and the Nightspirit, Troye Sivan, Imogen Heap (!), Kate Boy, Twin Atlantic, In Flames, DragonForce, The Copyrights, Empire Auriga, Polarsets, Natasa Djordjevic, Colory, Sebastian Komor, Rumour Cubes, Lussuria, Ryn Weaver, Zella Day, Racing Glaciers, Mochipet, Pure Gold. My data says we're supposed to be getting the new Charli XCX song, but it doesn't appear to be up yet, so it's Youtube for that and the Taylor Swift thing.

Not that I listened to everything from last week yet.

yeah the pile is getting a lot bigger.
Also the lemonade and ciroc gucci song (which i am curious in solely to see if it's a sequel to lemonade and it's not is it) is not up either

That doggone hat has quickly become a high point of my tuesdays

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the spotify official new release playlist got changed to be only single songs >:(

― ruffalo soldier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, August 19, 2014 2:28 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Super dumb.

as long as we're making this the g.mcd. cheering thread, here's a somewhat older piece from Wired:
http://oi57.tinypic.com/2ljgbv7.jpg

Fun, but that graph is nigh unreadable.

I should clarify that I had nothing whatsoever to do with the visual treatment of that hip-hop thing, and until I opened up the magazine myself I totally thought there was going to be a map with various-thickness arrows arching back and forth. I just had the original diaspora idea and generated the data for it.

well if the core message was that east coast and trap has longer legs in terms of how far the listening influence extends over bounce and west coast rap, it conveys that well

glenn u wanna talk to this guy?
https://medium.com/@bg/spotify-we-need-to-talk-about-your-data-f6cbe2473992

Even if you gave us stupid badges, something great would happen on your platform.

i'm such a sucker for stupid badges

lol if you're trying to make yourself seem invaluable, don't use a photo of yourself wearing google glass.

https://d262ilb51hltx0.cloudfront.net/max/1440/1*xLk4h68x-3RrqiFzd1neJg.png

"Especially for the hipsters among us, the competitive pressures of being known as a music expert would drive us to more actively and exclusively use the platform. "

Does that guy know about last.fm?

haha

last.fm needs more badges

imagine

http://i58.tinypic.com/33y3m9t.png

but for the number of britpop albums you've listened to

omg it would take my music listening OCD to brand new as-of-yet unheard of levels. it would probably be dangerous to my health

"album not found"

All day long.

Ariana Grande · My Everything
haha i will listen to Trapt · "Headstrong (Acoustic)"
Basement Jaxx · Junto
The New Pornographers · Brill Bruisers
Real Estate · "Had To Hear"
The Bug · Angels & Devils
Augustus Pablo · Born To Dub You
The Bad Plus · Inevitable Western
Jessie Ware · "Say You Love Me"
Diwon · Pre-Game (buddy of mine - didn't realize he had a new album out)

what is ectofolk?
and why is israeli rock and mizrachi in the same category as lilith, folk pop?

also oh my gosh every jackie mason album now available lol

Haha, good to know. I will probably listen to some Jackie later today.

i agree with you on
Ariana Grande · My Everything
Basement Jaxx · Junto
The New Pornographers · Brill Bruisers
The Bug · Angels & Devils
Augustus Pablo · Born To Dub You
The Bad Plus · Inevitable Western
Jessie Ware · "Say You Love Me"

Also:
Z-Ro - I Ain't Takin' No Loss 3
Brad Paisley - Moonshine in the Truck (with the inexplicable track 9 credit to "Brad Paisley feat. Brad Paisley")
Ikonika - Position EP
Capcom Sound Team - Mega Man Soundtracks Volume 1 to 6 (!!!!!!!!!!1111!!!!!!)

plus new singles from Katy Perry and Riff Raff, Slipknot, Maroon 5, Eminem and Sia, Tinashe and ASAP rocky, Deerhoof, Faith Evans with Missy Elliott, MO, Lee Fields. With the exception of the last three, I'm not much looking forward to my weekly pop vaccination.

oh and a new Stevie Nicks single.

Relatively light week which is great; I'm like thirty albums behind on things I'm trying to listen to!

Trentmoller - Lost Reworks
Hyuna - A Talk
Sinkane - Mean Love
Jute Gyte - Ressentiment
Lee Scratch Perry and Iguana - Vibes
Bjork - Vespertine Live
Homeboy Sandman - Hallways
Arthur Collins - The King of the Ragtime Singer (amazing music but some of it is nearly obscenely offensive)

New singles from Prince (and it's very good!), Tim McGraw, Jason Aldean, Jhene Aiko, Tensnake, Hercules and Love Affair, Theophilus London and Jesse Boykins III, Busdriver, Mac Lethal ("Incredible Mozart Rap" lolz 4eva), I Octane, Hawkwind, I LOVE MAKONNEN

Also a bunch of re-released jazz compilations from Django, Lester Young, Art Tatum, Hank Mobley, Sidney Bichet, Peggy Lee, Errol Garner, Mel Torme, Ella Fitzgerald...

Aaaaaaand William Basinski's complete remastered Disintegration Loops vols 1,2,3,4!

oh yeah, I'm also doing a flyer on a swedish pop band called Max Von Sydow
"Ugly Girls Ugly Boys" sounds pretty good

sorting hat not updated yet?

Er, sorting hat was updated this morning. Refresh your browser?

ah, there it goes.

is this the first time spotify has had the sleater-kinney albums?

Some stuff I flagged:

Game Theory
In The Valley Below
DBridge
Kid Drama
The Madden Brothers
The Cross
IDIOTAPE
Lonely The Brave
My Extraordinary
Haerts
Heimataerde
YOB
Earth
Solstafir
Dark Fortress
Blood Of Kingu
Krieg
Jute Gyte
Horned Almighty
The Color Morale
Amber Pacific
Xilent feat. Grimm
Pavel Dovgal
Rothko
SuidAkrA
Immortal Guardian
Deceptic
D.Z.
Malrun
Alex Boye
Neopera
Aeon Zen
KATRINE LUKINS
FRONTIER BACKYARD
Little Bark
Restorations
Autumn's Dawn

So it seems like a pretty decent week to me!

(I'm not sure about the whole S-K history, but I think we had some or all of them already, so this may just be a licensing/metadata update or something.)

Blonde Redhead

I was kinda hoping this would be a thread of recommendations. Glenn, should I be listening to Haerts? Defend YOSELF

I'll say, at least, that the Game Theory reissue (Blaze of Glory), which is the beginning of a full GT reissue campaign by Omnivore, is a tiny wonder from the world of nerdy just-post-punk Californian power-pop, and if you like that sort of thing and don't already know Game Theory, your Spotify subscription is about to pay for itself.

The only other two I've had time to absorb are Solstafir (Icelandic black/progressive metal band sounding increasingly self-assured and ambitious) and Malrun (Danish melodic rock/metal band stomping around in enthusiastic and borderline glam-rocky fashion).

Oh, and the great pop-rock single "Running to You" by a Latvian teenager named Katrine Lukins.

Oh, and I'm now liking the slightly shoegazey indie-rock crunch of Basement on this 3-song EP Further Sky.

And if you don't know Rothko, and think the sound of ambient/post-rock humming with multiple bass players sounds intriguing, their compilation "A Life Lived Elsewhere" is just up, and a pretty decent intro to the band.

will check these out, thanks!

my favorite thing to do Tuesday... scanning the sorting hat!

Fool's Gold · "I'm in Love (Single)"
Ariel Pink · "Put Your Number In My Phone"
Karen O · Crush Songs
Interpol · El Pintor
American Hi-Fi · Blood & Lemonade
Amy Lee · Aftermath
Tiny Moving Parts · Pleasant Living
Cem Özkan · Balkan Harbi 1912-1913 (Orijinal Belgesel Müzikleri)
The Shaolin Afronauts · Follow the Path
Orlando Julius with The Heliocentrics · Jaiyede Afro
Addys Mercedes · Locomotora a Cuba
Fall Out Boy · "Centuries"
Jewish Monkeys · Mania Regressia

Hiss Golden Messenger's new one is up now too.

For me:

Jhene Aiko - Souled Out
Meghan Trainor - Title
Rittz - Next to Nothing
Clinton Sparks - ICONoclast
Busdriver - Perfect Hair
Banks - Goddess
DJ Shadow - The Liquid Amber EP
Quantic - La Plata
Charlie Barnet - ?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? remastered
Sergio Mendes - Magic
Fucked Up - Paper the House / Sun Glass
Eric Reed - Groovewise
KMFDM - We Are (live)
Coreon Du - Binario

New singles from Aphex Twin, Caribou, Robyn, Zola Jesus, Yacht, Ariel Pink, Kid Ink / Usher / Tinashe, Lupe Fiasco / Jennifer Hudson / Common, Vince Staples, Dizzy Wright, Lady Antebellum, Big and Rich, Kenny Chesney, Jason Aldean, Mord Fustang, Fall Out Boy, Lecrae, SBTRKT, The Bug, Nikki Yanofsky, Edgar Meyer / Chris Thile

Also, the complete Pharcyde catalog just added!

i've got almost nothin this week. i'll be curious to see what other ppl come up w/:

Medeski, Scofield, Martin & Wood · Juice
Aviv Geffen · Sdakim

maybe this too:

Aurelio · Lándini

Well here's a thread I wish I had seen/bookmarked a while ago

blake mills - heigh ho

Is there a function on Spotify that lets you see what was recently added? I get little notifications once in a while but they're kind of paltry.

use the sorting hat:
http://everynoise.com/spotify_new_releases.html

Joell Ortiz - House Slippers
Chris Brown - X
Mike Doughty - Stellar Motel
Tim McGraw - Sundown Heaven Town
Rusko - !
Gregory Porter - Issues of Life
Souls of Mischief - There Is Only Now
Jason Moran - ALL RISE: An Elegy to Fats Waller

(Mordy, you should check out those last three.)

New singles from Tove Lo, Ne Yo and Juicy J, K Michelle, Jazmine Sullivan, Lucinda Williams, Tinashe, Betty Who, Sisquo with Waka (?!?!), Yung Joc with T-Pain, Lil Flip, Annie Lennox, Caribou, SBTRKT, Large Professor, Royskopp/Robyn 'Monument' remix, Sarkodie, Busy Signal, Vybz Kartel, DJ Nastor and Nortec Collective with Bostich/Fussible