The music streaming landscape just got a little more crowded, as Google today launched the Google Play All Access music service at their annual developer conference. The new service will cost the same as Spotify Premium, $9.99/month, but you can use it for free for 30 day trial, and it’ll only be $7.99/month if you [...]
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
While the new TesseracT album, Altered State, won’t be out until May 28, you can hear a song from the album, “Of Matter – Proxy,” streaming on Spotify now. The album, the first with new vocalist Ashe O’Hara, is split into four movements: “Of Matter,” “Of Mind,” “Of Reality” and “Of Energy.” Looks like between this [...]
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Spotify sounds a lot like a Disturbed song title, so perhaps that’s one of the reasons why the band’s frontman David Draiman is such a big fan of the music streaming service. In a recent interview with Examiner, Draiman, who’s side project with Geno Lenardo, Device, was released yesterday, said that he foresaw the popularity [...]
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
This isn’t that surprising, especially given the rise of smartphones, but a new study finds that 13 to 35 year-olds are spending as much time listening to streaming music as they are to AM/FM radio. A study done by The NPD Group found that in the fourth quarter of 2012, streaming services like Pandora, Spotify [...]
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Looking to make the perfect metal playlist, but don’t want to go to all the work of compiling it? Earache Records is here to help. They’ve launched a free app for Spotify called Earache Metalizer. Essentially, it’s a deck that looks like an EQ, except there are four categories, “metal,” “death,” “thrash” and “grind.” You’ll [...]
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Led Zeppelin is unarguably one of the biggest bands to ever exist in rock music (just ask President Obama). So would having exclusive rights to stream their vast catalog be a major grab for any streaming subscription service? Hell yeah it would! And apparently such a deal could come to fruition very shortly. According to The New [...]
Friday, December 21, 2012
Earlier this month, Metallica’s entire catalog was made available on Spotify. It was a major grab for the European streaming service, with Metallica being one of the biggest and best-selling groups in rock (not just metal). But would the move prove to be a good one for Metallica? Well, new reports suggest that the move [...]
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
As the guitarist of Chicago hard rock band The Last Vegas, Adam Arling decided to share his thoughts on music streaming service Spotify. It’s an interesting look from an artist’s perspective from someone that was initially skeptical of the service. The Last Vegas’ album, Bad Decisions, is out now on Frostbyte (and streaming on Spotify). Spotify [...]
Monday, December 10, 2012
We know that Trent Reznor is a busy guy, especially with all sorts of new musical collaborations. As it turns out, though, the Nine Inch Nails mastermind has also been busy creating his own streaming service. During a feature interview with The New Yorker, Reznor revealed that he’s been working with Beats Electronics (aka Beats [...]
Thursday, December 6, 2012
The list of individual bands holding out on Spotify just got shorter by one earlier today. All of Metallica’s music is now available on the streaming service. It’s a bit ironic, considering Metallica’s stance on Spotify predecessor Napster, but Spotify, which now has 20 million users, is paying artists. And since Metallica own all of [...]
Kylesa’s new album, Ultraviolet, is streaming online at Pitchfork. Check out the album, as well as some pretty awesome visuals, here. The album will come out on May 28 on Season of Mist.
Unsigned & Streamed vets Anciients, who’s Season of Mist debut Heart of Oak is out now, have landed the opening slot on the Lamb of God tour. They’ll be playing from May 16 – June 10. Check out the dates here.
Sinestra Studios (who very often provides Metal Insider with some killer live photos) is hosting its very first art galleria and metal show on Saturday, May 25, at The Knitting Factory in Brooklyn, NY. Tickets for the event are onsale now.
Louna has premiered a new music video for the song “Business” with Crave Online. The extravagant and politically themed music video comes in support of the Russian hard rock group’s new album, Behind The Mask, available now via Red Decade Records and MEG/RED.
Unsigned & Streamed alum Pheroze has released a video for the song “Today I Belong To The Dead.” The song appears on Pheroze’s recently released EP, Ennui.
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