Carice on Spotify

Anne Dudley – Black Book

Carice also shares her music-taste …

Various Artists – Carice’s Choice
41_’Humming one of your Songs’ by Carice van Houten

And she sings …

Paul de Leeuw – Foxtrot
Kane – No Surrender – + Carice Van Houten

1. Bon Iver – Bon Iver
2. Destroyer – Kaputt
3. M83 – Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming.
4. PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
5. Girls – Father, Son, Holy Ghost
6. Oneohtrix Point Never – Replica
7. Tune-Yards – W H O K I L L
8. Drake – Take Care
9. Real Estate – Days
10. The Weekend – House of Balloons
11. St. Vincent – Strange Mercy
12. James Blake – James Blake
13. EMA – Past Life Martyred Saints
14. Shabazz Palaces – Black Up
15. Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues
16. Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring For My Halo
17. Clams Casino – Instrumentals
18. Atlas Sound – Parallax
19. Danny Brown
20. Nicolas Jaar – Space Is Only Noise
21. Jay Z – Watch The Throne
22. The Caretaker
23. Bill Callahan
24. Julianna Barwick – The Magic Place
25. Gang Gang Dance – Eye Contact
26. The Field – Looping State Of Mind
27. Beyoncé – 4
28. Cut Copy – Zonoscope
29. DJ Quick – Book of David
30. Tim Hecker – Ravedeath, 1972
31. Ty Segal – Goodbye Bread
32. Panda Bear – Tomboy
33. Fucked Up – David Comes To Life
34. Katy B – On A Mission
35. Frank Ocean – Nostalgia
36. Kate Bush – 50 Words for Snow
37. iceage – New Brigade
38. Sandro Perri – Impossible Spaces
39. The War On Drugs – Slave Ambient
40. araabMUZIK – Electronic Dream (Deluxe Edition)
41. liturgy – Aesthethica
42. Sbtrkt – SBTRKT
43. Lykke Li – Wounded Rhymes
44. Colin Stetson – New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges
45. Kendrick Lamar – Section.80
46. Cults – Cults
47. Sepalcure
48. Toro Y Moi – Underneath The Pine
49. WILD FLAG – Wild Flag
50. Youth Lagoon – The Year of Hibernation

Coldplay and the band’s management seem to have come round to the idea of streaming music services, with the band’s latest Mylo Xyloto album appearing on Spotify.

Coldplay – Mylo Xyloto

The band made headlines last year by keeping the album off streaming sites. Three months later, the album has crept online. [...]

Will other refuseniks such as Adele and the Black Keys now follow suit?

Do you like Mumford & Sons? We bet you like this album too!

Boy & Bear – Moonfire

About Boy & Bear

Boy & Bear are an indie rock band from Sydney, Australia.  The band describes its style as “a combination of drivey indie folk and choral harmonies”. Boy & Bear received 7 nominations in the 2011 the Australian Recording Industry Association Music Awards (ARIA). They won five ARIAs – Group of the Year, Breakthrough Artist – Single (for their leading single ‘Feeding Line’) and Breakthrough Artist – Album, Best Adult Alternative Album and the coveted Album of the Year award for their debut album ‘Moonfire’).

Funny!

The new album by Moss (Ornaments) is on Spotify as the new album by Ornaments (Moss)

Ornaments – Moss

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Het nieuwe album van Moss staat op Spotify.

Aanrader!

Ornaments – Moss

Review van Oor

“Gevalletje buitencategorie. Geen plaat overigens die je, zoals Never Be Scared/Don’t Be A Hero (2009), meteen bij eerste beluistering van je stoel doet kletteren. Ornaments heeft iets meer tijd nodig, maar vrees niet: dat ligt zeker niet aan de omvang. Want wat als eerste opvalt is dat Dorleijn en zijn mannen zich niet gek hebben laten maken. Op Ornaments geen overweldigende ideeënlawine of andere doorgeschoten krachtpatserij om toch maar in hemelsnaam aan die torenhoge verwachtingen te voldoen. Nee, de plaat klinkt aangenaam basic en in control. Veel overbrengen met weinig (nog zo’n signaal dat duidt op Groot Songschrijverschap) en de muzikale subtiliteiten geduldig hun scheikundige reactie laten aangaan, zoals Radiohead dat ook kan op geïnspireerde momenten. Luister naar het Shins-achtige Give Love To The Ones You Love of het daaropvolgende Everything Died In Your Heart en het procédé wordt duidelijk: meer dan wat percussie, een eenvoudig (staccato) gitaarthema en een hartverwarmende zanglijn komt er niet bij kijken. Voor de rest profileert Moss zich op Ornaments overigens amper nog als gitaarband.Maar zeg nu zelf, experimenteren met ritmes,keyboards en elektronica is natuurlijk ook stukken spannender, zeker zolang je zorgt dat je je niet vergaloppeert. En bij Moss zit dat wel goed. Zoals eigenlijk alles – de kwaliteit van de songs voorop – bij Moss wel goed zit. Over jaarlijstjes lullen we nog niet, maar neem van mij aan: we gaan de naam Moss dit jaar weer met gezonde regelmaat horen.”

1. Adele – 21
2. Kidz Bop Kids – KIDZ BOP 21
3. The Black Keys – El Camino
4. Drake – Take Care
5. Rihanna – Talk That Talk
6. Young Jeezy – TM:103 Hustlerz Ambition
7. James Fortune & FIYA – Identify
8. Toby Keith – Clancy’s Tavern
9. Coldplay – Mylo Xyloto
10. Nickelback – Here And Now
11. Attack Attack! (US) – This Means War
12. Joyful Noise/ Soundtrack
13. LMFAO – Sorry For Party Rocking
14. Kelly Clarkson – Stronger (Deluxe Version)
15. Adele – 19
16. NOW 40
17. Lady Antebellum – Own The Night
18. Luke Bryan – Tailgates & Tanlines
19. Florence + The Machine – Ceremonials
20. David Crowder*Band – Give Us Rest or (A Requiem Mass in C [The Happiest of All Keys])
21. Jay Z – Watch The Throne
22. The Band Perry – The Band Perry
23. Mary J. Blige – My Life II…The Journey Continues (Act 1)
24. Jason Aldean
25. Skrillex – Bangarang EP
26. Ani Difranco – Which Side Are You On?
27. Anthony Green – Beautiful Things
28. Mumford & Sons – Sigh No More
29. Scotty McCreery
30. Lil Wayne – Tha Carter IV
31. Foster The People – Torches
32. Amy Winehouse – Lioness: Hidden Treasures
33. Snow Patrol – Fallen Empires
34. Taylor Swift – Speak Now
35. Florence + The Machine – Lungs
36. Maroon 5 – Hands All Over
37. Tim McGraw – Number One Hits
38. Brantley Gilbert
39. Kathleen Edwards – Voyageur
40. Anthony Hamilton – Back To Love (Deluxe Version)

Share your favourite wintersongs in this collaborative spotify playlist:

Ultimate Wintersongs

No wonder the record labels are sounding much more positive about music subscription services. Spotify is starting to reap the benefits of its oft-doubted “freemium” business model.

After hitting 2.5m subscribers in November, the Anglo-Swedish digital music service has now reached 3m, with more than 20 per cent of its active user base paying every month to banish advertisements or listen on smartphones.

That ratio is up from 15 per cent in March last year, when Spotify crossed 1m subscribers. The latest figures mean it’s added another million since September’s 2m milestone, suggesting its growth rate is accelereating.

“We have achieved some pretty great results in terms of the ratio of paid users,” Ken Parks, Spotify’s chief content officer and US managing director, told the FT. “We have an enormous internal effort to drive conversion and engagement with the service. We are very focused on growing in our existing 12 markets as well as expanding in other markets.”

Ensuring that enough free users start subscribing is crucial to making the economics of Spotify’s business work, due to the costs of paying out royalties to labels and publishers every time a song is played, regardless of whether the user is paying.

[...]

“This is a healthy model. As it scales it gets better for everybody,” said Mr Parks, adding that half of Spotify’s paying customers are under 30. “That is a remarkable number of people who are generally hard to monetise.”

Earlier this week, record label executives said that subscription services such as Spotify, Deezer and Rhapsody were finally helping to offset declining CD sales and put the music industry back onto a growth footing by next year.