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Post author By The Spotisfaction Team
Post date June 24, 2010

Some very very good news for unsigned and indie artists this morning. Spotify have signed a deal with TuneCore, the preeminent digital distribution site.

TuneCore”™s model is designed to help unsigned artists. With a small fee per track, anyone can upload their songs to TuneCore and have them distributed to some of the biggest stores on the ”˜net (iTunes, Amazon MP3, Napster and Rhapsody, to name a few). These artists then keep 100% of the royalties and maintain the rights to their own work.

This deal with Spotify now means that these artists will be able to get their work onto Spotify”™s streaming servers, and will allow much larger audiences to access their music whilst generating streaming royalty revenue for the artists. Fantastic news all round, really.

Do you think this is a good idea, and would this deal make you more likely to use TuneCore”™s services if you were an unsigned artist? Let us know in the comments.

For further info, please read here:Â http://www.musicweek.com/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=1041624&c=1

[David]

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Not sure what this VFTA malarkey is all about? See here. To listen along with Ben, BSS”™ “You Forgot It In People” is on Spotify. Following a brief hiatus in the first half of the decade, the Canadian musician ensemble, Broken Social Scene released their second album, “You Forgot It In People”; an album that was sure to carry more weight to it due to the further addition of artists to the already heavily populated group. With the surplus members and ideas, the band, namely core founders Brendan Canning and Kevin Drew, expanded their sound and embraced new moods still allowing the listener to escape real life, but this time without the dreaming. “You Forgot It In People” offers a more accessable selection of ”˜indie-rock”™ gems then previous album “Feel Good Lost”, in the sense thatÂ the intimate ambiance has been replaced with vocals and stronger melodic hooks. The band have not however abandoned their initial dream state sound completely. Essences of ethereal lifts and heavy orchestral tones are still present throughout, but are now supported by poetic lyrics, attempting to make sense of the real life one had left behind. AÂ track thatÂ perhaps breaks this rule, ”˜Cause = Time”™, strikes hard at the album”™s heart and tells of the how society resorts to sex and selling its body, in an attempt to find meaning in life.Â ”And they all want to love the cause, ”˜cause they all need to be the cause, they all want to fuck the cause”. Yet, suchÂ a dark message is still accompanied by melodic guitars and a pulsing tempo, making it almost anthemic and full of emotion. Another significant track here is ”˜Looks Just Like The Sun”™; a chilled andÂ relaxed refrain that doesn”™t just look, but also feels like the sun, as the lyrics describe someone whose presence radiates on the listener. Both tracks giving justified backing to the album”™s title, suggesting that such individual florishes, and human error, has been taken for granted in society as a whole. As with their debut,Â the bandÂ take the listener on an exploration through a series of ideas and visions, and peaks and troughs, but overall have managed to create a fine fusion of dark imagery with their trademarkÂ escapist tone, culminating in a very strong follow up album. At the time, this quality was recognised as the band recieved awards and accolades from right across the board; a just victory deserved for a group with such a unique vision and sound. From here, it is possible for Broken Social Scene toÂ go anywhere, having both existed in beautiful dreams, and now harsh, yet lucid realities. Ben Hawling

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5m4DjzVFkNjGcGv94tdPBU

Safe, blood. Tomorrow evening, a bunch of us are going to Birmingham”™s O2 Academy for the first Spotisfaction Meet-up. We”™re going to see Broken Social Scene and Sky Larkin, and it”™s going to be a fantabulous time. If you”™re in the area, I believe there are still tickets available – come along and I”™ll buy you a beer (I originally typo”™d ”˜bear”™, which would have been a much better incentive).

In other news, if you”™d like to become a contributor to Spotisfaction, we”™re always looking for feature writers, reviewers and people that can comb the web to collate interesting music news. We”™re also looking for an art director. If you want to get involved in our lovely little site, please get in touch. We still want your playlists and one-off articles or reviews if you don”™t want to sign a contract in blood / formally become part of the team, too!

Take it easy, sleazies. See you tomorrow night.
[David]

77 Spotisfaction Friday (25 Jun) – DProwse

Join us after the break for the tracklisting.

Cause = Time (Live) – Broken Social Scene
Fire Eye”™d Boy – Broken Social Scene
Molten – Sky Larkin
Death Of A Tune – The Hidden Cameras
Forced To Love – Broken Social Scene
My Moon My Man (Grizzly Bear Remix) – Feist
Your Ex-Lover Is Dead – Stars
Soft Rock Star – Metric
Sentimental X”™s – Broken Social Scene
Safety Bricks – Kevin Drew
Churches Under The Stairs – Brendan Canning
Long May You Love – Jason Collett
Magic Arrow – Timbre Timbre
Soul Unwind – Apostle Of Hustle
Love & Mathematics – Broken Social Scene
7/4 (Shoreline) – Broken Social Scene
Pastel – Still Life Still
Everything I Build – The Stills
Sweetest Kill – Broken Social Scene
It”™s Ok – Land Of Talk
Looks Just Like The Sun – Broken Social Scene
Vittoria – Charles Spearin
Antibodies – Sky Larkin
In Earth – Sky Larkin
Ruined in 84 – KC Accidental
Alive in 85 – Broken Social Scene
Bury This – Amy Millan
Lover”™s Spit (Redux) – Broken Social Scene
Let”™s Get Out Of Here – Broken Social Scene

Above are a collection of songs by Broken Social scene, bands whose members comprise them, their support act on Saturday, and a small selection of artists on their Arts & Crafts label. Enjoy. And please buy a ticket to see these guys at some point on their tour if you can possibly make it.