Portishead – Third

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After 10 years of waiting the brilliant UK band Portishead is releasing a new album. “Third” (cover above) will be released on CD on April 28th and includes the following tracks:

Silence
Hunter
Nylon Smile
The Rip
Plastic
We carry on
Deep Water
Machine Gun
Small
Magic Doors
Threads

You can watch the full video for Machine Gun on their site.

I can’t freakin’ wait!        

Radiohead – In Rainbows

In Rainbows

Cover art by Jon Hicks

If you live under a rock and haven’t heard by now, Radiohead has released their new album called In Rainbows which is available for download on their website. Personally I think it might be their best album yet, yes even better than the amazing Ok Computer. The album pulls the best parts from all their previous recordings and mixes it all together into one euphoric experience. If you haven’t purchased it yet, head over to InRainbows.com and pay what you want for it. I myself payed $20. It’s worth a lot more than that.        

Apple and EMI offer DRM free music

Apple has made a deal with EMI to make available EMI’s entire catalog without any digital rights management (DRM) protection. This is great news! Apple will also offer higher-quality songs that will be encoded at 256kbps AAC instead of the previous 128kbps AAC encoding. The music and videos will be available in May. A great step in the right direction. Soon all the major companies will follow.

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