Paradise Fears' new song, "Lullaby," (co-written by Brian Dales of The Summer Set and Kevin Bard) is now available on iTunes and the lyric video can be seen in the replies.
You can stream The National's stellar new album, Trouble Will Find Me, one weeks early over at iTunes (click "View in iTunes"). The record is available on May 21st.
UK emo band Moose Blood have released a new, two-song single, Boston/Orlando, on iTunes via Venn Records (Gallows). I recommend checking it out. To accompany the release, a limited edition shirt is available here.
The deluxe version of Phoenix's new album will have 71 bonus tracks (one hour and four minutes). Demos, sketches, and other recordings will be known as "The Bankrupt! Diaries" via iTunes.
Mosh Pit is a bit of mix of game, music platform and a virtual world entertainment device. The game angle is you set off your characters to create a 'total mosh'; meaning you get your 'moshnoids' to complete their routines which include stage diving, crowd surfing, jump in, circle pit, wall to wall as I call it, then finally a quick free style before jumping out.
Apple has announced that music fans have purchased and downloaded more than 25 billion songs from the iTunes Store. Kind of related: yesterday I was trying to find stats about iTunes charts when I was writing up this commentary, and found this cool site that lets you search for songs that have been on the charts and get all kinds of information about them.
Slospeak Records (a small Christian Indie Label) has released a Christmas compilation on iTunes. The album features songs from House of Heroes, Reliant K, Deas Veil, Matt Shelton of the Wedding, Sons, Pioneer, and Ravenhill featuring David Curtis from Run Kid Run/Side Walk Slam.
Track Listing
1. Sherane a.k.a. Master Splinter's Daughter
2. Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe
3. Backseat Freestyle
4. The Art of Peer Pressure
5. Money Trees (feat. Jay Rock)
6. Poetyic Justice (feat. Drake)
7. good kid
8. m.A.A.d city (feat. Eiht)
9. Swimming Pools (Drank) [Extended version]
10. Sing About Me, I'm Dying of Thirst
11. Real (feat. Anna Wise)
12. Compton (feat. Dr. Dre)
13. The Recipe (feat. Dr. Dre) [Bonus Track]
14. Black Boy Fly [Bonus Track]
15. Now or Never (feat. Mary J. Blige) [Bonus Track]
16. Collect Calls [Bonus Track]
17. Swimming Pools ...
Update: Apple has announced the iPhone 5. Pre-orders being Friday, with the phone shipping on September 21st. iOS6 will be released to the public on September 19th, and iTunes 11 will arrive in late October. The iPod nano and iPod Touch also received an update.
Apple is holding a media event today at 1 PM EST/10 AM PST to apparently announce the iPhone 5, a new line of iPods, iTunes 11, and maybe the rumored iPad Mini. Here's a list of live blogs (as well as our official Apple thread) that you can follow to keep up with the announcements. What are you expecting and/or hoping Apple to announce?
The Wall Street Journal reported recently that Apple is in talks to license music with the intention of creating an online music streaming platform that would be targeted to compete with Pandora. In fact, Pandora, which recently became a publicly traded company, has seen its shares fall a pretty significant amount over the past week as the rumor about Apple's involvement in the online radio market has spread.
Any rumor about Apple playing a new hand in the music industry has to be taken seriously, which explains the reflex reaction of Pandora's stock drop. Apple already has what amounts to the world's largest record store in the form of iTunes, which sells more music than any other...
Liam and Me have posted the unreleased Lives We Might Have Lived on iTunes. This will, unfortunately, be the last release from the band. The band has also put the album up in a "pay what you want" format on their website.
Visions' single for "Reality Check" can now be purchased on iTunes. You can check out the album artwork here. The song features Tay of We Are The In Crowd.
I am trying to decide if this new "vinyl tap" app for the iPad is the dumbest - or coolest - thing I've seen in a while. I feel like there's no middle ground. Basically, it takes your music library ... and makes it seem like you're playing it on a record player. On your iPad? I ... yeah, I dunno.
Flatfoot 56 has released a 3-song EP exclusively on iTunes. It has the first single from their upcoming July 24 full-length, Toil, along with two B-sides.
