Popular music/social media website last.fm has started charging users outside of the United States, United Kingdom and Germany a fee for their streaming radio services. After a 30 song trial period expires, users must pay a €3.00 monthly fee to continue utilizing the streaming radio services. Some reasons behind the change were given on the site’s official blog:
Last.fm Radio has always been ad supported, which means we sell ads on the site to cover the cost of running the service and paying the music licensing fees. If you’ve spent more than 5 minutes on the site you’ll know that the Last.fm community is international to the extreme – we are made up of people from practically every country in the world. Last.fm is a better place for it.
However, we simply can’t be in every country where our radio service is available selling the ads we need to support the service. The Internet is global, and geographic restrictions seem unfair, but it’s a reality we are faced with every day when managing our music licensing partnerships.
In an interview with ThePunkSite.com, Stephen Carroll of The Weakerthans announced plans to release a new DVD late this year or early next through Anti- saying:
We’re making a tour movie about our experiences on the road and a live film and live concert DVD. So it’s a documentary about the tour and we’re going to have a live album made from it. It’ll be kind of a live film so we were doing scenes for that.
Less Than Jake have released a new video that compiles footage of the band’s recent tour of South America. The video is set to “City of Gainesville”/”State of Florida”, the first two tracks from the band’s 2008 full-length, GNV FLA.
Less Than Jake have released a new video that compiles footage of the band’s recent tour of South America. The video is set to “City of Gainesville”/”State of Florida”, the first two tracks from the band’s 2008 full-length, GNV FLA.
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They Might Be Giants have announced some shows in May and June. The long-running band will be playing a series of 18+ and all ages shows geared towards families.
In Boston and Kansas City, the band will be performing their fan favorite album, Flood, in it’s entirety.
Greensburg, PA’s Zao have posted their new album online for streaming in its entirety. The album is titled Awake and is due out May 5th through Ferret Records.
In an interview with MorbidZine.com, D.R.I. guitarist Spike Cassidy ruled out the possibility of a new studio album. He notes:
I’m not sure. We live in four different states across the country. Washington, California, Texas and Florida. Just to practice will cost thousands in plane fare alone. Money that we don’t have. We all have our own lives and families now, conflicts in scheduling keep us from touring right now. We might be able put together some shows, but it wont be easy. We have a long way to go before we are working on a new album again. I just hope we can play a few shows.
Hello everybody and welcome to Navel Gazing: your look back at the week in Punknews. I am notAdam White, he’s gone for a few weeks, so this week I’m filling in to be your guide through some of the most popular, notable, and otherwise attention getting stories of the past seven days. Each and every Punknews story is built from tips contributed by you fine folks, and here’s what got the community talking this week…
The People Must Have Something Good To Read On A Sunday
We didn’t have an update Tuesday because I decided to spend the weekend at shows, as you can see. I also worked on a pretty huge final article for a journalism class that was due on Tuesday, spending the rest of that day at the NY Public Library print room looking at William Hogarth prints for a paper that was due the next day. Then I went to see the Get Up Kids last night (as you can also see below) so I wasn’t really home much yesterday and an on-time update was out of the question.
Just providing some pretty legit excuses for my absence this week. But here ya go. Tuesday’s updates should be up on Tuesday.
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