Arts & Crafts: New Signings, New Releases

Though it’s only March, the venerable Arts and Crafts label is already working overtime on new releases and A&R, in fact, they’ve already put out three albums and signed three new bands. Here’s a little bit about their new signees and the new one from the Apostle of Hustle: Years “A true visionary of compositional…

Drake’s Take: New Releases 02.24.09

Canada gets a big push this week with the new ones from renown kalimbaist Laura Barrett, the “Dusty Foot Philosopher”, aka the Somali-Canadian K’naan, (whose music is certainly getting a lot more press stateside this time around), and Gentlemen Reg who makes Jet Black his first release on the Arts and Crafts label as well…

Is Spotify.com the Best Place to Stream Music on The Internets?

Spotify.com, the immensely popular Swedish streaming music service, is now available to everyone in the UK (it was previously an invite only beta). Apparently, folks over there seem to prefer it to last.fm, Pandora and even iTunes. I just applied for a beta invite, we’ll see if it ever shows up though, currently the product…