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Spotify launches in Australia
Spotify, the leading digital music service, is available in Australia from today. We’re very happy to be here. Spotify is a new way to listen to music, giving you instant, on-demand access to more than 16 million tracks on your computer, mobile phone, iPad and beyond, so you can enjoy music whenever and wherever you like. Offering a truly free music service, Spotify is loved by more than 10 million people across the globe. No gimmicks, no trial period, no catches – just listen and love it, month after month. Simply search for any artist, song or album and start playing. Create playlists, share music with friends and check out what others are listening to. Spotify’s seamless Facebook integration takes enjoying music with friends to a whole new level. Music has never been this social. Want more? Spotify Apps offers a whole new world of music discovery and we’re extremely proud to announce the launch of the Triple J app in Australia. The app, which has been specially created for Sp...
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Ghostlimb announce new album
Vitriol Records celebrates its third anniversary this summer and kicks off its fourth year with the release of Ghostlimb's Confluence, hitting stores July 10. Ghostlimb features frontman Justin Smith, also founder of Vitriol Records and guitarist/vocalist of Graf Orlock. Confluence is Ghostlimb's fourth full-length album but the second in a trilogy-in-the-works which began with last year's Infrastructure. Confluence rips through speakers like a U-boat surfacing and lays down what is, to date, the most explosive version of the signature Ghostlimb sound. Bruising, vise-tight hardcore shifts from blazing speed-picking to epic, bluesy choruses. The rhythm section of drummer Alex McLeod and bassist Neal Paul Sharma is monstrously heavy. The lyrics, screamed by Smith with pure conviction, examine human existence - our relationships with ourselves, with each other, and with nature - often referencing historical events, from Ancients Greeks to Sacco and Vanzetti. Desperate and searching, ...