RIP Robin Gibb, he was a truly talented songwriter. http://t.co/k24MzEpE
#TGIF! What songs are getting you into a weekend mood?
RIP to a true legend of disco, Donna Summer. http://t.co/vUvsXyvy
We present you the music selection that our friends from @ShareMyPlaylist have handpicked for May. Tune in here: http://t.co/b9qoq7YQ
Two of the world’s biggest DJs, Ingrosso+ Alesso, are hosting a house party and you’re invited! Join now - http://t.co/8BQLlijB
Spotify London are standing up for REAL food with @jamieoliver's @FoodRev http://t.co/95IRjtxj Get involved May 19! #foodrevolution
Congrats to our Chief Content Officer, Ken Parks, for being one of @FastCompany's 100 Most Creative People in Business! http://t.co/5fH9ZIKZ
Happy #MusicMonday! Check out some new music recommendations from @MonaFims and tell us - what are you listening to? http://t.co/cnVcQ0uF
It's Mother's Day on Sunday and we're compiling a playlist dedicated to Mom. What songs should we add to the list? Suggest a track here!
A new Spotify Desktop Version is rolling out with some awesome new features! Check out our blog for all the details: http://t.co/rWM8Kj3g
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Play These Playlists: The Year So Far, Reading Festival and more curated by DrownedinSound.com
Rather than an annotated playlist for the month that was, this month Drowned in Sound has compiled a selection of playlists to soundtrack your wet summer mornings and the turning of grey afternoon into indian summer evenings…
August was a strange month for releases. Festivals and the Arcade Fire (strangely absent from Spotify), the fantastic Scott Pilgrim film soundtrack (click to read our interview with the film’s star Michael Cera and director Edgar Wright) and Klaxons kind of overshadowed a lot of really interesting smaller releases but then again, there weren’t a great deal of album of the year contenders. Meanwhile, there were lots of great singles from the likes of Everything Everything and Gonzales. Click here to play and explore this month’s playlist.
Also, if you missed them, click for Drowned in July 2010 and Drowned in June 2010.
Drowned in Sound 2010 - Q2
Earlier this year, we compiled a playlist featuring the best bits of the first quarter of the year (you’ll find that one here) and due to the overwhelming response, we’ve compiled a playlist for Q2, which explores the swirled electronics of Ikonika, LCD Soundsystem and Emeralds before exploring the big guitars and broken hearts of The National and DiS’ one-to-watch tip for 2010/Mercury Music Prize nominee, Villagers.
Click to play this playlist
Reading & Leeds Festival 2010
If you’re heading to Reading & Leeds festival this week or plan to watch the coverage on TV/via the web, here’s a playlist with our picks from the line-up get you in the mood. Or if you have a premium account, to stick on your iPod in the car instead of listening to The Get Up Kids’ back catalogue. Click to play this playlist
The Neptune Music Prize 2010
DiS has announced the nominees for the The Neptune Music prize, our alternative to the Mercury Music Prize. You can vote for your favourite of our picks. If you’re not au fait with all of the nominees, we made this handy Spotify playlist to sample a little bit of each.
Lastly, if you have enjoyed this and/or any of our previous playlists, please take a second to vote for DrownedinSound.com in the BT Digital Music Awards. Thank you.
You’ll find plenty more Spotify playlists by DrownedinSound.com here.
Spotify and the Grammis
On January 7th the Grammis are being handed out in Stockholm and you can be a part of it. The Grammis are Sweden’s biggest music awards event of the year and Spotify has 5 pairs of tickets to hand out to our users for the gala ceremony. The awards are being held at Hovet and all you need to do to enter is send your Spotify username along with your address and phone number to contest@spotify.com and we will notify the winners with instructions on how they can get their tickets by the 6th of January.
To get a taste of who’s up for this year’s big awards check out these playlists on Spotify:
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8th Extreme Challenge
In the Spotify lab we have some really talented coworkers who managed to make it to second place in the 8th Extreme Challenge in Hungary. Well done, guys! But what happened to Mattias?