A selection of this week’s hottest music news

Starting today Spotify will give you the latest and hottest music news right here on our blog. New releases, exclusive playlists and more will be posted every week - watch this space!

This week’s news include:

• Following on from her multi-million selling, multi-award winning, global smash of a debut album Lungs, Florence returns with the new single What The Water Gave Me, available to listen on Spotify now. Also, stay tuned for more information about the forthcoming, as yet untitled album.
• Earlier this month our friends over at [PIAS] had their distribution warehouse burnt down in the London riots. PIAS is home to some of the world’s leading independent artists and labels so be sure to give their great indie artists a listen - check them out here!

We also have three great artists who are all nominated for the Mercury Music awards.

• King Creosote and John Hopkins with an Spotify exclusive track “Aurora Boring Alias” here!
• Anna Calvi with some exclusive live tracks here.
• Also check out this personal Katy B playlist where she lists some of her playlists and what she’s listening to right now. You’ll find it here!