On Dylan LeBlanc’s debut album, Paupers Field, a lost world is brought to life - both in the carefully sculpted songs and rich well of country soul from which those songs emerge.

The debut album from the Shreveport, Louisiana native is strongly influenced by his ancestral roots and family background, his father was session player with Alabama’s fabled Muscle Shoals.

Starting today, Spotify Premium listeners in the UK can check out his debut album a week before it’s official release, check it out.

Junip, the band featuring none other than Jose Gonzalez play an intimate show in London on Monday the 16th of August ahead of the release of their new album, Fields. We have three pairs of tickets to give away to listeners. Winning is easy, here’s how you do it:

* create a playlist (include ‘Always‘)
* post your playlist as a comment to this blog post
* share your playlist with friends on Facebook & Twitter and add subscribers

The three playlists with most subscribers will win a pair of tickets each.

Junip’s new album will be available across Europe from September the 13th, Spotify Premium listeners will be able to hear the album in its entirety from the 18th of August, a whole month before the release!

Update: The contest is now closed, the winners will be contacted individually.

ShareMyPlaylists.com provides us with another in their series of excellent playlist posts. You can check out thousands of playlists at ShareMyPlaylists.com - they’ve got a little something for everyone.

Strictly BASS… Part Five
We hit the ground running this month with the latest in this brilliant series of bulky bass line inspired playlists from syknyk. This month’s the tunes playing havoc with you boom box include Radio 1’s Toddla T, dubstep producer de jour Rusko and Boy 8-Bit.

Undiscovered Prince
The Purple One is back with a new album, 20Ten, which he once again decided to give away for free in some daily rag or other, and to celebrate SMP’s head honcho kieron has put together this brilliant playlist which, in his own words, is “dedicated to some of the best tracks to come out of Paisley Park over the years.” A must for all Prince fans featuring album tracks, remixes and B-sides.

A Song A Day 2010
This is a great concept for a playlist which, as the name suggests, features a song added every day during 2010. Click here for a song to suit every mood. Is your boss giving you trouble? Morrissey - Little Man, What Now? Girlfriend just dumped you? Sinead O’Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U. Do you think you left the iron on at home? Beck - It’s All In Your Mind.

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We’ve been fans of Facebook for a long time now, so much so that we looked to them for inspiration when building our own social features.

Yesterday they reached a big milestone, 500 million users, and to celebrate they’re collecting stories from their users and asking which ones inspire them. We’re happy to take a small part in this and we’re asking our users to share their music stories with the new Stories tab on our Facebook page.

So if you’ve found a new favourite band after seeing them in your friend’s top artists, attended an amazing festival or maybe you even found love after someone dropped a track in your Spotify inbox - please feel free to share the story.

We’ve been a little quieter recently on the new music front but we should be getting back into a regular rhythm, to kick off we’ve got a nice size update to let you know about. We added 7856 albums and singles, in total 96,964 new tracks are now available.

A few highlights include:

• Billy Talent III by Billy Talent
• Artwork by The Used
• A number of releases from Labrador Records
• A bunch of classic albums from the Meat Puppets

It’s a big list so I’ve broken out releases from The Orchard into one sheet and all other releases into a second Google doc. As with every update not all albums listed may be available in your country and some tracks previously available may no longer be playable due to regional restrictions.

7 Worlds Collide was a live album released in 2001 by New Zealand singer/songwriter, Neil Finn. In December of 2008 the 7 Worlds Collide line up reconvened to record a charity album for Oxfam.

Starting today Spotify Premium users in the UK can listen exclusively to the new album, The Sun Came Out, before it’s released. Familiar faces from the original album abound, Johnny Marr, Ed O’Brien and Phil Selway of Radiohead and the likes of KT Tunstall and Wilco are all included.

Just a small little update to get your week started. We added 119 albums and singles, in total 1,080 new tracks are now available.

A few highlights include:

• The Stone Roses (20th Anniversary Legacy Edition) by The Stone Roses
• The single One More Chance by Bloc Party
• Also check out the single Vi Ses På Lördag by Hela Sveriges Fotbollsklubb

For the full listing have a look at the Google doc. As with every update not all albums listed may be available in your country and some tracks previously available may no longer be playable due to regional restrictions.

We’ve been a little quiet recently when it comes to adding new music, hopefully today’s update will make up for that. We added 20,430 albums and singles, in total 219,665 new tracks are now available.

There’s so much in here but a few highlights include:

• A lot of dance and trance music from the Armada Music label
• The Spanish label Blanco y Negro Music added a lot of tracks
• The Belgian aggregator NEWS has been included, they focus on dance/club music
• Two Dancers by Wild Beasts

Today’s update was so large it’s split into two sheets which still barely held the whole list. The first one has artists A-K and K-Z. I’ve also attached a full text file in case anyone prefers downloading that. As with every update not all albums listed may be available in your country and some tracks previously available may no longer be playable due to regional restrictions.

Let us know if you find any gems in today’s update.

Just a small update today to our music catalogue to let you know about. We added 259 albums and singles, in total 2,168 new tracks are now available.

A highlight includes a number of releases off the Sound Explosion label.

For a full listing of today’s additions please have a look at the Google Doc. As with every update not all albums listed may be available in your country and some tracks previously available may no longer be playable due to regional restrictions.

Quite a bit of excitement yesterday but we still managed to update our music catalogue. We added 494 albums and singles, in total 5,464 new tracks are now available.

A few highlights include:

• Lungs by Florence + The Machine is now up in the UK
• Back & Fourth by Pete Yorn
• Yawiquo by Sax Ruins

For a full listing of today’s additions please have a look at the Google Doc. As with every update not all albums listed may be available in your country and some tracks previously available may no longer be playable due to regional restrictions.