Last.fm Announces Exclusive Global Premiere of New Portishead Album
Sociable Music Network Will Offer Portishead's Third in its Integrality for
Free-On-Demand Cyclosis, One Week In front Functionary Spill
New House of York and Greater London, April 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Last.fm
announced today that Portishead's long-awaited newly record album, Third base, will be
made alone available on the site, in its entirety, for free from
April 21, a calendar week earlier its official going.
Third base is the Bristol band's get-go studio album in 11 years, and from each one of
its 11 tracks volition be made available for liberate, full-length, on-demand
streaming on Cobbler's last.fm for 7 days lead up the functionary departure on April
28.
Martin Stiksel, Finis.fm cofounder, said: "We're enormously proud to be
able to host the premier of an album that caps a trilogy of modern
classics from Portishead, one of the near innovative and influential bands
the U.K.'s ever produced. It means a hatful to us, as Portishead was the first
creative person we of all time uploaded to Last.fm, and "Cowboys" from their instant album
was the kickoff running e'er played when we went live in 2002. So it's enormously
earmark that we kick off what aims to be an ongoing series of exclusive
album previews with the band that helped us kick off Last.fm."
The album will be available from Mon, April 21 at:
Cobbler's last.fm/music/portishead/third.
This is the first time that Last.fm, which offers dislodge admission to the
largest licensed catalogue of music on the Web, has collaborated with an
mortal artist to only prime minister an album before its official
acquittance. Completely of Portishead's previous albums are too available to watercourse
in full for free at Death.fm/music/portishead.
Currently the fastest-growing liberate medicine Web site in the US, Last.fm
will be offer more exclusive album premieres throughout 2008 and beyond.
About Final stage.fm
Founded in 2002, Last.fm is the largest global free music platform on
the web. Last.fm canful offer music fans millions of tracks in every music genre for
free-on-demand cyclosis thanks to partnerships with Universal, EMI, Charles Dudley Warner
Music Group, Sony BMG, CD Infant, freelancer aggregators The Grove and
IODA, and more than 150,000 free lance artists and labels -- without the
motivation to sign up or download any software package. As well as being able to access code
tracks for free -- a help which has seen Last.fm become the
fastest-growing liberate online music network in the U.S. -- music fans can buoy
besides part their music preferences by linking their media musician to the
Last.fm database. As a effect, Last.fm can intelligently recommend songs,
artists, local anesthetic concerts and even other members based on their musical comedy
tastes. Last.fm too supports unsigned artists by offering them an
unprecedented Artist Royal house programme through which they canful take in tax revenue
directly from Last.fm every time their music is streamed. Get wind more about
Cobbler's last.fm at hTTP://www.last.fm.
