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Marc Rebillet to Star in “Talk Show Inside of a Sitcom” On Amazon Music
You better watch Marc Rebillet‘s new show or he will be very upset with you. Coming this week to Amazon Music‘s Twitch channel is a new biweekly show hosted by Rebillet, affectionately known as Loop Daddy. Titled We’ve Got Company, the program will feature special guests, gaming, audience interaction, and of course, some improvised performances from Rebillet and his friends. Described by Rebillet as “a talk show inside of sitcom,” the first episode of We’ve Got Company will feature an appearance from the multimedia mastermind Flying Lotus filmed in the style of those classic, comforting TV shows. Considering the duo’s penchant for absurdity and Rebillet’s tendency to shed his clothing, we can already imagine how much the executives who g...
Amazon Music Unlimited: Get 3 Months Free With This Limited Deal
Amazon began raising the price of Prime memberships on Friday (Feb. 18), but the increase hasn’t affected the cost of Amazon Music Unlimited. Amazon is currently offering an amazing streaming deal that probably won’t last long, so if you’ve been thinking of joining Amazon Music Unlimited, this limited promo might be too good to pass up. For a limited time, new subscribers can enjoy Amazon Unlimited Music for free for the first three months. The subscription includes HD streaming at no extra cost, plus unlimited access to 90 million on-demand and commercial-free songs, thousands of stations and top playlists, along with millions of podcast episodes. Traveling soon? Amazon Music Unlimited lets you stay connected even when you’re flying the friendly skies. Listen offline with unlimited skips ...
Neil Young’s Partnership to Offer Free Amazon Music Shows Limits of Spotify Stand
Neil Young followed up his withdraw from Spotify last week by entering what appears to be a partnership with Amazon Music, offering his fans a free four-month trial and demonstrating the narrow scope of his activist stand. The legendary songwriter had given the Big Green Circle an ultimatum — stop platforming Joe Rogan’s COVID-19 misinformation, or he’d take his business elsewhere. Spotify chose Rogan; no surprise, considering they had reportedly invested more than $100 million to make his podcast Spotify exclusive. But the decision sparked a chain reaction that saw #CancelSpotify trend on Twitter, as other icons such as Joni Mitchell and Nils Lofgren of Crazy Horse and the E Street Band pulled their own music in solidarity with Young. Spotify lost $4 billion in market value in l...
Swedish House Mafia, REZZ, RÜFÜS DU SOL, More Curate New Year’s Eve Playlists for Amazon: Listen
Whether you’ll be ringing in 2022 from the club, your couch or your parents’ couch, a new playlist initiative by Amazon Music has guaranteed your speakers will stay thumping ’til midnight, no matter the setting. The “Choose Your New Year’s Eve DJ” series includes 13 sonically diverse playlists curated by some of the scene’s top artists, including REZZ, RÜFÜS DU SOL, TOKiMONSTA and Moore Kismet. Swedish House Mafia contributed an exclusive extended mix of “Moth to a Flame” (with The Weeknd) to their selections, and Sonny Fodera added a never-before-heard VIP remix of “Silhouettes” (with Poppy Baskcomb) to his tracklist. The endeavor also includes a 67-minute collection by Above & Beyond, which includes Anjunabeats and Anjunadeep re...
Above & Beyond Partner With Amazon Music to Share Playlist of Songs Remixed In Spatial Audio
Immersive and spatial audio are becoming the next step forward in audio. Trance group Above & Beyond have now teamed up with Amazon Music to share remixes in Dolby Atmos’ spatial audio format. Reworked tracks include “Almost Home,” “Screwdriver,” and “1995” by gardenstate. When listening to the album, take note of how various synths and percussive instruments are placed in the mix. The percussion seems larger, synths have more room to move amongst the melodies, and time-based effects (like delay and reverb) fill in the space much more fluidly, giving the tracks a totally new feel. Listen to Above & Beyond and Amazon Music’s spatial audio playlist below. Recommended Articles Spatial audio is a new form of technology that brin...
Kanye West & Drake’s Larry Hoover Benefit Concert Will Stream On Amazon Platforms
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Ye / Instagram The long-awaited benefit concert that Kanye West is organizing which features Drake will now be available to fans worldwide, thanks to a deal with Amazon. In a press release issued on Tuesday (December 7th), Amazon Music and Prime Video announced that their platforms will be exclusively streaming the concert in honor of Larry Hoover, which is organized and headlined by Kanye. The Free Larry Hoover Benefit Concert, which will feature Drake as a special guest on December 9th is set to take place at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Prime Video will host the live stream of the event for all of its 240 million customers, and it will also be streamed on Amazon Music’s app and its Twitch channel. The concert will also be streamed at select ...
Spotify, Amazon, and Pandora Propose Even Lower Streaming Royalty Rates
Like a twisted game of limbo, songwriters and artists are constantly asked to go lower and lower, and only the streaming companies win. As Billboard reports, on October 21st, several major streamers filed to the US Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) proposing royalty rates for 2023-2027. Three of the biggest platforms — Spotify, Amazon, and Pandora — are recommending a significant reduction in royalty rates over the 2018–2022 period. These upcoming four years, 2023-2027, are known as CRB Phonorecords IV, denoting the fourth period of rate determination. It follows Phonorecords I for 2008–2012, Phonorecords II from 2013–2017, and Phonorecords III from 2018-2022. Phonorecords III represented an increase over the previous two periods, escalating over time and culminating in a r...
Amazon Launches Free Prime Membership for Students, Plus Music Streaming from 99 Cents
Amazon Prime Student Discounts Here are some of the other Amazon deals and discounts for students for 2021. 1. Music Streaming New to Amazon’s Prime Student program is the ability to access Amazon Music Unlimited for just $0.99/month which includes free access to Amazon Music HD — the highest-quality streaming audio you can currently find online. 2. TV and Movie Streaming Your Prime membership already gets you access to all of Amazon Prime Video, which includes shows like The Boys, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Making the Cut and hundreds of other shows and movies. Want to upgrade your streaming channels? Prime Student members can also add Prime Video channels for just $0.99/month (normally $3.99 to $10.99/month). Channels available at the 99-cent price-point include SHOWTIME, Epi...
ZHU Drops Amazon Summer Session Playlist Featuring New Single “Z-Train”
Just days ago, news dropped that ZHU will soon drop three new tracks celebrating the 25th anniversary of Pokémon. Now, he’s already back with another new dose of music. In a partnership with Amazon Music, the enigmatic producer released a 27-track “Summer Session” playlist, featuring some of his favorite summertime hits. In case that wasn’t enough for fans, the opening track on the playlist is a new single titled “Z-Train,” released exclusively on the platform. In true ZHU fashion, the track starts off with an otherworldly, atmospheric intro, before twinkly keys take center stage. The train then derails and speeds into a neon-soaked beat before closing out with some bright synths. The final product is appropriately titled as the whole song feels lik...
An Amazon Music Subscription Now Includes Free Access to Disney+
The new Amazon Disney+ deal gets you access to Amazon Music Unlimited, which has more than 75 million songs available to stream online, plus thousands of playlists and stations. Your Amazon Music subscription lets you listen without any ads or interruptions, and you can download the songs to listen offline too (say, when you don’t have WiFi or service). Now, your Amazon Music Unlimited plan will also get you access to the Disney+ roster of shows and movies, including Loki, WandaVision, Hamilton and more. An Amazon Music Unlimited subscription is just $7.99 a month for Amazon Prime members (it’s $9.99 a month without Prime). New subscribers to Amazon Music Unlimited will get the full six months of Disney+ for free; current plan holders will get three months of free Disney+ acces...
Amazon Music Drops HD Tier to $9.99, Shaking Up Hi-Fi Streaming Market
Amazon’s success with its HD service, which has grown 100% year-over-year, has pushed Spotify to announce a Hi-Fi tier as well, with rumors of an Apple Music Hi-Fi plan possibly also priced at $9.99 a month. For years, the music industry was focused on using high-fidelity audio streaming as a means to raise the average revenue per user with higher-priced subscriptions. That would mean bigger payouts for rights holders and the streaming services. But with Amazon, Spotify, and Apple all getting in on the high-fidelity push, the labels have become more amenable to lowering the price of high-fidelity tiers in the hopes of increasing the overall number of subscribers across the industry. “The other services are coming around to the fact that this is really important.” Boom says. “And that ...
This New Video Streaming Service Wants to Be Your Go-To for Filmed Music Content
Spinello and his founding team, which also includes John McDermott and Janie Hendrix of Experience Hendrix, Yoko Ono and the John Lennon estate and entertainment lawyer Jonas Herbsman, are now looking to shake up the old paradigm with an all-access subscription model that uses the power and reach of the Amazon distribution network to bring legacy video content in music — much of it rare and some it never before seen — to a larger audience than ever before. Launching today in the U.S. and slated to roll out to the rest of the world over the next year, Coda Collection has buy-in from most of the major players in music: Content partners at launch include all three major labels (Sony Music is an equity partner in the new venture), Rhino Entertainment, Concord Music, Mercury Studios...
