LIVING THE STREAM, UPDATE: The Civil Wars’ new sensibility/Columbia album, due out next Tuesday, began streaming at iTunes yesterday, immediately re-igniting pre-orders that returned the album to the Top 30 and have now powered it to #12. Pre-orders for physical product at Amazon have driven the set to #7. Streaming really works, you see ... if it's good. Meanwhile, the track "From This Valley” is getting big play at SiriusXM’s The Highway Country channel.Rapturous reviews are pouring in, too; American Songwriter calls the album "even better than their Grammy-winning debut... absolutely gorgeous – the definition of transcendent," while Will Hermes' 3 1/2-star Rolling Stone review notes their "gorgeous timbres and harmonies." VEVO premieres the lyric video for “From This Valley” tomorrow. (7/31p)
GRAMMY CHEW: THE
PRE-GRAMMY BOUNCE Let's hear it for ironic guitar-smashing. (3/2a)
SOUNDCLOUD BANKS
ON FAN DEVOTION A new approach to leveling the playing field (3/2a)
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BLACK HISTORY MONTH
A jazz chronicle of fighting the power.
GRAMMYS: WHERE TO FROM HERE?
After the snubs, the show.
ACQUITTED
In a phenomenal display of cowardice.
MOVING THE NEEDLE
When vaccination schedules and touring schedules meet.
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