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iTunes Match Now Available via iTunes Update

iTunes Match Now Available via iTunes Update
Apple’s long-touted iTunes Match is finally available. Users can access it by downloading the iTunes 10.5.1 update. iTunes Match was announced alongside iCloud at WWDC in June. The service allows users to upload up to 25,000 non-iTunes songs to Apple’s servers for easy access from …

Great article about making money from music - HERE

Details about the new Black Keys record HERE

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New Atlas Sound! From Pitchfork: Deerhunter frontman Bradford Cox has slowly been unveiling bits of Parallax, the forthcoming album from his Atlas Sound project. We’ve heard ”Terra Incognito”, ”Te Amo”, and ”Modern Aquatic Nightsongs”. Today, via via Fluxblog (which is run by Pitchfork contributor Matthew Perpetua), we’ve got ”Amplifiers”. Stream the track below.

Parallax is out November 8 in the U.S. and November 7 in the UK through 4AD.

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN

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Pretty awesome new band called The Alabama Shakes (used to be called The Shakes)

Here’s the second song, Back in the Crowd from Tom Waits’ new record. Wow. 

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Bon Iver covering Bob Dylan’s “God on Your Side.” - pretty awesome. Live.

HERE

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Hear Jack White cover Hank Williams! Pretty awesome. It’s from the upcoming tribute record out tomorrow. From Rolling Stone: The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams, a new collection of previously unheard songs performed by the country great recorded by artists including Bob Dylan, Jack White, Norah Jones and Levon Helm. The songs in the set were rescued from notebooks left behind by Williams after he died in 1953 at the age of 29, but were completed by the artists, who each put their own distinct spin on the raw material. Jack White’s “You Know That I Know” is a highlight of the set that finds the White Stripes frontman tapping into the country folk magic of Williams’ body of work while staying true to his own voice. The album will hit stores tomorrow, but you can preview the song today. CLICK HERE TO STREAM AT ROLLING STONE

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Watch Roger Waters perform In the Flesh with Foo Fighters on Jimmy Fallon. Pretty awesome! Way better than the poop-fest that’s coming out of Metallica and Lou Reed. Sorry for the advertisement, thanks NBC, you corporate square.