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Sounds of the Summer 2011 Spotify Playlist

The best summer listening, as chosen by List music critics

25 May 2011

The List: Sounds of the Summer Playlist 2011 You've bought your sausages, you've scrubbed your charred old BBQ back to shiny, chrome perfection, and you've invited your most lithe and beautiful friends around to your back garden. Everything's in…

Spotify playlist: Young guns

The best tracks by young artists, featuring Prince, Depeche Mode, Laura Marling and more

3 Mar 2011

Spotify playlist: Young Guns Many artists spend years honing their craft, slowly carving out a reputation though relentless touring, learning as much as they can from serial failure and rejection. There are some however that just hit their stride…

Music highlights of 2009

7 Jan 2010

Best bit of something for nothing When Spotify let UK users sign up for free this February, the floodgates were open for hours of random music searches. (Beatles, Fugazi, Metallica, no; Battles, Can, Phantom Band, yes) Non-stop, customised radio – and…

Spotify playlist: Bonfire night

5 Nov 2009

We've created a Spotify playlist for Bonfire night / Fireworks night / Guy Fawkes night - whatever you'd like to call it. Join us in a musical journey from the initial Sparks, through Ring of Fire to Catherine Wheel, Silver Rocket, Song for Guy, Play…

Music In The Digital Age

Technology's impact on the artform

2 Oct 2009

To paraphrase the Creme Egg adverts, when it comes to music, how do you hear yours? Streaming over the internet? Nicking stuff from torrents on the web? A bag full of goodies from Fopp? Crates of obscure vinyl from your local specialist…

How It Works: Spotify

Deconstructing the phenomenon

1 Oct 2009

Spotify is a streaming program which lets users listen to music online for free. There are currently about 3.8 million tracks available to a user base of over one million. You can ‘stream’ as many tracks as you like, and unlike the download sites which…

We Like...

6 Aug 2009

This week, we like Radiohead’s back catalogue finally coming to Spotify, and Charlie Brooker’s panel show. Just because we do. We also like wearing sweetie necklaces in celebration of classic Glasgow sweet shop I Love Candy opening up an Edinburgh…

2009 Mercury Prize shortlist announced

Kasabian, The Horrors, Bat For Lashes and others. Plus Spotify playlist

21 Jul 2009

The shortlist for this year's Mercury Prize - the annual £20,000 award for the best album by British and Irish artists - was revealed this morning. The twelve albums nominated were announced by Lauren Laverne at The Hospital club in London's Convent…