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Last.fm Radio will require a subscription fee

Sunday 29 March 2009

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Last.fm Radio will require a subscription fee. Nothing will change in the United States, United Kingdom and Germany.

From Last.fm blog

We’re announcing an upcoming change to the way Last.fm Radio works in some parts of the world. In the United States, United Kingdom and Germany, nothing will change. In all other countries, listening to Last.fm Radio will soon require a subscription of €3.00 per month. [...] Everything else on Last.fm (scrobbling, recommendations, charts, biographies, events, videos etc.) will remain free in all countries, like it is now.

Since [...] 2002 we have focused on playing the right songs to the right people, compensating artists for playing their music, and being the best music site on the web. [...] We’ve built up the largest catalogue of any web radio platform: over 7 million tracks are available on Last.fm Radio stations.

In order to keep providing the best radio service on the web, we need to ask our listeners from countries other than USA, UK and Germany to subscribe for €3.00 per month. In return you’ll get unlimited access to Last.fm Radio, and a promise that we’ll be hard at work improving the service for years to come.

Oren Lavie – Her Morning Elegance

Thursday 26 March 2009
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I was searching for stop motion videos, and I found this wonderful song. The video is amazing. I can’t stop listening this song these days. Plus this music video has come in to recent popularity on Digg.

Oren Lavie is the author of the song and also the man on the video. He is a singer-songwriter and theatre director.

[...] At the core of his melody-oriented compositions there is always the piano or the guitar with his singing, enriched by string arrangements (cello solo, quartet, chamber orchestra) and various, mainly non-electronical instruments added occasionally, giving each of the songs a unique style and color. [...] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oren_Lavie

I hope you’ll enjoy this video and have a relaxant listening.