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CMU’s One Liners: YouTube Red, Spotify, Rage Against The Machine, more

By Andy Malt | Published on Thursday 19 May 2016

Other notable announcements and developments today…

• YouTube’s Red subscription offer has launched in Australia, so for a monthly fee of AUS$11.99 folks down under can strip the site of ads.

• Until recently Universal Music’s Global Head Of Digital Business, Francis Keeling is now Global Head Of Licensing at Spotify. So that’s fun, isn’t it?

• Rage Against The Machine are doing something. Possibly with Chuck D. Possibly not with all four members of the band.

• Imagine a world where Willow Smith is making music with Michael Cera. Stop imagining, you already live in that world.

• Richard Ashcroft has made a new video. He hopes you will watch it (it is for the song ‘Hope’).

• BadBadNotGood have announced that they will release their new album ‘IV’ on 8 Jul. Here’s the first single ‘Time Moves Slow’, featuring Sam Herring of Future Islands

• Highasakite have released a video for latest single ‘Golden Ticket’. They’ll be playing three headline shows following their Great Escape appearance this week, including at Village Underground in London on 24 May.

• Marcus Whale has released a new single, ‘Vapour’. His debut solo album, ‘Inland Sea’, is due out on 10 Jun.

• Japanese rock group Band-Maid will release their debut international album ‘Brand New Maid’ on 17 Jun. Here’s opening track ‘The Non-Fiction Days’.

• Becky Hill has apparently never played a headline show before, which surely can’t be right. Well, she definitely will have after 2 Nov, when she plays Electrowerkz in London. Here’s new single ‘Back To My Love’.