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'.