World of Hellreject

This might not be news to some of you, but to others it might be quite the piece of bad news.

Last.fm will start charging you money for streaming music from their website. The reason, supposedly, is that it’s just too darn expensive to run such a service without having a steady income from the users.

Any user living outside of the United States, the United Kingdom or Germany will have to pay a monthly fee of €3 to be able to stream music. Shocker. According to their blog post, any user will be given 30 songs for free before they will have to start paying for the service.

Other functions like scrobbling, playlists, reccomendations, artist biographies, events and videos is going to stay free to use however, which is great. And to be honest, it’s the only thing I’m using Last.fm for, so to me this change isn’t so bad. Others out there might not be as happy though.

I received a facebook message yesterday, saying that the debut album by swedish metal band Dead by April is availible. The method of obtaining it however isn’t as standard as you think.

Sometime in May, DBA will be touring Sweden, playing three great shows. And guess what, the album itself is the concert ticket! If you buy the album, you will get one free concert ticket with the album. Translated message from DBA below:

*/ Dead by April will have three major release parties in May.

The new album is the ticket!
Buy the album via http://www.ticnet.se
or http://www.debaser.se
and get a free concert ticket with it !!
Limited availability, so get it now !!
Be sure to check the age restriction on the clubs before you order..

14th of May, Stockholm Debaser slussen

15th of May Malmö KB

16th of May Göteborg Sticky Fingers
More info on http://www.myspace.com/dbaswe /*

So, if you really want the album, go to one of the above sites and order away. But do note, both websites are in swedish, so be prepared to translate if you have to.