“The crew of NASA’s final space shuttle mission closed the hatch to the International Space Station for the final time on Monday in preparation for the shuttle’s last flight back to Earth.” Beautiful slideshow:
“Since 04:00 GMT on Sunday morning, the primary Radb service has been exhibiting intermittent problems meeting acceptable service levels. This means that libraries, scrobble counts and the services associated with them (stats, radio stations etc) appear to be broken when you use Last.fm.
We’re working very hard to fix this as soon as possible, and we’ve had engineers on it throughout yesterday and last night, but we wanted to keep you posted here with what’s happened and what we know so far.”
UPDATE: Spotify has confirmed it will launch in the U.S. on Thursday, June 14. In an email sent Wednesday afternoon, a spokesperson wrote that Spotify “will become available tomorrow morning in the United States by invitation and subscription.” The company plans to release more details Thursday morning at 8 a.m. EDT.
Jesus… as if the new self-titled Bon Iver album wasn’t good enough (it is—it’s astonishing, see comments below)… the making of the beautiful cover artwork was painstakingly documented by the artist, Gregory Euclide:
“Hello friends, inviting you to “Like” my new Facebook musician page Mike Shupp Music, and download my previous CD releases for free this week (ending Sun, 7/17). I will be posting future updates and new music here first.
The digital downloads are available by song or full album (albums include a PDF Liner Notes booklet), and are…”