
- Madonna will make her new album Hard Candy downloadable to European owners of Vodafone cell phones a week before the album is due to hit stores on April 29th. The Material Girl, who in the past has shunned iTunes, will be the first artist to release their album via cell phone before the actual release date. No plans have been made yet for a similar release in the U.S.
- Matador Records have posted their Spring ‘08 Intended Play sampler for free download. The sampler features cuts from Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks, Cat Power, the New Pornographers and more.
- Check out the video for Portishead’s “Machine Gun,” the first single from the band’s upcoming and long-awaited third album Third. The video is the band’s first in nine years.
- The LA Times revealed, and then retracted, a report that Prince will perform at this year’s Coachella festival during the April 25th weekend. Festival organizers said those reports were “absolutely not true.”

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