James Blake released a new full-length album last year, Playing Robots Into Heaven, and he’s since sounded off about the music industry and teamed up with a direct-to-fan music platform. Yesterday, he released a new single, “Thrown Around,” his first in quite a while as an independent artist. (His most recent album ...

"I've wanted to take things into my own hands for a long time"The post James Blake is now an independent artist appeared first on NME.

"You shouldn’t get to profit from our trauma without helping with the pitfalls of it"The post James Blake says major labels “should be required to provide a therapist to their artists” appeared first on NME.

Earlier this month, James Blake talked about the dire economics of the music industry and how streaming services don’t pay enough for artists to survive. Yesterday, Blake helped launch Vault, a direct-to-fan music platform where listeners can pay a fee to hear unreleased material from the artists that participate. Blake was approached ...

“This is hopefully a great step towards allowing artists to be as authentic as possible whilst still making a living”The post James Blake finds “solution” to streaming, shares unheard tracks on new platform Vault appeared first on NME.