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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 by Vault after his social media posts about the industry went viral.
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James Blake: – “A Case Of You” Video (Feat. Rebecca Hall)
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The entire video for James Blake’s cover of Joni Mitchell’s “A Case Of You” consists of the actress Rebecca Hall, who played Ben Affleck’s Stockholm Syndrome girlfriend in The Town, running through various different emotional states in the same bedroom. The dramatic lighting helps a bit, but the ...
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James Blake: – “At Birth”
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James Blake has a new EP called Love What Happened Here arriving next month. Last week, we posted his track “Curbside.” And below, we’ve got another one, a relatively restrained beat-driven instrumental called “At Birth.” Listen to a radio rip of it below. James Blake – At Birth (R&...
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James Blake: – “Curbside”
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James Blake has already released one album and one EP this year, and now he’s planning to squeeze in one more EP before 2011 ends. The new three-track offering Love What Happened Here is expected to arrive in late December. Below, check out “Curbside,” an off-kilter, beat-driven track from the EP with a very early-&...
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James Blake: Stream James Blake Enough Thunder
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Enough Thunder, the new EP from the electronic pop prodigy James Blake, is out now, and we’ve already heard a bunch of tracks from it. And now the entire thing is streaming over at ABEANO, or at least it will be once that site’s traffic slows down a bit and you can actually get it [...]
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James Blake: – “Fear To Fear”
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An unreleased James Blake track called “Fear To Fear” is making the internet rounds today, and nobody seems to know if and when the track will turn up on any sort of release. The song is an instrumental, and a pretty straightforward downtempo dance jam at that, with little of the sample-flipping trickery that Blake [...]
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