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We7 gets a facelift!

This week on We7 we’ve a brand new homepage design with some very special new features – all intended to make your free music listening experience even better!

We’re introducing advert-free days, as a reward to our most loyal users.  You’ll see the bar in the top right of the screen, next to the "sign in" link, this will fill up the more you use the site.  When you reach the top you’ve earned 24hrs of advert-free listening!

You can easily share the music of your favourite artists with a simple, new copy and paste code on each artist page.  You can also create your own playlists and share them with your friends – if alot of people listen, it could even make our playlist chart.  Popular playlists are now featured on the new-look homepage.

One of this week’s most popular playlists is our BRIT’s Winners, highlighting all the top tracks from this year’s victors – Duffy, Kings of Leon, Paul Weller, Girls Aloud, Elbow, Katy Perry, Kanye West, Iron Maiden, Florence and the Machine and "Outstanding Contribution to Music" recipients Pet Shop Boys.

Also on We7 we have an Introduction to U2, in anticipation of their forthcoming album release "No Line On The Horizon" – which will be available for streaming for free next Monday.  The intro is a breakdown of the most influential albums which span their 30 years in music, including The Joshua Tree and All That You Can’t Leave Behind.

And finally, announced today is our partnership with legendary music news and features site NME.com.  The NME are using the We7 playlist widget on news stories covering specific artists – so now you can listen to them whilst reading about them!  You can read more on the Guardian Media section.

Have a great week!

The We7 Team

New Releases 16.02.09

This week on We7 you can listen for free, to the highly anticipated, ninth solo album from Morrissey – Years Of Refusal.  Featuring his latest single release I’m Throwing My Arms Around Paris, Morrissey has described this record as his “strongest work to date”. 

ClashMusic has commented that it is “in a word brilliant”, with Pitchfork giving it an 8.1 and Spin a four star rating.

The Days release the first single No Ties from their forthcoming album, due to be out this Spring.  We’ve got an exclusive interview with the boys from Devon, on becoming a four-piece and the new single and album.  We also recommend a comedy viewing of their cover of Usher’s Love In This Club on their Myspace!

We also love to write about new and emerging music at We7, and this week our top pick comes from Natalie Williams presents: Soul Family Volume one.  This album brings you a selection of some of the most respected and accomplished, but not necessarily well know, UK live soul vocalists and musicians on the scene today.  Featured artists include Nate James, Vula and Sharlene Hector (Basement Jaxx) and Lucy Silvas and Tawiah.

Also out today is the Official Soundtrack for Notorious, the Biggie Smalls biopic film.  It features a majority of his well known tracks, such as Hypnotise and One More Chance, as well as some unreleased demos and tributes from Jadakiss and his widow Faith Evans.  A must listen for any Hip Hop fan.

And finally, in our Playlist section you will find featured playlists of this year’s BRITs Nominees and for those partial to a bit of air guitar you can rock out to Essential Tracks featuring guitar legends from Hendrix, The Stones and GnR, to Dire Straits.

Happy Listening!

The We7 Team

Love Love Love

As it’s Valentine’s Day this Saturday, we thought we’d bring the romantic side out of our Twitter friends by getting their favourite love songs in a featured playlist.  It’s quite an eclectic mix of classic luurvve and some randoms, including Slipknot (!? Yes we know, but it’s actually an acoustic heartfelt track) and Public Image Ltd (featuring punk frontman John Lydon).

We’ve also put together some of our own Valentine’s playlists including Pop, Classics and Rock.  We’re all about sharing the love at We7, so you can create your own mixtape for your loved one and send it to them by email, with a special Valentine’s message. 

Get started now - just log in, create a new playlist and search and click ”+“ for the songs you want.  Then click the ”share” button and you’re ready to spread the love!

You can find more help and tips here.

All you need is love!

The We7 Team x

New Releases 09.02.09

Now we’ve gotten over the blizzards of last week, being snowed in and cancelled transport, it’s time to look forward to the new releases that are available to listen to for free on We7 this week! 

Of course the one we’re all talking about is Lily Allen’s new album It’s Not Me, It’s You, the follow up to her 2006 debut Alright, Still. 

Lily cites Coldplay, Keane and New Order as big influences on this record, but admits to being very anxious at its release:  "You have a whole lifetime to create your first record, but then there is all this pressure to get the second one out".

There are 12 pop-perfected tracks for you to listen to, with some of Lily’s trademark ska sounds and jazz fusion. The Fear, the first release from the album is currently at the No 1 spot in the UK singles charts, so get listening for free now!

Also out this week is Morrissey’s new single I’m Throwing My Arms Around Paris. We’ll have his long awaited album release “Years of Refusal” available to listen to for free from next Monday.

Don’t forget to check out our Playlist section to listen to themed and topical playlists, including The Brit Award Nominees, Valentine’s Classics, and a celebration of John Martyn’s work, after his passing on January 29^th.

What do you reckon to this week’s new releases? Leave a comment below, and let us know what music you’re into this week!