Fresh after removing their catalog from Spotify, members of the musical super group Atoms for Peace, including Radiohead's Thom Yorke and producer Niles Godrich, appear to be putting their weight behind the Soundhalo music service. Atoms for Peace will stream two live shows on the fledgling platform on July 25 and 26.
Soundhalo is hardly a direct competitor to Spotify, however. Whereas Spotify has built a dubiously successful business model built around streaming whole albums for free, Soundhalo offers videos of live performances for pay.
Currently, the service—which has the tagline "Watch, download and share artist endorsed live music as it happens"—boasts a limited number of offerings. Right now, users have only two sets from indie-brit quartet Alt-J (whose Spotify page you can find here—heh) to choose from.
As for pricing, one of Alt-J's available performances at the O2 Academy Brixton in London, from May 17, is available for purchase for $12, or individual songs can be purchased for $1.50. Files can be downloaded as mp4s or "high res format" across all devices.
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