I’ve put together a Spotify playlist especially for those barbecues or garden cocktail parties, for lazing in the garden or chilling at the beach.

I believe that it’s called Al Fresco – on Spotify

So, pop a bottle and get the BBQ fired up – these tunes should keep the head nodding as the sun blazes down.

What are you listening to?

A quick round up of high quality music found on Spotify – originally from my Twitter stream.

• Fink – Live at in Session at KCRW : http://bit.ly/9qrqaF – lovely laid back guitars.
• Kelis – Flesh Tone : http://bit.ly/bVHse8 – future funk
• Funky Porcini – Go on : http://bit.ly/cSd4Uo -   lovely chilled electronica

What are you listening to at the moment?

A round up of great music you should be listening to – via my tweets – you can find me on Twitter here.

• John Grant – Queen of Denmark on #spotify : http://bit.ly/abMBaR – one of the best voices in music is back, with Midlake
• The Mynabirds – What we lose in the Fire, We gain in the Flood on #spotify : http://bit.ly/9MBvft
• The National – High Violet on #spotify : http://bit.ly/9ZDs6y
• The Bird and The Bee – Ray Guns are not just the Future on #Spotify : http://bit.ly/aRVr71 – marvellous lofi pop songs

All available to listen for free on Spotify.

What are you listening to at the moment? Any recommendations?

This weeks top music tweets:

• Sophie Zelmani – I’m the rain on http://bit.ly/az523I – late night, chilled out singer songwriter…
• Lovely Electronica – a Spotify playlist full of blissed out, relaxing sounds @ http://bit.ly/asF1IT
• Kathryn Williams – The Quickening : http://bit.ly/aZu2wq – lovely folky album
• Retro moment : Pulp – Different Class http://bit.ly/c0svhU – classic Jarvis, they don’t make them like this anymore

What are you listening to? I’m MattR on Spotify.

This weeks top music tweets:

• Excellent – new Turin Brakes album ‘Outbursts’ on #spotify : http://bit.ly/cmTekz #nowlistening
• Listening to Team Ghost ‘You never did anything wrong to me EP’ – lovely french shoegazey sound : http://bit.ly/8ZUn3p
• #nowlistening Anais Mitchell – Hadestown : http://bit.ly/a0IPZy – a folk opera, very interesting
• Listening to Delorean – Subiza on #spotify http://bit.ly/cKn7tP – nice spanish synthpop album… sung in english, light and summery!

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My favourite music streaming site has had a major upgrade today – version 0.43 of the client software adds a number of cool features, amongst them:

• Connect to Facebook – lots of sites adding this at the moment.
• Social Network inside Spotify – so you can connect to people who are using the service (I’m MattR by the way)
• Local Files can be added! So the 30gig of music on my work laptop doesn’t need to be played through a seperate player

The full list of features is here.

The update starts rolling out to clients today – looking forward to checking this out.

Musical Tweet roundup from this week:

• New Kate Nash album (My best friend is you) is now on #Spotify – http://bit.ly/9wrHDz – listening now.
• excellent album ‘Swim’ by Caribou on #spotify now : http://bit.ly/atwkFC – you should really be listening to this…
• The Czars seem complete on #spotify now – http://bit.ly/aPopY5 – #nowplaying Sorry I made you Cry
• New Paul Weller album ‘Wake up the Nation’ http://bit.ly/9MyeVY on #spotify #nowplaying
• New Robyn Track… Fembot, now on #Spotify : http://bit.ly/aEFnSk – lovely stuff… cannot wait for the album

What are you listening to? Follow me on Twitter