One of the last remaining music streaming holdouts has relented

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5th Rock en Seine music festival. Us band Tool performing live Photo by Eric CATARINA/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images

Alongside the announcement of its first new album in over a decade, the rock band Tool has said that its catalog will finally be available to stream and to purchase digitally on August 2nd. In an Instagram post first spotted by Pitchfork, the band said its albums would available on “all digital and streaming formats,” which is expected to include the likes of Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora, and Amazon Prime Music.

Until now, Tool has been one of the biggest artists to refuse to sell its music digitally. However, over the years the band’s position has become more and more isolated, as the likes of The Beatles, Metallica, AC/DC, and Led Zeppelin have all caved one by one and allowed their music to be steamed as part of a monthly...

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source https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/30/20746735/tool-music-spotify-apple-music-digital-streaming

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