“My guts are all over these songs,” Duritz said.

Counting Crows, who amicably left longtime label Geffen Records in 2009 to make music independently, will release their first full-length in four years — titled “Underwater Sunshine (or What We Did on Our Summer Vacation)” — on April 10. But fans will get a first listen long before, when the Bay-area band streams the covers album in its entirety through Spotify and elsewhere online, including select radio stations.

 ”We don’t want to keep it from people, I think we want to get it to people,” frontman Adam Duritz told Billboard.com about the record, comprised of mostly obscure covers from Bob Dylan, Big Star, The Faces and more (full track-listing below).

 ”You can either try to treat the Internet like it is a big drain sucking your profit down the tubes, or you can realize it’s also a conduit,” he said. “There’s got to be a better way than just bemoaning the loss.”

(read the full article here, at billboard.com)

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