New Prince Song Hits Web

Funky track surfaces for one day then, apparently, disappears.

By Fred Mills

Rollingstone.com is reporting on a track called "There Will Never B Another 1 Like Me" from Prince that surface last night on a website called Mplsound (www.mplsound.com). The six-minute track is described as a "return to the funk, similar to that fan-baiting "PFUnk" that popped up last year and the Black Album, but without the weird vocals."

According to the report the aforementioned website displays a "full screen of eye-hurting purple" while the song streams. However, as of this writing it's only displaying a black screen, with no sound whatsoever, so it appears that His Purpleness has already taking the track down. Might be worth checking it out from time to time, however.

Meanwhile, earlier this week Prince previewed three other tracks over L.A. FM station Indie 103: a cover of "Crimson & Clover" plus a "laid back guitar joint" called "Colorized Mind" and a track of "more guitar virtuosity" called "Wall of Berlin." Prince is reportedly done with his next album and in the process of finding a home for it. According to a spokesman at the radio station, Prince "wants nothing to do with record labels, so he's meeting with people to figure out how to operate at his level without a record label."

Er, indie artists all over the planet are doing that already, Mr. Nelson. No reason you can't join the party.