It’s been a few weeks since launching Mercury Music, Rawkblog’s digital record club, and I’ve been really pleased to see it take off. We’ve had dozens of subscribers and I’ve been up to my ears in personal mixtapes (they’re almost done, folks!). Membership is simple: each week, you get the best new album of the week and an influential classic sent right to your Spotify inbox (I’m looking into Rdio and Mog, too) along with an email newsletter discussing the picks and gathering the week’s most important news and blog posts. No RSS feeds, no clicking through dozens of MP3s, just the good stuff. Not to mention your Personal Mixtape, a specially designed collection to help you find your new favorite bands. If you’re a regular reader of this blog, this is the best way you can support me — and you’ll get music you know you’re going to love in return.

In honor of the holiday season, I’m offering a special 25% off deal for a one-year membership from now until Dec. 23. Give it to your mom, your co-worker, your little brother who doesn’t know Weezer made albums in the ’90s. Check it out, and thanks for reading.

This is the second week of the Mercury Music Digital Music Club, my subscription service for people looking to have the week’s best albums and the classics that made them possible hand-delivered (O.K., clicked) directly to your inbox. Things subscribers have said: “I am so excited about this!” “I’m so excited.” “I’m pretty excited about this.” (Really!) Get excited over at the Mercury website and we’ll send you the latest albums right now.

As I announced a few weeks back, I’m starting a digital record club. It’s here! Every week, I’ll be sending subscribers two albums–one new, one classic–via Spotify, along with special playlists, MP3 premieres and a Personal Mixtape custom-made to help you find your next favorite band.

The goal is to make music discovery as easy as it can possibly be: all you have to do is open Spotify, click “Inbox” and press play. Come check it out!. If you’re a Rawkblog reader and you want to support the site, this is the best way to do it. Sign up this week and you’ll get your first month free. Let’s have some fun.

Let’s face it: keeping up with new music is hard work. There are too many blogs, too many bands, too many tweets/Facebook updates/RSS feeds/track premieres/album streams/Vimeo clips/Mediafire links. It’s exhausting.

The Mercury Music Digital Record Club is a new subscription service designed to make finding music easy again. Maybe even fun.

Here’s how it works: Every Tuesday, I send the week’s best new album direct to your Spotify inbox, along with a surprise vintage LP that influenced the week’s sounds–so you can soak up the classics while you stay fresh. All you have to do is open Spotify, press play and enjoy. 8 albums a month, only the good stuff. Easy, right?

Members will also receive a custom-made Personal Mixtape designed specifically for you based on your Spotify/Last.fm profile or a list of your favorite music — curated by a human being who wants to help you find your next favorite band, not a computer algorithm that thinks it knows who you are. In the months to come, Mercury members will also receive special playlists and exclusive MP3s you won’t find anywhere else.

I founded Rawkblog back in 2005 with the goal of helping people find great music every single day. If you’re reading this, hopefully you’ve found some! Unfortunately, it is nowhere near a full-time job: on a good month, the site pays for the hosting bills and a nice dinner. Rawkblog’s not going anywhere, don’t worry. Mercury Music is just the next step forward, a way for you to support what I do and get something fantastic in return.

Mercury’s going to launch in the next few weeks: bookmark the site, like us on Facebook and sign up for the mailing list below and I’ll let you know when it’s ready. Get excited! This is going to be great.