Archive for June, 2008
American Idol finalist Kristy Lee Cook signs record deal
Season seven American Idol finalist Kristy Lee Cook has signed a recording contract with 19 Recordings/Arista Nashville. Arista Nashville is a label under the Sony BMG Nashville umbrella.
A 24-year-old native of Selma, Oregon, Cook is a passionate animal lover and avid horse trainer who sold her barrel horse to pay for her [...]
Montgomery Gentry tops the charts with hit single
Montgomery Gentry are celebrating their chart-topping hit single, “Back When I Knew It All,” which just hit the No. 1 spot on this week’s Billboard and Country Aircheck country airplay charts. The fastest rising single for the duo to date, this marks their fourth No. 1 hit. Now that is something to be [...]
Solange Knowles has number one single and new album coming
Solange Knowles’, 1st single, “I Decided,” off of her forthcoming CD, SoL-AngeL and the Hadley St. Dreams enjoys the #1 spot on both Billboard’s “Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles Sales” chart and the “Hot Dance Singles Sales” chart. It also lands at #2 on Billboard’s “Hot Singles Sales” chart. SoL-AngeL and the Hadley St. Dreams, Solange’s [...]
Gym Class Heroes album and tour annoucement
Gym Class Heroes has announced the upcoming release of their eagerly anticipated third album, “THE QUILT.” The collection – which follows 2006’s RIAA gold-certified breakthrough, “AS CRUEL AS SCHOOL CHILDREN” – arrives in stores and at online retailers on September 9th.
“THE QUILT” will be preceded by the album’s first single, “Cookie Jar.” Produced [...]
Sixpence None The Richer announce Christmas album
Reunited pop/rock outfit Sixpence None The Richer has put the finishing touches on its first Christmas album.
“The Dawn of Grace” is due Oct. 14; album opener “Angels We Have Heard on High” and can be streamed exclusively on Billboard.com
The 10-track set includes eight traditional Christmas songs and two originals, “The Last Christmas” and “Christmas for [...]
We Are Scientists “Chick Lit” video and tour
“Chick Lit tells the story of a young girl named Agatha who one day, while collecting fire wood to blend into an immune-system boosting power shake, encounters a magic well. She knows the well is magic because it smells like Axe, and so she nervously calls three desperate wishes into its still black depths. There [...]
Cold War Kids tour dates
The much-anticipated second album from Cold War Kids will be available September 23.
Supergrass tour dates with Foo Fighters
Supergrass July tour dates with Foo Fighters.
Nine Inch Nails limited edition album and tour information
Nine Inch Nails’ The Slip, currently available only as a free download at NIN.com, will be issued July 22 as a limited edition physical CD/DVD through the band’s own Null Corporation label.
The CD version of The Slip will be limited to 250,000 copies worldwide, each in an individually numbered six-panel digipak that includes a bonus [...]
The Verve set to release new album
The Verve have given us three fantastic albums – including Urban Hymns, the fifth fastest selling British album ever on release, reaching platinum status in the States, and one of the landmark releases of the Nineties. They play “music of the spheres,” which strives to break out of the stratosphere and yet is laced with [...]
