Category: Music
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The Kooks Announce Fall 2008 US Tour
Fresh off wrapping up their Sold-Out May/June US tour, we are very pleased to announce The Kooks will return to the States in September for an extensive Fall 2008 tour, their biggest US tour to date. The tour will include cities the band has never played before, giving fans all over the country a chance…
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Aimee Mann on tour of U.S.
Aimee Mann’s seventh solo release to date, @#%&! Smilers, is a return to form after the artistic detours of 2005’s concept album The Forgotten Arm and 2006’s Christmas CD One More Drifter in the Snow. Featuring thirteen new original songs, producer Paul Bryan describes the record as “deceptively powerful…very rich and grand sounding”. The songs…
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Year Long Disaster to open for Foo Fighters
Year Long Disaster have been selected by the Foo Fighters, one of the world’s biggest rock bands, to take the opening slot on five dates during their Midwest run. The shows also feature special guests, Supergrass. Year Long Disaster, the three-piece blues-based rock band of Daniel Davies (son of Dave Davies from The Kinks), Rich…
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Ice-T to release new album
Hip-Hop veteran Ice-T has released a special edition of his eighth studio album Gangsta Rap. The Gangsta Rap Special Edition is available on digital download now, and features two previously-unreleased tracks, as well as an alternative silhouette version of the album’s original controversial cover. Last Tuesday (June 17), Gangsta Rap Special Edition was made available…
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Black Light Burns featuring Wes Borland releasing album
Former Limp Bizkit guitarist Wes Borland and his band BLACK LIGHT BURNS is preparing for the release of Cover Your Heart and The Anvil Pants Odyssey, a combination CD and DVD package on August 5, 2008 on I Am: Wolfpack/YMA Music Group. Packed with reinterpreted songs of bands including Duran Duran (“Hungry Like the Wolf”),…
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Moby opens video competition to fans
Moby announces details of an exclusive global $10,000 video competition going live on mobygratis.com. Directors are invited to submit their films for the track Ooh Yeah and the winner, chosen by Moby, will win the $10,000 prize money and have their video used as the official music video for Ooh Yeah from Moby’s latest album,…
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Billy Joel podcast is live
The first episode of The Billy Joel Podcast series has just gone live! The series is in celebration of Billy’s classic album The Stranger on its 30th Anniversary with Billy, Phil Ramone and special guests Gavin DeGraw, Diane Warren, Duncan Sheik, Jimmy Webb and others. On this episode, we feature a 1977 interview with Billy…
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Coldplay – Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends – review
In their relatively brief career, Coldplay have made that leap from being “a great British band” to worldwide success. Their music–graceful, intricate rock songs laden with piano and Chris Martin’s soulful falsetto–maintains an air of direct personal contact no matter how large their audience grows.
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Mishon – biography
When a young star breaks onto the scene, demonstrating serious talent on multiple levels, all we can do is stand back in awe. Get ready for Mishon (MY-shawn), a young singer and fledgling songwriter who represents the next wave of pop R&B edged with hip-hop fire. The 15-year-old vocalist has already stirred up noise with…
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Spensha Baker performs at the White House
15-year-old Geffen Records gospel artist, Spensha Baker has been spreading her youthful and vibrant music ministry all across the country. So commanding is the voice and presence of this young lady that Spensha Baker was invited to sing at the White House for its Black Music Month “Salute to Gospel” celebration on Tuesday, June 17th…