► Rockers Buckcherry
performed their latest single off the groups much anticipated
new album "Black Butterfly" on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
(More Info)
► SIRIUS XM Radio announced that legendary
rock band AC/DC will host their own music channel on SIRIUS.
The channel celebrates AC/DC's iconic career and the upcoming
release of Black Ice, the band's first studio album in eight
years. AC/DC Radio will be broadcast on SIRIUS channel 29
and debuted on Monday, September 15, 2008 at 6 pm ET, to
run through January 15, 2009.
(More info)
►San Francisco basedLove
Like Fire releases their debut CD album with UK
lable Heist or Hit Records.
► Freddy Wexler has released a video for his
politically themed song "We're Not Going Down"...for
more information click
here
► Widespread
Panic will be inducted into the Georgia Music Hall
of Fame at the 30th Georgia Music Hall of Fame Awards Show
in Atlanta, Ga.
► David Gilmour
is releases the album "Live in Gdansk" recorded
in Poland during his 2006 summer tour.
September
2nd
► Candlebox
fans get a double shot of satisfactionwith
a duel release of Candlebox Live both on CD and DVD.
► Underoath
releases their follow up Lost in the Sound of Separation
today!
► Exit is the third CD album releasy by Japanese
multi-instrumentalist Shugo
Tokumaru's album featuring a compelling
blend of pop, folk and new music that draws inspiration
from such diverse artists as Brian Wilson and Sun Ra
► The Sinatra Project is Michael
Feinstein's first recorded tribute to another
performer, taking his dynamic career in an exciting
new direction.
►
California rock-reggae five piece
OPM have released the new track Tell Me What
You Want featuring Big B. The track is from the group’s
upcoming new album Golden State of Mind, which will
see release through Suburban Noize Records on September
2nd.
►
Hollywood Undead can't be pigeonholed into one
genre, and that's the last thing they'd want. A group
of guys from the streets of Hollywood, California that
bring everything to the table - hip-hop, rock and metal
-masterfully creating a style and sound that's uniquely
their own. Deuce, Johnny 3 Tears, J-Dog, Charlie Scene,
Funny Man and Da Kurlzz are set to drop a musical bomb
with their forthcoming debut album on A&M/Octone.
Purchase "Swan Songs" on iTunes
now!
► Be on the lookout for Amie Miriello's
debut album to be released today. Here is an audio stream
of her song "
I Came Around" for your listening pleasure!
► New
Kids On The Block have sold more than 80 million
albums worldwide. The group shattered concert box office
records playing an estimated 200 concerts a year in sold
out stadiums across the globe. The guys may have gone their
separate ways in 1994, but Joey, Donnie, Jordan, Danny and
Jon are back and ready to pick up right where they left
off. In addition to catering to their pre-existing, dedicated
fan base, NKOTB are looking to engage a new set of younger
fans that may not be as familiar with their music. Their
new single, "Summertime," is the perfect summer
jam that fans of all ages will enjoy. The band is set to
release their album September 2nd through Interscope Records
and will kick off a tour in the fall with support from Natasha
Bedingfield. Click
here to listen to a preview of NKOTB's upcoming
song "Single" featuring Ne-Yo!
► Terrence Howard's album "Shine
Through It" will drop into stores today!
September
9th
► Jack's
Mannequin is set to release a second iTunes exclusive
EP on September 9th titled In Valleys EP. In Valleys, released
exclusively on iTunes, will feature two b-sides from The
Glass Passenger recordings and two new tracks from The Glass
Passenger as well.
► Rhino Records presents Josh
Rouse The Rykodisc Years, a two-disc, 32-song anthology
spanning seven years and includes Rouse's best songs, rare tracks
plus unreleased demos and outtakes.
► Eric Benét
makes an impressive return to the music scene with the release
of "Love and Life". Benét's new tracks are
already being praised and touted by fans as this generation's
Al Green.
► Meet Jason Reeves;
Warner Brothers just signed him and will nationally distribute
his release The Magnificent Adventures of Heartache on September
9.
► In the wake of critical acclaim for their fervid spring
release of the Black Patch War EP, Common
Market and HYENA/ MassLine (RA Scion and Sabzi [Blue
Scholars]) present the new Common Market Full Length Tobacco
Road, available September 9th 2008.
► Do You Believe in Gosh? is the long-awaited third album
from the comedy icon, Mitch
Hedberg, set for release on Comedy Central Records on
Tuesday, September 9.
► The legendary Menudo
have sold over 40 million records worldwide. Now -- two generations
later -- a new, updated version of Menudo is back, with a contemporary
sound and look, and the same universal appeal. Carlos, Chris,
Emmanuel, José and Monti came together on the MTV &
MTV Tr3s reality series Making Menudo. Viewers watched every
week as the guys went through a demanding "boy-band boot
camp" designed by legendary pop impresario Johnny Wright
They have recorded more than 50 new songs for their first album
due out September 9th and are already veterans after working
with a wide variety of contemporary producers and writers including
Danja (Nelly Furtado, Justin Timberlake), J.R. Rotem (Usher,
Destiny's Child), and Akon.
September
16th
► Brandi Carlile Live
in Boston, an iTunes exclusive EP, is set to be
released on Tuesday September 16, 2008. This EP will feature
a handful of Brandi’s tracks, as well as a cover of Johnny
Cash’s Folsom Prison Blues. For a limited time iTunes
is offering the country-pop ballad "Already Home"
as a FREE download! Click
here to download the track!
► Rockers Taproot
will release there much anticipated album "Our Long
Road Home" today!
► Multi-platinum rockers Buckcherry
are set to release their new album "Black Butterfly"
today. Be sure to watch the video for their just released
single "Don't Go Away" on our Hot Videos list!
► After eight years of honing its sound the Eli
Young Band is finally releasing its debut album Jet
Black & Jealous featuring the single When It Rains.
► Jody Raffoul,
winner of Bon Jovi's 2006 "Have a Nice Gig" contest,
in which he was hand-picked and announced personally by Jon
Bon Jovi and Richie Samborad, is releasing his first album,
Big Sky, via Fontana/Universal on September 16- and it is is
poised to be his big breakthrough
► DJ Revolution
has spent 15 years perfecting that craft on the SP 1200, and
now he's releasing his new album King of the Decks. He's currently
behind the wheels of the longest running Hip Hop show in the
history of commercial radio.
► Known best perhaps as an intrinsic part of the wildly
successful Matchbox Twenty, Paul Doucette is preparing his first
solo release, milk the bee, under the moniker The
Break And Repair Method.
► SoCal’s pop/punk pioneers Unwritten
Law are getting ready to release their first ever live
album and DVD, Live & Lawless on Suburban Noize Records
September 16th.
► Raphael Saadiq will introduces
his new record "The Way I See It" in stores today.
Here are few tracks for the upcoming release: "100
Yard Dash" MP3
- -WM
and "Love That Girl" MP3
- - WM
► Portugal The
Man - Censored Colors - When writing about the Alaskan
band Portugal The Man, media have tossed around names like the
Mars Volta, Jeff Buckley, Led Zeppelin, the Zombies, the White
Stripes and even the Beatles. John Baldwin Gorley writes complex,
bombastic, art-rock songs that one alt/weekly said are "catchier
than a floor coated with flypaper." In support of their
upcoming release the guys have created a four-tier, pre-order
program that will give fans extra bang for their buck. To check
out the pre-order details please be sure and visit the groups'
newly re-launched Official
Site.
September
18th
► MySpace kicks off its Front to Back
program by reuniting beloved alt-pop band Ben
Folds Five with an exclusive one-time live performance
of their final studio album together, The Unauthorized Biography
of Reinhold Messner, in its entirety live from Chapel Hill,
North Carolina.
September
23rd
► A soft spoken brand of reaggae-ska mixed with folk-rock,
hip-hop and even punk,
The Dirty Heads are easy on the ears and geniune
on stage. This month they release Any Port In A Storm.
► The new independant style of Nikka
Costa arrives today with Pebble to a Pearl..
► Matt Duke
is an ambitious songwriter, fashioning dramatic sagas about
troubled souls who struggle with romance, life, death and, perhaps
most of all, with themselves.
► Warner Bros Records in partnership with Doghouse have
signed electro-pop singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist
LIGHTS,
whose self-titled debut EP will be released today. The self-made
Canadian writes, produces, and performs her own music as well
as designs her own artwork including the self-portrait on the
cover of her debut EP. The EP is a sparkling blend of electronica-based
pop, rock, and new wave, topped off by LIGHTS' honeyed vocals.
Four of its songs have already racked up a collective 3.8 million
plays on LIGHTS'
MySpace page. Four of her songs off the EP were used in
Old Navy's spring ad campaign. She also appears in one of the
clothing retailer's spots performing the track. More recently,
the song "Drive My Soul" was featured on MTV's "The
Hills.
► Not exactly a music release, but definitely something
worth having, Shout! Factory offers you the opportunity
to own the 100 Greatest
Recorded Moments in recent history.
► Graham Nash
re-issues his legendary first solo album Music For Beginners
on CD/DVD set with Surround Sound and High Resolution Mixes,
New Interview and more!
► Jackpot: The Best
of Bette is a 19-song retrospective including Bette's
most important musical milestones Wind Beneath My Wings and
From A Distance.
► Elvin Bishop
plays tribute to his inspirations and the blues with an amazing
cast of musicians from B.B. King to George Thorogood.
► Signal
Hill Transmission to release Digital EP "Starting
Gun" today on ATO Records. In early 2008, Signal Hill
Transmission won a contest put on by Clear Channel radio
station 98.7FM. The win earned them a recording contract
with ATO, and from that very moment the band was off and
running with the creation of "Starting Gun."
► The Pussycat
Dolls begin to world domination with Doll Domination
today!
► Half of Hall and Oates is better than none.
John Oates releases 1000 Miles of Life on hard copy
today. You can get it digital early on September 9.
► In the vein of Joni Mitchell and
Fiona Apple and Laura
Warshauer was signed on the spot after seeing her
live . Don't miss her self-titled debut album.
► On September 23rd the world will get a lot sweeter with
the release of Plain White T's album, Big Bad World.
The follow up record to Every Second Counts which featured the
smash "Hey There Delilah" was also produced by Johnny
K (3 Doors Down, Kill Hannah, Black Tide). Along with "Natural
Disaster," the band has added another track, "1,2,3,4"
to their official MySpace
page, The video for "Natural Disaster" will
make its world premiere on MySpace this Wednesday, August 27th
with a feature on MySpace's main music page.
► Kings
of Leon are proud to announce their new CD album Only
By the Night. Featuring the debut of their new music video
for the song Sex on Fire. As the video for the single
off the band's soon-to-be released album Only By the Night,
Sex on Fire (Directed by Sophie Muller) was recently filmed
in Los Angeles and is a well-crafted body of work that places
the band within a brooding storyline.
► Demi Lovato has a new single!
Check out the track "Get Back," a rocking song
off of her debut album due out on September 23rd. Two Worlds
features six songs co-written and co-produced by the Jonas
Brothers, and the title track which was written for her
best friend Selena Gomez. "Get Back" is available
for download on iTunes
now. Listen to "Get Back" now: WM
- - RP
► Mason Proper's
sophomore album, co-produced by the band and Chris Coady (TV
on The Radio, Blonde Redhead), is called Olly Oxen Free and
will be out September 23rd on Dovecote Records. The guys are
hosting a friendly competition where people can download
files and remix "Safe For The Time Being", another
track off the album. One winner will receive $333 and their
remix will be included on an iTunes remix EP that Mason Proper
will release in the first quarter of 2009. All the small print
can be found on the
contest page here
► With combined sales totaling over 280,000 albums, an
appearance on Austin City Limits, two performances on Late Night
With Conan O'Brien, and multiple appearances on A Prairie Home
Companion, various NPR programs and the Grand Ole Opry, Old Crow Medicine Show is releasing Tennessee Pusher,
their third album for Nettwerk Music Group and their most personal
album to date.
► Everlast's
newest album "Love, War, and the Ghost of Whitey Ford"
will be in stores today.
September
30th
► Tori
Amos will be releasing a live CD and DVD titled,
Tori Amos Live At Montreux, on September 30th. The performances
took place just a year apart from each other in July 1991
and July 1992 at the Montreux Jazz Festival. It is almost
like a "before and after" snapshot. The CD and
DVD include Tori's original music as well as cover songs
like "Smells Like Teen Spirit."
► Tom Morello
of Rage Against the Machine is set to release the solo album,
The Fabled City, September 30th, 2008 via Epic Records. The
11-song set is the anticipated follow up to the 2007 The Nightwatchman
debut One Man Revolution.
► Songs for You, Truths For Me is
a classic James
Morrison record that once again showcases his
distinctive, raw, soulful style – but takes it to the
next level. There is also a notable collaboration on this
record, one of the only things his debut album didn’t
have, a fantastic duet with Nelly Furtado on the epic
Broken Strings.
► To complement the eight-time
Grammy Award winner and Rock & Roll Hall of Famer's
long-awaited return to arenas throughout North America,
Capitol/EMI will release Tina! On September 30, a new
18-track CD and digital collection of Tina
Turner's top hits, rare live recordings and
two exclusive new tracks.
► Aptly named 4, Sweden's Dungen
releases their fourth album, 4 today supported by a fall
tour of dates!
► Nettwerk Music Group is excited
to announce the signing of Australian brother and sister
duo, Angus
and Julia Stone. The acoustic folk pair brings
their intimate melodic pop to North America with the
release of Just a Boy, a digital only EP available September
30th.
► ENIGMA's
seventh studio album, Seven Lives Many Faces,
will be released on September 30 in two physical and digital
configurations: a single CD and digital album, and an
expanded Special Edition with five additional new tracks,
available in a deluxe 2-CD package and digitally.
► Murs Needs your vote! Vote Murs
For President September 30th and you know how!
Murs is the greatest Hip Hop candidate money can buy!
► British singer/songwriter Ed
Laurie's Dangerbird Records debut called Meanwhile In
The Park will hit the airwaves with it's digital release on
September 23rd.
► For more than 25 years,
UB40 has been one of the world's premiere pop-reggae
acts, with several international chart-topping singles and global
sales totaling more than 70 million albums. On September 30,
Virgin/EMI will release UB40: Greatest Hits, a new CD and digital
collection of 21 hits and standout tracks spanning the influential
group's career.
► Stack$
will release his debut album "CraZee and ConfuZed"
today. The album, a chronicle of Stack$' personal experiences,
is a mash up of styles, regions and eras. It's an exercise
in organized chaos, which inspired the title.
► On September 30th, Joseph
Arthur and his band The Lonely Astronauts release of
their second LP, Temporary People on Lonely Astronaut Records.
► On September 30, Walt Disney Records unveils Nightmare
Revisited with 20 fresh recordings and beloved covers
of the music, mayhem, and merriment from Tim Burton’s The Nightmare
Before Christmas featuring Marilyn Manson, Plain White T's,
Rise Against and All-American Rejects.
► Hear Music announced today that it will release James
Taylor's Covers, an exceptional collection of covers
from notable recording artists from the fifties, sixties and
seventies.
► Joshua Radin
Releases Sophomore Album on Mom &Pop Music.
► Rap group Heltah
Skeltah are back in action as Da Incredible Rap Team.
The group is releasing their new album D.I.R.T. on September
30.
► Audrye Sessions
are a new Oakland quartet who just finished recording with Andrew
Scheps and Matt Radosevich to create their remarkable self-titled
debut album for Black Seal.
► Multi-faceted
and celebrated recording artist/producer
Todd Rundgren is set to release his first full-length
record of original studio material in 4 years, entitled Arena
on September 30th via newly launched music venture Hi Fi Recordings.
► Jack's Mannequin
is set to release their sophomore album, The Glass Passenger,
on September 30th, 2008. Co-produced by lead singer Andrew McMahon
and Jim Wirt, The Glass Passenger is the follow-up to the band's
debut Everything in Transit, which was released in August 2005
and debuted at No. 37 on the Billboard Top 200 album chart.
TheGlassPassenger.com
experience is now live. The site will provide one clue a day
for fifteen days. On the fifteenth day, solve the puzzle to
be rewarded with an exclusive b-side and a sneak peek inside
"The Glass Passenger".
►Lauded singer/songwriter, Ray
LaMontagne is set to release his much-anticipated third
album, Gossip In The Grain, on September 30th on RCA Records.
Recorded with returning producer, Ethan Johns in Box, England,
and touching upon a range of styles and musical settings- spanning
pastoral folk, railroad blues, front porch country, and plangent
balladry - Gossip In The Grain proves to be his most creative
and emotionally expansive collection to date.
► Anberlin
are back with New Surrender, their new album, scheduled to
release September 30th on Universal Republic. Check out their
track "Disappear"!
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