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Singer Kat DeLuna is back with her upbeat, latin-inspired
"Dance, Bailalo" (avail on
iTunes now). The singer is launching a Dance,
Bailalo dance-off for fans to be a part of the song
too. With a new, edgy look, Kat is ready to take over the clubs
again. Listen
now to Dance, Bailalo! |
 ►Paradiso
Girls break the mold with a refreshingly energetic mix
of pop, rock, R&B and hip-hop with the release Patron
Tequila featuring Lil Jon and Eve. The natural chemistry
coming from this unique culturally diverse group is the Los
Angeles-based quintet's ultimate secret weapon. |
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► Manchester
Orchestra fifth chapter video
premiere on Amazon.com is available now. The
full-album series concept was conceived by the Emmy Award
winning directing team of Clay Lipsky and Jason Bognacki of
Destroy Rock Music Inc., whom also directed "I Can Barely
Breathe" from the band’s debut I'm Like a Virgin Losing
a Child.
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Well known for her collaboration and partnership with Michelle
Branch, in the country duo The Wreckers, Warner Nashville is
proud to release Jessica
Harp's first solo album A Woman Needs
this summer. With her album single "Boy Like Me"
already climbing the charts. |
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5th |
► Concord Music presents the reissue
release of Frank Sinatra's
My Way 40th Anniversary Edition and the new release of Live
At The Meadowlands on May 5! My Way 40th Anniversary Edition
includes two previously unreleased tracks, "For Once
In My Life" and a live version of "My Way"
and Live At The Meadowlands features 18 previously unreleased
live tracks. |
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► Ralphie
May: Voted one of Variety's "10 Comics to Watch" in
2008, Ralphie May is a comedic force capable of making you
laugh your balls off -- yes, even you ladies. As lovable as
he is outrageous, this veteran comedy juggernaut and star
of TV's "Last Comic Standing" keeps his sold-out audience
at the historic Paramount Theatre in Austin, Texas, in a continuous
uproar with his supercharged, politically incorrect stand-up.
Capture Ralphie's "Austin-Tatious" genius here, available
now on DVD |
► The six incredible tracks found on
UK songwriter Ed Harcourt's
new EP, Russian Roulette, are as personal as
they come. Each song recounts the many emotions and thoughts
he's experienced, embracing both the high and low times one
endures. The track "Caterpillar"
points to a particularly intense and emotional moment in Harcourt's
life when earlier this year, his newborn daughter Roxy had
been placed in an incubator, deeply worrying both Harcourt
and his wife as they sat idle, waiting for their Roxy to recover.
Describing the song and experience, Harcourt goes on to say,
"It's the first song I've written about her. She was
a little ill and we waited for her in the hospital for the
chrysalis so we could take her home." |
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► Madina Lake
will release their eagerly anticipated sophmore album, Attics
To Eden, today. Attics to Eden is an album that proves
maturity comes with experience. One of rock's most promising
young acts takes the listener on a unique auditory voyage across
layer upon diverse layer of sound. The 12 songs on the album
- including "Never Walk Alone," "Let's Get Out
of Here," "Legends," and the guitar-less "Friends
and Lovers" - are replete with otherworldly atmospherics,
epic guitars, intricate and oftentimes punishing drum-work,
melodic choruses, imposing bass lines, audacious instrumentation,
and Nathan's unpredictable, inescapable vocals. It's a sonic,
rock and roll assault on the senses, and Matthew says that's
just what the band - rounded out by guitarist and programming
genius Mateo Camargo and drummer Dan Torelli - was aiming for.
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► Inspiration, healing, acceptance and confidence are
four words that fit perfectly when discussing LEVI
KREIS. On Tuesday, May 5th 2009, these words come
full circle with this singer-songwriter as he celebrates his
incredible journey and so called "cleansing" with
the release of his third studio album "Where I
Belong." This new collection of recordings is
the most positive, uplifting offering witnessed from this
piano man. Highlights include the first single/lead off track
"Gonna Be Alright", the vulnerable "Nothing
At All", live fan favorite "Stained Glass Windows"
which finally finds its place on a studio album, and "This
Girl" which will cause core fans to go "hmmm."
The result more than satisfies fans with Levi's own pop sensibilities
and contagious hooks, but this time they simmer with southern
soul that rings truer than any other previous project. Levi
is not afraid and he is standing tall.
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12th |
► Better
Than Ezra's new album, Paper Empire, will be hitting
stores today! PCM has got your hook-up for a little preview
from the album! Click
here to download "Absolutely Still". |
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The Record Life will release a digital EP on May 12th
called The Souldier EP before their full-length
debut, Into The Sea Of Something Big, later this year. |
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► Norwegian Grammy Award winner HANNE
HUKKELBERG has returned with a brand new batch of captivating
songs on BLOOD FROM A STONE, which will be released
on Nettwerk, May 12 2009. BLOOD FROM A STONE is the third album
for the Norwegian artist best known for her imaginative use
of found sounds and eclectic array of instrumentation. While
Hukkelberg spent her formative years playing in various metal
bands, the singer admits she lingered over other influences
for this collection, most notably post punkers like Sonic Youth,
Cocteau Twins, Pixies, Einstuerzende Neubauten and P.J. Harvey.
You can also hear a bit of Siouxsie through the glass darkly.
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15th |
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► Green Day
is back with a new album, 21st Century Breakdown,
that will hit stores today! |
| May
19th |
► Carbon
Leaf will release their third album on Vangaurd, titled
Nothing Rhymes with Woman. This album is the
much anticipated follow-up to the band's 2006 album Love,
Loss, Hope, Repeat. Their new album finds the Virginia-based
band firmly in touch with its roots, but committed to moving
forward. The band will be hitting the road in mid-May in support
of the release with dates scheduled across the US. Listen
now to "Lake of Silver Bells"! |
► Decca Records presents Rituals,
the third album from Italian musician Nicola
Conte, available on May 19th! "Rituals",
which confirms the multifaceted talent of the artist and instrumentalist
from Bari. Also this work first of all develops around the
historical faithful team which follows the artist in the live
shows. Here we find again Pietro Lussu, Pietro Ciancaglini,
Fabrizio Bosso, Lorenzo Tucci and Daniele Scannapieco, with
whom Nicola elaborated lots of tracks contained in the album.
Afterwards the band has been flanked the other friends of
theirs, Gianluca Petrella, Gaetano Partipilo and Till Bronner,
who also attended the previous "Other Directions". |
► Tori
Amos will release her Universal Republic debut album,
Abnormally Attracted to Sin, on May 19, 2009.
A DVD of corresponding 'visualettes' for each track will accompany
the deluxe version of Abnormally Attracted to Sin. These interlocking
episodic films bring to life the narrative arc of the album.
The footage was captured over the past year and shot with
a noir twist in HD and Super 8. Tori is offering a free download
of her new song “Maybe California” off Abnormally Attracted
to Sin (out May 19.) Click
here to download the song and video and recieve a special
message from Tori! |
► Singer-songwriter Kate
Voegele is gearing up for the May release of A
Fine Mess, the highly anticipated follow-up to her
2008 debut album, Don't Look Away (MySpace/Interscope). Voegele
recorded the album in Los Angeles with producer Mike Elizondo
(Rihanna, Maroon 5, Pink). The 22-year-old has been racking
up frequent flier miles of late, jetting back and forth between
L.A. and Wilmington, North Carolina, where she's also shooting
new episodes of the CW Network's hit TV series "One Tree
Hill." This season sees Voegele reprising her role as
singer-songwriter Mia. She made headlines last year by performing
several songs on the show, all from Don't Look Away. |
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► On May 19th, Canadian Pop/Rock sensation, HEDLEY,
will unleash their US exclusive masterpiece, NEVER TOO LATE.
This US debut includes, among others, HEDLEY’s seven #1s from
their two double platinum Canadian releases: HEDLEY (2005) and
FAMOUS LAST WORDS (2007). The majority of the songs on NEVER
TOO LATE were produced by Greig Nori (Sum 41); Brian Howes (Hinder,
Daughtry) produced “321,” “On My Own,” and “Trip” and GGGarth
Richardson (Rage Against The Machine, Rise Against, Red Hot
Chili Peppers) takes production credit for “Gunnin’.” |
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26th |
► Fabled Michigan rockers Pop
Evil has signed with Universal Republic Records and
will be re-releasing their 2008 acclaimed indie album
Lipstick On A Mirror, on May 26th. The album will
be re-mixed and re-mastered, with a brand new song, “Rolling
Stone,” and a riveting acoustic rendition of their signature
song “100 In A 55,” which is already gaining traction online
and via radio’s underground radar even before its officially
release to multiple radio formats. In support of the re-release,
Pop Evil will sweep the nation on a two month long
tour supporting Judas Priest and Whitesnake
beginning July 5th in Wallingford, CT. |
► Bonded Records/Fontana/Universal Music
Group, has officially announced the street date of the
Aaron Barnhart debut album, MISSING PIECES,
which will be released on May 26, 2009. The debut album, MISSING
PIECES, was as Aaron says, “a collection of songs that are
a deep part of me and very close to my heart….” |
► Jenny
Owen Youngs is back with her second album, Transmitter
Failure due May 26. This record is a bold departure
from her 2007 release Batten The Hatches, which thrust Youngs
into the spotlight (and won her a record deal with Nettwerk)
when her song "F**k Was I" was featured on the
TV show "Weeds".
The new record, produced by Dan Romer (Ingrid Michaelson,
April Smith, The Woes) has a different musical take. Transmitter
Failure is a gripping album featuring a lush aural landscape
populated by gut-thumping bass lines, electric guitars,
sunny keys, booming horns, digital drum tracks and even
flute, glockenspiel and a full string section at times (borrowed
straight from the pit of award-winning Broadway musical
Spring Awakening). Where acoustic guitar was once a cornerstone
of her previous work, the sonic core of Transmitter Failure
is comprised of crunchy, multi-layered electrics.
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► Marilyn Manson’s
anticipated reunion with longtime friend and foil Twiggy Ramirez
inches closer with the release of “We're From America,” the
first listen from the forthcoming The High End of Low.
The album’s official first single “Arma… geddon” will arrive
at radio April 13th. Manson’s new lineup including Ramirez (for
the first time in close to a decade), plus keyboardist Chris
Vrenna, and dummer Ginger Fish, will close the main stage at
the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival, this July through
August. Manson will also kick off his world tour with a headline
festival run this June in Europe.
Preview the album here! |
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American fans of Hillsong
United, the Australian rock band, are building a grassroots
bonfire under the group as a_CROSS//the_EARTH: Tear Down The
Walls, the band's newly released live album, debuted at the
#21 position on the Billboard Hot 200 chart, selling 17,679
copies. The album also peaked at the #2 position on the iTunes
chart late last week. |
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