ROB KELLY DROPKICKS FOR IRELAND

One of the only European MC’s with a tangible fan-base in the USA, Ireland’s Rob Kelly drops his official debut single on Friday April 18th on I-Tunes and all major digital outlets.

Dropkicked - Rob Kelly feat. Slaine(La Coka Nostra)

www.myspace.com/robkelly

EVER HEARD THE TERM “DRUNK DOWNLOADING?”

By: Stoli Razz

At the end of February I got a ZUNE. I had an IPOD but found that since my laptop is Microsoft I wanted to keep it in the family. No offense to Steve Jobs, I love my I-Pod too, just my ZUNE alittle more.

The other night I got home early from work on a rainy Friday night. After a few drinks and some dinner I headed over to do a quick check of my emails. After realizing the words & letters were moving around I turned to the ZUNE marketplace. It was time to party!

I put my headphones on and that was it, I was downloading and listening for four hours straight. Every awesome track that I downloaded led me to my next download. I must have spent about $300 in that session. It went from T Pain to Rick Ross to Eminem to Augustana to All American Rejects to Jodeci to Soundgarden to Fall Out Boy and much more. When I woke in the morning I realized what I had done. I felt guilty for the moment but when I realized how much more awesome my ZUNE was now, I laughed it off.

Have you ever enagaged in drunk downloading?

THE BAND CHRISTIANSEN IS NOW YOUR HIGHNESS ELECTRIC

That’s right, you guessed it. The band you probably remember very well as Christiansen is back and better than ever as Your Highness Electric. The Louisville, KY-based trio will release their new LP The Grand Hooded Phantom on June 3rd on Longhair Illuminati. That’s 15 brand new YHE tracks to carry you through the path towards summer (when everyone is doubtlessly in need for some tunes to play loud with the windows down).

Video for “Le Titout”:

“Le Titout” MP3:
LISTEN HERE!

Bio + photos:
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GAVIN GOES SOLO ON WANDERlust

Interscope Records is proud to announce the release of Gavin Rossdale’s first solo album, WANDERlust, in stores June 3rd! The first single, “Love Remains the Same,” is already available digitally as of April 1st.

Streaming link of the WANDERlust Album Preview Trailer Video:
VIEW HERE!

WANDERlust is the provocative title for the intriguing first solo album by Gavin Rossdale – an inspired song cycle by the former leader of Bush that turns out to be a trip in its own right.

“The wanderlust I’m talking about isn’t that desire to travel and see the world, Rossdale explains with a grin. “It’s my overwhelming desire to get out and play music for people. I feel like a racehorse that’s been stuck in the stables a bit too long. The doors are locked and no one can find the key — worse I’m not sure who’s looking for it.” With WANDERlust, the doors - and the floodgates - seem wide open and the result is the most mature, sensual, honest and compelling work of Rossdale’s life in music.

After years spent at the top of rock’s grungy heap — and then a couple more in a peculiar sort of high-profile musical wilderness — Rossdale has brought it all back home on a vivid, widescreen rock album that found him working closely with famed producer Bob Rock. Now that WANDERlust is finally completed, Rossdale can hardly wait to get back on the road. “This album is my way of saying `Let me out,’” Rossdale says. “I’d love to take my family with me, but I do have a burning desire to go out and play for people again. I’ve felt too corralled for too long so this deep sort of wanderlust has set in.”

From the mid-Nineties into the early 21st century, Rossdale was seeing much the world from the stage of an ever-changing procession of theaters, arenas and stadiums as the dashingly tortured lead singer, guitarist and songwriter for Bush, a band that first came together in Shepard’s Bush area of London in the early Nineties. Right from their 1994 debut Sixteen Stone, Bush connected powerfully with post-Grunge America through a series of jagged yet infectious hits songs including “Everything’s Zen,” “Little Things,” “Comedown,” “Glycerine,” “Machine Head” “Swallowed” and “The Chemicals Between Us.”

The music of Bush successfully married a guitar-driven modern rock with the fantastically twisted lyrics of Rossdale, a poetic sort heavily influenced by the likes of Charles Bukowski, Allen Ginsberg and his longstanding musical hero Tom Waits. If Bush were not exactly the critics darling, they were immediately the people’s choice as 1996’s Razorblade Suitcase album hit #1, followed by 1999’s The Science of Things and 2001’s Golden State.

Still for all his past experience, there is an emotional and musical depth to WANDERlust that takes Rossdale far beyond Bush. Here Rossdale has delivered the most personal and direct set of songs of his life. Like Peter Gabriel after leaving Genesis, Rossdale has moved beyond his past in a massively popular band and used the opportunity of going solo to stop hiding and more explore his life lyrically and musically.

“There’s such a minefield of people who have gone from bands that had success to the solo thing,” says Rossdale. “There’s a chasm to get from one to the other –it’s like Death Valley and you look down and there’s fucking scorched singers.”

WANDERlust is not Rossdale’s first post-Bush album. In 2005, he released a hard-edged album with a group he dubbed Institute, produced by Page Hamilton of Helmet fame. “We went on tour with U2 and I think those were Institute’s four fans right there,” Rossdale recalls with a laugh. “I loved some of what we did, especially a song called `Ambulances,’ but Institute felt like a really painful left turn. It scared all the chicks away. My goal wasn’t to get one hundred of Tool’s audience. The expectation was quite high but the reaction was just confused and confusing. There was one guy who came to a show and he had Bush tattooed on one arm and Institute tattooed on the other, and remember thinking, `I’ve got to road test this stuff first.”

At the same time — as the perceived lucky bastard who got to marry Gwen Stefani — Rossdale was encountering the glare of a whole other level of celebrity. “It’s been a challenge because it’s been a tough few years for me because I’ve been lost in how to define myself in the present tense. With that glare of the publicity on us, how can I not feel like an appendage at times? It takes a tough man to be married to a force of nature like Gwen. `Rocker hubby’ if I ever see that phrase again . . . I’m not sure I didn’t prefer it when people were just writing, “These guys suck.” It’s challenging and it forces a lot of humility. There are guys who come and photograph me working out at the gym, and I’m liked guys come and shoot me working in the studio – hook a brother up.

With WANDERlust — which Rossdale briefly considered recording as a Bush album — he has instead reclaimed not just his own artistic identity, but offered the listener a far most honest and plainspoken picture of who he is and what drives him both as an artist and a man.

“Really I felt like my life depended on this record,” says Rossdale. “There are too many records anyway and not enough outlets, so it had to be everything or there was no point.” Rossdale has to wait five months for producer Bob Rock (Metallica, Aerosmith, Motley Crue) to work with him on the album. “As soon as I met Bob, I knew he was the guy, “says Rossdale. “I really wanted experience; I wanted an overview in the old school way of making album. I really wanted someone with perspective.”

Rossdale and Rock cut the tracks for WANDERlust with Josh Freese on drums, Paul Bushnell on bass, Jamie Muhoberac on keyboards and Chris Traynor on guitar. “We recorded it old school as a five piece at Ocean Way in Los Angeles,” Rossdale recalls. “We recorded everything together and got down eighteen songs in five days, took a week to add guitars from Chris. Then I went to Maui to work with Bob. Bob thought I would get lonely and go mad, but as a husband and father now, I loved being that selfish for a short time. I’d get up, go for a swim, have a salad, and then work for ten hours until Bob chucked me out.

The vocals on WANDERlust are easily the most effecting of Rossdale’s career. “We had a system,” Rossdale explains. “Bob’s used to handholding, but I’m quite clear about what I want. I’d always come in and do five takes. Then Bob would ask me for one over the top theatrical vocal. After that, I’d go out and play with Bob’s miniature pet donkey, his dogs and eighteen cats I’m allergic to. And when I’d come back Bob would have comped my vocal back together. I’ll never know how much he used of what take. I only knew it worked.”

WANDERlust works, and Rossdale could hardly be pleased to be heading out of the stables with an album that means so much to him. “I’m on the gang plank,” he says. “One more fuck up and I’ll never be allowed to record again, but I won’t be alone. Yet the thing is I feel totally emancipated because there is such a sense now of being able to write myself back into music on my own terms. There’s a sense of freedom for me now. When you’re tense and needy, you’re going to miss. And when you’re free and loose, you’re going to hit the ball the furthest.”

WANDERlust
Song-By-Song Interpretation by Gavin Rossdale:

SOME DAYS: I met someone from Fox in a grocery store who came up and asked if maybe I could write something for TV.

It was nice because I love being commissioned. I must have been a dog in a previous life because I quite like someone throwing a ball and I have to fetch it. So I wrote the song for this TV show Drive. They had sixty songs already but felt they all missed the mark. It was a show about people on a journey, so I looked at it through my eyes and I wrote this song the next day. They loved it. I thought “Great – this song will make me a star like something on Gray’s Anatomy.” Then the show was cancelled after four episodes, so it’s just my song now.

FRONTLINE: Obviously we’ve all been watching wars around the world of late that have been shocking and horrible even if you agreed with them — which most of us didn’t. It was clearly dodgy and has become a chronic diversion of funds. It’s hard to get political in songs unless you’ve committed your whole creative life to that like Rage Against the Machine. But the situation is so shocking and heartbreaking, so I wrote my anti-war song imagining how I would feel if I was there — because my experience has only been about getting killed in print. As a parent, imagining anybody’s kid over there is too, too horrible.

FOREVER MAY YOU RUN: I didn’t have a studio at the time so I called up Linda Perry who Gwen had worked with and I think is just great. I had never co-written anything but I wanted to start with Linda. We began this song, and since I don’t play piano, I asked her if she would. I started singing this bit and she put a nice change in. Then Linda sent me home saying she had my vibe and would try to write something. I went home and I wrote this song that I wanted to have a little of that universal feeling of “Everybody Hurts” Linda played me what she had done, and I played her what I’d done. And she said let’s do yours. Jimmy Iovine’s daughter Jade heard this one and got her father excited about that song. That was the song that green-lit this record.

THE SKIN I’M IN: In London, we live opposite Primrose Hill, and it’s a beautiful love pad. I was there and wanted to write a really truthful love song. I wrote “The Skin I’m In” in a studio I had that was eventually turned into the nursery. It had a picture of Johnny Lydon and Bob Marley on the walls — two men who meant the world to me. To me, this one’s more Bob that Johnny, with its little reggae feel. Really it’s just a nice song for my girl.

DRIVE: I’m guilty of writing about some of the same themes over and over. I’m one for owning up to life’s struggle — even the Buddhists say, “Life is suffering.” Coming to LA to be with Gwen was great, but the move was somewhat isolating because all my friends were in London. And I didn’t want to come here and just lean on the person I love. So that move was intense. Marriage itself is intense. I wrote this song and I couldn’t call it “Landslide” because Stevie Nicks had gotten there first with one of my favorite songs. But that word still fit. Hope Stevie doesn’t mind

FUTURE WORLD: This was almost the template for the record — that sensual feel and songs about living in the modern world of hard-wired cable and firewalls. It really is another in a long list of my survival guide songs. I think life is hard for everyone – no matter what you do. It’s just such a fragmented, fractured world that you just to have a lot of ability to make a lot of glue in every area.

LOVE REMAINS THE SAME: I really wanted to write my drinking song — my drowning of the sorrows song. I have a tough wife with high standards so there are those times when there is a disconnect. It’s hard to be with anybody for any length of time, and there are those times when you realize we need to make an effort here. I’m not really a drinking man, but I can imagine. It does have a certain Bukowski ness to it. I didn’t want to hide behind anything.

IF YOU’RE NOT WITH US, YOU’RE AGAINST US: I’m really inspired by Radiohead — as anyone who loves music should be I think. Thom is such an interesting writer. I like what he does with phrases. This song is about who’s starting all the war, and manipulating the world purely for themselves at the expense of the masses. We all know the difference between right and wrong –there’s not really that much grey area.

THIS IS HAPPINESS: There was a particular week when that I went with Gwen to New York. It was one of those times when parking space after parking space, everything fit in perfectly. Something about it was so magical, and when I wrote this album I wanted to make sure I had some of those up moments. I have such a deep love for New York — probably my favorite city in the world. I quite like that middle eight, “You make me so much better/I hope I don’t make you worse.” Bob loved it so much he said we should have it twice. And Chris’s guitar solo is fantastic,

ANOTHER NIGHT IN THE HILLS: I was writing with Dave Stewart. I went to his studio and I wanted to do something less self-conscious. I’d moved up into the Hollywood Hills. I said, “Let’s do a new wave song, not painfully earnest but actually fun. Writing with Dave is hilarious because he has no attention span. He had a good riff and then went off to take a phone call. But that’s great because it suits my personality because I’m more comfortable working some things out on my own.

THE TROUBLE I’M IN: That’s Shirley Manson of Garbage fame singing with me. One of my favorite records of all time is Bob Dylan’s “Desire” and especially “Isis” and “One More Cup of Coffee” with the great female voice blended in. I love that. It’s another thing that being in a band was not possible, Now it’s whatever goes. At first Shirley didn’t want to sing on it. I wrote her and she wrote back and said, “You persuasive bastard.” So she came to sing on it. And she’s great on it. It’s just about relationships and how we’re always in trouble.

BEAUTY IN THE BEAST: Often I will just write the lyrics first and they’ll lead me to a musical feeling. I wanted to write a nighttime urban song. That’s as close as I’ll get to writing like Beirut – whose music I love. What Dave Stewart did for me on this one was to write really great bass lines. Dave’s bass part allowed me to get deeply in that plaintive mood. The song’s meant to feel like walking down by Soho in England.

THIS PLACE IS ON FIRE: That was the working title for the record. I have a studio upstairs in my house and Gwen was downstairs with her design team. The clothes were looking amazing and she had the artwork for her album out and I was upstairs with this huge Dr Dre-like bass woofer and the music was going. And the engineer was like, “Wow, this place is amazing.” And I was like “Yeah, this place is on fucking fire. “ I though `Oh my god, that’s the title.” So I started singing with a Vocoder. It’s a nod to my wife. It was a longer piece but I thought it was a nice trippy way to end. And maybe open my shows.”

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KATE VOEGELE ON TOUR WITH HANSON

Interscope Records artist Kate Voegele is currently on tour with Hanson to support her debut album Don’t Look Away.

The musical landscape is teeming with singer/songwriters, many of them quite capable, but only a handful have something truly distinctive to offer. Kate Voegele belongs in the latter category. Don’t Look Away, Voegele’s first full-length album (MySpace Records), is a revelation, as the 20-year-old writer/singer, belying her tender years, delivers songs of depth and insight with a powerfully seductive voice that maintains a fierce presence amid dynamic rock grooves and infectious pop hooks. Produced by the veteran Marshall Altman (Matt Nathanson, Mark Broussard), Don’t Look Away is a bravura effort from an old soul with a youthful spirit; think of her album as a female parallel to John Mayer’s Room for Squares—at once a zeitgeist-capturing landmark and the launchpad for a viable career.

“Only Fooling Myself” audio stream:
LISTEN HERE!

Link to Kate Voegele tour EPK:
VIEW HERE!

Tour dates w/Hanson:

4/9 - La Crosse, WI at La Crosse Center South Hall
4/11 - Milwaukee, WI at Rave
4/12 - Madison, WI at United States Barrymore Theatre
4/13 - Green Bay, WI at United States Meyer Theatre
4/18 - Bloomington, IL at US Cellular Coliseum
4/19- Royal Oak, MI at Royal Oak Music Hall
4/21 - Rochester, NY at Water Street Music Hall
4/22 - Clifton Park, NY at Northern Lights
4/23 - S. Burlington, VT at Higher Ground
4/25 - Northhampton, MA at Calvin Theatre
4/29 - Sayreville, NJ at Starland Ballroom
5/1 - Falls Church, VA at State Theater
5/2 - Allentown, PA at Crocodile Rock Café
5/3 - Lancaster, PA at Chameleon Club
5/5 - Asheville, NC at The Orange Peel
5/6 - Myrtle Beach, SC at House of Blues
5/7 - Durham, NC at Carolina Theatre

http://www.myspace.com/katevoegele

Review: Heart of the City Tour With Jay-Z And Mary J

By: Mikey Frieds aka Stoli Razz

When I woke up on Thursday morning at 6 am I had knots in my stomach. I was so excited because the big concert had finally arrived. It was 4/3/08 and Jay-Z & Mary J Blige were coming to Boston, MA to play the Garden!

To be honest I began feigning for these tix the minute I got the first press release about the tour in the summer of 2007. There are certain shows that as an urban music enthusiast I just cannot miss. My good friend, Tresa Sanders, over at Geffen hooked me up with two floor seats. Tresa is one of the classiest & most respected figures in the music biz. Tresa has dealt with so many hot artists from Mary J, Keisha Cole, D-12, Akon, and beyond. Tresa has been down with Skope since 2002 and we appreciate that relationship to the fullest.

David Letterman - Jay-Z & Mary J Blige (4/4/08)

I started my night at my homie’s place in the North End in Boston. We were going to chill out and get our party on before heading to the Garden. Around 8 pm we decided to head up Causeway Street to the TD Banknorth Garden.

The Garden was bumping on the inside & out. People were all over the place and you could tell they were there to see Jay-Z & Mary J. One thing that struck me was the diversity of the crowd. You could see all sorts of people from preppy suburban kids to the thugs from the hood. It made you realize Jay-Z is so succesful because his music is for everybody.

The plan was to hit the restroom and then grab a beer before heading to the seats. While waiting for my girl to get out the restroom you could hear, “Can’t Knock The Hustle” coming from inside the Garden. I said forget the beer and we got seated.

Mary J & Jay-Z kicked off the show with such energy that the whole place was on their feet. I did not sit once the whole concert. I was planning on writing down Mary J’s set list but I was too busy dancing. She had songs from the past like, “Be Happy” & “Real Love” to her new hits “No More Drama” & “Be Without You”.

“Just Fine”

Mary J was on for over an hour. I have never seen Mary J live before but I was blown away. Her energy is non-stop. Also her voice is just as amazing live as on record. Mary J has no need to lip synch and that is a testament to her talent. As Mary was performing I was looking at the crowd. I noticed how brilliant this tour was. There is no better date night than taking your lover to see Mary J & Jay Z! Mary J closed her set with “Just Fine” and she walked off stage to a standing ovation!

Before I go into Jay-Z’s set there was alot of background going on leading up to this night. First off was that Jay-Z just signed a $150 million deal with Live Nation. The second is that Jay-Z was going to marry Beyonce in NYC the next night on 4/4. All of that news was perfect to put Jay-Z in the right mood to perform.

Jay-Z’s set was incredible in all aspects. His set list comprised of the old tracks from ‘Reasonable Doubt’ to the new tracks from, ‘American Gangster.’ The crowd was electric the whole show. At one point Jay-Z put a picture of GW Bush for the crowd to curse & boo. He then let the crowd know that it was time for a change and put up a picture of Barack Obama.

Towards the end of the show Jay-Z played deejay. He began playing the intros to about 15 of his hit songs over the years. That made everyone in the crowd recognize just how many hits he has compiled over the years. Watching Jay-Z perform is like watching a legend in his prime. I have seen Jay-Z perform 3 times and this was the best show yet!

Overall the ‘Heart Of The City Tour’ was amazing. It had something for the ladies & the fellas. Mary J and Jay-Z gave the fans their monies worth. If you love music and love hip hop this tour is a can’t miss!

www.livenation.com

THREE FREE MP3’s FROM SKOPE AND THE FRONTIER BROTHERS

Photo By: Janette Beckman

Skope would love to offer 3 free downloads from The Frontier Brothers upcoming album for exclusive use for your site. The album is called Space Punk Starlet. This will be for a release in September of 2008. They recorded at Wire Recording in Austin, Texas with Stuart Sullivan.

“Everyones A Neutron Bomb”
LISTEN HERE!

“Space Punk Starlet”
LISTEN HERE!

“Take It For Love”
LISTEN HERE!

The Frontier Brothers come in peace. Beings from somewhere beyond in outer space, they’ve entered the realm of our solar system to brighten our musical soundscape. Proofs that garage rock knows no celestial boundaries, the three lads bear guitars for the good of all humankind, to free us from the constraints of the three-chord hook. With their keen extra-melody perception, The Frontier Brothers have crafted an aural manifesto foretelling our future: “Solar Power Struggle!” Disseminated exclusively via Final Frontier Records, SPS! is a generous display of goodwill as we all strive toward tolerance and inter-SOLAR-tary harmony.

From the initial pulsating beat looping beneath “Jump Blues”, The Frontier Brothers signal for our attention with a form of Morse code. Then lead singer Marshall Galactic’s voice bellows in with a rebel rousing yell befitting of our time. Suddenly we are at attention and transfixed by the jangley rock and psychedelic guitar-strumming streaming through the five-track EP. By the time T.E.S.S. “TechnicalElectronicSupersonicRobot” arrives we are fully enraptured in an intergalactic dance party.

Born in space, razed in Fort Worth, and now regenerating in Austin, The Frontier Brothers have only just arrived, yet early notices are truly something for the E.T.s to phone home about. “The Frontier Brothers cover the wicked terrain between The Beach Boys and The Kinks with just a touch of mad Syd Barrett,” says Vivien Goldman (BBC America). While the Fort Worth Weekly declares, “(The Frontier Brothers) have a love for the pure pleasures of music-making.” Individually known as Marshall Galactic, Brett Moses, and Travis Newman, TFB craft a new breed of danceable indie-pop inspired by artists ranging from David Bowie and ELO to Wilco and Arcade Fire. However you describe them, The Frontier Brothers are simply out of this world. The trio is currently on tour recruiting more terrestrial visionaries for their intergalactic exchange program.

www.myspace.com/thefrontierbrothers
www.thefrontierbrothers.com

THE REPUBLIC TIGERS’ DEBUT ALBUM KEEP COLOR OUT MAY 6TH

Spring Tour with Tally Hall & Summer Tour with Nada Surf
 
The Republic Tigers will be releasing their debut album, Keep Color on May 6th. The Kansas City-based quintet — Kenn Jankowski (vocals, keyboards and guitar), Adam McGill (guitar, vocals), Ryan Pinkston (guitar, keys, vocals, auxiliary percussion), Marc Pepperman (bass, keys, accordion) and Justin Tricomi (drums) - have quickly become ones to watch. They will perform on KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic on May 12th and the station has already made Keep Color’s lead track, “Buildings & Mountains” a Top Tune on KCRW.com. The band will be releasing a video for “Buildings & Mountains” directed by Brian Savelson (Band of Horses) soon.

The first signing to Chop Shop Records, the new imprint on Atlantic Records owned by Alexandra Patsavas of Chop Shop Music Supervision (Grey’s Anatomy, Gossip Girl, Mad Men), The Republic Tigers will also perform at an exclusive live music showcase, Breaking the Band sponsored by Target and curated by Patsavas as part of the Tribeca Film Festival on Friday, May 2 at Webster Hall.  The line up will also feature The Hold Steady and The Virgins.

Keep Color is a bold and beautiful collection of intimate tracks that uniquely weave future folk, euphoric psychedelia, and exuberant symphonic pop with intricately crafted electronic textures. Urb Magazine picked them as one of their Next 100 saying they “combine(s) genuinely delightful acoustics with the bloopity-bops that are always in demand” and Pitch Weekly recently featured them on the cover, saying “people need to hear this album, get drunk to it and pull it out years from now when they want something reliable.”

They are currently on tour with Tally Hall for the first half of April and will be on the road with Nada Surf in June (see dates below).

Apr 8 2008       Jack Rabbit Slim’s           Albany, New York
Apr 9 2008       Kirkland Arts Center        Clinton, New York
Apr 10 2008     Iron Horse                         Northampton, Massachusetts
Apr 11 2008     Toquet Hall                       Westport, Connecticut
Apr 13 2008     Great Scott                        Boston, Massachusetts
Apr 14 2008     Southpaw                          Brooklyn, New York
Apr 15 2008     Bowery Ballroom             New York, New York
Apr 17 2008     DC9                                   Washington DC
*** All dates above with Tally Hall

June 1 2008     The Social                        Orlando, Florida
June 2 2008     Studio A                            Miami, Florida
June 3 2008     State Theatre                   St. Petersburg, Florida
June 5 2008     Mercy Lounge                  Nashville, Tennessee
June 7 2008     Bluebird                            St. Louis, Missouri
June 9 2008     The Music Mill                 Indianapolis, Indiana
June 10 2008   The Basement                Columbus, Ohio
June 11 2008   Beachland Ballroom      Cleveland, Ohio
*** All dates above with Nada Surf

www.myspace.com/therepublictigers

M83 NEW ALBUM “SATURDAYS = YOUTH” OUT 4/15/08

 

DIGITAL SINGLE “GRAVEYARD GIRL” OUT 4/8/08 & US TOUR BEGINS IN MAY

M83’s new album “Saturdays=Youth” hits stores April 15th.

Mute will release “Graveyard Girl” as a digital single on April 8th. The single features an exclusive remix by Yuksek.

Check out the video here: M83 - Graveyard Girl

For M83 - Graveyard Girl Audio click here: REAL
LISTEN HERE!

M83 – aka French artist Anthony Gonzalez – is set to embark on a US tour this may.

SASSY SONGSTRESS KATY PERRY TO RELEASE DEBUT ALBUM

ONE OF THE BOYS - ON JUNE 17TH VIA CAPITOL RECORDS & PERRY TO APPEAR ON THE VANS WARPED TOUR THIS SUMMER

No less a harbinger of ‘what’s hot’ than Perez Hilton who has predicted that L.A.-based singer/songwriter Katy Perry will be “one of the breakout stars of the summer” when Capitol Records releases her debut album, One of the Boys, on June 17th. Perry will also join the traveling rock circus that is the 2008 Vans Warped Tour, for the entire trek this summer.
       
One of the Boys is a sharp and witty pop-rock gem filled with candid tales of neurotic ex-boyfriends (”Hot N Cold,” “Ur So Gay”, “Mannequin”), crazy road trips with friends (”Waking Up in Vegas”), and figuring out who you are along the way (first single “I Kissed A Girl,” “Fingerprints”). While the album displays Perry’s feisty, girl-power swagger, it also reveals her more vulnerable side on such regretful ballads as “Lost,” “I’m Still Breathing,” and “Thinking of You.”
       
“I think people can appreciate a songwriter who shows different sides, and this album has many different colors,” Perry says. “I can write my share of angry break-up songs but I wanted to balance it out with fun, summertime songs. But there are also sad songs about loss and making the wrong decisions. It’s been blood, sweat, and tears making this record. I’ve put everything into it and I feel like it’s my baby. When people listen to it, I hope they will understand where I’m coming from as a person.”

To showcase her sharp, observational lyrics and big, charismatic voice, Perry worked with a host of noted producers and collaborators, including Greg Wells (Mika, Natasha Bedingfield), Glen Ballard (No Doubt, Alanis Morrisette), Dave Stewart (Eurythmics), Dr. Luke (Kelly Clarkson, Avril Lavigne), Max Martin (Leona Lewis, Robyn), Sam Hollander & Dave Katz (Gym Class Heroes, Boys Like Girls) and Butch Walker (Pink, The Donnas). “You can’t get better than these guys,” Perry says. “I feel like the luckiest bitch in town right now.”
       
One of the Boys is the full-length follow-up to Perry’s debut digital EP, Ur So Gay (available on iTunes since last November), which has already earned the 23-year-old Santa Barbara, CA, native a solid fanbase. Perry will perform “Ur So Gay,” a hilarious kiss-off to a guyliner-wearing ex that Blender called “wickedly funny” and Billboard called “zeitgeist-capturing,” on Last Call With Carson Daly on April 8th. The video for the clip, which premiered on MySpace had close to one million plays within one week of it being posted to the site. Perry has also been tapped for Yahoo!’s Who’s Next Critical Eye and MSN’s Ones to Watch for June.
       
Perry will play a handful of live dates this spring on both coasts before heading out on the Vans Warped Tour.  “Warped is going to be grueling and hot, but I’m ready to survive it - even without showers,” Perry says. “Gwen Stefani did the tour back in 2000 with No Doubt and she looked fabulous hopping around on stage in her little polka-dotted dresses. You can find YouTube clips of her up there and all the girls in the audience are going nuts. I’m am so channeling that.”
       
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www.myspace.com/katyperry
www.katyperryblog.com

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