Welcome to another amazing month of music from the incredible musicians that make up the Sonicbids.com community. We have chose a select group of amazing musicians that will be speaking directly to the Skope readers. As always we encourage readers to dig deeper and check out their EPK’s.
Month: May 2010
STEVESHOT BREAKS OUT WITH “CATCH” MP3
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Explicit fun & frivolity located inside. If you value your free will, turn away now and go take out the garbage, or something. Because just 1 listen to any of these songs from steveshot will immediately turn you into a brain-dead zombie song-listening Steveshot slave.
MTV RADIO’S MORNING FACTS FOR TUESDAY, MAY 4th, 2010
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SHAKIRA ANNOUNCES WORLD TOUR Shakira has announced her 2010 global tour and her return to North America. The summer tour will visit New York’s Madison Square Garden on September 21st, Houston’s Toyota Center on October 8th, and the Staples Center in Los Angeles on October 23rd. Tickets for Shakira’s trek go on sale in select…
SKOPE / SAVING ABEL FLYAWAY GIVEAWAY
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Win a Trip for two to the NASCAR Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips 400 at Michigan Speedway with Saving Abel!
DROWNING POOL TALK ABOUT WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT
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To join Drowning Pool in their support of Wounded Warrior Project and to receive a FREE download of “Feel Like I Do” in honor of our troops and returning warriors, visit www.woundedwarriorproject.org. [youtube EmXDmhqtgDU nolink]
RANDY JACKSON LAUNCHES NEW DANCE LABEL
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Music guru RANDY JACKSON has announced the launch of his new dance label, DreamMerchant21, and is thrilled to announce the signing of his first artist to the label, Season 2 American Idol ® superstar KIMBERLEY LOCKE. With DreamMerchant21 underway, Jackson has plans to serve all facets of the dance community as he sees the…
WALTER TROUT ‘COMMON GROUND’ TO BE RELEASED ON JULY 6 BY PROVOGUE RECORDS
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Provogue Records has announced a July 6 street date for Walter Trout’s nineteenth solo album COMMON GROUND. From the origins of his career as a sideman for Percy Mayfield and John Lee Hooker, through his tenure with Canned Heat and John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, and then a successful solo career that has seen the release…
LIMP BIZKIT US TOUR
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Considered one of the biggest rock bands of all time, Limp Bizkit, announced today they will blaze a trail across the U.S. this summer in their first major concert tour in more than nine years. The band’s original powerhouse line-up of Fred Durst, Wes Borland, Sam Rivers, John Otto, and DJ Lethal are also…
PRIESTBIRD OFFER TWO TRACKS ONLINE FREE
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Priestbird have two new tracks for download. Members have come together to record their sophomore effort, Beachcombers. They’ve spent some time in other projects such as Megapuss, Devendra Banhart and the Grogs, and Storms in the recent past. They gathered for multiple, albeit brief, recording sessions in Mexico, Seattle, NYC, and LA…
JANGO AIRPLAY POPSCORE TOP 20 ARTIST FOR APRIL 2010
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Every time we play a Jango Airplay emerging artist to one of Jango.com’s 7 Million listeners, we ask them to rate the song. We enter all the listener reactions into a formula to determine which songs, and therefore which bands, are most popular with our listeners.
Damon, Song of a Gypsy
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The summer of 1969 saw Woodstock, where hippies abounded, love was in the air and the brown acid was not recommended. That year also marked the release of Song of a Gypsy, the debut album from artist, Damon. The record reflected much of the sentiment and culture of the times, namely love, deep emotion and…
CREED WELCOMES SKILLET AND THEFT TO “THE $20-$10 TOUR”
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SKILLET and THEFT have just been confirmed as special guests for select dates on CREED’s “$20-10 $Tour” dates, with RED also appearing at several concerts. As previously announced, “The $20-$10 Tour” kicks offon July 28th in Washington D.C., and was named because the first 2,010 reserved seats are $20 all-in. This means fans…
YOU ME AT SIX TO RELEASE SECOND ALBUM ON JUNE 22
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You Me At Six look set to cement their rise from underground heroes to mainstream success with the June 22nd release of their second album Hold Me Down via Virgin Records. Debuting at #5 in the UK, Hold Me Down is the follow up to their 2008 debut Take Off Your Colours. Their propelling live…
SHAKIRA ANNOUNCES 2010 GLOBAL TOUR
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Shakira, one of the most exciting and successful global artists in recent history, with more than 214 global award nominations and more than 50 million albums sold worldwide, has announced her 2010 global tour and her highly anticipated return to North America. The Live Nation produced summer tour will visit New York’s Madison Square Garden…
THE KENN MORR BAND HELP STOLI REACH FOR HIGHER GROUND
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This is an exciting week to be in and a fan of The Kenn Morr Band. I say that becuase I just finished listening to their unreleased new album, ‘Higher Ground’ and it is a wonderful listen. Kenn & the band will be heading to NYC’s Bitter End on this Friday night, May 7th, to…
CLASS ACTRESS DEBUTS VIDEO FOR “ADOLESCENT HEART”
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Brooklyn duo Class Actress recently debuted their VSFW (very safe for work) video for “Adolescent Heart,” directed by Jessica Lauretti.
RANDOM STABBINGS & ARTLESS CRITIQUE, MAY 2010
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Hyperbubble, Candy Apple Daydreams (Bubblegum Records) Though incessantly billing themselves as “photogenic,” this lo-tech Atari-punk duo look a bit long in the tooth to take on Fischerspooner and whatnot in the MySpace Music arena, but it could be part of the shtick, who knows. More cheese than a Velveeta factory here, although the somewhat…
MTV RADIO’S MORNING FACTS FOR MONDAY, MAY 3rd, 2010
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BIEBER NAMED NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR Justin Bieber will receive the Newcomer of the Year award at Hollywood Life’s Young Hollywood Awards next week. Nick Jonas will take home the Artist of the Year award, thanks to his debut solo album with his band The Administration. The cast of Twilight will take home…
