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Month: October 2010
RYE RYE & MIA VIDEO FOR “SUNSHINE”
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Rye Rye’s brand new video for “Sunshine” feat. M.I.A! The song is the first single off her debut album Go! Pop! Bang!, dropping February 2011 on N.E.E.T/Interscope Records. Rye Rye’s club-killing dance moves are out in broad daylight and her spitfire flow is in full effect! M.I.A sings the hook and Jess Holzworth (Beck –…
MY OTHER FRIEND RELEASE MP3 SINGLE FROM DEBUT
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Brooklyn’s My Other Friend is set to release their debut album Burning Bright Tonight, with wide distribution on October 25th. The album which was originally self-released digitally in late July is already starting to gain the attention of leading tastemakers such as CMJ.
MIRRORS RELEASE MUSIC VIDEO FOR NEW SINGLE “HIDE AND SEEK”
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Brighton, UK-based electronic, “pop-noir” act Mirrors is excited to announce the release of the music video for their new single “Hide and Seek.” As a video that premiered on Pitchfork yesterday, the clip was helmed by Simon Pollard, a director who worked with the band on their previous music video for the single “Ways To…
HELLOGOODBYE TO RELEASE NEW RECORD
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Rocket Science Ventures and Wasted Summer Records are very excited to announce the November 9th release of Would It Kill You?, the second full-length record from Long Beach, CA, band Hellogoodbye. In anticipation of this self-funded album, the band released a video for its first single, “When We First Met,” which was added to mtvU…
IRON AND WINE TO RELEASE KISS EACH OTHER CLEAN JANUARY 2011
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Iron and Wine will be releasing, Kiss Each Other Clean, its first new album in over three years at the start of 2011. The record will made available by Warner Bros. Records in North America and 4AD in Europe, Japan and Australia. The full band will hit the road for a fall tour in November.…
MTV RADIO’S MORNING FACTS FOR MONDAY, OCTOBER 11th, 2010
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GAGA’S FORMER MANAGER TALKS Long before there was Lady Gaga, there was Stefani Germanotta, the dark-haired up-and-coming singer/songwriter from New York. Her manager at the time, Bob Leone, explains that Gaga used to have a hard time getting onstage. Leone told People.com, that Gaga was “painfully shy and is very different from who she…
The Matt Burke Band, Pretty Close to Very Good
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Get ready for an album that offers a lot of good-sounding music for the people. The Matt Burke Band is made up of two musicians: Matt Burke on vocals, guitar, electronic drums, synth and bass & Brue Baker on lead guitar. The duo refers to their distinct sound as “Soulcoustic Beach Rock”. I agree with…
The Jesus Rehab, The Highest Highs and the Lowest Lows
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What I heard was here was completely original and nothing like anything else I’ve listened to before. The Jesus Rehab brings to you a concept album full of real substance. Conceptual songs with a real meaning and a real purpose surround this 11-track set. With a band name like Jesus Rehab they…
Downslave, Cost of Freedom
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What a wake up call I had this morning when I listened to Downslave’s Cost of Freedom on my laptop. A little after 8 AM and still half asleep, I was in for a loud awakening. What I heard coming through my headphones definitely jolted my system and at this point I was…
LUPE FIASCO GETS AN ALBUM RELEASE DATE
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1st & 15th / Atlantic Records are proud to announce the upcoming release of “LASERS,” the hugely anticipated new album from Lupe Fiasco. The Grammy Award-winning superstar’s third full-length collection will arrive in stores and at all online retailers on March 8th, 2011. Lupe will release the first single from “LASERS” on Tuesday, October…
JASON JAMES TO TAKE TIME OFF
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Welsh rockers Bullet For My Valentine regret to inform their fans that bassist Jason James will be taking time off from their current North American fall tour. James will be on leave from October 8th through October 17th attending to a private family matter and will rejoin the band on October 18th in Calgary,…
NELLY FURTADO NEW SINGLE / AUDIO
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Listen to Nelly Furtado’s new single “Night Is Young” off of her forthcoming greatest hits compilation, The Best of Nelly Furtado. The track was co-produced by Salaam Remi (Nas, The Fugees, Amy Winehouse) and Staybent Krunk-A-Delic, and co-written by Nelly Furtado. SKOPE IT HERE!
BURNS & POE RELEASE SELF-TITLED DEBUT ALBUM
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The wait is over for Burns & Poe music! Having tantalized country radio and listeners with two new singles “Don’t Get No Better Than That” and “How Long Is Long Enough?” (currently at radio), Blue Steel Records’ sexy duo, Burns & Poe, are poised to unveil a double disc set this fall. Their self-titled debut…
CALIFORNIA WIVES RELEASE SINGLE “BLOOD RED YOUTH”
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New wave indie-pop conglomerate, California Wives are releasing their dreamily resonant single, “Blood Red Youth” off their debut EP, Affair.
FRAN HEALY VIDEO FOR “BUTTERCUPS”
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Fran Healy, lead singer and songwriter of multi-platinum selling Scottish rock band Travis, is very excited to release his debut solo album WRECKORDER, today October 5th on Ryko / Wreckord Label.
Superart, The Weirdbeard Sessions
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It’s not everyday that you hear an album where one song is as good as the next. It’s also not everyday that you hear a band that has three lead singers & three songwriters along with each of them being multi-instrumentalists. Actually, let’s be honest; this is extremely rare in today’s music world.…
VIDEO FOR MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE’S NEW SINGLE “NA NA NA (NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA)” TO PREMIERE ON MTV
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The video for “”Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na),” the new single from Reprise Records’ My Chemical Romance, will premiere in primetime on MTV at 11 p.m. EST on October 14th following a new episode of The Jersey Shore. The clip will go live on MTV.com at 12.01am EDT…
STOLI LANDS IN THE D TO HANG WITH YUNG KHAN
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It is Friday and Stoli is about to get paid & about to get his party on. I had to travel to Detroit to hang with my next guest that goes by the name of Yung Khan. What impressed me about this emcee is his work ethic and music quality. Yung Khan knows that to…
Tony Palmer, Leonard Cohen – Bird on a Wire
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Tony Palmer’s Leonard Cohen “Bird on a Wire” was to be his masterpiece: that is, until it was re-edited without Palmer’s permission and released in 1974. Using a recently discovered dubbing track of the film as a guide, Tony Palmer salvaged the 294 cans of damaged film that were found by Frank…
MR. COTA COTA AUDIO FOR “STATS”
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Mr. Cota Cota releases “Mixtape Volume 102” including collaborations with Young Buck, Thin C (Mo Thugs Family), E.D.I. Mean (The Outlaws) Layzie Bone and more! Mr. Cota Cota (Coming Out To Achieve), is an independent rap artist who was born Anthony Teagues, and raised in Kansas City, Kansas. Under his own independent label, Third World…
SIRE RECORDS TO RELEASE VINYL REISSUE OF JACK’S MANNEQUIN’S 2005 DEBUT
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Sire Records is proud to announces that Everything In Transit, the debut album from Jack’s Mannequin, will be reissued for the first time since its original August 2005 release beginning today. The recording is being reissued on vinyl with new artwork and sequencing, and will feature two new songs – an a cappella version of…
CONVERSE OFFERS MUSICIANS RARE OPPORTUNITY TO RECORD FOR FREE
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Today, Converse announced details for an unprecedented initiative that directly supports artistic creativity and the music community in a unique way through the opening of a new, state-of-the-art recording studio in Brooklyn, NY later this year. Converse Rubber Tracks will provide emerging artists with the incredible opportunity to record music in a high-quality studio alongside…
DARIUS RUCKER “COME BACK SONG” VIDEO
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Capitol Nashville is proud to announce the release of Darius Rucker’s new album, Charleston, SC 1966 hitting store shelves this Tuesday, October 12th.
BEHIND THE SCENES WITH NELLY, AKON, & T-PAIN
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Nelly’s comeback continues with the newly dropped 2nd single “Move That Body” featuring T-Pain & Akon. NappyBoyOnline.com was there to get exclusive BTS footage at the video shoot in Atlanta on Monday. T-Pain’s new single “Rap Song” featuring Rick Ross is currently heating up at radio stations all over the country. [youtube fb3PJljJrHA nolink]
Small Sins, Pot Calls Kettle Black
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Thomas D’Arcy, who apparently sealed himself in a basement studio after the implosion of his band, The Ladies and Gentleman, seems able to craft precise and well-crafted pop tunes with alarming ease. Of course, it doesn’t hurt that Pot Calls Kettle Black, his latest, was produced by legendary Chicago-based producer John McEntire. Each of the…
MTV RADIO’S MORNING FACTS FOR THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7th, 2010
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JUSTIN BIEBER FALLS OUT OF TOP TEN Justin Bieber’s My World 2.0 drops five spots this week to number 15 on the Billboard album chart. It marks the first time the album has slipped out of the top ten since its release 28 weeks ago. The record debuted at number one, back in…
MADISON OFFERS NEW MP3 “HOT HOT LOVE”
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The first installment of a 4-part EP series/multi-part pop and art project, The Noise Some People Make, will be released on January 11th, 2011 on G Records.
ABOVE & BEYOND & GARETH EMERY PRES. OCEANLAB “ON A GOOD DAY (METROPOLIS)” VIDEO
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Initially inspired by an article written by journalist Paul Harris on Detroit’s urban renewal city farms in the Guardian newspaper, the video for Above & Beyond and Gareth Emery pres. OceanLab ‘On A Good Day (Metropolis)’ captures the song’s essential meaning of triumph over adversity through the powerful, visual narrative of the Georgia Street Community…
CHIDDY BANG PREMIERE NEW SONG “BAD DAY”
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Chiddy Bang just premiered their new song “Bad Day”, straight off their upcoming release The Preview, out October 12th.
ERIC BENÉT TO RELEASE NEW ALBUM
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R&B soul singer, songwriter, and producer Eric Benét will release his fifth studio album, Lost in Time, on Reprise Records this November. Featuring duets with Faith Evans, Chrisette Michele, Ledisi, and the O’Jays’ Eddie Levert, Lost In Time is at once a sumptuous homage to and an expansion of the sweet soul of the 1970’s.…
LUDACRIS PRESENTS SHAREEFA / AUDIO
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SHAREEFA, the R&B singer known as “The Soul of Disturbing Tha Peace,” (Ludacris’ label AKA DTP), began her journey as an artist in 2006 with her debut album Point of No Return which reached the Top 30 (#25) on Billboard’s Top 200 and the Top 5 (#3) on Billboard’s R&B chart spawning the hit Top…
GOO GOO DOLLS BREAK OWN RECORD
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Best-selling rock band GOO GOO DOLLS have bested their own record for the most Top 10 singles in the history of Billboard’s Nielsen BDS-based Adult Top 40 chart, which launched in March 1996. The band, singer-guitarist Johnny Rzeznik, bassist Robby Takac, and drummer Mike Malinin, has notched its 14th Top 10 hit with “Home,” the…
FRONT LINE ASSEMBLY CANCEL US TOUR
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Metropolis recording artists FRONT LINE ASSEMBLY (FLA) regretfully are being forced to cancel their planned U.S. tour this Fall. “We have had too many problems putting the tour together, and the bottom line is if we can’t put on a good show for you the fans, then it’s just not worth it. We apologise to…
TYLER HILTON ON THE ROAD IN THE U.S. THIS FALL
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Singer and songwriter Tyler Hilton has launched a U.S. fall tour during which he will perform shows at high schools across the country during the day and club shows at night with his Warner Bros. Records labelmate Josiah Leming. The tour criss-crosses the country through November 17th. This week, Hilton will also perform for…
BOSTON BALLET LAUNCHES OFFSTAGE
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Boston Ballet launches a fresh, new event series, OFFSTAGE, this fall. OFFSTAGE events will take place following every second Thursday performance of Boston Ballet’s 2010-2011 season productions. The launch of OFFSTAGE comes on the heels of Boston Ballet’s 2009 company rebranding and website redesign, both of which were initiatives aimed at broadening Boston Ballet’s reach…
OCTOBER 2010 SONICBIDS “ARTISTS 2 WATCHâ€
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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.
ANNA GARROTT KICKS ASS WITH CLASS
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Anna Garrott grew up in the small town of Troy, Alabama. A sweet southern girl who considered herself a tomboy. Her Grandmother introduced her to country music early on playing the music of Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette and Kitty Wells. “There was something so pure and original in each of…
MTV RADIO’S MORNING FACTS FOR WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6th, 2010
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BIEBER TO HOST PUNK’D? According to Deadline.com, Justin Bieber could be the next host of MTV’s Punk’d. The website reports that the 16-year-old pop sensation is close to signing a deal to revive the show, which went off the air back in 2007. The prank series’ original host, Ashton Kutcher, will reportedly stay…
Showtime: Yeasayer play Masquerade
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Yeasayer performed to a packed crowd at Masquerade in Atlanta last Saturday. They delivered their unique mash up of psychedelic rock and Middle Eastern sounds.
