As members of both The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Songwriters Hall of Fame, winners of both the Lifetime Achievement (2000) and Legend Awards (2003) from the Recording Academy, seven GrammyÃ’ Awards, BMI Icon Award, and a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 1997 Brit Awards, it’s hard to overstate the significance of what…
WHO’S BAD CARRY ON THE LEGACY OF MICHAEL JACKSON’S MUSIC / VIDEO
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The untimely passing of Michael Jackson on the eve of his 50-date return to the live stage this month at London’s O2 Arena with his “This Is It” tour has left a void in the music business, as millions of fans turn to his work to deal with their grief.
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF MUSICIANS SUPPORT HOUSE HEALTH REFORM BILL
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The American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada (AFM) applauds the release of the House of Representatives bill, (H.R. 3200), “America’s Affordable Health Choices Act,” a real step forward in fixing America’s failing health care system. We appreciate the dedication of the House Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, and Education…
THE SWELL SEASON ‘STRICT JOY’ DUE SEPT 29
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The Swell Season, the Oscar-winning duo of Frames frontman Glen Hansard and Czech ingÈnue Marketa Irglova, are putting the finishing touches on ‘Strict Joy,’ (Sept 29/Anti- Records), the follow-up to their beloved, surprise hit 2007 film and gold-certified soundtrack ‘Once.’ The twelve new, original songs on ‘Strict Joy’ were recorded last year and document a…
U2 HITS TWITTER
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U2, arguably one of the biggest bands in the world has just joined Twitter, arguably one of the biggest social media websites in the world! For an even closer look into their 360 Tour, the band is now snapping pictures to post exclusively to their Twitter page: SKOPE IT HERE!
TAKE A CRUISE WITH VH1 AND SHINEDOWN
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Shinedown are offering fans a very unique opportunity. The band is heading out on the Vh1 Best Cruise Ever with 3 Doors Down, Finger Eleven and more and want to bring some folks along. The boat sets sail on April 15th, 2010 from Tampa, Florida and takes passengers around the Cayman Islands through April 19th.…
MAXWELL TOPS BILLBOARD ALBUM CHART
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Maxwell tops the Billboard album chart with BLACKsummers’night selling a career-high 316-thousand copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan numbers. The Hannah Montana 3 TV soundtrack bows at number two with the NOW 31 compilation sliding down two spots to number three. All Time Low has its best debut as Nothing Personal enters the chart at…
KATY PERRY WORKS ON SECOND ALBUM
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Katy Perry is working on her follow-up album to last year’s highly successful One of the Boys effort, and she talked to BBC Newsbeat about the effort. The “I Kissed a Girl” singer said that she’s going to “make a record that’s more honest” and that it might be emotional, but not “sad emotional.”…
GET A NEW JASON MRAZ EP
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Jason Mraz has just released a brand new EP. It’s titled Yours Truly: The I’m Yours Collection and features four different versions of the singer-songwriter’s smash hit “I’m Yours.” Pick it up today at JasonMraz.com or at iTunes.
WHITNEY HOUSTON DEBUTS ALBUM IN LONDON
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Billboard.com reports that in London on Tuesday night, Whitney Houston made a show-stopping appearance at the world premiere of her new album, I Look to You. The singer told the invited international media that she was “ready to buy an island home and retire” however Sony Music exec Clive Davis talked her out of…
RAKIM IS BACK WITH NEW SINGLE “HOLY ARE YOU”
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In the history of Hip-Hop, few artists have had as great an impact on the development and progression of the art form and lyrical style as Rakim.
PepperDome, Let’s Try The Other Side
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PepperDome and this new record is the sole idea of one man known as John Tokarczyk. This musician of many faces works out all the vocals, bass lines, guitar and drums for Let’s Try The Other Side. PepperDome mixes a strange blend of hard rock, alternative, progressive and new-wave that sounds like nothing…
QUEENSRYCHE “HOME AGAIN” VIDEO CONTEST
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Queensrÿche’s touching ballad “Home Again” from their latest album American Soldier has really struck a chord with the military community and now the band wants your help making a video. Queensrÿche is asking members of the Military to submit pictures of themselves with their families to be featured in the upcoming music video for the…
BLUE OCTOBER WANT TO TOUR WITH KAYNE WEST, U2 and DEPECHE MODE? / VIDEOS
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In a recent interview with MTV2, BLUE OCTOBER was asked who their dream tour would be and the answers might surprise many of you.
AFI ‘CRASH LOVE’ OUT SEPTEMBER 29
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Davey Havok, Jade Puget, Hunter Burgan and Adam Carson, collectively known as AFI, will be releasing their eighth studio album, CRASH LOVE, September 29 on DGC/Interscope Records. Produced by Joe McGrath and Jacknife Lee and two years in the making, CRASH LOVE is possibly AFI’s most focused, direct and ambitious effort to date. On standout…
P.O.S. “PUREXED” VIDEO PREMIERE
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After debuting at the top of Billboard’s “Top New Artist” charts, P.O.S’s album Never Better continues to have a long life with his new video “Purexed”, which premiered on MTVu yesterday. The video is a heartfelt look into his tremendous work ethic, the same one that propelled Cinemax to feature him on their show “Max…
HEATHER GREENE NEW SINGLE “WHY DON’T YOU SAY YES”
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We wanted to introduce to Heather Greene, a beautiful and talented songstress who is also one of the world’s only female Scotch whiskey experts.
HOPEWELL NEW SINGLE “ISLAND” FROM ‘GOOD GOOD DESPERATION’
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NY’s Hopewell has been blending vintage fuzz pedal jams with their early space rock and shoegaze roots for over a decade, their 2001 full-length, The Curved Glass, being the perfect, noisy bridge between the epic psychedelia of ‘90s acts like Flaming Lips and Mercury Rev and a newer generation of bands that include Dungen, Dead…
SARA HAZE SONGS ON MTV’s THE HILLS
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New fans discovered Sara Haze when her song “My Own Hands To Hold” was placed on MTV’s series The Hills, generating over 200,000 plays in one week on her MySpace site and increased sales on iTunes. The song was co-written with and co-produced by Eric Fraley. Her song “Shine,” co-written with James T.…
O.A.R. FRONTMAN MARC ROBERGE AND WIFE ANNOUNCE ARRIVAL OF BABY BOY
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O.A.R. lead singer Marc Roberge and his wife Nasim welcomed Hudson Reza William Roberge into the world Friday, July 3rd. Weighing in at 7 lbs, 2 oz, the beautiful baby boy is the couples first. He is resting comfortably with his new parents in their home in New York. “I didn’t know…
SOULSAVERS ANNOUNCE AUGUST 18 DOMESTIC RELEASE OF THIRD ALBUM
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Genre-bending art rock heroes Soulsavers return with their third release, Broken, which Columbia Records will release in digital formats only on August 18. And in true Soulsavers tradition, Rich Machin and Ian Glover opened their studio doors and invited a handful of friends. At the forefront are the vocals of Mark Lanegan (Queens of…
DANKO JONES TO RELEASE NEW ALBUM ‘NEVER TOO LOUD’ SEPTEMBER 8
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DANKO JONES are ready to invade the U.S. with the release of NEVER TOO LOUD, their brand new studio album, out September 8 via Bad Taste Records/Caroline. Hailing from Toronto, the group–DANKO JONES (lead vocals/guitars), JOHN CALABRESE (bass), DAN CORNELIUS (drums)–teamed with Grammy award-winning producer Nick Raskulinecz (Rush, Foo Fighters, Coheed & Cambria, Stone Sour,…
MILKTOOTH SIGNS WITH BRITE REVOLUTION
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Brite Entertainment announces Nashville based, Milktooth, to its growing roster of indie bands on www.briterevolution.com. “One of the best things about Brite is that we get to work with the bands that push the boundaries of commercial music,” says Winn Elliott, CEO and founder of Brite Entertainment. “We embrace what the current label and radio…
XBOX LIVE PHOTO SHOOT WITH JESSIE JAMES
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Jessie James releases her debut album in August on the Mercury Records/Island Def Jam Music Group label, but the first single off the album has already been released. If you want a taste of Jessie James, check out these videos from Xbox LIVE Marketplace: Behind the Scenes of Jessie’s Photo Shoot: SKOPE IT HERE!
CHECK OUT MAINO’S NEW VIDEO “MILLION BUCKS”
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Before Maino gets his opportunity to ascend to hip-hop’s elite echelon, If Tomorrow Comes… is going to have to acquaint him with the masses that might not be familiar with the hard work he put in under the radar.
NELLY FURTADO E-CARD OF “MANOS AL AIRE”
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Universal Music Latino, a division of Universal Music Latin Entertainment (UMLE), the world’s leading Latin music company, today announced plans to release the Nelly Furtado single “Manos Al Aire” (Hands in the Air) to worldwide radio on June 29th, with digital and mobile retail availability to follow the next day. Capturing a woman’s outpouring…
JOE HENRY DEBUTS NEW SONG ON SPINNER.COM
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JOE HENRY is debuting a new song from his upcoming album Blood From Stars exclusively over at Spinner.com today. It’s a great opportunity to download and listen to the moody shuffle of ‘Death To The Storm’ from his soon to be released album. SKOPE IT HERE!
BLACK MOTH SUPER RAINBOW’S GRINDHOUSE FEATURETTE “BORN ON A DAY THE SUN DIDN’T RISE”
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Black Moth Super Rainbow present the gruesome music video for “Born On A Day The Sun Didn’t Rise,” the lead single from their recently released album ‘Eating Us’ (Graveface). Filmed with the grainy aesthetics and demented vision of a grindhouse flick, “Born On A Day The Sun Didn’t Rise” is an unbridled bloody nightmare.
STONES THROW ANNOUNCES NEW ARTIST MAYER HAWTHORNE / VIDEO
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When famed record collector and Stones Throw label head Peanut Butter Wolf first heard Mayer Hawthorne’s music, he couldn’t comprehend that it was what it was.
SKOPE EXCLUSIVES: Melanie Fiona and Questlove “The Bridge Questlove Mixtape”
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We at Skopemag.com get hundreds of exclusive tracks via various vendors on a daily basis. The goal for us is to share with our readers as many tracks that come in. Please note that some of these links expire so you got to get it while it’s hot! Melanie Fiona and Questlove “The Bridge Questlove…
SKOPE EXCLUSIVES: The Show ft. Mannie Fresh “I Does”
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We at Skopemag.com get hundreds of exclusive tracks via various vendors on a daily basis. The goal for us is to share with our readers as many tracks that come in. Please note that some of these links expire so you got to get it while it’s hot! The Show ft. Mannie Fresh “I Does”:…
SWOLLEN MEMBERS SIGN WITH SUBURBAN NOIZE
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Vancouver based Swollen Members and Battle Axe Records have formed a partnership California based Suburban Noize Records for the release of the group’s upcoming new projects. The first release under the partnership will be Swollen Members heavily anticipated new studio album “Armed To The Teeth”, which is slated for release August 25th through Suburban Noize.…
SKOPE EXCLUSIVES: ROYAL BANGS “My Car Is Haunted”
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We at Skopemag.com get hundreds of exclusive tracks via various vendors on a daily basis. The goal for us is to share with our readers as many tracks that come in. Please note that some of these links expire so you got to get it while it’s hot! ROYAL BANGS “My Car Is Haunted”: SKOPE…
SKOPE EXCLUSIVES: Heavy Young Heathens “Sha La La La”
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We at Skopemag.com get hundreds of exclusive tracks via various vendors on a daily basis. The goal for us is to share with our readers as many tracks that come in. Please note that some of these links expire so you got to get it while it’s hot! Heavy Young Heathens “Sha La La La”:…
WARNER BROS. RECORDS ANNOUNCES PARTNERSHIP WITH J.R. ROTEM’S LABEL BELUGA HEIGHTS
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Warner Bros. Records is pleased to announce that it has established a joint venture with multi-platinum songwriter and producer J.R. Rotem and his record label Beluga Heights. “I’m very excited about our new partnership with Warner Bros. Records,” Rotem says. “Both of our companies have a unique set of ideas, resources, and strengths, which will…
THE DYNAMITES FEATURING CHARLES WALKER RELEASE ‘BURN IT DOWN’ ON SEPTEMBER 15
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Soul music is here to stay, and it’s still evolving. The Dynamites Featuring Charles Walker are living proof. Nashville’s white hot deep funk band releases their highly anticipated second studio album, titled Burn It Down, on September 15, 2009. Look for the band on tour this Fall; tour dates to be announced soon. www.thedynamites.net
JAY-Z TO HELP RIHANNA’S NEW ALBUM
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According to SingersRoom.com, Rihanna is looking for more mature content on the follow up to her Good Girl Gone Bad disc. In addition, the pop star will be working with big names like Jay-Z, Kanye West and Ryan Tedder and she’s looking to have more creative control and input as well. No word yet as…
MAT KEARNEY TO HEADLINE TOUR
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Mat Kearney has just announced a fall headlining tour in support of his hit album City of Black & White. It’s set to kick off September 21st in Columbus, Ohio and will wrap up November 10th in Los Angeles. For all the dates and to see if the singer-songwriter is headed to a…
JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE TO OPEN GOLF COURSE
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According to the Associated Press, Justin Timberlake’s Mirimichi golf course in set to open after a 16-million dollar renovation aimed at making it environmentally friendly. The course is located in Millington, Tennessee and will open on July 25th. Timberlake bought the golf course to save it from commercial development and the project…
SKOPE TV PHONER WITH PLAYAZ CIRCLE
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On Monday night around 7 pm Skope got a call from College Park, ATL and it was Playaz Circle on the other end. Playaz Circle are gearing up to release their second album, ‘Flight 360.’
