On November 3, Rhino Records celebrates Frank Sinatra with a five-disc boxed set of previously unreleased live performances. Sinatra: New York highlights performances recorded between 1955 and 1990 at iconic New York City Venues such as the Manhattan Center, Carnegie Hall, and Madison Square Garden.
Category: FEATURES
Feature stories and artist interviews
YEAH YEAH YEAHS BARE IT ALL IN NEW ITUNES ORIGINAL
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Nine years into their career, your favorite New York trio Yeah Yeah Yeahs did an iTunes Original featuring perfect-for-fans interviews, and stripped down versions of the band’s songs, new and old.
SNOB DOODLE
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We are 11 days away from Halloween but Snob Doodle is already annoyed by the holiday music. If he is feeling like this now we can only imagine what is in store for Christmas.
JARED EVAN PRESENTS THE VIDEO FOR “FROZEN”
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Here is the first visual off Jared Evan’s “Radio In My Head” Mixtape titled “Frozen” which is also featured on Lebron James’ “More Than A Game” Soundtrack.
YURA YURA TEIKOKU OFFER “DEKINAI” MP3 FROM NEW ALBUM
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Yura Yura Teikoku are a bonafide institution at home, arguably the only ‘underground’ psychedelic group in Japan to have achieved ‘overground’ success.
THURSDAY DEBUT VIDEO FOR “CIRCUITS OF FEVER”
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Visionary New Jersey rock sextet Thursday has released a new music video for the song “Circuits of Fever” from their critically acclaimed album, Common Existence, on Spinner.com.
LOUISIANA CA$H PRESENTS “WALK WIT A DIP” VIDEOS
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It’s tough to argue with Louisiana Ca$h’s assertion after watching the video for his smash debut single “Walk Wit A Dip.”
UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC SIGNS ‘GOSSIP GIRL’ LEIGHTON MEESTER / AUDIO
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Superstar actress Leighton Meester, best known for her starring role on the CW’s ‘Gossip Girl’, is taking on the music world and she’s doing it full-throttle!
SINGER/SONGWRITER STACIE ROSE TELLS STOLI HOW SHE & HER FANS ARE REINVENTING “DIY†WITH PLEDGE MUSIC
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When I woke up this morning I knew that it was going to be a great week for ‘Skoped Out.’ This week I get to feature my next guest who I feel is one of the most exciting female singer/songwriters today. I fell for the music of Stacie Rose in 2006 when I found her…
DETAILS ON THE LADY GAGA’S NEW ALBUM, THE FAME MONSTER
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On November 24th, Lady Gaga will be re-releasing her debut album The Fame, as a brand new double-disc release titled The Fame Monster.
PEACHES RELEASES NEW VIDEO FOR “I FEEL CREAM”
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As her sixth video from I Feel Cream, something tells me Peaches has a lot of time on her hands. Directed by Kinga Burza.
GEORGIA ANNE MULDROW BREAKS OUT WITH “RUN AWAY”
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Singer/songwriter/producer Georgia Anne Muldrow is releasing her third studio album, “Early” on November 10th through the label Animatedcartunes.
COLD FLAMEZ NEW VIDEO FOR “MISS ME, KISS ME”
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For some college kids, with the arrival of fall come fraternity initiations. Eastside Long Beach rappers Cold Flamez invite you to witness their initiation to the Delta Psi Omega Fraternity, headed by Pledge Master DJ Skee. What begins as a sketchy introduction turns into a raucous house party with a 4:1 girl to guy ratio.
JET “BLACK HEARTS (ON FIRE)” TAPPED FOR MAJOR ANHEUSER-BUSCH CAMPAIGN
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“Black Hearts (On Fire),” the hard charging next single from the Aussie rockers JET, is featured throughout the massive advertising campaign launching Bud Light’s new Golden Wheat beer.
RED RELEASES NEW VIDEO “FOREVER”
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Platinum-selling Rock band Saving Abel will headline the inaugural “CLASS OF 2009” TOUR, with Grammy Nominated Red, Pop Evil and Taddy Porter along for the ride. The excursion will get underway on October 27th in San Antonio, TX and continue until the end of the year.
GET BUSY COMMITTEE ALBUM COMING NOVEMBER 11 / VIDEO
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Get Busy Committee features names you may have heard before: Ryu (Styles of Beyond), Apathy (Demigodz, Army of the Pharaohs) and super-producer Scoop Deville, known for his work recently with Snoop Dogg, Game, Clipse, Murs and many others.
GOV’T MULE NEW STUDIO ALBUM OUT OCTOBER 27 / AUDIO
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With 2 million paid song downloads through their site MuleTracks, seven critically acclaimed studio records already released, a handful of DVDs and live albums, plus an ever-expanding fanbase and sold-out coast-to-coast tours, Gov’t Mule could easily rest on its laurels.
KACI BATTAGLIA “CRAZY POSSESSIVE” VIDEO & WIDGET
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Curb Records’ artist Kaci Battaglia’s single “Crazy Possessive” is sweeping the nation as it can be heard on radio stations across the country. The track is averaging nearly 7,000 downloads per week.
MORPHINE ‘AT YOUR SERVICE’ LISTENING PARTY ALBUM SAMPLER
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Singer Mark Sandman coined the phrase “low rock” to describe the sonorous, languid groove he created with the acclaimed Boston band Morphine. Sadly, the band’s time together was cut short in 1999 when Sandman suffered a heart attack in Italy while onstage with Morphine and died on the way to the hospital.
THE MONSTER BALL TOUR: STARRING LADY GAGA
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With Kanye off to rehab, Lady Gaga is still ready to go on tour with the announcement of “The Monster Ball Tour: Starring Lady Gaga”.
PEREZ HILTON HEADS TO FRANCE TO SIGN SLIIMY / VIDEO
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Sliimy’s debut album Paint Your Face just dropped digitally on Sept. 15th, and he’s the first artist signed to Perezcious Music – Perez Hilton’s music label with Warner Bros. Records.
THE STUNNERS OFFER MP3 OFF DEBUT EP OUT OCTOBER 20
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“Dancin’ Around The Truth” blends clever lyrics about a relationship going wrong with pulsating synths and a hypnotic groove.
ROB ZOMBIE OFFERS “WHAT?” FROM ‘HELLBILLY DELUXE 2’
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Hellbillies rejoice, the Master of monster mayhem, Rob Zombie, is returning with exactly what you’ve been waiting for, HELLBILLY DELUXE 2! The follow up to the 1998 triple platinum smash HELLBILLY DELUXE will be the latest masterpiece from Zombie which is set to hit stores November 17th.
DJ DAN JOINS NETTWERK MUSIC GROUP & REMIXES LADY GAGA
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DJ DAN has been on the cutting edge of forward thinking dance tracks for nearly two decades. As he approaches his 20th year in the music industry, he joins Nettwerk to release his debut artist album FUTURE RETRO, a collection comprised of two vantage points: one looking back and paying homage to where electronic…
NIRVANA “SCHOOL” VIDEO FROM LIVE AT READING
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Amazing footage of Nirvana performing “School” at the 1992 Reading Festival was recently made available for fans. The video comes from the CD+DVD Nirvana Live At Reading which hits stores November 17th, with the CD only version arriving on November 3rd.
NNEKA RELEASES FIRST SINGLE MP3 FROM ‘CONCRETE JUNGLE’
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Nneka’s first US release, Concrete Jungle in stores February 2, 2010, stands as an offering of love, hope and optimism dedicated to the people of Warri & the Niger Delta of Nigeria. Holding it all together is the emotional focus of her beautiful voice, located in a place somewhere between yearning and rage.
1997 NEW MUSIC VIDEO “A FEARLESS HEART”
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1997 has released their visually alluring new music video for the first single, “A Fearless Heart”, from their ethereal new album, Notes From Underground.
NORAH JONES NEW SINGLE “CHASING PIRATES”
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Check out the new single from Norah Jones, “Chasing Pirates”, available digitally on Tuesday, October 13th in support of her highly anticipated new studio album The Fall.
SEELAND DEBUT NEW VIDEO FOR “CAPTURED”
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“Captured” is a superb slice of uptempo psychotropic pop. A love song to set your head spinning and get your toes tapping. Full of soaring harmonies, jangly guitars and fairground organs, like some lost gem from the Postcard era it’s reminscent of both Joseph K and Orange Juice with a touch of Neu and a…
S. CREEEZY TELLS STOLI DON’T SLEEP ON ICELAND HIP HOP
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The title of my next feature tells it all. Before I met my next guest I was a stranger to hip hop music that emcees are creating in the beautiful country of Iceland. Well that has all changed since S. Creeezy hollered at me. Not only is S. Creeezy a student of hip hop but…
RAY DAVIES PRESENTS “DAYS” FROM ‘THE KINKS CHORAL COLLECTION’ OUT NOVEMBER 10
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After massively successful career spanning more than 40 years, Ray Davies, the legendary lead singer of The Kinks, is back with creative and unusual interpretations of songs from his extensive catalog.
FOCUS FEATURES OFFERS TRAILER TO ‘PIRATE RADIO’ MOVIE
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Pirate Radio is the high-spirited story of how 8 DJs love affair with Rock n Roll changed the world forever. In the 1960s this group of rouge DJs, on a boat in the middle of the Northern Atlantic, played rock records and broke the law all for the love of music.
ONEREPUBLIC NEW VIDEO “ALL THE RIGHT MOVES”
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OneRepublic have just premiered the video for their new single “All The Right Moves.” The band takes the stage at a beautiful masquerade ball in the Wayne Isham (Britney Spears, Michael Jackson, Metallica) directed clip.
SNOB DOODLE
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A very happy TGIF to all Skope readers. What better way to kick off a three day weekend than with a new Snob Doodle.
CORINA BARTRA INTRODUCES STOLI TO AFRO-PERUVIAN MUSIC
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I like to consider myself a true music enthusiast who is always open to try new genres & sounds. My next guest has opened up my eyes to a genre I never knew existed but I am happy I do now. Corina Bartra is a native of Peru who now splits her time between there…
“IT IS WHAT IT IS, AND I’M A GROWN UP”
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The former Chiodos frontman speaks up about his leave from the band, and how he is handling it.
AUSTRALIA’S BIGGEST HIP-HOP GROUP BLISS N ESO NEW VIDEO & US DATES
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Australian hip-hop heavyweights, Bliss n Eso, are set to bring their highly acclaimed live show to the US for the first time on tour with Swollen Members, Big B, and Common Market. The group will hit US shores for their first show on American soil starting October 20th in San Luis Obispo, CA, and will…
INTERVIEW: LIGHTS
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On the first day of her North America tour which started in Philadelphia, Skope was able to interview the Canadian dream-pop songstress, LIGHTS, about her surprising musical influence and the challenge she faced trying to win over a punk-rock crowd at Warped Tour.
JAGGED EDGE RELEASE FIRST OFFICIAL SINGLE FROM THEIR UPCOMING ALBUM ‘THE REMEDY’
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Slip-N-Slide Records, one of the top independent labels in the industry founded by Ted Lucas, is gearing up for the release of Grammy nominated and chart-topping R&B super group Jagged Edge’s 7th album The Remedy in 2010 with the release of their first official single, “Tip Of My Tongue” produced by Miami based…
UK DUBSTEP PRODUCER SKREAM REMIXES CHROMEO’S “NIGHT BY NIGHT”
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Green Label Sound, the free singles label, releases an exclusive remix from UK dubstep producer Skream for Chromeo’s recent release “Night By Night.” Skream, one of debstep’s most prominent producers, adds his slow, dark drum and bass burn.
