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Nettwerk Music Group Inc., a privately held independent music company focused on building successful artists by offering a unified set of management, marketing and publishing services, today announced that it has raised $10.25 million in equity growth financing. The equity financing includes investments from HBC Investments, as well as participation from existing shareholders Beedie Capital…

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“Showtime” is one of Bart Claessen’s, formerly known as Barthezz ( “On The Move” (2001)), latest tracks and his first to come out on the Radikal Records imprint. Progressive, big room house mixed with modern electro is the formula for this track. Aggressive and bold, “Showtime” is sure to be a dance floor smasher on…

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Capitol Record’s own Emeli Sandé is breaking records! Emeli’s February 2012 debut album Our Version of Events was on the chart for a staggering 63 weeks, breaking The Beatles’ Please Please Me album record of 62-consecutive-weeks in the Top 10 set 50 years ago (1963-1964). Our Version of Events’   sales are fast approaching 2…

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Tom Odell, winner of the BRITs Critics’ Choice Award, will launch a North American tour. The nine-city run includes sold-out shows at New York City’s Bowery Ballroom (May 2) and the legendary Troubadour (May 7) in West Hollywood, CA. See below for itinerary. Songs From Another Love, his debut EP, will be out tomorrow and…

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Singer-guitarist Ben Harper is helping to raise money for the family of Australian pro skateboarder Lewis Marnell, whose untimely death in January at the age of 30 left his family in dire financial straights. A lifelong skateboarding enthusiast and friend to skaters around the world, Harper has reunited with the Innocent Criminals for the first…

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Due to popular demand, Skate And Surf Festival has relocated to Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey. Exceeding the festival organizers’ expectations, the decision was made to move from its original location at the Plaza Green at iPlay America in Freehold, New Jersey. The festival will remain as scheduled for May 18-19 and…

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VAMPIRE WEEKEND has confirmed a September 20 headline show at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn NY. Tickets to the band’s first ever engagement at Barclays will be on sale beginning Saturday, May 4, the same day its September 28 return to the Hollywood Bowl goes on sale. Vampire Weekend has also confirmed its return to…

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The ?uestlove, David Byrne, Massive Attack, Giles Peterson favorite arrives on US soil May 1st and will make her US TV debut that evening on Jimmy Kimmel Live. Alice will be performing in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago, Washington and New York.   You can also catch Alice on KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic, at…

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Bank of the West will again host its Facebook Opening Band Contest, looking for an up-and-coming band to open an outdoor concert featuring Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo plus Loverboy, and perform before thousands of people at the annual Bank of the West Celebrates America concert and fireworks show. Set for Friday, June 28, 2013,…

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Prohibition Entertainment’s NYC based vocalist TRAEDONYA! (aka The Bride of New Funk Hipopera) releases her first video “Family Affair” off of her forthcoming digital debut EP ‘High Fructose Corn Syrup’.   The instrumentalists on the record are her ensemble Sample This! of which she is the lead vocalist and songwriter. VIDEO: TRAEDONYA! ft. Sample This!…

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Today Empire of the Sun premieres its brand new video, “Alive,” on VEVO. The “Alive” clip and the trailer for the band’s upcoming album, Ice On The Dune, were both produced by Kelvin Optical, Inc., a division within Bad Robot.The Australian band’s colorful music videos have already chalked up more than 50 million views. Fans…

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European pop songstress Margaret is making waves with her debut single “Thank You Very Much.”   The 23 year old Polish native worked with award winning director Chris Mars Piliero (The Black Keys) to create the controversial video which was originally banned by YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T2r5XZQqIs The video features 30 fully nude extras, both male and…

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Multi-platinum rockers Saliva areset to release their first album for new label home Rum Bum Records; IN IT TO WIN IT is due out on this summer in North America.   The first single from the forthcoming album, the aggressively anthemic title track “In It To Win It” is now available on iTunes. IN IT…

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The video for “Unlike Anyone,” premiered today by Complex, and was directed by Clara Aranovich, who has written, directed, and produced independent features as well as dramatic shorts in the past. This explains its treatment, which is perceptibly cinematic, with muted colors, purposeful shots, and visual metaphors. “It’s open to interpretation,” says Father Dude, “but…

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The New York based band just released the single “Lisbon Street”, that took close to a year to complete and went through 23 sketches before the final version of the song was ready to be mixed! I thought you might be interested in featuring it! You can download the song here. https://soundcloud.com/hermajestypr/lisbon-street Tapping into the…

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Nashville chanteuse Courtney Jaye lost her battle with pop music while preparing her upcoming album “Love and Forgiveness” and it’s great news for music fans everywhere. “I’m done apologizing for writing big songs — I don’t want to be afraid of that,” says Nashville based singer/songwriter Courtney Jaye. “I’ve always wanted to find a way…

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“You & I” draws the viewer in to a world where bohemian babes wade through tall grasses under a rainbow sky. Crystal Fighters’ signature romantic guitar plucking is the foundation of the cheery tune, serving as the perfect backdrop to this whimsical wonderland. Throughout the video, we follow the journey of a talking tree and…

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Young Slee hails from the 8th Ward area in New Orleans and collaborated with former Def Jam songstress and actress (Lottery Ticket with Ice Cube & Bow Wow, Love & Hip-Hop & most recently in Mac & Devin Go To High School starring Snoop Dogg & Wiz Khalifia) Teairra Mari for his new single “My…

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Tidewater, who has recently announced the release of his new full-length album, The Wedding, has just premiered a new track, “Desire” with GuitarWorld.   The Wedding will be released via Easy Killer Records on April 30th, 2013.   Check out “Desire” on Guitar World, here: http://bit.ly/ZMRjGB.

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Orlando rock band Built To Be Broken which features Benji Kuriakose from Season 3 of NBC’s ‘The Voice’, has released an official music video for their song “Park Avenue”. You may recall Benji’s memorable Blind Audition from ‘The Voice’, where he sang a powerful rendition of Bob Dylan’s ‘Knockin On Heaven’s Door’, which turned 2…

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Jai Cartier an Independent artist striving in the music industry to be the next greatest rappers in history. With management and TNE who has is back. He quickly jumps into the water with both feet, and a short road ahead of him. Jai Cartier – TNE the next big thing coming to a store in…

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Hard rock fans are salivating for Eleven Seven Music’s “The Connection” tour. This tour joins platinum-selling veterans Papa Roach with Escape the Fate and Otherwise. Having kicked off earlier this month in Orlando, FL, this tour will conclude in Pryor, OK, on May 24th. Onkyo, the world’s foremost manufacturer of hi-fi and home theater component…

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Brooklyn indie rockers X Ambassadors (formerly Ambassadors) have signed with Grammy-winning producer Alex Da Kid’s KIDinaKORNER label and will release their official debut EP Love Songs Drug Songs on May 7th. The six song EP was recorded at Westlake Studios in Los Angeles and features production by Alex Da Kid and Dan Stringer. Tracks on…

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Anyone who has seen the eye-catching FIAT Brand commercial, in which Fiat 500 vehicles dive into the sea off Italy’s Amalfi Coast and emerge onto the streets of New York City ready to party, may already be acquainted with the captivating voice of Italian dynamo Arianna. In the commercial, the Milan-born singer can be heard…

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Bass-music live performance DJ/Artist OCTiV has released “Fatality,” a FREE download as his debut single with Detroit-based record label FiXT. The track showcases OCTiV’s signature mix of heavy bass music with live guitar-based production. https://soundcloud.com/fixt/octiv-fatality/ OCT!V brings the rock & roll arena show to the party by playing live guitar and midi guitar while performing…

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Get up close and personal with T. Mills during our extensive, 23-minute interview, which took place on his tour bus following a stellar performance at Pontiac, Michigan’s Crofoot Ballroom. “You’re connecting so much shit in my life right now,” acknowledges the ‘Thrillionaire’ rapper, as he reenacts a defining moment that occurred in the backseat of…

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Omaze.com has partnered with Linkin Park and MusiCares to offer you and your readers a chance to win 2 front row VIP balcony tickets to the MusiCares Benefit Concert on May 30 in LA.   The concert is honoring Linkin Park’s Chester Bennington and skateboarder, surfer and musician Tony Alva.   Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda…

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NY/LA genre-hopping duo Javelin has premiered the previously unreleased ‘The Marimba Song’ with Noisey to celebrate the next leg of their spring tour, which takes them to NY’s Brooklyn Bowl with Jamaican Queens this Saturday, before they head out west for an LA performance at the Natural History Museum, and more. What was formerly a…

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The Uncluded (Aesop Rock and Kimya Dawson) are excited to unveil the details of their upcoming US tour which will begin on May 28 in Washington DC and will find the duo taking their whimsical tunes from coast to coast. The tour includes dates in Chicago at Old Town School of Folk Music on June…

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Dying Scene is proud to announce the second volume in our punk sub-genre compilations. “Skaface: Evolution” will focus on, you guessed it, Ska-Punk and will feature new tunes from some of the the scene’s best up and comers as well as previously unreleased tracks from scene staples such as Big D And The Kids Table,…

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With the recent tragedy in Boston, local musician, record label and recording studio owner Michael Abiuso decided to put together a fundraiser in order to assist those affected by the Boston incident. Michael (formerly of The Gay Blades and currently of The Venetia Fair) altered the lyrics to The Gay Blades’ Shake the Graves, recorded…

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On May 17th and 18th the brewery gates will be flung wide for HarpoonFest, Harpoon ’s annual summer festival. HarpoonFest carries on the brewery ’s tradition of celebrating local beer, right at the source, with fellow New Englanders. The 2013 HarpoonFest will feature an extensive lineup of Harpoon ’s Boston-brewed beers, including the hoppy and…

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It is with the filthiest of pleasures that Slovenly Recordings discharges the much anticipated full-length, self-titled LP from Greece’s BAZOOKA. A severely crusty unit from Volos, and now relocated to Athens, Bazooka, who is perhaps the most savage crew of an incredibly corrosive rock ‘n’ roll scene that includes Acid Baby Jesus and Gay Anniversary,…

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Georgia May Jagger will flip the switch to light the Empire State Building red and white on Wednesday, May 1, at 10 a.m. in a special ceremony honoring the seventh annual Delete Blood Cancer Gala, held tonight in New York City. Joining Jagger is Katharina Harf, co-founder of Delete Blood Cancer and Michele Scannavini, CEO…

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Album track “Giddy Up” is an upbeat, bubbly cut with buzzing electronic sound effects and a sing-along chorus. The band shows off showing their playful, fun-loving side with a video for the track, which shows them goofing off in their rehearsal space in Canada. You can check out the “Giddy Up” video where it premiered…

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Joe Satriani has been an unstoppable force on the music scene for over 27 years.   Now, the guitar great is announcing a new U.S. tour, supporting his latest album Unstoppable Momentum. The tour is set to launch on August 29th in San Diego, CA before hitting Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Albuquerque, Denver, Texas…

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California trio, Yellow Red Sparks today debuted the dark video for their brand new single, “A Play To End All Plays,” on NPR’s All Songs Considered. Directed by the talented Claire Marie Vogel, the video provides a powerful visual for the haunting track which, for the band, “really stands on it’s own from the rest…

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Dan Donegan, guitarist for multi-platinum, Grammy-nominated hard rock band Disturbed, has unveiled his new project, Fight or Flight. Fight or Flight will release their debut album, A Life by Design? on July 23rd via Warner Bros. Records. The first single, “First of the Last” will be hits radio May 21st. “During our hiatus from Disturbed,…

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Capital Cities premiered the official video for its Top 10 Modern Rock radio hit “Safe and Sound” earlier today on VEVO. The clip was directed by Grady Hall (Beck, Modest Mouse), who is a writer-director and creative director at GRAMMY ®-winning Motion Theory. “Safe and Sound” can be seen here.   Starting next week, the…

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