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From acclaimed director Bruce McDonald, MUSIC FROM THE BIG HOUSE is an extraordinary story about finding hope, joy and music behind bars. Rita Chiarelli, Canada’s Queen of the Blues, takes a pilgrimage to the birthplace of the Blues: Louisiana State Maximum Security Penitentiary, a.k.a Angola Prison — formerly the bloodiest prison in America.   Rita’s…

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Hailing from Kenosha, Wisconsin, four-piece death metal act JUNGLE ROT will be re-issuing their newly re-mastered 1996 classic album, Skin The Living, coming February 19th, 2013. Pre-order packages are now available through the Victory Records’ webstore. Order now! Front man Dave Matrise comments “We’ve wanted to re-issue Skin The Living for some time now and…

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Celebrate the New Year in style with this one-night-only concert event experience when Mr. Worldwide takes the stage and is 100% live with AXS TV’s #LiveLIVE national television audience. “PITBULL presents ‘WHAT HAPPENS IN MIAMI, NEVER HAPPENED’ NEW YEARS EVE” with international music sensation Pitbull will broadcast LIVE on Monday, December 31 from the American…

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Grammy nominated singer-songwriter and actress Ester Dean has just released the new video for her latest track, “Baby Making Love.”   http://youtu.be/rYPuWfDZdxk Ester has been behind the scenes for years, penning top 10 hits across genres for superstar artists like Rihanna (“Rude Boy,” “What’s My Name,” “Where Have You Been”), Katy Perry (“Firework”), David Guetta…

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On Wednesday December 22nd, 2012, Marcus J. Austin will be the first urban/soul artist to partner with Starbucks for a holiday concert. The performance will take you on a musical journey of soul music drawing from rhythm and blues, jazz, house, and gospel inspirations.   Additionally, Marcus will also include some holiday favorites as an…

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GHOST proclaimed they will release a new full length studio offering entitled Infestissumam in Spring 2013. The follow up to the band’s debut album Opus Eponymous will be released via Loma Vista Recordings and was produced by Nashville-based Grammy ® Award-winning producer Nick Raskulinecz (Death Angel, Deftones, Foo Fighters, Rush). www.ghost-official.com

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Photo Ops is the dream-pop project from Terry Price, is pleased to release the video for “It Makes Me Cry,” the first single from his upcoming LP How To Say Goodbye. The track is one of the many gems on the album, layering Price’s charming vocals over smooth instrumentation coupled with his knack for writing…

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Synth pop princess, Casey Desmond, has released a new music video for “Rendezvous,” today on ArtistDirect.com. Watch the “end of the world” inspired video here: http://bit.ly/VgndI9. Rendezvous is off Desmond’s latest album, “Déjà Vu,” which was released on November 26th, via Sound Museum Records. Following her stint on NBC’s “The Voice,” her newest project breaks…

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The Goondox is not a new group but more so a new project, consisting of legendary PMD of EPMD together with New York newcomer Sean Strange and the Snowgoons on beats. The Goondox project started as an EP and turned into a full length album, which will be coming out early 2013 titled “Welcome To…

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The Lumineers announced today changes to their 2013 tour schedule. Shows in Philadelphia (Upper Darby), Boston, Pittsburgh all have new dates. See below for the new schedule. In addition to the changes the band has added a date at Washington DC’s DAR Constitution Hall on January 30. All tickets for New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and…

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Norwegian Artist/Producer Savant, best known for his prodigious musical output, which now includes 80+ commercial releases and over 40 free downloads, and phenomenal musical range from EDM, Metal and Glitch all the way to classical piano, has released “Alchemist”, his fifth original album in 13 months, on 12/12/12. http://records.sectionz.com/album/alchemist

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Wrapping up their year with solid radio adds on their first single, “Howl,” Los Angeles-based trio Beware of Darkness is ready to take a couple weeks off before a special FM 94/9 Muse after-party in San Diego on January 21, 2013. http://youtu.be/ESt3W__GNJw The band just wrapped up their studio sessions with rock producer Dave Sardy…

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The video, directed by Dan Gotti and premiered today by AllHipHop, plays off the somber theme of the song and places Copy and Tage in front of purple sky as the two emcees trade bars back and forth, each opening up about their personal failures and successes. “I expect to win,” raps Tage. “To not…

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In celebration of the just-announced jaunt, THE SHRINE will issue a limited edition tour-only vinyl 7″ release which will include the new songs “Napalm” and “Hellride”.   Today, ESPN premieres the ripping “Napalm” AND a brand new Scion A/V-produced video interview with the band and original Black Flag bass player (and utter legend) Chuck Dukowski,…

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Jets Overhead has revealed the band’s latest video for “What You Really Want” on Rolling Stone today.   The single can be found on the band’s latest release, Boredom and Joy, which is available now. In the development of the video, the band wanted to put fans first.   The thought process behind the video…

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On Wednesday, Dec. 19, country star Kellie Pickler returned to the states from what was her sixth USO tour overseas to perform for U.S. troops as part of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey’s annual USO holiday tour.   Other celebrities that joined her on the seven-day, four-country tour throughout the…

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Fresh off a tour run with Cypress Hill, Sugar Tongue Slim connects with WWE rising stars, Prime Time Players, for an entertaining interview on Monday Night Raw. Slim recently wrote the duo’s new theme music “Making Moves”, available now on iTunes. Prime Time Player x STS Interview on YouTube: http://bit.ly/V9s0Q3

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Asia’s #1 girl group, Girls’ Generation, is set to make their official comeback on January 1st 2013! On December 20th, Girls’ Generation 2013 logo was revealed with the caption “2012. 12. 21 10 A.M.” through SMTOWN’s global Twitter, Facebook, and Weibo pages as well as NHN LINE app, which quickly garnered a lot of attention…

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Today they are back in their classic line-up plus Mandy Meyer and are stronger than ever on their new album, DIRTY DYNAMITE. The band spent a whole two years working on the new album under the watchful eye of Chris Von Rohr. ‘We didn’t spend all that time on golf courses or tennis courts. No,…

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“Hero Jr.’s album is a polished survey of modern rock that isn’t too quirky or too brutish to turn off mainstream listeners. Lead singer, Evan Haughey, sounds like Kings of Leon front man Caleb Followill when he’s worked up and going for broke. Hero Jr. has everything in its right place. Haughey’s guitar licks, which…

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The diminutive singing sensation from Down Under’s story is told in a new comic book “Female Force: Kylie Minogue”. Kylie’s colorful experiences are brought to life as we follow the star’s ups and downs. From capturing Australia’s hearts in “Neighbours” to the life & loves of a national treasure, and her brave struggle with cancer.…

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Sci-Fi Bass-Duo Captain Panic!’ just released their first full length album, The Invasion on the dawn of the Mayan Apocalypse, 12:01 am, 12/21/12. The guys have taken a fresh approach and made the album available as a FREE Download through their Facebook or Soundcloud profiles and is also available in Beatport & iTunes for purchase…

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Mikael Weermets doesn’t care about genres or BPMs–he just wants to continue his reign of big room beats and uplifting vocal anthems into the new year. Coming from the country that has produced some of the biggest names in electronic dance music, the 25-year-old Swede will kick off 2013 with his latest original, ‘Make Some…

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DJ Touré, the venerated DJ/producer for the Hieroglyphics crew, has had a very busy 2012; between running his Bay Area-based production company, 101% Music and producing songs for the likes of E-40, Dolla Will, and Erk Tha Jerk, it’s amazing that he had time to perfect his long-awaited new album, Touré’s Theory: Session One. Nevertheless,…

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It’s been nearly a year since the ever-grinning spectacle of FEED ME WITH TEETH graced North America, and this January, the striking, live audio/visual performance will chomp its way through cities across the United States once again, with added lights, lasers, and new music from the UK producer, FEED ME.   Jon Gooch personifies his…

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This week Stereogum highlighted Greys as a “Band to Watch” and premiered the track “Pill” from Drift, saying of the band’s sound, “It’s a masculine sound, a mean sound; it’s propulsive, pummeling, and often pretty exhilarating. It’s also a sound Greys have evolved to near-perfection over a relatively short lifespan.” Calling “Pill” an “addicting piece…

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Album track “All Of These Igloos” is a melancholic song with a sweet melody led by simple piano plucks. We shared the song as a FREE download with Refinery 29 recently and today you can check out the artsy video for the track which was directed by Matthew Robinson (JOGGER). The video, which features a…

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Paris modern metal outfit AS THEY BURN have announced that they will join JOB FOR A COWBOY, WAR FROM A HARLOTS MOUTH, BENEATH THE MASSACRE on the upcoming BONECRUSHER FEST that is taking over twenty-seven cities across Europe/ UK beginning March 1st, 2013.   See the full list of tour dates here. http://www.victoryrecords.com/tours/artist/astheyburn Vocalist Kevin…

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Samuel Cooper and Brady Keehn are Sunglasses, musicians whose art school backgrounds and mashup pop sensibilities combine to create something altogether unique.The duo met while in school at the Savannah College of Art and Design. Cooper was working on his senior thesis, a musical film noir, when a friend recommended that Keehn, a sound production…

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Digits aka Alt Altman has released a brand new video for his first single ‘Love is Only Affection’ off his Only Affection EP, set for a February 26th release. The video centers around an injured alien who crashes her spaceship on earth. “What seems to be killing her, though, is not the injury, but rather…

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When soon-to-be-renowned Boston hip-hop duo 7L & Esoteric collaborated with the Wu-Tang Clan’s Inspectah Deck on the title track to 7LES’s debut EP Speaking Real Words in 1999, the timing was perfect. The upstart duo was building a serious buzz on the East Coast and beyond, while Deck was still winning praise for his gold-selling…

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Two-time Academy Award ® winning composer, A.R. Rahman, will release a new music video and single called “Infinite Love” on December 18th.   The inspiring song and short film delivers a powerful message about how individuals can effect positive change in the world by tuning to one strong pure will.   Rahman brings this theme…

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LA-based trio Hello Echo has released a new stop-motion video for its song “Why Are We Waiting?” The claymation video was cleverly created by member Sean Aylward in the band’s practice space with his own tools and props. This fall, Hello Echo released their Coffee Cups EP, a quick mix of alternative, punk, surf, blues…

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Teen pop and R&B sensation, Mindless Behavior, proudly announce their first feature film, Mindless Behavior: All Around The World. The trailer is premiering today via the YouTube channel AwesomenessTV, and the full-length documentary & concert movie will be in theaters nationwide on March 15, 2013 exclusively through AMC Independent. Produced by leading YouTube channel AwesomenessTV,…

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Just in time for the holidays, Erin has shared a special track from last year’s anti-holiday album, F*ck That. The album is available via iTunes and other digital retailers, and from now until New Year’s, Erin will donate 20% of every purchase of F*ck That (CD, digital, hymnal, packaged, etc.) to Occupy Sandy as they…

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Rising R&B icon Josh Xantus shines bright like a diamond on “Bling Bling”, his newest track inspired by the Cash Money classic. Josh describes the inspiration behind the song: “This song ‘Bling Bling’ is an original Cash Money record. After hanging out with Birdman, Wayne, Slim and Cee Lo in the clubs in Miami, I…

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Hailing from Brooklyn, NY, Hawk and Dove is an indie rock band whose calm-before-the-storm sound has been described as the “loudest quiet band you have ever heard” and “the psychedelic country David Bowie never wrote.” On their forthcoming debut album, This Yesterday Will Never End, the band mixes hauntingly beautiful ballads with thunderous stoner grooves…

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Canadian hard rock lovers will soon get to experience the theatrical hard rock that is Incura when they tour their homeland in advance of the release of their debut self-titled album.   Incura has been confirmed for a headlining Canadian trek beginning in mid-January, 2013, which will also feature fellow countrymen Six Side Die and…

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Croatian cellists Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser, known as 2CELLOS are back with a new music video and a brand new album. The galactic themed music video for their second single is a flirtatious and “come-hither” version of Muse’s hit “Supermassive Black Hole” featuring Glee’s Naya Rivera on vocals as you’ve never seen nor heard…

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