Category: NEWS

MIKE POSNER TALKS DUKE’S F-LIST! Mike Posner scored a top-ten hit with “Cooler Than Me” off his debut album, 31 Minutes to Takeoff.   The 22-year-old singer is a college graduate, who got a degree in Sociology at Duke University in North Carolina.   The school has been in the news of late after a…

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He’s kidding, of course. But kidding around is what he does. Dirt Nasty is the hip-hop alter ego of Simon Rex, a man with a giddy string of comedy credits to his name. He’s been in Scary Movie 3 and 4, Superhero Movie, and has also appeared on the small screen in What I Like…

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Directed by photographer Warwick Saint, who shot such album covers as Adam Lambert’s ultra-glam For Your Entertainment and Alicia Keys’ The Diary Of Alicia Keys. Streaming URL: SKOPE IT HERE!   www.trishmusiconline.com

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CHRISTINA AGUILERA OFFICIALLY FILES FOR DIVORCE Christina Aguilera has officially filed for divorce from husband Jordan Bratman.   According to TMZ, the pop star cited “irreconcilable differences” as the reason for the split, and documents list the date of separation as September 11th of this year.   TMZ also reports that there was a prenuptial…

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The State Theatre in Portland, Maine, boarded up and missed by many for nearly five years, re-opens its doors this Friday. An extensive, venue-wide restoration of the State was overseen by General Manager Lauren Wayne on behalf of The Bowery Presents, an independent promotion company based in New York City and Alex Crothers of Higher…

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Soundgarden’s video for “Black Rain” is currently the iTunes Free Video of the Week. The offer started this Tuesday and will end on Monday October 18th at approximately midnight. “Black Rain” comes off of the bands recently released career-spanning retrospective, Telephantasm. LINK TO FREE OFFER: SKOPE IT HERE!

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SINGER CHALLENGES LADY GAGA Apparently there’s at least one person out there who doesn’t like Lady Gaga.   According to Billboard, a singer named Alisa Apps has challenged the pop star to a televised singing competition, with a grand prize of one-million dollars.   Apps issued a statement saying, “I feel sorry for Lady Gaga…

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UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC RECORDS proudly announces the U.S. signing of CLARE MAGUIRE. The 22-year-old Irish phenom will release her anxiously awaited debut album via UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC in spring 2011.   Blending bombastic bluesy emotion, seductive crooning and pop theatricality, there’s no one quite like CLARE MAGUIRE. CLARE MAGUIRE vocally channels Kate Bush and Annie Lenox, while…

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Fresh from headlining performances at Reggae On The Rocks in Colorado, Festival International De Rhythmes Du Monde in Quebec, Rock al Parque in Colombia, plus two special fundraising events at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum in New York, GRAMMY-nominated Ky-Mani Marley has unveiled recording news and announced several personal appearances.   Ky-Mani is currently recording songs…

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Art Fag Recordings presents Cry Out Loud, the debut release from Costa Rican heartthrobs Las Robertas. It’s available today and steaming over at Altered Zones. Check it out the whole thing here! Contrary of earlier demos released online, the debut is a newly mixed record by Jon Greene whose prior work includes Dum Dum Girls,…

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On November 30th, Curb Records will release, Number One Hits, a two-disc set featuring 22 of Tim McGraw’s chart-topping singles. The collection will also feature two bonus tracks – a dance mix of his breakthrough 1994 hit, “Indian Outlaw,” and “Felt Good on My Lips,” McGraw’s latest single. Written by Brett Warren, Brad Warren, Brett…

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French electro-pop outfit Jamaica (formerly known as Poney Poney) is gearing up for their first ever North American tour this week. Criss crossing the U.S. and Canada, the band are supporting their brand new EP Cross The Fader that is set to be released digitally on October 18th. Kicking off the tour on October 13th…

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CHRISTINA AGUILERA AND HUSBAND SEPARATE Christina Aguilera has indeed separated from her husband, Jordan Bratman.   The singer issued a statement to People.com, confirming that the two have split up and that regardless of this, their commitment to their son Max “remains as strong as ever.”   Aguilera gave birth to the couple’s only child…

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The Material will release the band’s debut album independently on January 11, 2011.   Soon thereafter, the group who are no strangers to the road will begin a national tour with the intent of staying out there for the entire calendar year.   This follows multiple self-booked national coast-to-coast tours, which have been a catalyst…

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On the heels of the cancellation of their European tour, Austin, TX’s The Sword are also regretfully canceling the remainder of their scheduled US dates due to the departure of their drummer, Trivett Wingo.   The split is amicable and both Trivett and the rest of the band wish each other the best of the…

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Weezer’s devoted community of fans are getting more new music from the band than ever before, with the upcoming November 2nd release of Death To False Metal (DGC/UMe) – the band’s third release of the fourth quarter.   Death To False Metal is not a traditional collection of studio leftovers or songs from the vault,…

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BLACK EYED PEAS IN THE STUDIO The Black Eyed Peas are currently squeezing in time in the studio in between tour dates to finish up their new album, which is due out next month.   Will.i.am took to Twitter on Friday and said that they are “in the studio recording the new album.”   The…

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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…

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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…

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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.…

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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…

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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…

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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,…

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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!

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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]

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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…

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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.…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Oklahoma City psych/prog/experimental pop quartet STARDEATH AND WHITE DWARFS will hit the road in support of the debut album, THE BIRTH for the months of November and December with New Zealand psychedelic-pop rockers, Tame Impala.   Over the past couple years STARDEATH AND WHITE DWARFS have recorded and toured with OKC brethren and label mates,…

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Multi-platinum-selling, Grammy-winning global superstar, actress, philanthropist and recent Canadian “Walk of Fame” inductee, Nelly Furtado, will celebrate her first 10 years of recording with her first greatest hits compilation, The Best Of Nelly Furtado (Geffen Records).   The album, to be released November 16th, features #1 Pop smashes, collaborations and three previously unreleased recordings and…

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