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A CAMP NEW EP ‘COVERS’ OUT NOW

by Skope • June 17, 2009

As A Camp kick off their first North American tour today at the Bowery Ballroom in New York City in support of their North American debut album, Colonia, the band announces the release of their Covers EP on Nettwerk exclusively in North America through iTunes on June 9. The Covers EP features three cover tracks…

by Skope • June 17, 2009

Bob Bogle, who co-founded the best selling rock instrumental band in music history the Ventures after meeting Don Wilson while trying to buy a used car from a dealership owned by his father in 1958, passed away on Sunday at the age of 75 after long battle with Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma. Although he hasn’t played live…

by Skope • June 17, 2009

With a title like Time To Die, you might think the Dodos’ third disc is their ‘mature album,’ a deadly serious undertaking punctuated with string sections and synths. Nice try kid, but you’ve got it all wrong. While indie rock’s go-to guy, Phil Ek (Built to Spill, Fleet Foxes, The Shins), hopped behind the boards…

by Skope • June 17, 2009

Green Day will premiere the video for their new single, “21 Guns,” exclusively on MySpace Music on June 21st at midnight. The video was helmed by noted director Marc Webb, who has lensed clips for such artists as My Chemical Romance, Weezer, and All-American Rejects, and is making his feature film directorial debut in July…

by Skope • June 17, 2009

Gym Class Heroes frontman Travis McCoy is currently traveling to South Africa, the Philippines and India to raise awareness about youth driven HIV and AIDS prevention initiatives. McCoy, who is the new MTV Staying Alive Special Ambassador, will be writing a new single inspired by his travels and those he meets along the way.…

by Skope • June 17, 2009

Vampire Weekend frontman Ezra Koenig and M.I.A. will appear on the Very Best’s debut album The Warm Heart of Africa. According to Pitchfork, the album will be released this fall and M.I.A. and Koenig collaborate on “Rain Dance” as well as the record’s title track.

by Skope • June 17, 2009

MTV News reports that Lady Gaga and Akon will be appearing on Sean Kingston’s sophomore effort, Tomorrow. The disc boasts Kingston’s new single, “Fire Burning,” which recently has been getting a ton of airplay. Tomorrow will be released August 25th.

by Skope • June 17, 2009

Cat Stevens, better known as Yusuf Islam these days, is now acknowledging that any similarities between his track “Forgeiner Suite” and Coldplay’s “Viva La Vida” wasn’t intentional. The famous songwriter told the Daily Express that he feels the British band did copy his song but that they did not do it on purpose. He even…

by Skope • June 17, 2009

NME.com reports that Santigold has begun work on a new album and Pharrell will be producing it. She intends to begin recording in August and says that Otis Redding and rapper Egyptian Lover will influence the sound of the album.

by Skope • June 17, 2009

It turns out that “New Divide,” Linkin Park’s new song from Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, isn’t just your average movie song. The band revealed to MTV News that they wrote the track after seeing almost half the film and that the song inspired composer Hans Zimmer’s soundtrack for the flick. The guys even disclosed…

by Skope • June 17, 2009

There’s a new video out for the remix of Katy Perry’s hit song “Waking Up in Vegas” and you can watch it at PerezHilton.com. SKOPE IT HERE!

by Skope • June 17, 2009

Beyonce has unleashed a batch of new videos off her multi-platinum disc, I Am…Sasha Fierce. The latest to be released is “Broken-hearted Girl” and the revamped version of “Ego” featuring Kanye West. The videos are featured in Beyonce’s new video anthology, Above & Beyonce: Video Collection & Dance Mixes, which is in stores now. DIRECT…

by Skope • June 17, 2009

Woodstock Ventures has teamed with Sony Music Entertainment to launch Woodstock.com, the official website for the Woodstock community. Woodstock.com will feature a cutting edge live music social network for all concerts, including complete artist and event information, access to ticketing, concert reviews, blogs and a forum to connect with other fan events throughout the world.…

by Skope • June 17, 2009

Grammy Award winning, multi-platinum selling artist Lil Wayne headlines this summer’s Young Money Presents: America’s Most Wanted Music Festival. Lil Wayne will be joined by artists Young Jeezy, Soulja Boy and Drake for the twenty one city tour through the United States and Canada. Tickets for the tour will go on sale June 20th and…

by Skope • June 16, 2009

Eye’z is having the ultimate fan video contest and offering $150 to the winner! Do you love to watch Youtube all day? Do you love to post videos that you made on your own Youtube channel or other video sharing site? Do you love & adore Eye’z? If you answered yes, this contest is for…

by Skope • June 16, 2009

First came the emancipation, then came energy and power, and now come MEMOIRS OF AN IMPERFECT ANGEL, the new album by interna tional superstar Mariah Carey, scheduled to arrive on August 25th. The first new single pick from MEMOIRS is “Obsessed,” which blasts out to radio today, Tuesday, June 16th. The video…

by Skope • June 16, 2009

For more than 60 years, Atlantic Records has been home to the most innovative, compelling, and enduring artists in African-American music, spanning soul and R&B, jazz and hip-hop. To commemorate this month’s 30th anniversary of “Black Music Month,” Atlantic has launched a dynamic online promotional campaign, dubbed “Atlantic IS Black Music.” “Atlantic IS Black…

by Skope • June 16, 2009

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! BUJU BANTON “Bedtime Story” Featuring WYCLEF JEAN:…

by Skope • June 16, 2009

Legendary band KISS made headlines last month when they announced their U.S. and Canadian tour will be the world’s first to put fans in charge of where a tour is routed. Now, KISS is adding even more excitement to their tour as they announce the selection of Buckcherry as the opening act for all…

by Skope • June 16, 2009

Pianist Robert Glasper presents both sides of his musical persona with Double-Booked, his third album for Blue Note Records, which will be released on August 25. The album bridges Glasper’s parallel careers as the leader of an acclaimed jazz trio and a first-call sideman with hip-hop artists such as Mos Def, Q Tip and The…

by Skope • June 16, 2009

The second music video from Distaccati, “The Moon Looks Back” is a collage of archival footage from B-movie sci-fi and monster flicks. It’s the perfect accompaniment to a song about the randomness of being.

by Skope • June 16, 2009

Atlantic recording artist Laura Izibor releases her much anticipated debut album, Let The Truth Be Told, today. The album, which features the hit single, “From My Heart To Yours,” is already shaping up as a breakthrough hit for the Dublin-based singer. The song is currently ascending the airplay charts at multi-format radio outlets…

by Skope • June 16, 2009

Superfly Presents and A.C. Entertainment are proud to announce that the 2009 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival has completed another fantastic weekend that was just shy of a sellout. With Bonnaroo as the traditional rite of passage to the rest of their summer, nearly 80,000 fans experienced an incident-free weekend with over 140 bands performing…

by Skope • June 16, 2009

Today is “Jonas Day” on the Disney Channel. The 12 hour marathon kicks off at 10 AM Eastern and Western and features six episodes of their T-V show Jonas, plus music videos, a sneak peek at Jonas Brothers’ upcoming concert tour, and their June 12th performance of “Poison Ivy” and “Paranoid” on ABC’s Good…

by Skope • June 16, 2009

According to the Las Angeles Times, T-Pain and Antares, the company which developed Auto-Tune, are collaborating on an Auto-Tune application for the iPhone. The feature will not be used for actual phone calls, however you will be able to access T-Pain’s beats and make music on the iPhone. No word yet as to when the…

by Skope • June 16, 2009

Rob Thomas is already busy as the frontman for matchbox twenty and as a solo artist. And to add to his already full plate, the singer-songwriter is starting his own clothing line. Thomas is teaming with Lyric Culture to make some limited-edition t-shirts and scarves that will be for sale at Bloomingdales. …

by Skope • June 16, 2009

Katy Perry is touring the U- and apparently someone broke into her tour bus while she was performing a show in London over the weekend. According to PerezHilton.com, the singer took to her Twitter to write about the incident, tweeting that they caught the wannabe thief.

by Skope • June 16, 2009

According to Rap-Up.com, Jay-Z has enlisted Drake to be featured on his upcoming single, “Off That.” Fans will be able to hear the new track this July. It is off Hov’s Blueprint 3 album which drops on September 11th.

by Skope • June 16, 2009

by Skope • June 15, 2009

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! RICK ROSS “Magnificent REMIX” Feat DIDDY, BIG…

by Skope • June 15, 2009

TLC Cable channel will debut its new summer promotional spot tomorrow — and it rocks! The 30-second spot prominently features Eric Hutchinson’s #1 radio hit “Rock & Roll.” The campaign will run all summer long, through September 7th. Tomorrow also marks the day that tickets go on sale for Hutchinson’s upcoming tour. The news…

by Skope • June 15, 2009

Visit the Danny Drysdale-directed (The Killers) video, which features actress Tania Raymonde (“Lost”), here. “I Couldn’t Love You”, praised for its “melodic hooks” and “offbeat instrumentation” by EW.com and deemed “insanely catchy, wild-eyed ’80s pop” by Stereogum, is the second single off Cursive’s new album, Mama, I’m Swollen, which was released March 10th on Saddle…

by Skope • June 15, 2009

For their highly anticipated release LEGEND OF THE BLACK SHAWARMA, electronic-rock innovators INFECTED MUSHROOM return with their patented hybrid of thrashing metal and psychedelic trance to bring a frenetic rock energy to the form and venture where other electronic acts fear to tread. The Israeli-bred, Los Angeles-based electronic duo continues to push sonic boundaries…