Music by Years & Months:
Music News in December, 2007
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Large Professor To release Beatz Volume 2
posted on December 31, 2007
Back again is Large Pro with Beatz Vol. 2! A new batch of soulful street beatz that real hip hop fans will love. Included on this project are the soulful "Xtra P For President”, “A Cain't Stop”, and “Don't Change" to name a few. True B Boy flavor roc...
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B-Real To release The Gunslinger 3
posted on December 31, 2007
“Gunslinger 3: For a Few Dollars More” is the third volume in the highly successful series from rap icon B Real, founding member of the legendary Cypress Hill. The project is Hosted and Mixed by TONY TOUCH and features a range of tracks from mega-p...
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Marvin Gaye To release Here My Dear
posted on December 29, 2007
In December 1978, Marvin Gaye released Here, My Dear, a sprawling two-LP set that was a deeply personal chronicle of his divorce from Anna Gordy. Though at the time it received mixed reviews, the album has since become recognized as a highly influent...
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Rachel McGoye To release Beautiful Disaster
posted on December 29, 2007
Classically trained with a Professional Music degree from Berklee College of Music, Rachel McGoye has spent the last 5 years infiltrating the Los Angeles music scene. It is expected to be compared to to other artists, but with such a unique sound, Ra...
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Kate Walsh To release Tim's House
posted on December 29, 2007
She’s been called music’s best kept, not-so-secret ‘secret.’; ‘The missing link between Joni Mitchell’ (hails UK’s The Guardian) and a host of female singer/songwriters cut from the UK’s intricately-stitched musical fabric. None, however, have emerg...
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Troublemakers To release Breez Evahflowin and Dirt E Dutch are
posted on December 28, 2007
Let’s take a sec to think back, to 1980 Connecticut, and young Eric Bassriel received his first piece of vinyl for his little blue plastic record player: Kurtis Blow’s single, “The Brakes”. Being from a low-income interracial household in a predomina...
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Presidents of The United States of America To release These Are The Good Times People
posted on December 28, 2007
These are the good times, people. No, really. And who better to set the record straight than THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. The trio returns March 11 with THESE ARE THE GOOD TIMES PEOPLE, their first album in three years and fourth ...
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Smashing Pumpkins To release American Gothic
posted on December 28, 2007
THE SMASHING PUMPKINS have announced the completion of new material with American Gothic, a four-song acoustic EP to be released digitally via the iTunes Store on January 2. Featuring the songs “The Rose March,” “Pox, “Again, Again, Again (The Crux)”...
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Basia Bulat To release Oh My Darling
posted on December 28, 2007
Basia Bulat hails from the forest city of London, Ontario, where she found her songs and stories dangling from the trees. Her debut album Oh, My Darling was engineered and produced by Howard Bilerman (Godspeed You! Black Emperor, The Arcade Fire, upc...
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Teenagers To release Reality Check
posted on December 28, 2007
Consisting of three lovely French 20-somethings, lead singer Quentin Delafon, guitarist / synth man Dorian Dumont and bassist Michael Szpiner, The Teenagers are a band that could have only come from Paris. Their sound is built around a backbone of go...
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Tera Melos To release Drugs To The Dear Youth
posted on December 28, 2007
There are few precedents for a band that works this hard, stays this independent, and makes music this crazy. In these ways Tera Melos are refreshing and comforting: a fearlessly adventurous band garnering attention from other artists, industry refor...
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The Cops The Cops
posted on December 27, 2007
Seattle's The Cops are a band of the people; born out of repression, revulsion, frustration and all the other things that make life so horrible and rock bands so great. Free Electricity is eleven dark, roughhousing manifestos broadcast from roughly 5...
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Glorytellers To release self-titled
posted on December 27, 2007
The creative force behind Glorytellers is guitarist/singer/songwriter Geoff Farina, who spent the better part of 14 years fronting Boston’s genre-bending Karate, and as one-half of the formative lo-fi duo Secret Stars. Farina’s latest effort reveals ...
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Loney Dear To release Sologne
posted on December 27, 2007
It's the record that really launched Swedish muti-instrumentalist and songcrafter Emil Svanangen into the next phase of his career; it's got "The City The Airport" on it, which is a jam you should know by heart and listen to on repeat, and it deserve...
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The Valley Arena To release Sesso Vita
posted on December 27, 2007
When The Valley Arena started writing and recording their second full-length, they set out to do more than just record a collection of songs. Sesso.Vita (Italian for “Sex/ Life”) ties together re-imagined stories of the bands hometown, told through m...
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Say Hi To release The Wishes And The Glitch
posted on December 27, 2007
Seattle's Eric Elbogen, aka Say Hi, is gearing up for the early '08 release of The Wishes And The Glitch, his forthcoming and much-anticipated new full-length on Euphobia records. While his dry sense of humor is never far, gone are the persistent mus...
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Bloodsimple To release Red Harvest
posted on December 24, 2007
bloodsimple don’t want to be judged by the merits of their past, but they know that it’s probably going to happen. And they’re ready. “People are going to be blindsided by this record, and I can say that with confidence—I think this is my greatest wo...
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Joe Budden To release Mood Muzik 3
posted on December 24, 2007
The hiatus is over and the ink is finally dry. Joe Budden will be releasing the official retail version of “Mood Muzik 3” on February, 26th 2008 on Amalgam Digital. As a rising independent label and distribution powerhouse, the company rejuvenated th...
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Rafter To release Sex Death Cassette
posted on December 23, 2007
Following up on the ornate and optimistic odyssey of Mu-sic For Total Chickens, Rafter returns his second proper full-length, SEX DEATH CASSETTE, once again donning his indigenous brand of oddity. His school bus-cum-Cabinet of Wonders rambles down du...
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The Mars Volta To release Bedlam In Goliath
posted on December 23, 2007
The genesis of The Mars Volta’s new album The Bedlam in Goliath is one of the weirdest stories in the history of modern music, a tale of long-buried murder victims and their otherworldly influence, of strife and near collapse, of the long hard fight ...
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Jaymay To release Autumn Fallin
posted on December 23, 2007
Currently touring the UK where Heavenly Recordings has released Autumn Fallin’ to slew of 4-star reviews (see above), Jaymay got her start at a NYC open mic night in 2003. Soon after she was invited to play at various Lower East Side venues such as P...
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Radiohead To release In Rainbows
posted on December 23, 2007
On January 1, 2008, TBD Records/ATO Records Group will release in North America the physical version of Radiohead’s In Rainbows. Released in download format earlier this year, In Rainbows has already received tremendous acclaim in the press. British ...
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The Blackout To release We Are The Dynamite
posted on December 23, 2007
THE BLACKOUT are six metallic troubadours from Merthyr Tydfil in Wales. They consist of Sean Smith (vocals), Gavin Butler (vocals), James Davies (guitar), Matthew Davies (guitar), Rhys Lewis (bass) and Gareth Lawrence (drums). ‘We Are The Dynamite!’ ...
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Fightstar Fightstar
posted on December 23, 2007
“The moment I knew this band was going to work was when we were recording the EP,” says Fightstar bassist Dan Haigh. “Charlie said, ‘Shit, I’m really late for something I’ve got to do but I want to record this guitar line first.’ It turned out the th...
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Cunninlynguists Cunninlynguists
posted on December 22, 2007
There has never been an anomaly in hip-hop quite like the southern trio CunninLynguists. Sampling genres from psych-rock to blues, New Romantic to polka, they have been musically compared to UGK and Atmosphere in the same breath. They have toured and...
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Alan Jackson To release Good Time
posted on December 21, 2007
Alan Jackson is currently putting the finishing touches on Good Time, his new Arista Nashville album, slated for release on March 4, 2008. The album was recorded in Nashville at the Castle and reunites Jackson with longtime producer Keith Stegall. Al...
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Jae P To release Atrevete
posted on December 21, 2007
With his fourth production, “Atrévete”, Jae-P continues to work hard to remain in the affection he has managed to gain among his followers. This young artist wants to continue to be a beacon of hope and an example for all of “his people”. He continue...
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Five Times August To release Brighter Side
posted on December 20, 2007
On March 18, Five Times August (aka 24-year old Dallas native Brad Skistimas) will release his sophomore album 'Brighter Side.' Written entirely by Skistimas, 'Brighter Side' brims with melodies that are pure acoustic singer/songwriter at the core. ...
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Bone Thugs-N-Harmony Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
posted on December 20, 2007
Ruthless Records has proudly kicked off its’ 20th Anniversary celebration with the release of “T.H.U.G.S.” in stores now. The intense new album from the Cleveland quartet Bone thugs-n-harmony is rugged and raw for the fans and critics.
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Egypt Central To release self-titled
posted on December 20, 2007
Memphis, Tennessee’s Egypt Central will be releasing their self-titled debut in January 2008 on Fat Lady Records in conjunction with Warner Music Group’s Independent Label Group (ILG). Egypt Central, featuring John T. Falls (vocals), Joey Chicago (ba...
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Karl Wolf To release Bite the Bullet
posted on December 19, 2007
Karl Wolf makes a powerful return to the music scene around the world with the launch of his second solo album: Bite the Bullet. The first single, “Africa” (an impressive rendition of Toto’s 80s classic), is quickly climbing the charts in many parts ...
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Kyss Major To release Kyss The Girl
posted on December 19, 2007
Formerly of the female singing group E.V.E Ebony Vibe Everlasting off the Gasoline Alley/ MCA label. This well noted an accredited songwriter co wrote the hit single " The Way I Feel About You " with Loud recording artist Davina. No stranger to actin...
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Ben Allison To release Little Things Run The World
posted on December 19, 2007
After bassist Ben Allison read in the Washington Post about the "man-size safe" kept in Vice President Dick Cheney's office and that its contents were unknown to all but Cheney himself, he had an immediate reaction. He explains, "I chuckled the first...
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Liam Finn To release I'll Be Lightning
posted on December 19, 2007
“Stellar one-man-band” (Rolling Stone) Liam Finn won five of the top awards at the recently held B.Net Music Awards in his native New Zealand. B.Net is New Zealand’s leading national network of student radio stations. Riding high on the strength of h...
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Bell X1 To release Flock
posted on December 19, 2007
If you lived in Ireland, this bio wouldn’t be necessary. Bell X1 released an album there called ‘Flock’ that debuted at #1 on the Irish album charts, and has since gone 5x platinum. At one point a staggering four songs from ‘Flock’ were in the Top 20...
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Norah Jones To release My Blueberry Nights
posted on December 19, 2007
On February 5, 2008, Blue Note Records will release My Blueberry Nights, music from the new motion picture by director Wong Kar Wai (2046, In The Mood For Love, Happy Together). The first-ever English film by the acclaimed Hong Kong director, My Blue...
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The B-52s To release Funplex
posted on December 19, 2007
The B-52's, pioneering dance-rock stars, are exploding on the scene once again with the February 26th, 2008 release of 'Funplex', the band's first studio album in 16 years and the first with the Astralwerks label.
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Shaun the Sheep To release Life's A Treat
posted on December 17, 2007
Life’s A Treat when ewe are with Shaun the Sheep and now the resourceful and charismatic fella is bringing his fun and frolics to the charts with the release of his debut single named appropriately ‘Life’s A Treat’. Shaun the Sheep made his TV debut ...
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The Cloud Room To release self-titled
posted on December 17, 2007
Formed in 2004 The Cloud Room are J on Guitar and vocals, bassist Jonathan Petrow, Jason Pharr on drums, guitarist David H and keys played by Steve Milton. Released on 1st October is the irresistible debut single Hey Now Now. With their name taken f...
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Lauren Rose To release Here I Am
posted on December 17, 2007
Lauren Rose started singing and performing aged just 4. As a teenager she knew that her future lay in music and was given her first recording session as a Birthday present at the age of fifteen. By chance, she was overheard by producer Ryan Laubscher...
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RyanDan RyanDan
posted on December 17, 2007
Identical twin brothers Ryan and Dan Kowarsky are gearing up to release their second British single from their debut self-titled album. Written by folk legend Judie Tzuke, ‘High’ is a triumphant celebration of positivity and hope, performed with pass...
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Jimmie Reign To release Go Girl
posted on December 15, 2007
Hailing from the infamous Bay Area, this talented young lady takes the term Singer/Songwriter to another level. Coined as one of the fastest songwriters in the Bay, JIMMIE has been known to pen a hit song in less than 20 minutes! Her angelic voice ha...
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Silverchair To release Greatest View EP
posted on December 14, 2007
Silverchair will release the iTunes exclusive EP on Tuesday, December 18 entitled The Greatest View EP. The six track collection features the current single "The Greatest View" which was originally on Silverchair's 2003 release Diorama and will be st...
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One Be Lo To release The ReBirth
posted on December 14, 2007
One Be Lo, an emcee from Pontiac MI who is also known as OneManArmy, is back. Formerly one-half of of the brief but brightly burning duo Binary Star, he dropped his solo debut, S.O.N.O.G.R.A.M. on Fat Beats Records in 2005. It was an underground hit...
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The Dodos To release Visiter
posted on December 14, 2007
Visiter, by San Francisco band The Dodos, is their second full length and first for Frenchkiss. Originally formed in 2006 under the moniker Dodobird as a one man acoustic act, Meric Long would gig around SF playing folky guitar with a combinatio...
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Kerli To release self-titled
posted on December 13, 2007
Kerli’s life story is nothing short of a Cinderella story. Growing up in Elva, Estonia, a then Russian-occupied town of 5,000 residents, Kerli had dreams and aspirations that pushed way beyond the boundaries of her communist surroundings. A product o...
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Common Common
posted on December 13, 2007
“Sometimes the most telling aspects of an artist’s career are their early works,” writes Leah Rose, Music Editor, XXL, *Lip Service* Shade 45/Sirius, “the ambitious and sometimes rough attempts that show the world who they are and who they are about ...
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The Grizzly Owls To release By Night On My Bed
posted on December 13, 2007
The Grizzly Owls became inspired by their grandparent's journey from Oklahoma to Bakersfield, California during the Dust Bowl migration. Keeping in tradition with their Dust Bowl roots, the Grizzly Owls looked to the originators of the 'Bakersfield S...
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Saul Williams To release The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust
posted on December 13, 2007
The FADER Label announces the release of the new recording by esteemed poet, artist and musician Saul Williams: The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust!. Produced by Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails), the download will be available for free o...
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Hot Chip To release Made In The Dark
posted on December 12, 2007
Hot Chip return with a new album Made In The Dark on February 5, 2008 on Astralwerks / DFA Records. Made In The Dark is the amazing & ambidextrous follow up to the massively acclaimed, Mercury Music Prize nominated album The Warning, and was recorded...
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Jet Lag Gemini To release Fire The Cannons
posted on December 12, 2007
In many ways, Jet Lag Gemini are early bloomers. While the New Jersey-based band met and formed while still in their early teens during high school, one wouldn’t suspect youth or a lack of experience from their mature and polished sound. Representing...
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Hanne Hukkelberg To release Rykestrasse 68
posted on December 11, 2007
Riding on a wave of critical and fan acclaim throughout Europe and UK, Nettwerk is elated to announce the North American release of Norwegian singer HANNE HUKKELBERG's sophomore release RYKESTRASSE 68 on March 04th 2008. Hanne's 2005 debut album Litt...
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The OaKs To release Songs for Waiting
posted on December 11, 2007
One of the major surprises of CMJ 2007, Orlando band The OaKs is set to release its sophomore album Songs For Waiting on March 3rd, 2008. The profound and stirring album is the follow-up to the band’s Our Fathers and The Things They Left Behind whic...
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Joe Jackson To release Rain
posted on December 11, 2007
When Joe Jackson went into an East Berlin recording studio with the rhythm section that has accompanied him, off and on, for nearly three decades, he had the most strikingly simple line-up in mind: just piano, bass, drums and his unmistakable, eterna...
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Clark To release Turning Dragon
posted on December 11, 2007
Much to the delight of fans patiently awaiting new material since the epic ‘Body Riddle’, December 7th 2007 sees Clark make a very special announcement regarding forthcoming new material. Not only will details of his exemplary new album TURNING DRAGO...
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Silver Mt Zion To release 13 Blues For Thirteen Moons
posted on December 11, 2007
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band, initially called A Silver Mt. Zion (aka SMZ), was formed in Montreal by Efrim Menuck, Thierry Amar and Sophie Trudeau (all of Godspeed You! Black Emperor) in 1998. Since their inception, SMZ h...
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Amplive To release Rainydayz Remixes
posted on December 10, 2007
As reported last week, Oakland-based DJ/producer Amplive has announced details surrounding his Rainydayz Remixes project. Slated for release January 10th, the album has been expanded to include 8 tracks, featuring verses from Too Short, Zion, and a h...
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Die Die Die To release Promises Promises
posted on December 10, 2007
Nowhere is home to these three. Hailing from the remote area of Dunedin, New Zealand, Die! Die! Die! is the only band of its type to recently emerge from its native hometown. With that said, it's been ages since the members of Die! Die! Die! have ret...
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Brian Grosz Brian Grosz
posted on December 10, 2007
It's always darkest before dawn: the narcotic warmth is turning cold, the hangover is knocking on the front door and the miserable tendrils of reality begin gripping tightly beneath your skin. It's a liminal moment that Brooklyn's Brian Grosz doesn't...
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The Terrordactyls To release self-titled
posted on December 10, 2007
The Terrordactyls are Michael Cadiz and Tyrel Stendahl. Michael was born in Baltimore, MD. Tyrel is from Tukwila, WA. They met on Vashon Island where they both attended classes at Vashon High School. They did several multimedia projects together and ...
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The Johns To release WANNA DANCE
posted on December 10, 2007
Whether you’re listening to their rock steady album of disco-punk pop tunes, or attending an energized Burlesque-like live performance, it is impossible to resist the johns! Calling on the talents of Beau Sorenson of Butch Vig's Smart Studios (Garba...
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Danava To release UnonoU
posted on December 10, 2007
Ancient Indian scriptures describe Danavas as a race of demons who banded together to revolt against the gods, only to be defeated and banished into the depths of the oceans for rest of time. Like the parable from which they take their name, Dusty S...
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Kid Sister To release self-titled
posted on December 8, 2007
Kid Sister is Chicago. She makes rap music and works at a children’s clothing store slanging bibs and teething rings. Yes, her hype man J2K of Flosstradamus is her real brother, and yes that does rule. Together they took the Chicago music scene by st...
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Blackmores Night To release Paris Moon
posted on December 8, 2007
For a decade, award winning singer/songwriter Candice Night, legendary guitarist Ritchie Blackmore, and their fellow band of minstrels, have crafted an enchanting folk/rock sound with Renaissance overtones that has earned them the devotion of fans ar...
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Michael Jackson To release Thriller - 25th Anniversary Edition
posted on December 8, 2007
Epic/Legacy Recordings proudly celebrates the 25th anniversary of Michael Jackson's Thriller, the world's biggest-selling album of all time, with a newly expanded deluxe edition of the phenomenal record-breaking pop culture touchstone, available in t...
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Atmosphere To release Sad Clown Bad Winter 11
posted on December 8, 2007
What do you do when you record too many songs for your new album? How about drop an EP of that material for each season leading up to it's release. The midwestern duo is back at it to warm you up with their release of Sad Clown Bad Winter #11. With t...
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Eazy-E To release Featuring Eazy-E
posted on December 7, 2007
Twelve years after his death at the age of 31, the music world continues to celebrate N.W.A's hardcore rap pioneer Eazy-E. On December 4, Capitol/Priority will release Featuring... Eazy-E, a new 16-track collection of his best collaborations and rare...
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Daniel Merriweather To release self-titled
posted on December 7, 2007
Daniel Merriweather is primarily known from his work with celebrated New York DJ and producer Mark Ronson and for the cover of The Smiths' classic single, "Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before". Merriweather has also released two singles...
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The Wreckers To release Way Back Home
posted on December 7, 2007
The Wreckers ' first LIVE CD/DVD, Way Back Home: Live From New York, has hit stores last Dec. 4, 2007. The CD/DVD, which was recorded during a sold-out show at the Bowery Ballroom in New York City on July 13, 2007, is a rare glimpse into the music an...
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diskJokke To release Staying In
posted on December 7, 2007
Following Lindstrom and Prins Thomas, diskJokke, also known as Joachim Dyrdahl, is the third artist out of the innovative Oslo scene to release a full-length album. diskJokke was recently discovered by Prins Thomas who signed three tunes to his Full ...
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Ghostface To release Big Doe Rehab
posted on December 6, 2007
"When you get a new Ghostface Killah album, the only reasonable reaction is to get lost in it," said the New York Times of Ghost's last full studio album, '06's instant classic Fishscale. And with the December '06 release of More Fish and Ghost's nea...
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London After Midnight To release Violent Acts of Beauty
posted on December 6, 2007
London After Midnight (LAM) is a rock music project formed in the 1990s by singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Sean Brennan. Known for his strong stances in favor of animal rights, pro-environmental and human rights issues, anti-corporate con...
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Mariah Carey To release Adventures of Mimi
posted on December 6, 2007
Mariah Carey, one of the most internationally renowned, mega-selling superstars brings her most successful tour, THE ADVENTURES OF MIMI, produced by Live Nation, to DVD. Fans will get an all-access pass to exclusive content and a chance to experience...
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The Raveonettes To release Lust Lust Lust
posted on December 6, 2007
I moved to New York City in November 2006 and like anyone who makes a move to Gotham, I made a beeline for old friends as soon as I got here. Amongst the oldest and closest I could call on were Sharin Foo and Sune Rose Wagner. Even now, we still talk...
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Louis XIV To release Slick Dogs and Ponies
posted on December 6, 2007
On January 29, 2008, Louis XIV will release their second full-length album Slick Dogs and Ponies on Atlantic Records. It's been almost three years since their debut The Best Little Secrets Are Kept, and on their self-produced follow-up the San Diego...
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Nonpoint To release Vengeance
posted on December 5, 2007
NONPOINT are excited to announce a February 18th release date for their latest album, "VENGEANCE" in the UK. Featuring NONPOINT's fastest rising single ever, "MARCH OF WAR", "VENGEANCE" has been hailed by the band's fans as NONPOINT's boldest, most a...
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Please Quiet Ourselves Please Quiet Ourselves
posted on December 5, 2007
Please Quiet Ourselves creates a textured blanket of sound in a somewhat off-key, clumsy freak-pop manner lifted from Modest Mouse’s Building Nothing Out of Something aesthetic. Seven (and sometimes more) effervescent 15 to 16 year-old high schooler...
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Del The Funky Homosapien To release 11th Hour
posted on December 3, 2007
11th Hour, will be released on Definitive Jux on February 26th, 2008. Del is an artist who helped set standard for a new mold of MC/Hip Hop artist in 1991 with the release of I Wish My brother George Was Here, and shortly after with No Need For Alarm...
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Mike Ladd To release Nostalgialator
posted on December 3, 2007
Born in Boston, MA, Mike Ladd has written and produced ten critically acclaimed albums: Easy Listening For Armageddon (Scratchie/Mercury); Welcome to the AfterFuture and Vernacular Homicide (LikeMadd/Ozone); The Infesticons: Gun Hill Road, and The Ma...
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Three To release The End is Begun
posted on December 3, 2007
Woodstock, NY’s progressive rock geniuses 3, proudly announce their highly acclaimed sophomore release, The End is Begun, will be re-released as a digipak on February 19, 2008. The audio CD will feature the 13 previously released explosive, mind bogg...
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Angus and Julia Stone To release Chocolate and Cigarettes
posted on December 3, 2007
Angus and Julia Stone are the Australian siblings whose monster UK buzz is just now making its way stateside. The duo’s EP Chocolates & Cigarettes is gaining unbelievable praise from some of the most revered publications across the globe, and ha...