Topic: New Music Releases

DesRochers Backyard Pools

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Beau Dozier

Beau Dozier music Singer/pianist Ben Folds (born September 12, 1966, in Winston-Salem, NC) is best known as the leader of the power pop trio Ben Folds Five, but has also struck out on his own as a solo artist. Despite playing in bands in high school, his musical career didn't really get off the ground until the late '80s, as a bassist for Majosha (the outfit issued such obscure releases as Party Night: Five Songs About Jesus and Shut Up and Listen to Majosha). Proving his multi-instrumental talents, Folds also played drums as a session musician in Nashville. After relocating to New York, Folds started acting again (he'd done some theater in high school previously) and signed a publishing deal with Sony Music. READ MORE›

LCD Soundsystem's Anti-Piracy Plea to Fans Goes Unheeded

LCD Soundsystem played a secret gig in New York the other day, and the band used the event as an opportunity to make an unusual plea, direct to their fans: Please don't leak our upcoming album on the Web. It fell on deaf ears.After ...READ MORE›

Indie Band Holy F**k Debuts New Album on ChatRoulette, of All Places

Canadian instrumental indie rockers Holy F**k (their music is better than their name, I promise you) have decided to take an odd route when debuting their new album, "Latin": they're streaming it on the noted perversion-delivery service.READ MORE›

Dean Kelly

Dean Kelly Released in 1997, Whatever and Ever Amen was pure pop perfection -- easily one of the year's best releases and perhaps the best power pop release of the '90s. The band's songwriting and sound had improved even further, as evidenced by such gems as "One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces," "Fair," "Kate," and "Battle of Who Could Care Less," plus their whimsical tribute to breakups, "Song for the Dumped." But it was the ballad "Brick" that broke the band commercially -- unlike the majority of their material, which was upbeat, the song contained melancholic music and vocals, as the lyrics told the story of a teenage couple who decides to get an abortion (it has been speculated that the tale was autobiographical for Folds). The single didn't hit until several months after the album was released, which meant that the band stayed on the road for well over a year, playing with such notables as Dave Matthews, Beck, and as part of the 1997 H.O.R.D.E. festival -- earning Whatever platinum status. READ MORE›

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Cameron B Sharpe

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The Return of the Boy Band

With the early success of the newest Jonas Brothers album, the American teen idol--as opposed to kid idol--has finally dusted itself off. So-called bubblegum pop last ruled in pre-9/11 and pre-TMZ America, when high schoolers still ...READ MORE›

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About Cameron B Sharpe Expect more from Jay soon. DJ Skee took to Twitter to say that the first official single from Blueprint 3 will be "On That," featuring Drake. Jay wasn't asked and didn't speak on that song, but he ...READ MORE›

Stone Temple Pilots Announces Their Atlantic City Show At The Borgata Casino

Borgata Casino Event Center in Atlantic City welcomes Stone Temple Pilots. The best selection of tickets are now on sale through ACTickets.com. Stone Temple Pilots will be live in concert Saturday July 18th.READ MORE›

Successful Experiments in Customer Restraint

1. Bon Jovi's Lost Highway Want: See the band do its classic hits Should: Support its new album Experiment: Last year, Bon Jovi fans who wanted presale concert tickets had to buy the band's upcoming album. The result? Lost ...READ MORE›

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Kenny Lindquist

Kenny Lindquist - Kenny Iwunwa VMA winner Chris Brown is once again hard at work with his "Kiss Kiss" collaborator, T-Pain. The two recently teamed up for the video of Pain's new single "Freeze," from his Thr33 Ringz album, which ...READ MORE›

Live from E3: Microsoft announce deals with NBC/Universal, Netflix plus new games

Microsoft held its annual Xbox 360 press conference this morning at the Los Angeles Convention Center to kick off E3. I arrived about 30 minutes after the conference already started because of a late flight but apprently I didn't ...READ MORE›

Brands the New Record Labels?

It's no secret there has never been a more empowering moment for musicians. Instead of the old model where The Strokes wannabes aspired to have a major label come salivating to them with a record deal (only to sign away most of the ...READ MORE›

The Rebranding of Britney Spears

The pop princess has returned to her throne and it’s about time. Fans (including myself, and I am not afraid to admit it) have been waiting for four long years, through the many, MANY trials and tribulations of Britney Spears, but ...READ MORE›

Vanessa Williams Announces Atlantic City Show - Tickets On Sale Through ACTickets.com

The Tropicana NJ-Showroom in Atlantic City welcomes Vanessa Williams. The best selection of tickets are on sale through ACTickets.com. Vanessa Williams will be live in concert Friday June 5th. ACTickets.com announces start of ticket sales for Vanessa Williams concert in Atlantic City. The concert will be June 5th at the Tropicana NJ-Showroom. READ MORE›

Not Everyone Loves MySpace

At a time when most music artists are embracing MySpace as an extension of their marketing plan, Jay-Z wasn't too delighted that MySpace served its site members a sneak preview of his entire new album last week. Kingdom Come, the ...READ MORE›

Kenny Iwunwa

Kenny Iwunwa That didn't happen -- yet. Instead, Dio and Appice left again, and Iommi replaced them by bringing back Tony Martin and adding drummer Bob Rondinelli. Cross Purposes (February 1994) was a modest seller, and, with Iommi apparently maintaining a Rolodex of all former members from which to pick and choose, the next album, Forbidden (June 1995), featured returning musicians Cozy Powell, Geoff Nichols, and Neil Murray, along with Iommi and Martin. The disc spent only one week in the British charts, suggesting that Black Sabbath finally had exhausted its commercial appeal, at least as a record seller. With that, the group followed the lead of the Eagles and Fleetwood Mac, putting the most popular lineup of the band back together for a live album with a couple of new studio tracks on it. Recorded in the band's hometown of Birmingham, England, in December 1997, the two-CD set Reunion -- featuring all four of Black Sabbath's READ MORE›

Atlantic City Welcomes Gretchen Wilson In Concert at the Hilton Grand Theater in Atlantic City

Gretchen Wilson is performing live, in concert, at The Hilton Grand Theater in Atlantic City. The best selection of tickets is on sale now through ACTickets.com. Gretchen Wilson will be performing Saturday August 22nd.READ MORE›

Apple Announcements

Apple announced a host of new products today including iPods, iTunes 7, QuickTime 7.1.3, and iTV. iPod The new iPod Shuffle is now about the size of the iPod Radio Remote with an aluminum design and contains one gigabyte of flash ...READ MORE›

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Why You'll Buy-Not Download-U2's "No Line On The Horizon"

Plenty of people have already written eulogies for the compact disc now that iTunes is the number one U.S. music retailer, and CD sales are in a death spiral. But U2 is making an excellent case for old-fashioned physical, ...READ MORE›

Why David Byrne, Arcade Fire, and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs are Psycho Marketers, Q'uest-ce que c'est?

After David Byrne and Brian Eno self-released their album Everything That Happens Will Happen Today last August, they generated profits equivalent to a label advance. How? Software marketing, of course. We’ve all seen a ...READ MORE›

Great(er) Performances

Long after the live shows, technology improves on seminal recordings.READ MORE›

Express Yourself

Focus groups may be losing cred in the business world, but in the music realm, they appear to be something new. For an upcoming album, Madonna has been secretly testing out songs by watching video of clubgoers dance to her newest ...READ MORE›