Kerli - Love Is Dead

Love Is Dead is the debut album of Estonian singer Kerli, released July 8, 2008 on Island Records. Produced by David Maurice, the album mixes different styles of music throughout the record.

Love Is Dead was originally due to be released in April, it was pushed back to July 29 and then pushed up to July 8.

Tracklisting

01. Love Is Dead
02. Walking On Air
03. The Creationist
04. I Want Nothing
05. Up Up Up
06. Bulletproof
07. Beautiful Day
08. Creepshow
09. Hurt Me
10. Butterfly Cry
11. Strange Boy
12. Fragile

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Jon McLaughlin - Gears Up For OK Now

American heartland singer-songwriter and pianist Jon McLaughlin – whose show-stopping live performance of “So Close,” the Oscar-nominated song from the Disney movie Enchanted, was seen world¬wide during the 80th annual Academy Awards ceremonies – has returned with OK NOW, his second album for Island Records, due October 7th. Fans are getting a sample with the release of a new single, “Beating My Heart,” which impacted at the Hot AC radio format on June 9th. Leading the charge at that format is influential station WBMX in Boston, with other stations quickly getting on board. It impacted at Top 40 on June 30th, and the digital download single went live on June 17th. In addition, McLaughlin opened for British sensation Duffy on June 19th at the El Rey in Los Angeles.

“Beating My Heart” was written by Jon McLaughlin and produced by John Fields, known for his recent chart-topping work with the Jonas Brothers, Lifehouse, and Switchfoot. The new album is being mixed by Tom Lord-Alge and will feature the soon-to-be hit “Smack In To You,” written and produced by the Grammy award-winning team of Tricky and The-Dream.

Jon’s triumphant Oscar night performance ignited an astonishing 1,514% overnight sales increase at Amazon for Indiana, which neatly took over the #1 spot on the Movers & Shakers chart. “Musically, the big winner of the night was Jon McLaughlin,” wrote FoxNews.com’s Roger Friedman in his Oscars coverage. “He sang one of the Enchanted songs. Talk about a break-out moment! That’s a phenomenal voice… McLaughlin could be the next big thing.”

Indiana, Jon McLaughlin’s first major label album, received maximum exposure on tours with Sara Bareilles last summer, Paolo Nutini in the fall, and then climaxing with Kelly Clarkson on her 24-city North American tour, October through December.

Named one of “The 10 Hot Guys of Summer” by US Weekly magazine last year, Jon was also seen performing on the CBS-TV daytime drama The Bold & The Beautiful, on NBC’s The Today Show and on NBC’s The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.


More info:

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Jessica Simpson - Come On Over [Video]

The music video for "Come on Over" was shot on June 19. It was directed by Liz Friedlander and was shot in little Creek Ranch, California. The music video starts off showing Jessica standing outside her house making a phone call to invite her love interest to 'come on over'. As the video progresses, Simpson is seen inside her house sitting next to the sink in front of a window in the kitchen and constantly looking out the living room windows. In other takes, Jessica sings with a live back-up band in what seems to be a barn house during sunset in a white t-shirt and jeans. Jessica is also shown sitting on the back of a pick-up van wearing cowboy boots and short shorts. As the video comes to an end, Jessica is abruptly shown sitting in her bathtub in nothing but a big shirt after a quick glance is shown of the man who came over coming out of his car, his face is not shown. The video also shows a close-up at the bottle for Simpson's new fragrance, "Fancy" which will be on sale starting August 15th 2008. The music video was premiered on Simpson's official website on July 11. It will then make it's television debut on Extra and start rotation in CMT and GAC.

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Doctor Rosen Rosen - Eat Pray Fu*k [Radio Edit]

Eat Pray Fu*k is a new single by NYC based pop artists, Doctor Rosen Rosen. The single was released on June 17, 2008. His musical style incorporates the hard hitting drum sounds of 90’s G-Funk Era hip-hop with a 21st Century electronic aesthetic.

More info about Doctor Rosen Rosen:

MySpace
Last.FM
Official Web

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Kimberly Caldwell - Wallpaper

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Ace Young - Ace Young

Ace Young is an American singer, Grammy-nominated songwriter and actor. He came to national recognition upon appearing on the fifth season of the popular reality television talent show, American Idol, although he was eliminated from the competition on April 19, 2006, finishing in seventh place.

Young's self-titled debut album is scheduled for release on July 15, 2008. Ace teamed up with veteran song writer and producer Desmond Child. Ace co-wrote seven of the eleven tracks on the album.

Tracklisting

01. Addicted
02. The Letter
03. A Hard Hand To Hold
04. You Redeem Me
05. Where Will You Go
06. Fast Life
07. Young Money
08. How You Gonna Spend Your Life
09. The Girl That Got Away
10. Dirty Mind
11. The Gift

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MGMT - MGMT To Join Beck On US Tour

MGMT, "THE BEST NEW YORK BAND ABOUT,"

ON-BOARD BECK'S UPCOMING AUTUMN TOUR

BEGINNING SEPTEMBER 19 IN SAN DIEGO

MGMT's Critically Acclaimed Debut Album,

"Oracular Spectacular"

Breaks The SoundScan 100K Mark

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The Brooklyn-based futurist rock/pop ensemble MGMT will follow the group's sizzling summer concert schedule opening for Beck on the post-modern musical collagist's forthcoming autumn tour beginning September 19 in San Diego (please see full MGMT/Beck itinerary following).

Presale tickets for the MGMT/Beck concerts will be made available on the band's website (www.whoismgmt.com) in advance of the public on-sales for the shows. Presale alerts and further information may be found at the MGMT website.

2008 has provided a number of watershed events for MGMT, whose critically-acclaimed debut album, Oracular Spectacular, hit #1 on the Billboard Top Heatseekers chart and has recently broken the SoundScan 100K sales mark. The group has been honing its live show through a series of headline gigs and mind-bending festival performances including South By Southwest, Coachella and Bonnaroo in the states and the UK's mythic Glastonbury extravaganza. MGMT -- who opened for Radiohead in Manchester on June 29 during an extensive tour of the UK and Europe -- will perform with Columbia Records labelmates The Ting Tings at the JellyNYC Pool Party at Brooklyn's McCarren Pool on Sunday, July 27. The group is scheduled to play Lollapalooza in Chicago on Saturday, August 2.

Pegged as one of Rolling Stone's "Best Rookies In 2008" in the "Best Of Rock" issue, MGMT is proving especially popular with fans and critics in the UK where Oracular Spectacular entered the UK Albums Chart at #12 while the band came in at #9 in the BBC's Sound of 2008 Top 10 poll. Oracular Spectacular debuted at #5 on Ireland's Top Album Charts.

In addition to the acclaim surrounding Oracular Spectacular, MGMT has been amassing critical raves for its concert performances. "MGMT's show on Thursday night was my SxSW highlight," wrote The Sunday Times music writer Dan Cairns, "it's a long time since I have been at a gig that has so transported and unified an audience." "In what was one of the hottest tickets in Austin," observed the NME, "MGMT performed an impressively tight set, complete with an awesome light show. The band's David Bowie-meets-Pink Floyd performance saw hundreds of festival-goers left out of Stubb's BBQ as the venue reached capacity shortly before they took to the stage."

The band's recently launched website, www.whoismgmt.com, offers an innovative interactive exploration of the MGMT aesthetic and experience including an MGmtSRCH function, a 3-D version of the "Time To Pretend" music video and much more. MGMT's new video for "Electric Feel" is building an online presence with pickup from more than 65 tastemaker and DJ blogs.

The MGMT single, "Time To Pretend," has been picked up by more than 35 radio stations coast-to-coast while the group's track, "Kids," is featured prominently in the upcoming zeitgeist documentary, "American Teen," directed by Nanette Burstein ("The Kid Stays In The Picture").

MGMT has received more than 5 million profile views on the group's myspace page (www.myspace.com/mgmt).

MGMT has been lauded as THE band to look out for in 2008 by publications ranging from Rolling Stone and Spin in the states to the UK's NME who recently called MGMT "The Best New York Band About" as well as "one of the most feted bands on earth right now." As reported by Nylon (www.nylonmag.com:80/?section=article&parid=1627) and other outlets, MGMT was recently feted by Gucci as the label's creative director Frida Giannini dedicated her latest menswear show to the band with "Time To Pretend" providing a soundtrack for the runway finale.

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MGMT/BECK TOUR DATES

9/19 San Diego, CA Street Scene

9/20 Hollywood, CA Hollywood Bowl

9/22 Phoenix, AZ Dodge Theatre

9/23 Albuquerque, NM Kiva Auditorium

9/25 El Paso, TX Abraham Chavez Theatre

9/27 Austin, Texas Austin City Limits Music Festival

9/29 Kansas City, MO Uptown Theatre

9/30 Minneapolis, MN Wilkins Auditorium

10/2 Chicago, IL Aragon

10/3 Chicago, IL Aragon

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For more information on MGMT, please contact:

Benny Tarantini, Columbia Records, Media, New York, 212-833-5858;
email: Benny.Tarantini@sonybmg.com

www.whoismgmt.com

www.myspace.com/mgmt

www.columbiarecords.com

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