Anjulie on MTV

ANJULIE VIDEO PREMIERE IS LIVE ON AIR & ONLINE AT mtvU



"RAIN"



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CCR back in stores on Nov 3!

CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL'S THE SINGLES COLLECTION, PRESENTING 30 SONGS FROM 1968 THROUGH 1972, FROM TOP 5 HITS TO OBSCURITIES PLUS MUSIC VIDEOS, WILL BE RELEASED BY FANTASY RECORDS ON NOVEMBER 3!

Creedence Clearwater Revival's golden era of hit singles (fall of 1968 through spring of 1972) rivals that of any band in rock 'n' roll history. The Southern-flavored quartet from El Cerrito, Calif., turned out 17 hits in a 44-month stretch, nine of them in the Top 10, five of them in the Top 5.

On November 3, Fantasy Records will release The Singles Collection, a two-CD, one-DVD box with a slip case, containing all of the band's U.S. singles -- 30 songs in all. Top 5 smashes like "Bad Moon Rising," "Green River," "Down on the Corner," "Travelin' Band," "Who'll Stop the Rain," "Run Through the Jungle," "Up Around the Bend," "Long As I Can See the Light" and "Lookin' Out My Back Door" are joined by seldom-heard singles that never charted ("Porterville" and "Call It Pretending" on Fantasy's Scorpio subsidiary, and later singles "Tearin' Up the Country" and "45 Revolutions Per Minute [Parts 1 & 2]").

The 30 songs, (which are presented in their original single mixes, many of them in mono --- are making their CD debut), housed on two CDs, will be joined by a DVD containing four never-before-available, long-pre-MTV music videos: "I Heard it Through the Grapevine," "Bootleg," "I Put a Spell on You" and "Lookin' Out My Back Door." Also included in the package are a poster featuring the dozens of international single sleeves, and a 16-page booklet with liner notes by former Rolling Stone editor Ben Fong-Torres, who lived and wrote in the Bay Area during CCR's golden half-decade.

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More Than A Game Soundtrack!

The soundtrack to the Lebron James feature film "More Than a Game" hits stores on Tuesday September 29th, 2009. The soundtrack features Mary J. Blige's "Stronger" as well as Ester Dean's "Drop It Low". The soundtrack also features several artists including Drake, Eminem, Kanye West, Jay-Z, and more.

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AFI Is Back!

AFI is back with a new album "Crash Love" that will be in stores on Tuesday September 29, 2009. The album features the new single "Medicate". Make sure to get your copy on 9/29!!

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AFI Best Buy In-Store Signing!

AFI will be signing copies of their new album "Crash Love" on Wednesday September 30th, 2009 at Best Buy Costa Mesa at 6pm. Best Buy will start handing out wristbands for this event on Tuesday September 29th, 2009 when you purchase your copy of "Crash Love". Get your wristband early because quantities are limited!

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STUNNING KSM REVIEW IN BILLBOARD MAGAZINE! CHECK OUT THE STORY BELOW!

KSM Billboard album review in the issue dated 9/19!!
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KSM sounds like what would result if the Go-Go's mentored a young band-and amazingly, that's exactly what happened. Brought together by the original members of the 1980s rock act, KSM has been trained in the ways of distinctive individual looks, spunky stage presence and monster riffs. But there's one critical difference between the two groups: Through the lens of Disney, KSM's antics are strictly G-rated. The first single, "Distracted," has as much melody, but more punk energy, than the band's closest cousin, Avril Lavigne. The act's rock rings harder and truer than Miley Cyrus', particularly on blast-off tracks like "Don't Rain on My Parade." At the center of it all is 15-year-old lead singer Shelby Cobra, who can wail with the best of them and pounds around the stage like a post- riot grrrl princess.
-Kerri Mason

http://www.billboard.com/#/news/ksm-read-between-the-lines-1004011494.story

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MILEY CYRUS VIDEO PREMIERE ON DANCING WITH THE STARS TONIGHT!

ABC’s “Dancing With The Stars” will debut the world premiere of the video for Miley Cyrus’ smash hit song “Party In The USA” on WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 (8:00-9:00 p.m., ET). An exclusive 90 second version of the video will debut on “Dancing With The Stars’” first results show during their three night premiere week. The full version of “Party In The USA” will be available exclusively on www.abcmusiclounge.com for 48 hours following the television debut.

“Party In The USA” is the fastest breaking song of the year, as well as this year’s highest debut on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. “Party In The USA” has held the # 1 spot on iTunes for six weeks running, and has already sold over 1.1 million digital downloads. “Party In The USA” is available on Miley Cyrus’ new EP “Time of Our Lives” sold exclusively at Walmart.

Directed by Chris Applebaum, the video has a retro feel with vintage cars at a drive-in movie mixed with modern high energy dance moves and a dazzling performance. “Party In The USA” was produced by Dr. Luke, who has produced hit records for Kelly Clarkson, Britney Spears and Katy Perry.

“Dancing with the Stars” is the U.S. version of the international smash hit series, “Strictly Come Dancing.” This version is produced by BBC Worldwide Productions. Conrad Green serves as executive producer and Rob Wade is co-executive producer. Alex Rudzinski directs. “Dancing with the Stars” is broadcast in 720 Progressive (720P), ABC’s selected HDTV format, with 5.1 channel surround sound and Spanish audio via SAP.

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GEORGE BENSON ON JIMMY KIMMEL TONIGHT!

Be sure to check out The Jimmy Kimmel show tonight on ABC! Special musical guest George Benson will be performing with Jimmy's house band! See George perform new and classic material as the show goes on throughout the night. Jimmy Kimmel starts at 12am so don't miss it!

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Mika's new album available everywhere 9/22

UK's pop-sensation, Mika, returns with his sophomore effort The Boy Who Knew Too Much tomorrow.

Here's the video for Mika's first single "We Are Golden"
Check out a great product description from Amazon.com:

2009 sophomore album, the follow-up to his multi-million selling debut, produced by Mika and Greg Wells (Katy Perry, P!nk). The Boy Who Knew Too Much features guest contributions by Imogen Heap and Final Fantasy's Owen Pallett, and contains the brilliant first single 'We Are Golden'. The album straddles a line between childish na‹vet‚ and world-worn sophistication; Mika likens this transformation as the shift from childhood and his debut's innocence to something more akin to adolescence. The arrangements are bigger and more beautiful than ever before, and the album is underpinned by an open-hearted and accepting idea of what living in the 21st century means in all its contradictory, complicated glory.

Purchase Mika's album here on Amazon.

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Mariah Carey - "Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel"

Imperfections are in the eye of the beholder. You can see them as flaws, or as the very qualities that make us human -- and that make us strive to be better people in search of a perfection that we know we can never fully achieve. In the thirteen songs on her spellbinding new album, Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel, Mariah Carey explores those aspects of our shared humanity with a rare depth, honesty and open-heartedness. It’s one of the strongest statements in her long, distinguished career.

The subject of Memoirs is love at all its stages in our lives. Experiencing it for the first time. Losing it. Remembering its most painful moments, and also its times of greatest innocence and joy. Yearning for it. Learning from it. Growing as a result of its profound power. Finding it again and being grateful for so great a gift. And, finally, being humbled, filled with wonder and elevated by love’s mysterious ways. In that sense and more, Memoirs is a full, immensely satisfying journey.

“Each song is like an intimate conversation or entry in a private diary,” Carey says about the album. “A lot of the songs reflect specific, different times in my life. Others were inspired by movies, actual events that happened to me, or the stories of friends who told me about experiences that they've gone through.” With just one exception, Carey wrote and produced the entire album in collaboration with The-Dream and Tricky Stewart. The trio clearly shared an inspired sense of what Memoirs should be. Sinuous grooves and instantly memorable melodies flow from track to track, while the wit and intimacy of the lyrics create the feel of one friend talking to another. As well-defined as each song is, Memoirs plays with the beauty and consistency of a classic, start-to-finish album.

“My main goal was to work with people I could collaborate with without it seeming redundant or stale,” Carey says. “In my opinion Tricky is one of the most underrated major producers out there right now. I really enjoyed collaborating with him. And I especially liked writing with The-Dream, basically because we both love having fun with lyrics and melodies, and we’re also capable of getting more serious on deeper songs. There is a particular sense of freedom I feel when we write together -- even though I make him stay in the studio all night until he is ready to kill me! LOL!”

Memoirs’ first single is the hard-hitting “Obsessed,” which is accompanied by a video directed by Brett Ratner (the Rush Hour trilogy) in which Carey plays both the glamorous star and her stalker fan. Like the video, the song’s lyrics combine devastating putdowns (“Last man on the Earth still couldn’t get this”) with humor (“See right through you like you’re bathin’ in Windex”). The no-nonsense “Up Out My Face” captures a similar caustic mood, dismissing a former lover with the send-off, “When I break, I break, boy.” “It’s a Wrap” delivers a similar message about the end of an affair: “When it’s gone, it’s gone.” “Standing O,” with its irresistible chorus, sardonically applauds a faithless ex for his signature achievement: “You played the one that loved you the most.” “Betcha Gon’ Know” foresees karmic revenge for a wayward lover, but, once again, the clever lyrics (“Oprah Winfrey whole segment for real, for real / 20/20 Barbara Walters for real, for real”) encourage a smile amid the pain.



The ballad “H.A.T.E.U.,” meanwhile, finds the singer seeing life in the wake of a breakup and longing for the moment when loss and regret transform into a cleansing anger. But the title of the song doesn’t necessarily stand for what you think it might. “H.A.T.E.U. is the first song I wrote for the album,” Carey says, “and it stands for Having A Typical Emotional Upset.”

Always a brilliant technical singer with an extraordinary vocal range, Carey rises to new heights on that track. “I sing a recurring melody in the upper register of my voice; it’s not an ad-lib, but an integral part of the song's hook,” she says. “That’s not something I’ve done before, and when listening back to it, it reminded me of how Minnie Riperton used her upper register on her hit song ‘Lovin’ You.’ I thought how ironic that her song was called ‘Lovin' You’ and my song is called, ‘H.A.T.E.U.’ – and both use that upper ‘whistle register’ as a major part of the melody. So it’s sort of an homage to Minnie Riperton, a tribute to her since she has been so influential in my singing style.”

On a tender note, the wistful “Candy Bling” beautifully evokes the blissful realm of young love (“Anklets, name plates that you gave to me/Sweet tarts, ring pops had that candy bling/And you were my world”), while “Inseparable” aches for a love that went wrong for reasons that seem impossible to comprehend. “More Than Just Friends” floats off into a fantasy of what a casual relationship might become (“Permanently paint me in your picture like Picasso/Love me down till I hit the top of my soprano!”). “Ribbon” and “The Impossible” swoon with happiness and thankfulness over redemptive love that has returned to make life rich again. “You did the impossible,” Carey sings. “You rescued my love.”

Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel ends with a spectacularly powerful gospel rendition of Foreigner’s gorgeous ballad, “I Want to Know What Love Is.” Carey’s voice soars into the heavens as a soul-stirring choir makes it clear that the search for love is the closest that any human being ever gets to the divine.

Which brings us back to the angel of the album’s title. “I had written a song called ‘Imperfect,’” Carey says, “but it didn’t make it onto the album. The lyrics of that song address the fact that the world puts so much pressure on us -- especially on women -- to be perfect and look a certain way, and that is impossible because nobody is perfect. Only God is perfect. I know I’ve tried to be a good person, but I am definitely no angel!”

“But after I put this album together and decided to name it Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel,” she concludes, “I remembered that the Minnie Riperton album that contained ‘Lovin' You’ was called Perfect Angel. So I felt in so many ways that it was meant to be.”

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Kid Cudi's solo debut - Available 9/15

Tomorrow is officially the day.

Kanye West's protege and Cleveland Ohio's own, Kid Cudi, will release his solo debut tomorrow. One of the most anticipated releases of the year will be released.

On Man On The Moon: The End Of Day Kid Cudi bears all while veteran, Common, narrates the listeners experience.

Working with the likes of Kanye, Ratatat, MGMT and more, Kid Cudi's album definitely has something for everybody on this release.

Check out the links below for more information and links to the music videos for the first two singles on the album.

Make Her Say (Poke Her Face) music video

Music video for Day N Nite




PURCHASE THE ALBUM HERE ON AMAZON

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Rickie Lee Jones

Rickie Lee Jones new album Balm in Gilead will be available November 10, 2009. The album features guest artists Allison Krauss, Ben Harper, Victoria Williams, Bill Frisell, Jon Brion, & Vic Chestnut. Don't miss her US tour scheduled to run throughout October!!
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On this exciting new album Pink Elephant--available October 6, 2009-- N'dambi ingeniously distills soul-deep inspiration into a sensual style of elegance and power, making her a fundamental new addition to the Stax Records legacy. Pink Elephant was recorded in Santa Monica, CA with producer Leon Sylvers III, whose credits include Shalamar, Gladys Night, The Whispers, Blackstreet, Lakeside, and many more. N'dambi insisted the record have a modern sheen yet adhere to the sturdy influence of classic R&B and soul artists like Slave, Heatwave, Michael Jackson, Betty Davis, Isaac Hayes, Smokey Robinson, and The Sylvers.
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