EMI Records is proud of their 30 year, career long involvement with Iron Maiden and the astonishing first week Global Chart success of the band’s fifteenth studio album, The Final Frontier, which was released in Canada on August 17.
Iron Maiden have more than earned their status as one of the foremost contemporary and influential Rock bands in the World as they debut at #1 in the UK (their fourth No 1 album here, the first being 1982’s seminal ‘The Number of the Beast’ album) and TWENTY other countries to date with The Final Frontier. This marks the band’s first #1 album chart debut in Canada and their highest-ever digital debut at #2. (more…)
It’s been a long time coming but the debut album from Toronto based Sweet Thing is finally here (as bandmate and drummer Tyler put it “Today’s the last day we don’t have an album”).
Pick up the iTunes LP for some cool extra content, or if you have a hankering for the physical album, Amazon.ca would be happy to hook you up.
Oh, and the band just launched their official site, so be sure to swing by there as well.
R.E.M. has teamed with Capitol for the July 13 release of an expanded 25th Anniversary 2CD and digital edition of the band’s 1985 album, Fables Of The Reconstruction. The new edition features the digitally remastered original album, plus 14 previously unreleased demo recordings, cut prior to the album’s studio sessions, including one long-sought track that has never been released. The commemorative release also adds insightful new liner notes by R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck, with the 2CD package presented in a lift-top box with a poster and four postcards. On the same date, the remastered original album will be released on 180-gram vinyl.
Fables Of The Reconstruction, recorded during the winter of 1985 in London, England, distant in geography, weather and culture from R.E.M.’s Athens, Georgia home, represented a musical step forward for the band and its members, vocalist Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills, and drummer Bill Berry.
The release date for the much anticipated SWEET THING album has been announced! August 17th with mark the day we will bop our heads and clap our hands to the pop rockin’ sounds of this Toronto-based quintet.
Among their biggest fans is Canadian Television and Radio host George Stroumboulopoulos who raves, “As soon as I heard Sweet Thing I thought, this is the sound and band that we’ve all been waiting for! I’m so excited for people to hear this album and I already can’t wait for their next one.”
If you have yet to hear SWEET THING, I suggest check out thier myspace right now!
After the surprise release of California Gurls, everyone’s hungry for more Katy Perry! Declaring “Summer Starts Now!” Katy will be serving up this season’s musical treat! Her new album, TEENAGE DREAM, will be released on August 24th!
Use the player below to blast this sizzling summer anthem & share it with friends!
How did California Gurls come about??
The inspiration for California Girls came when Katy watched her friends go crazy at a party listening to Jay-Z’s salute to New York, “Empire State of Mind.” “Everybody was holding their drinks in the air and dancing, and I thought, ‘We’re not in New York, we’re in Los Angeles! What about California? What about all the homies, the gin and juice, the swaying palm trees, the sun-kissed skin 24-7,’” Perry recalls. “I decided that we needed to make a response. I want people to want to book a ticket to California the first time they hear it!” And because it’s practically un-American to release a song that mentions gin and juice without Snoop Dogg, Perry recruited the rap icon to contribute his inimitable vocals to “California Gurls.” “We thought it would sound so cool and give the song another dimension,” she says. “Snoop is as West Coast as it gets.”
Capitol Records Nashville recording artist and star of Nickelodeon’s iCarly, Jennette McCurdy announced today that “Not That Far Away” will be the first single from her upcoming debut album. Jennette asked her fans to help pick the first single through a poll on AOL’s The Boot featuring six snippets of songs from her album. (more…)
Dare I say Winter? Yes yes, the sun is shining and we can hopefully say cold weather is behind us! Yipee! But WINTERSLEEP have an awesome album coming out May 18th! You can stream NEW INHERITORS on Wintersleep’s official site.
LCD Soundsystem’s brand new album, This Is Happening, is being released on Tuesday, May 18th, but you can be the first to hear it on LCDSoundsystem.com an entire month in advance!
The Chemical Brothers have pushed the evnelope once again. Not only are they releasing their 7th album on June 8th, they have teamed up again with long time visual collaborators, Adam Smith and Marcus Lyall to create films that correspond with the 8 tracks on the upcoming album, “Further”.
The Chemical Brothers will perform the album and air Smith and Lyall’s new films in their entirety during their four sold-out shows at the Roundhouse (May 20-23rd), as well as during a gig at the Sonar Festival and other select festivals in Europe.The films will only be seen in sequence during the dates mentioned. The Roundhouse shows will be the first chance to hear the album anywhere. After the gigs, the films will featured on a special edition DVD release and on an iTunes LP.
EMI Records is proud of their 30 year, career long involvement with Iron Maiden and the astonishing first week Global Chart success of the band’s fifteenth studio album, The Final Frontier, which was released in Canada on August 17.
R.E.M. has teamed with Capitol for the July 13 release of an expanded 25th Anniversary 2CD and digital edition of the band’s 1985 album, Fables Of The Reconstruction. The new edition features the digitally remastered original album, plus 14 previously unreleased demo recordings, cut prior to the album’s studio sessions, including one long-sought track that has never been released. The commemorative release also adds insightful new liner notes by R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck, with the 2CD package presented in a lift-top box with a poster and four postcards. On the same date, the remastered original album will be released on 180-gram vinyl.
Capitol Records Nashville recording artist and star of Nickelodeon’s iCarly, Jennette McCurdy announced today that “Not That Far Away” will be the first single from her upcoming debut album. Jennette asked her fans to help pick the first single through a poll on AOL’s The Boot featuring six snippets of songs from her album. 
