SWEET NEWS!

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!

Keith Urban Joins Kimmel To Salute The Stone!

Last night Keith Urban performed The Rolling Stones hit ”Tumbling Dice” on Late Night With Jimmy Kimmel as a part of Jimmy’s count down to the re-release of Exile On Main Street.

Check out this stellar performance here.

Replace Popcicles With Perry This Summer!

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.”

Katy & Snoop- A Peak into the Studio

Check out behind the scenes footage of Katy Perry and Snoop Dogg in the studio recording their SMASH hit, California Gurls!

Jennette McCurdy Debut Album Is “Not That Far Away”

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. Read more…

Iggy Pop Hitting T.O For Free Show

North by Northeast (NXNE) announces the first of the 2010 music concert line-up in Toronto this summer. The festival kicks off on June 14 and runs until June 20, 2010. Tickets are now available online at www.nxne.com.

Presented by Virgin Mobile Canada, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducteesIggy & The Stooges headline an explosive free show on Saturday, June 19 on the Virgin Mobile Stage at Yonge-Dundas Square – their first North American tour date this summer and only Canadian date on the tour. The Stooges’ line-up features James Williamson on guitar, original Stooge Scott Asheton on drums, bassist Mike Watt of Minutemen fame, long-time saxman Steve Mackay – and, up front, the godfather of punk himself: Iggy Pop.

Take Everything Video from Vanguard Records’ Greg Laswell

Greg Laswell impresses us all with his latest video for “Take Everything”. This video was done in 1 take (!!) and Greg masters the art of singing his own song backwards.
Also, you can have this video for FREE on itunes this week!

Enjoy!

Greg Laswell “Take Everything” HD from FVMMO FILMS on Vimeo.

With Spring, Comes Winter…sleep!

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.

Happy Music Monday, Canada!

More than 700,000 students from over 2,000 schools in every province and territory across Canada are today celebrating the sixth annual Music Monday – a nation-wide, simultaneous concert to celebrate the importance of music in our lives – and especially in our schools.  Students and teachers from coast-to-coast will take their music programs outdoors into their communities and perform the same song at the exact same time, uniting the entire country.

For the second year, the theme song for Music Monday is “Sing Sing,” written by multi Juno-award winning Canadian artist, Serena Ryder.

For all of the details including how you can contribute, visit the Coalition for Music Education in Canada website.

Free Hannah Georgas

With the launch of This Is Good, it’s a big week for Hannah Georgas.  If you haven’t picked up the album yet, head on over to iTunes and download Bang Bang You’re Dead, the iTunes Single of the Week.

Download Bang Bang You’re Dead For Free