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Well, that’s what happens when your ex-husband is the one that’s producing your album. It seems that Avril Lavigne has pushed the release date for her next album to mid-2010 because she and the album’s producer, Deryck Whibley, who is also her former husband can’t seem to get along too well. This is what a music agent said about Avril Lavigne’s working relationship with Deryck Whibley: “The first eight songs, Avril and Deryck worked with a lot of love and it came easy. But there’s three or four more to do and they just ain’t feeling it. It’ll be a terrific album if they can put this aside for a month or so and concentrate on what matters — the music.” How could they ever put it aside for even a month when they have not yet decided who gets the dog? Divorce is always a messy business, isn’t it?

Dave Matthews Band release second track, “Shake Me Like A Monkey,”

Fans that have purchased the Dave Matthews Band iTunes pass will get a little closer to celebrating the new album, Big Whiskey and The GrooGrux King, with a second track from the upcoming record. The exclusive download of “Shake Me Like A Monkey” from the iTunes pass is the second in a series of pre-album releases with the deluxe iTunes package. Also exclusive with the package is a behind the scenes look at the making of the album as well as unreleased b-sides, a digital artwork booklet and live music from the band’s Spring and Summer 2009 tours.

In addition to these rarities, be sure to check out the Dave Matthews Band channel on You Tube to watch the Groo Grux album artwork come alive with a fun and unique musical animation.

Dave Matthews Band’s latest album Big Whiskey and The GrooGrux King hits stores June 2nd, but is now available for pre-order with the exclusive iTunes pass! For more news, tour dates and to pre-order the album in a variety of configurations visit DaveMatthewsBand.com.

Shake Me Like A Monkey.
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SOULJA BOY TELL ‘EM IS TAKING OVER YOUR AIRWAVES!

Catch Soulja Boy Tell ‘Em turn his swag on all over your TV Sets. Set your reminders and DVRs, cause S. Beezy is set to take over!

(Check your local listings for correct times)

May 11

8:30 am – Good Day New York (Fox 5)

12:30 am – Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

May 13

6:00 pm – BET’s 106 & Park

May 15

8:30 pm – CW’s The Game

May 25

11:00 am – The View (ABC)

Also, May 8th is the last day to enter to win an outfit chosen by Soulja Boy himself courtesy of DrJays.com!

Does your swag need some serious help? Are there too many empty hangers in your closet? Do you have too many broken heels? If so, here’s your chance to really turn it up! Soulja Boy wants to help one lucky male and female turn their swag on full blast! Click on link below for more details!

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Go to iTunes and purchase Soulja Boy’s Sophomore Album iSouljaboytellem, featuring the hit singles “Turn My Swag On” and “Kiss Me Thru The Phone”!

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“Know Your Enemy,” the first single from Green Day’s upcoming eighth studio album, 21st Century Breakdown, is available now. After teasing fans with a snippet of the track, the full version has finally hit iTunes for the world to hear.
21st Century Breakdown, which will be released by Reprise Records worldwide on May 15th, is the best-selling trio’s first studio album since 2004’s two-time Grammy Award-winning punk-rock opera American Idiot, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard chart, spawned five hit singles, and went on to sell more than 12 million copies worldwide. In a recent feature, Rolling Stone called 21st Century Breakdown “even more ambitious than American Idiot” and “a record of die-hard punk ideals…tightly scripted, continually ascending classic-rock excitement.”
Get “Know Your Enemy” now on iTunes.

Ashley Tisdale has just revealed the release date for her album Guilty Pleasure! The HSM alum’s sophomore album featuring the first single “It’s Alright, It’s OK” will drop on June 16th. Ashley posted the exciting news on her official blog yesterday:

Hey guys! I have really exciting news and I couldn’t wait to tell you. I got the official word that the album is coming out June 16th!!!!! I am so excited because I’ve worked so hard on this album and I can’t wait for you guys to hear it! I’ll check back in later! Love you guys! xoxo –Ashley

Lady Sovereign is talking about her departure from Def Jam, her experience in the industry and how that experience brought her down just in time before her second album ‘Jigsaw’ comes our way. She said “I went on strike and stopped doing stuff, so Def Jam got the hump [stop putting up] with me. I lost the plot a few times. I was cutting myself and stupid things like that. I was tired. I felt like it was just push, push, push. I didn’t have a chance to record any new stuff, it was the same old songs.” It was followed by a low wherein the rapper almost overdosed on antidepressants. Fortunately, her friends were there to help. Now, Lady Sovereign is “determined and excited…This is never going to stop; I’ll keep making music, I’ll keep doing my own thing. I’m not a one-trick pony.”

Ashley Tisdale may have become popular as the dumb cutie blonde in the three installments of the phenomenal High School Musical but she is itching to get away from that persona saying the world should take a look at her beyond the Disney film. She said she is now 23 years old and there is more to her than what people see in the bubbly dumb blonde character she played in HSM.

Fresh from the success of her “Headstrong” album, Ashley Tisdale is now aggressively promoting her new album “Guilty Pleasure” which has a more edgy and pop-rock sound. The album will be released on June 16, 2009. Ashley Tisdale said people should know she has a tougher side and that she loves rock music. The first cut from her new album “It’s Alright, It’s OK” seems to be saying what she wants the people to know —standing up for herself.

Taylor Hicks’ sophomore album, The Distance, is available today! The Simon Climie (Eric Clapton, Faith Hill) produced album that features current single “What’s Right is Right” is now streaming in full on AOL Music. The soulful singer is slated to perform the single on Ellen , Wednesday, March 11th.

Singer-songwriter Kate Voegele is gearing up for the May release of A Fine Mess, the highly anticipated follow-up to her 2008 debut album, Don’t Look Away (MySpace/Interscope). Voegele recorded the album in Los Angeles with producer Mike Elizondo (Rihanna, Maroon 5, Pink).

The 22-year-old has been racking up frequent flier miles of late, jetting back and forth between L.A. and Wilmington, North Carolina, where she’s also shooting new episodes of the CW Network’s hit TV series “One Tree Hill.” This season sees Voegele reprising her role as singer-songwriter Mia. She made headlines last year by performing several songs on the show, all from Don’t Look Away.

In their year-end issue, Billboard magazine spotlighted the 10 biggest film and television placement/appearances of 2008 and put Voegele’s involvement with “One Tree Hill” at No. 1. Wrote Billboard Sr. Editor Ann Donohue, “There’s getting a song placed in a prime-time show and then there’s getting cast in that show to play your own music and have the show’s creator write storylines for you inspired by your songs. Such was the case for Kate Voegele…”.

The new season of “One Tree Hill” will see Voegele giving audiences sneak previews of songs from the upcoming album, beginning with the March 16th episode, when she will premiere a brand-new track titled “Manhattan From The Sky.”

Voegele, hailed by Entertainment Weekly for being among the best of “the new golden age of female singer-songwriters,” spent the majority of 2008 touring in support of debut album Don’t Look Away, the record that earned her “Artist To Watch In ‘08” accolades from Billboard. Over the course of the year, she shared stages with Natasha Bedingfield, The Veronicas, Ben Lee, Cary Brothers and launched her own headlining tour.
Voegele performed on “Live with Regis and Kelly” and CBS’ “The Early Show,” and also appeared on “TRL” and Fuse-TV’s “The Sauce.” She recently gave a special acoustic performance on the ABC-TV’s “The Bachelor.” She’s also been featured on the cover of USA Today’s “Life” section and appeared in the pages of People, CosmoGirl, TV Guide and Giant, to name but a few.

Check out Kate’s latest video blog to sneak a peek inside the studio while she works on the new album.

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Cyberspace is the place where you can get a complete copy of ‘No Line On The Horizon’, the latest album offering of the Irish rock band U2. The actual release date of the album was slated for March of 2009 but the album has been leaked onto the internet and it was caught by thousands of fans none of whom would have let go off the opportunity to have the album on their iPods and other music storage devices.

It is said that the file sharing site Pirate Bay was were the album source was available and nearly 100,000 surfers had downloaded the entire album in just a few hours after it become available online.

Yeah friends must have sent a word of mouth to other friends and it must have spread across like wild fire, just imagine that you can have a new album for download for absolutely no charge it makes you feel rich again doesn’t it.

You begin to think why I wasted all that money in the past over some really crap music albums and here I have a real gem of an album from U2 for free. I however missed out but surely now that its out in the open people would be uploading the whole thing on some other sharing sites. The album is in public domain now!

Lily Allen has been saturating the media with lots of senseless information about herself and more often than not, just her senseless self. She is promoting an album after all and there is a saying that there’s no such thing as bad publicity. Well, I have a feeling that the leak of her entire new album ‘It’s Not Me, It’s You’ is just another publicity stunt. She doesn’t really talk about her album so I guess it’s just right that they just let the album speak for itself. Major oops though. The good news about that is that it’s not as bad as I thought it would be. It’s half decent really.

U2 released their latest single ‘Get on Your Boots’ last week. I found it really disappointing. I was expecting so much from them. However, it seems like Europe has taken a liking to it. The single has been doing measly numbers over in the US but it has got some major ones across the pond. According to Nielsen Music control, the first two days of airplay the song got shot it straight to number 1 on Ireland’s airplay chart and number 4 in the UK. The song has reached a total audience of 12.5 million in the UK as well as 11 million in Italy and 78 million in Germany. The song is also doing well in Austria, Belgium and Holland.

“Get On Your Boots,” the first single from U2’s new album No Line On The Horizon, will be released on January 19th on Interscope Records. The album is currently available for pre-order and will be released on March 3rd.
Produced by Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois and Steve Lillywhite, sessions for No Line On The Horizon began in Fez, Morocco, and continued at the band’s Dublin studio, New York’s Platinum Sound Recording Studios, and Olympic Studios in London.
The album will be released in a standard format with a 24- page booklet and in digipak format. The digipak includes an extended booklet and the album’s companion film “Linear” by Anton Corbijn. A limited edition 64-page magazine will also be available, featuring the band in conversation with artist Catherine Owens, and new Anton Corbijn photographs. No Line On The Horizon will be released on 180gm vinyl.
The cover artwork for the album is an image of the sea meeting the sky by Japanese artist and photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto.
The full track listing is as follows:

1. No Line On The Horizon
2. Magnificent
3. Moment of Surrender
4. Unknown Caller
5. I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight
6. Get On Your Boots
7. Stand Up Comedy
8. Fez – Being Born
9. White As Snow
10. Breathe
11. Cedars Of Lebanon

There is nothing better some singers can do than find inspiration from drug troubles and that’s where rocker Courtney Love found the inspiration for her latest album, yes it’s the place that gives you brighter and better idea than when sitting in the restroom. Whilst sitting in the rehab the former Hole frontwoman found time to pen tracks for her forthcoming album.

Courtney Love has had a history of substance abuse and in 2005 she spent 3 months in a lock down clinic for violating a drug probation order and thereafter another 3 three months under house arrest.

What else does she have to inspire her? On-again off-again rehab seem to be her lifestyle. I know she has a beautiful daughter, but Courtney does not talk much about her. Why doesn’t she write a song about her child?

Hana Pestle is a self-proclaimed Twilight fanatic. The nineteen year old singer/songwriter from Billings, Montana believes she has the perfect song for the next movie and has started a movement to get “Need” in the forthcoming New Moon. The hauntingly beautiful track was one of her first compositions written at only fifteen years old in 2004. It was produced /co-written for her album by Ben Moody (co-founder of Evanescence) and Michael “Fish” Herring with string arrangements by David Campbell and piano performance by David Hodges (Kelly Clarkson, Daughtry). Check out the “Need for New Moon” page to learn more about the mission and watch a personal video message from Hana.

Hana’s E.P. is available now and her debut, full-length album is due out in July.

Video message

welcome to "need" for new moon!

Rocker Courtney Love has taken a leaf out of the hat of Radiohead and now wants to let her fans decide how much to pay for her forthcoming album. Courtney is currently busy putting the final touches to Nobody’s Daughter, her first album in five years.

She posted this message on her MySpace blog and wrote to her fans telling them: “There’s millions of people worldwide waiting on this record. Well, maybe, there’s 10! But in any case, I assume there are millions because in the past there have been millions. My strategy is to make it available to people in every country for free and for what you feel I deserve…”

I’ll give her $5 to block my IP so I CAN’T download it. My New Year’s resolution is that no matter what happens I would not listen to any kind extra-terrestrial crap artist like her have to offer.

Yes she is!
While promoting her new film, The Spirit, Scarlett Johansson told MTV News that she’d like to record another album.
I can remember her first album, it wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t great either?
So why record another album?
Thankfully, she said that such a project will have to wait, as she’s still very busy with all her movies and her newly married life.
I say postpone it till forever! Just stick to acting, Scarlett Johansson!

1. Lil’ Wayne, ‘Tha Carter III’
2. Girl Talk, ‘Feed The Animals’
3. TV On The Radio, ‘Dear Science’
4. Metallica, ‘Death Magnetic’
5. Hot Chip, ‘Made In The Dark’
6. Robyn, ‘Robyn’
7. Of Montreal, ‘Skeletal Lamping’
8. Randy Newman, ‘Harps & Angels’
9. Vampire Weekend, ‘Vampire Weekend’
10. Fall Out Boy, ‘Folie A Deux’
11. Death Cab For Cutie, ‘Narrow Stairs’
12. My Morning Jacket, ‘Evil Urges’
13. Al Green, ‘Lay It Down’
14. Jenny Lewis, ‘Acid Tongue’
15. Bon Iver, ‘For Emma, Forever Ago’
16. Be Your Own Pet, ‘Get Awkward’
17. Conor Oberst, ‘Conor Oberst’
18. Ponytail, ‘Ice Cream Spiritual’
19. Katy Perry, ‘One Of The Boys’
20. Wale, ‘Mixtape About Nothing’
21. Erykah Badu, ‘New Amerykah Part I: Fourth World War’
22. Coldplay, ‘Viva La Vida’
23. The Cool Kids, ‘Bake Sale’
24. The Roots, ‘Rising Down’
25. Santogold, ‘Santogold’
26. Usher, ‘Here I Stand’
27. Mariah Carey, ‘E=MC2’
28. Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, ‘Real Emotional Trash’
29. Raphael Saadiq, ‘The Way I See It’
30. Young Jeezy, ‘The Recession’
31. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, ‘Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!’
32. Taylor Swift, ‘Fearless’
33. Hayes Carll, ‘Trouble In Mind’

It’s a good thing that Kanye West is more into the great art of his new album ‘808s and Heartbreak’ rather than its sales because the industry insiders think that when the numbers get tallied up, the rapper is going to end up with just 425,000 – 475,000 in sales. What’s so wrong with those numbers? Let me tell you. It may be decent numbers but that’s a big step down from the sales of ‘Graduation’ which sold nearly 1 million copies in its first week of sales. That’s a massive 50% step down. I guess some folks failed to recognize the greatness in his art.

Check out Britney’s brand new promo pic for Circus! The album is set for release until December 2nd, but it’s available for pre-order now with an exclusive bonus track called “Trouble.” The deluxe version features 2 additional bonus tracks, the “Womanizer” video, the Making of the Circus album, and a digital booklet.