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Utada - Come Back To Me

Click to launch the video for "Come Back To Me"
the first single taken from "This Is The One"
 
ISLAND DEF JAM RECORDING ARTIST
UTADA
TO UNVEIL NEW SINGLE “COME BACK TO ME”
 
In the small world of pop artists who write their own music enters the big voice of artist/songwriter Utada who is set to reveal her new single “Come Back to Me” this month.  Utada, already one of the world’s biggest recording artists, will digitally release her new album "This is the One" on March 24, 2009   (available digitally via Itunes)on The Island Def Jam Music Group.
 
“Come Back to Me”, the soulful yet energetic ballad produced by the hitmaking team Stargate (Ne-Yo, Rihanna, Beyonce), will officially debut on pop radio on February 9th and will be available via iTunes. The sparkling, mid-tempo hit showcases the 26-year-old singer’s powerful husky-sweet vocals and natural effervescence, placing her indisputably into the landscape with major female artists like Madonna, Beyonce, Rihanna and Mariah Carey.
 
Utada’s forthcoming album is comprised of 10 self-penned songs recorded with top producers Stargate and Tricky (Britney Spears, Madonna, Mariah Carey). Recording took place in New York, Atlanta and Tokyo.
 
On creating the album Utada comments, “I like to make music that’s mutli-layered. You might just want to dance, without really diving into the lyrics. And then if you like words, you might notice the references I make to Captain Picard or Winona Ryder. Both things are equally important to me—to be catchy, so when you hear it on the radio it sticks out, and to have that depth. "
 
Producer Stargate comments, “Working with Utada was great. She walks in, has confidence about her, integrity, and a voice that you can’t believe. We were really blown away.”
 
Born and raised in Manhattan and educated at Columbia University, Hikaru Utada had strong ties to Japan as her father, Utada Teruzane, was an accomplished musician and producer and her mother, Keiko Fuji, was a successful Japanese enka (ballad) singer. With such a musically prolific family, Utada would reside between New York City and Tokyo and the recording studio literally became her second home. By age 11, Utada had written and recorded her first song. By the time she graduated from junior high school, the bi-lingual singer had signed onto a major record label EMI and released her first Japanese album.  With a number of album and single releases over the last ten years in Japan, the young star has become one of the most successful and acclaimed pop singers in Japanese music history with record sales of over 52 million.     
 
 
www.utada.com

Depeche Mode - Sounds Of The Universe

ANNOUNCES THE RELEASE OF
SOUNDS OF THE UNIVERSE
APRIL 21, 2009
 
 
Groundbreaking, chart-topping electro legends Depeche Mode are proud to announce the release of their long-anticipated new studio album, Sounds Of The Universe on April 21, 2009 (Mute/Capitol).
 
Eclectic and energized, the band’s new release is their most dazzling and diverse album in decades. Recorded in Santa Barbara and New York, Depeche Mode returned to using a lot of vintage gear, from analogue synthesizers to drum machines, in order to conjure up the retro-futuristic arrangements featured on the album. Lyrically the release contains many of the group’s enduring obsessions plus more overt black humor than any of their previous collections.
 
Like with their 2005 studio album, Playing The Angel, Sounds Of The Universe featureswriting credits for both Martin Gore, the group’s primary songwriter, and Dave Gahan who after honing his talents on two solo albums, has earned his place as Depeche Mode’s second writer. The release also marks a reunion between the band and producer Ben Hillier (Blur, Doves, Elbow), who worked with band to help give their new album its timeless sound. The first single from the release, “Wrong,” grabs the listener’s attention from its first stack-heeled, staccato shriek. Over stomping beats, screeching synthesizers, and Dave’s overlord chant, “Wrong” already feels like a Depeche Mode classic. Other standout tracks include Martin’s velvet-lined Scott Walker croon on the sensual lounge-music ballad “Jezebel,” to the sci-fi gospel-blues hymn “In Chains” and “Hole To Feed,” which marries modern electronics to a floor-shaking, bone-rattling Bo Diddley beat.
 
As one of the most influential bands of the post-punk era, with global sales in excess of 100 million, Depeche Mode belongs to a select premiere league of super groups who have survived from the early 1980s with their ideals, creative vision and core members intact. Formed in 1981, Depeche Mode - Martin Gore, Dave Gahan and Andy 'Fletch' Fletcher - continue to win critical and commercial acclaim across the world both in the studio and on the road. All of the band’s 11 studio albums have reached the Top Ten in not only the UK and USA but 20 plus countries around the world including Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, and Belgium. Additionally, since their inception Depeche Mode’s live shows continue to be a must-see attraction, with the group playing to 2.8 million people across 31 countries on their last tour alone.
 
www.depechemode.com 
 

Check out the video for "Wrong" taken from Sounds Of The Universe.
 

TUNE IN- Chris Cornell Worldwide Exclusive Listening Session

Chris Cornell to Exclusively Stream “SCREAM” On MySpace for TWO Days ONLY

New York, NY- March 3rd 2009- With one week until record release, Chris Cornell is giving his fans the opportunity to hear the album as it was intended-in full. Cornell will be streaming his anticipated 3rd solo album, Scream, produced by Timbaland, on MySpace for 48 hours starting at 12pm EST today, March 3rd till 12pm EST Thursday, March 5th.

Scream is a seamless work. Timbaland makes inventive use of Cornell’s soaring melodies and incisive lyrics, setting his intense vocal performances against a lush, expressive soundscape and irresistible stutter-step beats. The inventive new work looks to spearhead a brave new world of cross-genre collaboration.

The 13-track album is due out on March 10th via Interscope/Mosley Music. Chris is currently on tour in Europe and will kick off his multi-city US tour on March 28th in Dallas, TX. Scream showcases a new, seductive sound - dark, multi-layered and full of puzzles and surprises. The songs bring a new cinematic scope to Cornell's performances, with potent visual imagery echoing the non-stop musical assault from his internationally acclaimed live band. "Musically, this is the most ambitious thing I've been a part of. It's almost like a movie soundtrack," says Cornell, who while on tour will also be playing other music from throughout his two-decade, 14-album career.

Out of a seemingly unlikely collaboration, comes an instantly familiar sound which defies genre’s and pushes the envelope of sound.

*TUNE IN to the Worldwide Exclusive Listening Session*
Be the 1st to hear SCREAM!!

http://www.myspace.com/chriscornell

Chris Cornell - Scream

SOUNDGARDEN AND AUDIOSLAVE FRONTMAN READYING FOR RELEASE OF UPCOMING THIRD SOLO ALBUM SCREAM, PRODUCED BY TIMBALAND
 
The eagerly anticipated 3rd solo record from Chris Cornell, entitled Scream, will be released this Spring, on March 10th, via Interscope Records. Best known as the acclaimed lead singer and songwriter for Soundgarden and Audioslave, Cornell and producer Timbaland have created a 13-track, inventive new work which looks to spearhead a brave new world of cross-genre collaboration.

The two artists were introduced at the suggestion that Timbaland create remixes for Cornell’s 2007 solo album, Carry On. Not content to merely remix a few songs, Timbaland proposed that they record an entire album. Work began in early 2008 in Miami, and 5 tracks from the album are already creating a buzz on the internet and on radio, including “Scream,” “Part Of Me” “Long Gone” and “Watch Out.”
 
Scream is a seamless work. Timbaland makes inventive use of Cornell’s soaring melodies and incisive lyrics, setting his intense vocal performances against a lush, expressive soundscape and irresistible stutter-step beats. Like so many genre-busting musical innovations of the past -- including David Bowie’s disco collaboration with Nile Rodgers, “Let’s Dance” – Scream is a testament to Cornell’s ever evolving musicianship and artistry.
 
A musical tour de force, Scream’s album opener “Part of Me” acts as the smash club hit on the record and “Long Gone” showcases Chris’s stunning vocals and emotive melodies. Despite its varying moods, the album is a cohesive collection of songs produced by two of the most acclaimed American hit-makers on the music sphere today. As Cornell recently told veteran rock journalist Matt Pinfield, "If you get into a kind of comfortable corner, where you're doing what you're used to, you can get locked in that corner and stuck there, and you're done. That's never going to happen to me." Cornell says, “The whole album is a pretty radical musical departure for me. It is the highlight of my career.” 

Currently residing in Paris and Los Angeles, Chris Cornell has been heralded as the chief architect for grunge, writing a string of hits for Soundgarden, including the Grammy Award-winning "Black Hole Sun" and "Spoonman," After recording  the last album with Soundgarden, Cornell continued to shine as a critically acclaimed solo artist. "Can't Change Me," the first single from his 1999 solo debut Euphoria Morning, was nominated for a Grammy Award, while a reworked version of "Mission" was included on the soundtrack to the film Mission: Impossible II. In 2000, Cornell put his solo career on hold to join former Rage Against the Machine members Tom Morello, Tim Commerford, and Brad Wilk in Audioslave. In 2006, Cornell co-wrote and performed the theme song for the James Bond film Casino Royale, entitled "You Know My Name." Cornell is the only American male solo artist to date who has ever been commissioned to write the theme song for the Bond franchise.
 
Out of a seemingly unlikely collaboration, comes an instantly familiar sound which defies genre’s and pushes the envelope of sound.  
 
Check out the video for "Scream"     
 
 
 Following shows in Canada and Europe, Chris and his live band will be heading across America during March and April, taking in major US cities from Dallas and New Orleans to Chicago and New York. 
March 27 : Austin, TX – Stubbs Bar-B-Q 

March 28 : Dallas, TX – House of Blues  

March 29 : Houston, TX – Warehouse Live  

March 31 : New Orleans, LA – House of Blues  

April 1 : Atlanta, GA – CW Center Stage 

April 3 : Atlantic City, NJ – Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa 

April 4 : Philadelphia, PA – Electric Factory  

April 5 : Washington DC – 9:30 Club 

April 7 : New York, NY – Webster Hall 

April 8 : New York, NY – Webster Hall  

April 10 : Boston, MA – House of Blues 

April 11 : Montclair, NJ – Wellmont Theatre  

April 13 : Cleveland, OH – House of Blues  

April 14 : Ann Arbor, MI – Michigan Theater  

April 15 : Indianapolis, IN – The Vogue Theatre 

April 17 : Milwaukee, WI – Pabst Theater 

April 18 : St Paul, MN – MYTH 

April 19 : Chicago, IL – Riviera Theater 
April 21: East St Louis, IL – Pops
April 22: Kansas City, MO – Harrah’s Voodoo Lounge
April 24: Denver, CO – Odgen Theater
April 25: Salt lake City, UT – The Depot Sun
April 27: Seattle, WA – Showbox So Do
April 28: Vancouver BC – Cammodore Ballroom
April 29: Portland OR – Crystal Ballroom
May 1: San Francisco CA – Grand Ballroom
May 2: Anaheim CA – House of Blues
May 3: Los Angeles – The Wiltern

http://www.chriscornell.com
http://www.myspace.com/chriscornell

Release date: Chris Cornell “Scream” ( Mosley Music Group/ Interscope Records ) available March 10, 2009

DJ Antoine - Underneath (Original Mix)

Great track via DJ Antoine.

Samy K & Diva Avari - Fu^kin Bitch

If you're offending by a whole lot of cussing, then don't watch this video. This is a new bitch track in the vein of Sweet Pussy Pauline. A bit repetitive, but I get a laugh out of it.