Written by Matthew Mendoza There’s a lot of expectation for the daughter of a legend. People will always have high standards for the new musicians of an icon’s bloodline. For Billy Joel’s daughter, this expectation hasn’t had the slightest impact on her perseverance. The incredibly talented Alexa Ray Joel has begun her own musical career with an amazingly loud thunder. Coming from a fam
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Take a first listen to Green Day’s theatrical rendition of "21 Guns" (available for download later this month). On this track Green Day is joined by The Berkley Repertory cast members. This recording instantly sounds bigger, fuller, and more haunting than the original. The track is incredibly layered, the music, voices, and emotion are raw and polished at the same time and are able to both scre.
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Shock Value 2 - TimbalandThis week, Timbaland releases his second album with the "Shock Value" label. With the initial Shock Value, released in 2007, Timbaland had huge international commercial success. With a whole lot of new artists and 17 tracks on the standard edition, Shock Value 2 includes artists ranging from veterans like Justin Timberlake and The Fray to newcomers like Miley Cyrus and ...
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LIVE!The frustrating part of explaining Elvis Perkins and the Dearland album to strangers is that you set out excited about the songwriting ("he tells these great stories, better than Dylan almost"), get sidetracked to the voice ("it's just really pure, but not at all afraid to yell"), and later end up on an earnest and devotional tangent in praise of his harmonica. Everything is carefully
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30 Seconds to Mars - This Is War [Virgin Records] Perhaps it’s just a case of too much too soon, too popular too fast when it comes to 30 Seconds to Mars, because the band has been in a steady decline since the release of their landmark self titled debut, seven years ago. The band first made their mark on the scene with the sheer immensity and pure explosiveness of the afore mentioned eponymou.
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1. Hollands - "Air Conditioned Heart"2. Awesome New Republic - "Dark Water"3. Why? 0- "Against Me"4. The Silent League - "Here's a Star"5. Sam Billen - "Different Lives"6. Kid Koala - "It's All Over"7. Raphael Saadiq - "Staying in Love"8. Los Lonely Boys - "Let's Go Cowboys"9. Citay - "Careful with that Hat"10. Wallpaper. - "Gettin' Drip"**BONUS**Team Clermont - "The Perfect Guy"Jason Boesel - ...
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New York's Bowery Ballroom plays host to Elvis Perkins and band tonight.Perkins is touring in support of his second album, Elvis Perkins in Dearland, recorded with a band--after the scrutiny leveled at the debut Ash Wednesday, Perkins felt the need to give "three other dudes a say."It's impossible not to hear songs from these albums through a tragic lens, as Perkins's father died of complicatio...
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Adam Lambert - For Your Entertainment [RCA Records] There’s no question that Adam Lambert is vocally talented. Anyone who followed this past season of American Idol will know this. And to anyone who didn’t follow the popular game show, his debut record For Your Entertainment shows that this kid has a great voice. You wouldn’t know it but Lambert actually finished second to Kris Allen, a piec
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Percussion has never sounded so good. Erik Gundel, guitarist for Motel Motel, creates an amazingly unique, instrumentally rich style of music. Gundel’s music is as multi-instrumentally diverse as it gets. Using piano, guitar, percussion instruments¸ and synthesizer, Gundel creates the perfect unification of acoustic and electric surges of sound. Erik’s harmonic voice and perfect
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For this week's music, we have Allison Iraheta, R. Kelly, and Juvenile.Just Like You - Allison IrahetaJust after American Idol, Iraheta started working on her debut album. The 17-year-old has worked with some recently popular artists, including Kevin Rudolf. On the deluxe edition, there's a song featuring Chris Daughtry. There's a total of 13 tracks that are included on the album's standard ..
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American Idol Alum, Katharine McPhee is being featured as the iTunes Discovery Download for her cover of the holiday classic, “I’ll Be Home For Christmas.” You can download the song for free on iTunes for this week only.Let us know what you think of the new Katherine McPhee? Oh, and let us know what you think of her song too...
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CAST VERSIONS OF “JUMP” AND “SMILE”AMONG SONGS FEATURED IN “GLEE” WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, ON FOX GLEE SINGLES SURPASS THE 3 MILLION MARK Columbia Records and Twentieth Century Fox Television today released select songs on iTunes featured in this week’s episode of GLEE, including cast versions of Van Halen’s “Jump,” Lily Allen’s “Smile” and Charlie Chaplin’s “Smile.”
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After two years away, Editors are returning to the US for a long-awaited headlining North American tour this February in support of their highly anticipated new album In This Light And On This Evening. The album, which is out stateside via FADER Label January 19th 2010, debuted #1 on the charts the week of release in the UK this past October and charted in the Top 10 throughout the rest of Euro...
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Evan Rachel Wood guest stars in the video opposite Reeve Carney, Broadway’s next Spiderman. She is also starring in the upcoming Spiderman: Turn Off The Dark Broadway Production (directed by Julie Taymor with music by Bono and The Edge), playing Peter Parker’s love interest Mary Jane Watson.“Love Me Chase Me” is available now on iTunes.Keep up with the latest Carney news and videos at
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Watch more AOL Music videos on AOL VideoThe Bravery is set to release their latest album, Stir The Blood, on December 1st. The band released a new video for their song, “Slow Poison”... what do you think? Is it poisonous enough?
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Tomorrow, pop punk veterans, The Bouncing Souls will be releasing their last single of 2009. 2009 marks their 20th year as a band and to celebrate they have been releasing an mp3 single on the first of every month and releasing a 7” every three months. Each 7” contains the three previous month’s mp3 singles and one bonus track. December 1st the last single and the last 7” in the series wil
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The cast of Fox’s critically acclaimed new comedy Glee are ushering in the season with their own unique take on Wham’s classic holiday heartbreaker “Last Christmas,” available exclusively on iTunes last week. Renowned for transforming pop music staples, and reminding a new generation of how great these songs are, Glee’s “Last Christmas” is heartwarming and merry.In keeping with the
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Passion Pit - New Music - More Music Videos
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Guster played the Beacon Theatre in New York last night in celebration of the tenth anniversary of their album Lost and Gone Forever. They will return for a second sold-out show tonight.For more photos (and video clips) from Guster'sNovember 27th show, check out my flickr photostream!
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