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Snoop Dogg To Deliver More Malice: Deluxe Album And Movie

Snoop Dogg announced today that he will release the follow up to his latest release entitled More Malice: Deluxe Album and Movie on March 23rd. The new album will feature 5 songs from the previously released "Malice N Wonderland" along with 5 entirely new songs and 2 remixes. Included with More Malice will be a never-before-seen mini-movie entitled Malice N Wonderland The Movie which features Snoop in the title role with cameos from Jamie Foxx, Xzibit, Nipsey Hussle and more.

The first highly anticipated single from More Malice is the remix to fan favorite "I Wanna Rock" featuring superstar Jay Z. The two kings from their respective coasts take turns on the mic on this Scoop Deville produced club anthem. The single will be available on iTunes on January 26th. Additionally, the Snoop Dogg and Soulja Boy song, "Pronto," gets the remix treatment with Southern alum Bun B jumping on the track.

In addition to new music, the 40 minute action packed movie included in the package tells the story of superhero Malice (played by Snoop Dogg) in his hometown of crime plagued Wonderland. The safety of the city is up to Malice who fights crime and strives to bring peace back to his neighborhood. Music from the accompanying album is featured throughout the dramatic film. - more on this story

New Music Seminar Hitting L.A. Up Next Month

The original New Music Seminar (NMS) is pleased to announce Daniel Ek, CEO of Spotify, as the keynote speaker for the upcoming Los Angeles New Music Seminar taking place on February 2nd at the Henry Fonda Theater. Spotify, under the leadership of Ek is the innovative new music technology and service that has taken Europe by storm and is now poised to enter the US market with equal force.

"New Music Seminar has a reputation for bringing together artists, industry executives and entrepreneurs and discussing how the music business can be revolutionized. I'm looking forward to talking directly with artists and labels about how they can use services such as Spotify to help redefine how music is marketed and distributed." - Daniel Ek.

Leaders from across the front edges of music, technology and beyond will speak and share ideas during this one day music, networking and educational extravaganza. NMS is the must attend one day for the industry (artists, managers, labels, etc...) who are seeking to learn and understand how to help artists "rise above the noise floor" in a shifting musical landscape. - more on this story

Mickey Mouse Club's Matt Morris Scores Hit on Online Album Charts

In its second week of release, musician Matt Morris' debut release When Everything Breaks Open has catapulted into the iTunes and Amazon Top 10 album sales charts.

Music fans are reacting to his triumphant appearances on The Late Show with David Letterman, CBS Second Cup Cafe and The Ellen DeGeneres Show. For Ellen, Matt was joined by a very special appearance from the album's co-producers, Justin Timberlake and Charlie Sexton.

When Everything Breaks Open is available on iTunes and Amazon.com. The album of original songs is a sonic tour de force that contains elements of rock, soul, pop and folk music and displays Matt?s uncanny ability to connect with audiences, not only through passionate live performances, but also as a recording artist. - more on this story

Celebrity Fit Club: Boot Camp Set For Next Month

"Celebrity Fit Club: Boot Camp" Premieres on VH1 Monday, February 8 at 9:00 PM ET/PT As America embarks on a New Year full of resolutions to lose weight and make tough life changes, VH1 celebrates the new decade with a fresh season of "Celebrity Fit Club: Boot Camp."

This season boasts a cast full of pop culture personalities ready to bare their bodies and souls as they dig in for the most grueling fitness program on television – designed to help them drop not only their flab, but also their emotional baggage. At the end of eight weeks, they will be lean, mean, Fit Club machines ready to face the world and show off their new hard bodies.

Battling the bulge this season are legendary R&B bad boy Bobby Brown, Jay McCarroll (winner of "Project Runway", Season 1), KayCee Stroh ("High School Musical"), dancer and choreographer Kevin Federline, former "Baywatch" babe Nicole Eggert, Sebastian Bach (Former lead singer of Skid Row), actress Shar Jackson ("Moesha"), and infamous "Bad Girl" Tanisha Thomas ("Bad Girls Club", Season 2). - more on this story

King Britt Ends One Chapter To Begin A New One

Out April 20th, Intricate Beauty is the final "conventional" dance album King Britt will ever make. And how fitting this final chapter also marks King's first ever release on seminal house music label Nervous Records. This is the seal of quality.

Don't worry, though, King Britt's not going anywhere as an artist. He'll be concentrating on more experimental based music and searching for new avenues to help push the live electronic improvisational end of performance. But for now, you have a real treat to behold with the Intricate Beauty. Eleven tracks of soulful rhythms constructed and mixed together like a grand jigsaw puzzle. Quintessential King.

Intricate Beauty pulls together the different sounds that have helped shape King's dance DJ mind over the years. This is the story of what he loves to spin and how it all relates. In a sense, this is all the greatness of King Britt wrapped up under one disc. Like a physical incarnation of the intricate mind, the process of how this album was constructed is quite advanced. King based the album on tiny microsounds he procured from various random recordings and CDs. He then took all these tiny pieces and dumped them into Ableton Live where he sewed the puzzle pieces together. Once there were approximately 50 workable combinations of tracks he then constructed the songs musically. "In a few months I intend to release all the bits and pieces from Intricate Beauty as a "Live Pack." These will be sounds that people can use for inspiration and production," King says - more on this story

Georgia & Declaime Get Up

To celebrate the vinyl-only release of their album precursor EP, Heaven Or Hell, the always-eclectic duo Georgia & Declaime are proud to release a new single from the forthcoming SomeOthaShip.

"Get Up" is the track and it features contributions from Prince Po, yU, and German DMC Supremacy champion DJ Clear. Over the track's brooding, resonating piano, horn stabs, and wobbling bass line, Declaime, with his unorthodox, winding rhyme patterns, is the track's clear standout.

The too-oft overlooked wordsmith uses the equally unorthodox instrumental to offer challenger MC's a warning, rapping, "Pound for pound, standing ground with any fool who wanna get down / You get drowned, you get burnt / Haven't you learnt yet, I'm a war vet." "Dudley wanted to let loose a rhyme to devour any other emcee in the game," says Michael Tolle, founder and Director of Operations of Mello Music Group. "He was tired of people not realizing he would eat them up." - more on this story

Emma Pollock Sets March Release

Emma Pollock returns to Chemikal Underground with "The Law of Large Numbers" on March 2, 2010, her second solo outing, and if her 'repatriation' to the label she helped to create represents a return to more familiar territory, then the same could also be said for the album itself.

The follow-up to 2007's 4AD-released "Watch the Fireworks", Emma's second solo effort eschews the traditional, accessibly melodic approach of her debut for a more angular musical terrain: "The Law of Large Numbers" is crammed with unconventional arrangements and by Emma's own admission, was an almost entirely self-serving project. So if returning to Chemikal Underground and the creative alliances that fuelled The Delgados has restored Emma's conviction to pursue her own instincts, then we should all be extremely grateful as her new album is a complex, intelligent and hugely compelling piece of work.

Recorded throughout 2009 in Chem19 with husband and ex-Delgado Paul Savage producing, "The Law of Large Numbers" was always going to be a very different prospect. Armed with an open remit and a preparedness to let this album dictate its own course, "The Law of Large Numbers" arrives with taut, sparse production, hints of Dixieland jazz, abrasive pop songs, programmed drums and improvised vocal loops – in short, and in the words of Emma herself, "The truest representation of me as an individual - whatever that means." - more on this story

Dubskin Offering Album for Free Download

From the college town of Fort Collins, CO comes the blazing five-piece roots reggae band, Dubskin featuring drummer Cory Eberhard of Pretty Lights. The project, known for their off-beat bass laden rhythms and spiritually aware lyrics are releasing their sophomore effort, No end in time for free on the band's website.

With an eye on the past and a foot in the future, Dubskin captures an authentic Caribbean sound replete with soulful vocals, newfangled ska and soaring guitar undertones. Dropping dance ready beats with spot on harmonics is second nature to the band, who has performed along side the likes of Burning Spear, Israel Vibration, Barrington Levy, Morgan Heritage, The Itals, Midnite, Mad Professor, Anthony B and Collie Buddz to name a few.

The five-piece project features a well-rounded cast of characters including Jamal Skinner (Vocals), Cory Eberhard (Drums), Jason Wieseler (Keys and Samples), Phil Salvaggio (Guitars) and Dean Curtis (Bass). Collectively the project has self-released two rousing albums since their 2006 inception. However, it's No end in time that showcases the projects ability to shine. The album, which was also mixed and dubbed by Jason "Jocko" Randall of the popular nationally touring band John Brown's Body has already made a significant buzz on the reggae circuit. Using only the power of community networking and the rumble of word of mouth marketing, the release has registered thousands of downloads. - more on this story

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