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Amy Winehouse Box Set to Be Released
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A new Amy Winehouse at the BBC box set is to be released in November.
The collection brings together 14 of the singer's live tracks picked by pianist and TV presenter Jools Holland from various sessions she performed for the BBC. The set also includes a DVD of her performance at Porchester Hall, London, recorded in 2007 as well as footage from Amy's first ever TV performances, interviews, and musical rarities including covers and alternate versions of her most famous tracks.
The package also contains a documentary, Amy Winehouse: The Day She Came To Dingle, which recently aired on BBC Four. Proceeds from the box set will go to the Amy Winehouse Foundation, set up by the late singer's family in the wake of her death, from accidental alcohol poisoning in July 2011, aged 27.
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Mumford and Sons Made Sacrifices for New Album
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Mumford and Sons have made "sacrifices" for their new album.
"The Little Lion Man" band, who formed in December 2007, hope their second record, Babel, will change people's view, after being labeled "folk," a tag they disagree with.
"The cynics can all f**k off. We think this new record will attract a different audience and broaden people's views of us. We have made so many sacrifices and we've not taken the easiest route. And so I hope people do understand where we are coming from because it's a good place, not a capitalistic venture at all," said keyboardist Ben Lovett.
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Destiny’s Child to Release Greatest Hits Album
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Release Dates, Upcoming Releases, Pop, R&B / Soul,
Destiny's Child are to release a brand new greatest hits compilation.
The girl band - made up of Beyonce Knowles, Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams - will bring out the 14-track LP, entitled Playlist, on October 8, which is around the 15th anniversary of their debut single "No, No, No Part 2."
The trio's first release in seven years will feature the hits "Bootylicious," "Independent Women, Part 1," "Say My Name" and "Bills, Bills, Bills."
"Bootylicious," "Survivor" and "Lose My Breath" are also some of the tracks included.
The release follows the announcement from Beyonce's father, Mathew Knowles, that two Destiny's Child albums featuring unreleased material would be released later this year.
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Will.i.am Records New Tracks for His Album After Songs Were Leaked
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Leaks, Release Dates, Upcoming Releases, Hip-Hop & Rap,
Will.i.am is recording new tracks for his solo album to replace those leaked online.
The Black Eyed Peas singer was so angry tracks from solo album #willpower leaked, he is writing new ones to replace them. This means the release date has been delayed from the original September 24, so he can go back into the studio.
Urging fans to help him find the culprit who shared the songs, he Tweeted, "I'm trying to finish #willpower...& now because of all the leaks I have push the album back to make new songs...I will give you updates soon. If you know anyone that knows the people responsible #stopthem (sic)"
The tracks were leaked shortly after the singer's car was stolen last month during a launch party for the album. An anonymous man later claimed to have stolen the car and posted a video online threatening to leak the album. In the video the anonymous man rummages through a bag, saying, "Now what's inside, let's take a peak, gadgets, gadgets, songs to leak. I'll leak them here, I'll leak them there - I will leak them everywhere."
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Sia Confirms Christina Aguilera Collaboration
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Sia has written a track for Christina Aguilera's new album, Lotus. The Australian singer - who has recently found success collaborating with David Guetta on the track "Titanium" - wrote the track "Blank Page" for Christina, and is delighted at the way it sounds.
"So @TheRealXtina Sounds amazing on our next collaboration. Blank page. Squeeeeee (sic)" she wrote on Twitter.
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Kesha Single to Feature Rihanna?
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Collaborations, Leaks, Upcoming Releases, Pop,
Kesha has hinted her new single could feature Rihanna.
The "We R Who We R" hitmaker posted a video teaser for her track "Die Young," which features a waffle house waitress holding a piece of paper with an "R" written on it, which looks much like Rihanna's logo. A caption then flashes on screen which reads, "What's it all mean??? (sic)"
Also in the video, Kesha sings the song's chorus to a group of confused commuters on the Tokyo metro. Another caption reads, "Getting closer. get hyped. eternal boners (sic)."
Kesha - famed for her songs about getting drunk and partying - has previously said she plans to show her "vulnerable" side on her second, as-yet-untitled, album.
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Missy Elliott’s Double Comeback
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Artist News, Collaborations, Upcoming Releases, Hip-Hop & Rap,
Missy Elliott releases two comeback singles today. The rapper's first new songs since 2005, "Triple Threat" and "9th Inning," were both produced by Timbaland and mark her return as a solo artist after being diagnosed with thyroid disorder Graves' disease last year. Missy will also release new album, tentatively titled Block Party, later this year.
Describing the new record in a UStream interview with fans, she said, "I like to call it theatrical hip-hop. It's not [1999 album] Da Real World all over again, but just the dramatics of the real world is the feeling that I get from this album."
The star has also distanced herself from a project to posthumously release tracks by singer Aaliyah, whom she and Timbaland worked closely with before her death in a plane crash in 2001. "Until [her family] come and say we're ready to do an Aaliyah album, then I don't really want to try and get into that because it's really sensitive," she said.
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Pink Wrote a Song About Butter
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Pink wrote a song about an argument over butter. The singer explained how "Just Give Me a Reason" on her new album, The Truth About Love, is inspired by the small signals a person can give when a relationship is breaking down.
"Sometimes [one partner] can be like, 'The way you passed me the butter this morning, I kinda feel like we're going to be over in a month and we need to talk' and he's like, 'I just passed you the f***ing butter, what are you talking about?' and that's how I felt the song should go, 'We're growing apart, you don't spoon any more, like it's all over.'"
Pink - who is happily married to motorcyclist Carey Hart - wrote the track with Nate Ruess from the band Fun and decided it should be a duet, but had to trick him into singing it. "I was like, 'No, this is a story, this is a conversation this song' - it needs the other perspective whether it's a guy and a girl, or two girls or two guys. I came in and tried to convince him that this was how the conversation was going to go and it was interesting you know, he was like 'I'll just do the demo cos I don't know about duets,' and I totally tricked him into doing it, and I am so glad I was able to. I think now he's very happy that he did it, I think it's a beautiful song and I'm really, really proud of it," she added.
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My Chemical Romance to Release Conventional Weapons
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My Chemical Romance are to release previously scrapped album Conventional Weapons. The "Sing" group recorded tracks for the record in 2009 as a follow up to breakthrough The Black Parade, but decided against releasing them and worked on a new project, Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys instead, which came out in 2010.
Now, guitarist Frank Iero has announced plans to release tracks from the Conventional Weapons sessions. "To kill the misconception, I don't think the songs we wrote before Danger Days... are bad songs by any means. In fact, I kinda think some of them are among my favorites we have ever written. A lot of them are kinda f***ing rad... They just so happened to have been created in the wrong place, at the wrong time, and we as their parents were not ready to raise them just yet... and so they sat and waited (sic)," he wrote on the group's site.
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Green Day’s New Album is ‘Epic’
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Green Day think their new album is "epic." The American Idiot hitmakers are proud of their new album trilogy ¡Uno!, ¡Dos! and ¡Tre! and feel the triple format has allowed them to achieve something that rocks "really hard."
"It was time for a change and a new era. You just start with one simple song at a time, where less is more, but we made three albums and it ended up becoming epic. We wanted to make something that rocked really hard, and partied really hard, with a lot of meaning behind it. And a lot of soul. Hopefully we achieved that," singer Billie Joe Armstrong told Classic Rock magazine.
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