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Gorillaz’ Plastic  Beach is out! 

The physical “Experience Edition” of Plastic Beach includes such bonuses as a Making of Plastic Beach DVD, ability to stream live Gorillaz performances, and a special access card unlocking a world of exclusive and interactive online content to be revealed over time.

In the US, the iTunes LP version of Plastic Beach includes the record-breaking “Stylo” video and a Making of “Stylo”  documentary;  a video collection of Gorillaz animation, Plastic Beach trailers and six exclusive films set to album tracks; a still gallery featuring original Gorillaz art and images exclusive to iTunes; a Gorillaz interactive game; and an Online Extras section providing  access to Gorillaz live concert performances and additional exclusives. The iTunes deluxe edition of the record also features the bonus tracks “Pirate’s Progress: and “Three Hearts, Seven Seas, Twelve Moons.”

iTunes LP for Plastic Beach

Plastic Beach’s first single, “Stylo,” premiered last week on YouTube  in many parts of the world and instantly became the most successful official music video premiere in YouTube Music Tuesday history, generating over 900,000 views in its first 24 hours, since breezing past the million view mark and surpassing previous record holders U2 and Weezer.

Elsewhere, the NPR Music Exclusive First Listen for Plastic Beach was the #1 most popular story on NPR.org in its first 24 hours.

Keep your eyes peeled in the ongoing Gorillaz saga here! 

And, follow the band’s own Murdoc Niccals at www.twitter.com/murdocgorillaz

Huge congratulations to EMI Music/Parlophone’s UK rapper Tinie Tempah whose massive single ‘Pass Out’ debuted at number 1 in the UK this week.

Tinie’s eagerly awaited debut album is due for release this summer; ahead of this he’ll be playing the following dates over the next few months:

50 Cent Tour
20 March 2010 @ Wembley Arena

Mr Hudson Tour
1 May 2010 @ Loughborough Students Union, Loughborough (14+)
2 May 2010 @ O2 Academy, Liverpool (14+)
3 May 2010 @ O2 Academy, Oxford (14+)
5 May 2010 @ Koko, London (14+)
7 May 2010 @ Anson Rooms, Bristol (14+)
9 May 2010 @ Ritz, Manchester (18+)
10 May 2010 @ QMU, Glasgow (14+)
11 May 2010 @ O2 Academy, Newcastle (14+)
12 May 2010 @ The Rainbow Warehouse, Birmingham (14+)
14 May 2010 @ Junction, Cambridge (14+)
16 May 2010 @ Roadmender, Northampton (14+)
17 May 2010 @ Waterfront, Norwich (14+)

Click here to visit Tinie Tempah’s website and Myspace

Or so says Interview magazine in this story just out.  The mag asks what makes this 17 year old singer/songwriter Sky Ferreira such a special case? 

“Everything, basically.  She’s a rough-around-the-edges beauty with a sterling voice, impeccably weird taste, and an almost maniacal inability to take no for an answer.”

Ferreira’s new album is out later in 2010 on EMI’s Capitol label.  Check out more here.

Last night at the Academy Awards, the French team of François Alaux and Herve de Crecy took home an Oscar for Best Animated short film.  Logorama features a world full of brand logos and corporate mascots.  See anything familiar in this trailer by the Santa Monica Pier?

Alaux and de Crecy (also known as production team, H5) have also done work on videos from artists like Massive Attack, Goldfrapp and Röyksopp.  Congrats to them!

Tonight, Friday March 5, The Bird and The Bee will performing songs from their forthcoming album Interpreting the Masters Volume 1: A Tribute to Daryl Hall and John Oates

The album will be released by Blue Note Records on March 23 but the show this Friday at the El Rey will be the only chance to see the band perform these songs live. Watch the entire show anywhere in the world streamed live at http://www.livestream.com/thebirdandthebee beginning at 8pm PST / 11pm EST.

Rising star Capitol Nashville star Luke Bryan has been nominated for the prestigious Academy of Country Music Awards‘ Top New Solo Vocalist Award. But before you cast your vote at www.voteacm.com, you might want to think twice and watch the video below, featuring a parade of famous country music stars, a guy in a leotard making like Beyonce, and even a St. Louis Cardinals fan or two.

The ACM Awards will be televised in the US on Sunday, April 18th 8 PM ET/PT on the CBS Network.

Congratulations to all of EMI Music’s winners at Germany’s top music industry awards which took place in Berlin last night (March 4).

Robbie Williams won Best international male, Depeche Mode took home Best international group and Best music DVD production went to Helene Fischer.

Robbie, who collected his award from German football legend Oliver Khan (above), performed a stunning version of his current single ‘Morning Sun’ to the live show audience of 4,000 and to the millions watching the show on television. Depeche Mode were also there to pick up their award in person.

For a list of all the winners visit the ECHO website

Vans Warped Tour is North America’s longest-running touring festival and on March 30 EMI Label Services will release, in the US and Canada, a special 15^th anniversary Vans Warped Tour DVD and bonus CD including performances from All American Rejects, The Aggrolites, Bad Religion, blink 182, Ice-T, NOFX, Ozomatli, Pennywise, Pete Wentz and The Decaydence All Stars, Rise Against and Underoath.

The DVD/CD was recorded at the Vans Warped Tour birthday bash held last year at LA Live. “This DVD captures the 15 years of the tour in the best way possible, by acknowledging the history, diversity and the future of the tour,” explains tour founder Kevin Lyman.

Click here to see the announcement in full and for more information on the Vans Warped Tour 2010 visit their official website.

LCD SOUNDSYSTEM
THIRD ALBUM OUT MAY 17th (UK) and 18th (US) ON DFA/VIRGIN

Coachella, Sasquatch, Bonnaroo, Pitchfork U.S. Festival Dates Confirmed
UK/Euro Headline Dates Continue To Sell Out

LCD Soundsystem has confirmed May 17th (UK) and May 18 (U.S) as  release dates  of  its as yet untitled third album.  The record will be released  on  DFA/Virgin in the U.S. and will consist of the  following   songs:

Dance Yrself Clean
Drunk   Girls  *
One Touch
All I Want
Change   *
Hit  *
Pow Pow
Somebody’s Calling  Me  *
What You  Need

The above were recorded at The Manshun in Los Angeles and the DFA studios in New York and  mixed at DFA from  April 2009 through February 2010.   TBD was written and produced by James Murphy. Additional mixes were done   by Dave Sardy as indicated (*).

LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy; photo by Ruvan Wijesooriya

The new album is LCD  Soundsystem’s  first full offering of new studio material since  2007’s Sound Of  Silver, which was  named best album of  the last decade by NPR, ranked #1 in the 2007 Village  Voice  Pazz & Jop critics poll, landed at #12 and #17 respectively in   Rolling Stone and Pitchfork’s best albums of the  decade, and  like its predecessor 2005’s  LCD Soundsystem received a Grammy  nomination for Best Electronic/Dance  Album.  Sound Of Silver also featured “All My Friends,” ranked #4 by Time in its Best Songs of 2007 and named single of the year by Pitchfork, and Entertainment Weekly #8 song of 2007 “Someone Great.” In 2008, LCD Soundsystem contributed the track “Big Ideas” to the soundtrack of the movie 21.  The band has since released the 45:33: The Remixes EP   and a cover of Alan Vega’s “Bye Bye Bayou,” issued to   commemorate Record Store Day 2009 and earning LCD its fifth NME  single of the week. The album  will be preceded by  the March 23  release of the soundtrack to Noah Baumbach’s   Greenberg, which  features both composition’s from James  Murphy’s  original score for the  film and the new LCD  Soundsystem song “Oh You  (Christmas  Blues).”

The  record’s release will be supported by a  world tour beginning  with an April 16 penultimate slot at the Coachella  festival in  Indio CA and continuing with a run  of  UK/Europe headline   dates (several of which have sold out well in  advance and  necessitated added  dates) and further worldwide festival   appearances. For a full itinerary check http://lcdsoundsystem.com/

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