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The great new single from Swedish House Mafia, the huge summer club anthem ‘One (Your Name)’, featuring none other than Pharrell, is out today. Get it on iTunes here.

As previously announced, the brand new studio album from Bryan Ferry, ‘Olympia’, is out in October.

But you don’t have to wait until then to hear what the album has to offer – first single ‘You Can Dance’ is out next month, and you can see the video right away here:

Following the unveiling this week of the artwork for the cover of Katy Perry‘s new hotly anticipated album ‘Teenage Dream’, Katy has released a lyric video of the album’s great title track.

Have a listen here:

Katy’s new album is out next month.

Hot on the heels of their huge UK chart topper ‘Good Times’ which was number one for three weeks in May, Roll Deep are back with their new single ‘Green Light’.

The song is released in August, but the video is out now. Check it out here:

After a summer of festival shows, Gorillaz are bringing “Escape to Plastic Beach” out for a global tour, beginning in North America this fall. The 20-date run will include a show at Madison Square Garden in New York City on 8 October.

The U.S. and Canada dates (details to be announced shortly), will be followed by a series of 10 shows across Europe and the UK, including a two-night stand at London’s O2 arena, as well as seven shows across Australia and Asia.

Gorillaz co-creators Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett’s new live experience encompasses material from all three multi-platinum Gorillaz albums and will feature Albarn, Mick Jones and Paul Simonon of The Clash, Bobby Womack, Little Dragon, Bootie Brown, UK Hip Hop stars Kano and Bashy and others as well as video animation, artwork, film and stage design by Hewlett.

Multi-platinum rock sensations Good Charlotte announced today that they have joined the EMI family, signing to Capitol Records. Their highly-anticipated fifth full-length album “Cardiology” will be out in the US in late October, almost exactly 10 years after their self-titled debut established the band as one of the most exciting bands of the new century.

Originally formed as a pop-punk band in Waldorf, Maryland, in 1996, Good Charlotte—vocalist Joel Madden, guitarist Benji Madden, guitarist Billy Martin, bassist Paul Thomas and the latest edition, drummer Dean Butterworth—have sold over 10 million records to date and penned countless mainstream radio hits such as “The Anthem,” “Lifestyles Of The Rich & Famous” and “Hold On.”

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Katy Perry has revealed the cover art for her not much longer to wait for album (just a month now!) ‘Teenage Dreams’.

The artwork is a portrait of Katy by renowned contemporary artist Will Cotton, and you can see it right here:

Katy and Cotton are very much mutual fans. Katy first contacted Cotton five months ago and the resulting portrait was recreated in the video for Katy’s current global smash hit ‘California Gurls’. Cotton was artistic director for the video, recreating images from his confectionary landscape work for the props and scenery.

You can watch Katy and Will Cotton unveiling and talking about the portrait here:

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EMI and Nordic Games are teaming up to launch a brand new video game featuring the music of Robbie Williams.

‘We Sing Robbie Williams’ will be released to tie-in with Robbie’s upcoming definitive greatest hits album, ‘In And Out Of Consciousness: The Greatest Hits 1990-2010”, which is due out in October.

The new video game, the first ever to star Robbie, will feature 25 of his tracks to sing along to, all accompanied by the original videos. It will be available for Wii in October.

Congratulations to Corinne Bailey Rae, Laura Marling and I Am Kloot for being named among the Albums of the Year for the prestigious Barclaycard Mercury Prize 2010 in the UK. Corinne Bailey Rae and Laura Marling are both signed to EMI’s Virgin Records, while I Am Kloot released their current album on their own Shepherd Moon label in partnership with EMI Label Services.

Corinne Bailey Rae’s January 2010 release ‘The Sea’ is her first Mercury Album of the Year. To date she has won at the Grammys, the MOBOs, Q Magazine and Mojo awards and received multiple Brit and Grammy nominations. Laura Marling’s ‘I Speak Because I Can’, released in March, is the second album from Laura to be named a Mercury Prize Album of the Year following her debut, ‘Alas, I Cannot Swim’, in 2008.

I Am Kloot meanwhile  make the Albums of the Year list for their recent release ‘Sky At Night’. This is the first of their five albums to be released through EMI Label Services and the first to break into the UK top 25.

As our president of EMI Music UK and Ireland, Andria Vidler, says: “Corinne Bailey Rae, Laura Marling and I Am Kloot have all released remarkable albums in 2010. These Mercury honours are a clear and well deserved recognition of their talent and creativity. Everyone at EMI is very proud to work with these wonderful artists.”

The overall winner of the 2010 prize will be announced on 7 September.

The fine folks at Hipstamatic — the cool iPhone App that seeks to recreate the magic started in the 80′s with ‘the little plastic camera with the golden shutter’ – host a cool creative challenge every month.  And this month, the Big Hipstamatic Show challenge is centered around ”Dark Night of the Soul” — the amazing new album from Danger Mouse and Sparkehorse which counts filmmaker David Lynch as one of its major collaborators.   Here’s how it works:  listen to a track and then take and upload an image inspired by the music.  It’s simple:  listen, capture and then share your entry.  Get your friends, family and acquaintances to check out and tweet about your entry to move up the leaderboard for a chance to win some very cool prizes, including the chance to be part of an upcoming Hipstamatic travelling exhibit.  DangerMouse will pick the Best of Show entry.

Scoot on over to Hipstamatic to enter, browse the leaderboard and pick some faves.