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*Get a free mp3 of "Danger Danger (Feat. Tommy Lee & DJ Aero)" by Street Drum Corps with ticket purchase!

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Pre-order your copy of A Different Kind Of Truth today on iTunes and Amazon!

A Different Kind Of Truth Tour Collector's Edition - Vinyl is available for pre-order on Ticketmaster. Get your copy here





The vinyl includes:
All 13 songs on 2 LPs
Custom LP artwork
Double Gatefold Packaging
180 Gram Vinyl
Deluxe MP3 Album
"The Downtown Sessions" Bonus Videos

The artist was not aware that the song would be used by Romney and the campaign is not something K'NAAN endorses.

"I have not been asked for permission by Mitt Romney's campaign for the use of my song. If I had been asked, I would certainly not have granted it. I would happily grant the Obama campaign use of my song without prejudice."

K'NAAN is currently seeking legal action so that further use of the song by Romney's campaign can be prevented.

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Snow Patrol will headline the opening night of the VOLT Festival 2012 in Sopron, Hungary between June 27th and 30th.

The festival will also see a headline set from Skrillex, as well as performances over the weekend from, amongst others ,Children of Bodom, Iggy and the Stooges, Lostprophets and Katy B.

Tickets for the festival are on sale now via volt-eu.jegy.hu, with full details available by clicking here.

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Fans are already gathering outside the studio in the hopes of meeting the girls of Girls’ Generation before their American television debut TONIGHT!

Watch GG on The Late Show with David Letterman TONIGHT on CBS @ 11:35pm PT/ET!

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January 31, 2012

BRITAIN’S PREMIERE DUBSTEP DUO NERO LAUNCHES HEADLINING “SECOND REALITY” U.S. TOUR IN MARCH, PLUS APPEARANCES AT COACHELLA

LONDON DUO TOURING IN SUPPORT OF DEBUT ALBUM WELCOME REALITY, OUT NOW ON CHERRYTREE/INTERSCOPE RECORDS

Fan Pre-Sale Happening Now; Tickets Come With Digital Album

(Santa Monica, CA)  — Having already introduced their special brand of melodic dance mayhem to North American electronic music fans with roof-raising DJ sets at nightclubs in December, London’s premiere dubstep duo Nero is gearing up for a triumphant return to the U.S. in March for their headlining “Second Reality” live tour, as well as eagerly awaited appearances at the Coachella Music & Arts Festival in April. Nero will also launch their exclusive 2012 DJ residency at Surrender and XS Nightclubs, located at Encore at Wynn Las Vegas, performing first at Surrender between the weeks at Coachella.

Tickets for the “Second Reality” tour will be available to Nero fan club members via a pre-sale happening now at http://us.thisisnero.com/tickets/ Those who purchase tickets will each receive an immediate digital download of Nero’s debut album Welcome Reality along with an exclusive laminate that unlocks additional digital content.  The fan pre-sale runs now through February 3^rd. 

Nero is British-born producers, remixers, DJs, and artists Dan Stephens and Joe Ray, who are joined by dynamo singer Alana Watson for their live concerts, which find them performing high atop a custom-built booth consisting of ghetto blasters, retro TV’s, old amps, and an arcade machine centerpiece. 

Nero is touring in support of Welcome Reality, which was released to rave reviews by Cherrytree/Interscope Records in December. With its thunderous bass, hail of house rhythms, lightning flashes of rave synths, and showers of guitar, the album “pulls dubstep toward the arena-pop spotlight without leaving its shadows behind,” as the New York Times put it in its review, while Billboard noted that Nero “comes off like a dubstep-powered pop band.”

Released in the U.K. in August, Welcome Reality debuted at No. 1 and rapidly earned Gold status, fueled by its singles “Innocence,” Guilt,” “Promises” (which also stormed straight to the top of the UK charts) and “Me and You,” which was the most played record on Radio 1 for three weeks in a row and is now the first U.S. single from the album. Nero’s indie/dubstep hybrid smash Me and You Remix EP is also currently available digitally, and features a brand-new remix of “Me And You” by Steve Angello of Swedish House Mafia, and a Skrillex remix of "Promises" (previously unavailable in the U.S.) that has racked up more than 10 million plays on YouTube.

Check out the video trailer for HARD Summer 2012 here featuring “Promises” (Skrillex & Nero Remix) and Nero’s Dan Stephens.   

With nominations from BBC’s Sound of 2011, XFM’s Sound of 2011, and Music Week’s Top 15, Nero also won 2010's Beatport Award for Best Dubstep Act and Best Dubstep Track for “Act Like You Know.” The duo have performed at all the major UK music festivals including Glastonbury, Bestival, Reading, and Wireless, and still found the time to produce remixes for The Streets, La Roux, deadmau5, N*E*R*D and Daft Punk. 

CHECK OUT WHAT THE PRESS HAS TO SAY ABOUT NERO:

"Nero's Joe Ray and Dan Stephens ache to bestow post-dubstep with its can-you-believe-this-shit? flash of stadium-size euphoria, enhancing (or defiling, depending on your perspective) the genre's bass-heavy payload with trancey synths and wailing vocals.” — Spin

“Welcome Reality is nearly as nostalgic as it is futuristic. The music flaunts vintage synthesizers and echoes of dance-music past: the raw swoops of early-1990s rave, the arpeggios of synth-pop, the string-section jabs of disco, even some 1980s rock-anthem guitar.” — The New York Times

With [singer Alana] Watson, Nero comes off like a dubstep-powered pop band — and with Welcome Reality, the act’s very polished debut, it’s a hit away from broader fame.” — Billboard

“Blistering beats and serious electro-pop sparkle.” — Entertainment Weekly

“Welcome Reality” will inevitably soundtrack thousands of blowouts. ...Nero understand how to make things burn." —  The Los Angeles Times

"Glorious, splinter-thin moments when a sound is both free to do whatever it wants and still functioning as a new power source.” — The New Yorker

NERO’S UPCOMING U.S. TOUR DATES

03/29               Washington, DC          9:30 Club

03/30               Philadelphia, PA          Electric Factory

03/31               New York, NY             Roseland Ballroom

04/03               Boston, MA                 House of Blues

04/04               Montreal, QC              Metropolis

04/05               Guelph, ON                 Guelph Concert Theatre (DJ set)

04/06               Toronto, ON                Sound Academy

04/07               Chicago, IL                  Congress Theater

04/08               Milwaukee, WI                        Riverside Theater

04/09               Minneapolis, MN         Minute Myth

04/13               San Francisco, CA     Warfield Theater

04/15               Indio, CA                     Coachella

04/18               Las Vegas, NV            Surrender Nightclub (DJ set)

04/20               El Paso, TX                 Buchanan’s Event Center (DJ set)

04/22               Indio, CA                     Coachella

04/24               Denver, CO                Ogden Theatre

04/26               Dallas, TX                   House of Blues

04/27               Houston, TX                Verizon Wireless Theater

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‘IL VOLO TAKES FLIGHT – LIVE FROM THE DETROIT OPERA HOUSE’ CD & DVD
TO BE RELEASED FEB. 28 ON GEFFEN RECORDS

PBS Special Scheduled in Major Markets Across the US Beginning March 3rd 

For Immediate Release – (New York, NY) – January 31, 2012 - Italian singing sensations Il Volo soar in their first PBS Special “Il Volo Takes Flight” as well as on their upcoming CD and DVD, “Il Volo Takes Flight – Live From The Detroit Opera House,” which is scheduled to be released on Feb. 28th on Geffen Records.  Due to the extraordinary response from a single airing on the PBS Detroit affiliate DPTV this past December, the program is now scheduled to air as part of the March 2012 PBS Fundraising Drive across the country between March 3rd and March 18th. The CD and DVD track listing follows this release.

“Il Volo is extremely talented.  It’s a wonderful pleasure to introduce another new music sensation like these three, young Italian tenors to American audiences through PBS,” said Joe Campbell, Vice President of Fundraising Programming at PBS.    

Confirmed cities airing the special include New York, Boston, Washington DC, Chicago, Dallas, Miami, Las Vegas, Phoenix, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Check your local listings for a schedule of airtimes on PBS or visit http://www.pbs.org/tv_schedules/.  For a sneak peak of Il Volo’s PBS special visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyCjhBkqKB4.

Il Volo Takes Flight – Live From the Detroit Opera House was filmed last year while the group was on their first North American concert tour and captures the genuine excitement of their live performance, the stunning crowd reaction and the many standing ovations the group has received in every city they have performed.  The show includes Italian classics such as “O Sole Mio” and “Un Amore Cosi Grande” as well as a magnificent version of the classic Charlie Chaplin song “Smile.”  The Live DVD includes a bonus documentary.  

With rave reviews the CD, DVD and PBS broadcast of Il Volo Takes Flight is one of the most highly anticipated releases of the new year.  The NY Daily News glowed, “If you’ve never heard them sing ‘O Sole Mio’ or other classics in their rep, then be prepared to be blown away.”  
 
Piero Barone 18, Ignazio Borschetto 17 and Gianuca Ginoble 16, also dubbed The Teenage Tenors, exploded onto the U.S. music scene and into the hearts of U.S. fans following their show stopping appearance on American Idol last year.  Their self titled debut CD debuted at No. 6 on the Billboard Top 200 Chart.  Worldwide sales are approaching the one million mark. Already certified platinum in their homeland, the boys also appeared on major U.S. TV shows including The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Today Show, Good Morning America, The Talk, Ellen, Rachael Ray and a surprise performance on the final episode of the HBO series Entourage. 

Il Volo is finalizing details for a 2012 North American tour, produced by Live Nation, to be announced soon.
 
Both the CD and DVD were produced by Grammy award winning producer Humberto Gatica (Michael Buble) and renowned Italian singer/producer Tony Renis.  “We are excited and proud to have produced this concert for national distribution with our partners at PBS and the Michigan Opera Theatre,” commented Detroit Public TV’s President and General Manager Rich Homberg.  The show was directed by Ron de Moraes and executive produced by Michele Torpendine (Il Volo’s manager), Tony Renis, Steve Leber, Ken Ehrlich, Jamie Westrick and Ron Fair.

Il Volo Takes Flight (Live CD) Tracklisting:

1.    Il Mondo
2.    Un Amore Cosi Grande
3.    Ti Voglio Tanto Bene
4.    Granada
5.    E Piu Ti Penso
6.    ‘O Sole Mio
7.    Non Ti Scordar Di Me
8.    This Time
9.    Smile
10.  Mattinata
11.  Musica Proibita
12.  Mamma
13.  La Luna Hizo Esto (Featuring Pia Toscano)
14.  Notte Stellata (The Swan)
15.  Funiculi’ Funicula’

Il Volo Takes Flight (Live DVD, Standard Edition) Tracklisting:

1.    Il Mondo
2.    Un Amore Cosi Grande
3.    Ti Voglio Tanto Bene
4.    Smile
5.    Granada
6.    E Piu Ti Penso
7.    Non Ti Scordar Di Me
8.    El Reloj
9.    Notte Stellata (The Swan)
10.  Musica Proibita
11.  This Time
12.  Mamma
13.  Per Te
14.  Mattinata
15.  ‘O Sole Mio
16.  BONUS DOCUMENTARY / BTS footage and interviews

Il Volo Takes Flight (Live DVD, Deluxe Edition) Tracklisting:

1.    Il Mondo
2.    Un Amore Cosi Grande
3.    Granada
4.    Ti Voglio Tanto Bene
5.    Smile
6.    ‘O Sole Mio
7.    E Piu Ti Penso
8.    Non Ti Scordar Di Me
9.    El Reloj
10.  Notte Stellata (The Swan)
11.  Musica Proibita
12.  This Time
13.  Mamma
14.  Per Te
15.  Mattinata
16.  La Luna Hizo Esto (Featuring Pia Toscano)
17.  Funiculi’ Funicula’ & Reprise
BONUS DOCUMENTARY
BONUS MILOS KARADAGLIC (Spanish Romance)

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As Snow Patrol head into the final week of the 2012 UK tour, we have yet another pair of tickets to give away, this time for this Saturdays show at the LG Arena in Birmingham.

This week we’ve decided to play the next line game, where all you need to do is complete the lyric below that has been taken from a Snow Patrol track.

"We are listening….. "?? 

To win simply complete the line and post it to us on either facebook.com/SnowPatrol, tweet it to us at @snowpatrolBand with the hash tag #spComp or email us at competition@snowpatrol.com. We will then randomly choose a winner and inform them on Saturday 4th February between 9am and 11am, so keep an eye on your DM’s and Inbox’s.

Following on from last month's announcement of Snow Patrol's debut show in Dubai this March, we can now announce another first... The band will head to Oman to play the Intercontinental Gardens in Muscat.

The show will take place on March 11th 2012 with full details and tickets now available via hifmradio.com and facebook.com/aliveoman.

The event in Oman will follow the previously announced Dubai Atlantis Open Air Festival that will take place on March 9th. Tickets for that are available online now via the following sites timeoutdubai.com, virginmegastore.me and platinumlist.ae

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