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Katy Perry / Polyvore Contest 11/16/2009 12:00:00 AM Polyvore is hosting a contest where fans can create outfits inpired by Katy Perry's style! The winning look will get handpicked by Ms. Perry herself and get autographed merchandise, vinyl and her new DVD/CD for MTV: Unplugged! There's 20 chances to win, so to find out all the details, go here: http://www.polyvore.com/katy_perry_unplugged/contest.show?id=72798
Ok Go Teams With Designer Moritz Waldemeyer And Fendi For Groundbreaking Design Performance 11/12/2009 12:00:00 AM OK GO TEAMS WITH DESIGNER MORITZ WALDEMEYER AND FENDI FOR GROUNDBREAKING DESIGN PERFORMANCE AT DESIGN MIAMI/, HELD DECEMBER 1st – 5th Band’s New Single/Video “WTF?” Available Now On The iTunes Music Store; Upcoming Album, Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky, Due Out January 12, 2010 (New York, NY) OK Go, the mind-bending band that gave us what is largely considered the decade’s most-viewed music video, the treadmill-manned “Here It Goes Again,” will join with Design Miami/, FENDI and technologically-pioneering designer Moritz Waldemeyer to stage a groundbreaking Design Performance at Design Miami/, the pre-eminent international fair for limited edition design. The fair will take place December 1st through December 5th in Miami Design District. Waldemeyer, renowned for his extraordinary designs influenced by his background as a research scientist in mechatronics and LED lighting, will customize a selection of Gibson guitars with laser lights and FENDI materials, which OK Go will play live throughout the event. When played, the guitar’s lasers interact with a video wall and leave traces that illustrate the music in real time. The lasers emulate the strings of the guitar, and vibrations transmit beautiful visual interpretations of the sound. “It's such a pleasure to be working with Moritz again. He's one of those rare and wonderful artists who's equally inventive in the domain of minute technological details and broad, open-ended creative ideas,” says OK Go vocalist/guitarist Damian Kulash, who was featured in Uniqlo’s recent international advertising campaign. “He designed the LED jackets that we wore in our stage show a couple years ago, and it was a perfect match. Our brand of performance – super-saturated, super visual, super fun – is precisely the right arena for his design. We knew right away that we needed to make instruments with him, and ever since we've been looking for the opportunity to realize our dream of playing guitars that are their own light show. We're incredibly excited, and thankful that FENDI and Design Miami/ have made this possible.” The single and video for “WTF?” – OK Go’s Prince-inspired, odd-time-signature hip shaker – premiered on the iTunes Music Store earlier this week. The video, directed by the band and Tim Nackashi (“Gnarls Barkley – Live,” the award-winning documentary “Dirty Work,”) debuts this Sunday night/Monday morning on MTVu‘s “Subterranean,” airing at 2:00 a.m. E.S.T. “WTF?” is the lead single from OK Go’s upcoming album, Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky, set for release on January 12, 2010 on Capitol Records. Fans who pre-order the album on iTunes will instantly receive an additional track, entitled “Back from Katmandu.” Produced by ex-Mercury Rev member David Fridmann (Flaming Lips, MGMT), Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky takes its name from an 1876 book promoting the erroneous theory that blue light cures all ills. Both danceable and contemplative, the new album is introspective with a vein of surrealism running through it – a compelling follow-up to OK Go’s acclaimed 2005 release, Oh No. The band’s homemade videos for two of Oh No’s hits, “A Million Ways” and “Here It Goes Again,” set numerous viewing records as they helped transform the then-fledgling YouTube into a household name. “Here It Goes Again,” which won a GRAMMY® award for “Best Short Form Music Video” in 2007, was even parodied on “The Simpsons.” The band’s non-stop touring regimen took them to five continents in 31 consecutive months. In 2008, OK Go released the EP You’re not Alone, a swaggering collaboration with the trombone band Bonerama that benefited musicians displaced by Hurricane Katrina. The band wraps up a series of Midwestern dates this Saturday and will embark on a U.K. tour in January. OK Go is Damian Kulash, Tim Nordwind, Dan Konopka, Andy Ross. For more information about OK Go, please visit: www.okgo.net www.myspace.com/okgo www.facebook.com/okgo www.youtube.com/okgo www.twitter.com/okgo
Katy Perry To Debut New Song During "MTV UNPLUGGED" Set To Premiere on MTV.COM 11/16 11/10/2009 12:00:00 AM KATY PERRY TO DEBUT NEW SONG DURING “MTV UNPLUGGED” SET TO PREMIERE ON MTV.COM ON MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16 AT 6:00AM ET/PT Perry Fans Will Have 24-7 On-Demand Access To Special Via MTV.com New York, NY – “MTV Unplugged” will continue the tradition of providing music fans with stellar live performances as the network premieres its latest installment featuring Grammy nominated, superstar singer-songwriter Katy Perry airing on Monday, November 16, 2009 on MTV.com and MTVMusic.com. The series will feature Perry performing songs from her multi-platinum debut album One Of The Boys, including two of her hits “I Kissed A Girl” and “Waking Up In Vegas” as well as fan favorite “Thinking Of You” and a special cover of the Fountains of Wayne song “Hackensack.” The special, which will be available on-demand 24-7 on MTV.com, will also feature never before released original song “Brick By Brick,” as well as a few other surprises. In Addition, Perry will share intimate details of how some of her most beloved songs came about. MTV will also air highlights from the special across its multiple platforms on-air including mtvU, MTV Hits and MTV Tr3s. Leading up to the digital premiere, the network’s morning all-music block, AMTV will begin to air performance videos taken from the taping on Monday, November 16. Palladia, the music – centric high definition television channel featuring MTV programming – will also air a half hour version of the special on November 27 at 9pm and 12am ET/PT. In addition, Capitol Records will release a limited edition CD+DVD version of Katy Perry’s “Unplugged” appearance on Tuesday, November 17. Check out a teaser clip of “MTV Unplugged: Katy Perry” at MTV.com. The Grammy Award-winning series “MTV Unplugged” has a rich history of performances from musical legends, including Nirvana, Jay-Z, The Cure, Shakira and Duran Duran. To see other great “MTV Unplugged” performances by artists such as Adele, Ne-Yo, Paramore, Silversun Pickups and All Time Low go to unplugged.mtv.com.
Pre-order Katy Perry MTV Unplugged and get a Limited* Autographed CD Booklet! 11/2/2009 12:00:00 AM Pre-Order the upcoming release, MTV Unplugged (CD/DVD), by Katy Perry and get a limited* autographed CD Booklet with purchase! Click here to purchase now!
'The Sea,' Grammy Winner Corinne Bailey Rae's New Album, Set For February 2nd Release 10/22/2009 12:00:00 AM THE SEA, GRAMMY WINNER CORINNE BAILEY RAE’S NEW ALBUM, SET FOR FEBRUARY 2ND RELEASE ON EMI’S CAPITOL RECORDS On February 2nd, 2010, EMI’s Capitol Records will release Corinne Bailey Rae’s new album, The Sea. The record was co-produced by Bailey Rae with Steve Brown, and Steve Chrisanthou, who produced many of the songs on her debut album, which has sold four million copies worldwide. Fans can check out behind-the-scenes footage of Corinne recording the album and hear a preview of music from The Sea at her website, http://www.corinnebaileyrae.net/. Bringing together a new band of musicians, Bailey Rae recorded the album mainly in Leeds and Manchester, England. Her voice, always an expressive and soulful instrument, resonates with a poignant and newfound depth on The Sea. Loss and grief are recurring themes yet a sense of beauty and wonder ultimately radiates from the album’s dark corners. “There is something miraculous that pushes you along, makes you keep going, makes you carry on. It’s really about the mystery of that. In fact, the whole album is about that in a way; it’s about loss but it’s also about hope, about keeping going and trying to find that beauty,” Bailey Rae told the U.K.’s Observer Music Monthly, which hailed The Sea as “an extraordinarily intimate and impassioned album” in its recent cover story on her, which can be found at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/oct/04/corinne-bailey-rae-interview In June 2006, her self-titled debut album entered the U.K. album chart at < and The Billboard 200 at <7. Within the year, Bailey Rae had won a Q award, a MOJO award, an Image award and two MOBO awards and appeared on a host of television shows, including “Saturday Night Live,“ “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” “Late Night with Conan O’Brien,” “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” “Good Morning America” and “Ellen.” She was nominated for three GRAMMY® awards – “Record Of The Year” and “Song Of The Year” for her first single, “Put Your Records On,” and “Best New Artist.” Her remarkable performance on the 2007 GRAMMY Awards telecast propelled her album into the Top 5 of The Billboard 200. The following year, “Like A Star,” her second single, was nominated for “Song Of The Year” and Herbie Hancock’s River: The Joni Letters, on which Corinne appeared, won the GRAMMY for “Album Of The Year.” Bailey Rae will play a select number of shows in the States and her native U.K. this December; details will be announced shortly.

Katy Perry / Polyvore Contest

11/16/2009 12:00:00 AM

Polyvore is hosting a contest where fans can create outfits inpired by Katy Perry's style!
The winning look will get handpicked by Ms. Perry herself and get autographed merchandise, vinyl and her new DVD/CD for MTV: Unplugged!
There's 20 chances to win, so to find out all the details, go here: http://www.polyvore.com/katy_perry_unplugged/contest.show?id=72798

Ok Go Teams With Designer Moritz Waldemeyer And Fendi For Groundbreaking Design Performance

11/12/2009 12:00:00 AM

OK GO TEAMS WITH DESIGNER MORITZ WALDEMEYER AND FENDI FOR GROUNDBREAKING DESIGN PERFORMANCE AT DESIGN MIAMI/, HELD DECEMBER 1st – 5th

Band’s New Single/Video “WTF?” Available Now On The iTunes Music Store;
Upcoming Album, Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky, Due Out January 12, 2010

(New York, NY) OK Go, the mind-bending band that gave us what is largely considered the decade’s most-viewed music video, the treadmill-manned “Here It Goes Again,” will join with Design Miami/, FENDI and technologically-pioneering designer Moritz Waldemeyer to stage a groundbreaking Design Performance at Design Miami/, the pre-eminent international fair for limited edition design. The fair will take place December 1st through December 5th in Miami Design District.

Waldemeyer, renowned for his extraordinary designs influenced by his background as a research scientist in mechatronics and LED lighting, will customize a selection of Gibson guitars with laser lights and FENDI materials, which OK Go will play live throughout the event. When played, the guitar’s lasers interact with a video wall and leave traces that illustrate the music in real time. The lasers emulate the strings of the guitar, and vibrations transmit beautiful visual interpretations of the sound.

“It's such a pleasure to be working with Moritz again. He's one of those rare and wonderful artists who's equally inventive in the domain of minute technological details and broad, open-ended creative ideas,” says OK Go vocalist/guitarist Damian Kulash, who was featured in Uniqlo’s recent international advertising campaign. “He designed the LED jackets that we wore in our stage show a couple years ago, and it was a perfect match. Our brand of performance – super-saturated, super visual, super fun – is precisely the right arena for his design. We knew right away that we needed to make instruments with him, and ever since we've been looking for the opportunity to realize our dream of playing guitars that are their own light show. We're incredibly excited, and thankful that FENDI and Design Miami/ have made this possible.”

The single and video for “WTF?” – OK Go’s Prince-inspired, odd-time-signature hip shaker – premiered on the iTunes Music Store earlier this week. The video, directed by the band and Tim Nackashi (“Gnarls Barkley – Live,” the award-winning documentary “Dirty Work,”) debuts this Sunday night/Monday morning on MTVu‘s “Subterranean,” airing at 2:00 a.m. E.S.T. “WTF?” is the lead single from OK Go’s upcoming album, Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky, set for release on January 12, 2010 on Capitol Records. Fans who pre-order the album on iTunes will instantly receive an additional track, entitled “Back from Katmandu.”

Produced by ex-Mercury Rev member David Fridmann (Flaming Lips, MGMT), Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky takes its name from an 1876 book promoting the erroneous theory that blue light cures all ills. Both danceable and contemplative, the new album is introspective with a vein of surrealism running through it – a compelling follow-up to OK Go’s acclaimed 2005 release, Oh No. The band’s homemade videos for two of Oh No’s hits, “A Million Ways” and “Here It Goes Again,” set numerous viewing records as they helped transform the then-fledgling YouTube into a household name. “Here It Goes Again,” which won a GRAMMY® award for “Best Short Form Music Video” in 2007, was even parodied on “The Simpsons.” The band’s non-stop touring regimen took them to five continents in 31 consecutive months. In 2008, OK Go released the EP You’re not Alone, a swaggering collaboration with the trombone band Bonerama that benefited musicians displaced by Hurricane Katrina. The band wraps up a series of Midwestern dates this Saturday and will embark on a U.K. tour in January.

OK Go is Damian Kulash, Tim Nordwind, Dan Konopka, Andy Ross.

For more information about OK Go, please visit:
www.okgo.net
www.myspace.com/okgo
www.facebook.com/okgo
www.youtube.com/okgo
www.twitter.com/okgo

Katy Perry To Debut New Song During "MTV UNPLUGGED" Set To Premiere on MTV.COM 11/16

11/10/2009 12:00:00 AM

KATY PERRY TO DEBUT NEW SONG DURING

“MTV UNPLUGGED” SET TO PREMIERE ON MTV.COM

ON MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16 AT 6:00AM ET/PT

Perry Fans Will Have 24-7 On-Demand Access To Special Via MTV.com

New York, NY – “MTV Unplugged” will continue the tradition of providing music fans with stellar live performances as the network premieres its latest installment featuring Grammy nominated, superstar singer-songwriter Katy Perry airing on Monday, November 16, 2009 on MTV.com and MTVMusic.com. The series will feature Perry performing songs from her multi-platinum debut album One Of The Boys, including two of her hits “I Kissed A Girl” and “Waking Up In Vegas” as well as fan favorite “Thinking Of You” and a special cover of the Fountains of Wayne song “Hackensack.” The special, which will be available on-demand 24-7 on MTV.com, will also feature never before released original song “Brick By Brick,” as well as a few other surprises. In Addition, Perry will share intimate details of how some of her most beloved songs came about. MTV will also air highlights from the special across its multiple platforms on-air including mtvU, MTV Hits and MTV Tr3s.

Leading up to the digital premiere, the network’s morning all-music block, AMTV will begin to air performance videos taken from the taping on Monday, November 16. Palladia, the music – centric high definition television channel featuring MTV programming – will also air a half hour version of the special on November 27 at 9pm and 12am ET/PT. In addition, Capitol Records will release a limited edition CD+DVD version of Katy Perry’s “Unplugged” appearance on Tuesday, November 17.

Check out a teaser clip of “MTV Unplugged: Katy Perry” at MTV.com.

The Grammy Award-winning series “MTV Unplugged” has a rich history of performances from musical legends, including Nirvana, Jay-Z, The Cure, Shakira and Duran Duran. To see other great “MTV Unplugged” performances by artists such as Adele, Ne-Yo, Paramore, Silversun Pickups and All Time Low go to unplugged.mtv.com.

Pre-order Katy Perry MTV Unplugged and get a Limited* Autographed CD Booklet!

11/2/2009 12:00:00 AM

Pre-Order the upcoming release, MTV Unplugged (CD/DVD), by Katy Perry and get a limited* autographed CD Booklet with purchase! Click here to purchase now!

'The Sea,' Grammy Winner Corinne Bailey Rae's New Album, Set For February 2nd Release

10/22/2009 12:00:00 AM

THE SEA, GRAMMY WINNER CORINNE BAILEY RAE’S
NEW ALBUM, SET FOR FEBRUARY 2ND RELEASE
ON EMI’S CAPITOL RECORDS

On February 2nd, 2010, EMI’s Capitol Records will release Corinne Bailey Rae’s new album, The Sea. The record was co-produced by Bailey Rae with Steve Brown, and Steve Chrisanthou, who produced many of the songs on her debut album, which has sold four million copies worldwide. Fans can check out behind-the-scenes footage of Corinne recording the album and hear a preview of music from The Sea at her website, http://www.corinnebaileyrae.net/.

Bringing together a new band of musicians, Bailey Rae recorded the album mainly in Leeds and Manchester, England. Her voice, always an expressive and soulful instrument, resonates with a poignant and newfound depth on The Sea. Loss and grief are recurring themes yet a sense of beauty and wonder ultimately radiates from the album’s dark corners.

“There is something miraculous that pushes you along, makes you keep going, makes you carry on. It’s really about the mystery of that. In fact, the whole album is about that in a way; it’s about loss but it’s also about hope, about keeping going and trying to find that beauty,” Bailey Rae told the U.K.’s Observer Music Monthly, which hailed The Sea as “an extraordinarily intimate and impassioned album” in its recent cover story on her, which can be found at:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/oct/04/corinne-bailey-rae-interview

In June 2006, her self-titled debut album entered the U.K. album chart at < and The Billboard 200 at <7. Within the year, Bailey Rae had won a Q award, a MOJO award, an Image award and two MOBO awards and appeared on a host of television shows, including “Saturday Night Live,“ “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” “Late Night with Conan O’Brien,” “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” “Good Morning America” and “Ellen.” She was nominated for three GRAMMY® awards – “Record Of The Year” and “Song Of The Year” for her first single, “Put Your Records On,” and “Best New Artist.” Her remarkable performance on the 2007 GRAMMY Awards telecast propelled her album into the Top 5 of The Billboard 200. The following year, “Like A Star,” her second single, was nominated for “Song Of The Year” and Herbie Hancock’s River: The Joni Letters, on which Corinne appeared, won the GRAMMY for “Album Of The Year.”

Bailey Rae will play a select number of shows in the States and her native U.K. this December; details will be announced shortly.