Archive for August, 2011

Jersey Boys Will Release Holiday Album Featuring Tony Award Winner John Lloyd Young

Wednesday, August 31st, 2011

More than five years after its debut, Jersey Boys will celebrate the holidays with a selection of Christmas classics in the style of The Four Seasons on “Season’s Greetings: A Jersey Boys Christmas,” set for digital and physical release on Rhino Oct. 4.

Jersey Boys Will Release Holiday Album Featuring Tony Award Winner John Lloyd Young

Wednesday, August 31st, 2011

More than five years after its debut, Jersey Boys will celebrate the holidays with a selection of Christmas classics in the style of The Four Seasons on “Season’s Greetings: A Jersey Boys Christmas,” set for digital and physical release on Rhino Oct. 4.

Band to Watch: Dum Dum Girls’ Sixties-Inspired Girl-Group Pop – YAHOO!

Wednesday, August 31st, 2011

She started out alone on homemade low-fidelity MP3, vinyl and CD-R releases, then got help from a few friends on a couple more visible records. On Only In Dreams (out September 27th on Sub Pop; download “Come Down” or stream it above), she’s settled …

Amy Winehouse’s ‘Back to Black’ album top U.K. seller of the century

Wednesday, August 31st, 2011

The 2006 Amy Winehouse album, “Back to Black” is the biggest-seller in Britain of the 21st century, a sales monitoring company said Thursday.

Beach Boys announce release details of lost album Smile – The Guardian

Wednesday, August 31st, 2011

The Smile Sessions will be released by Capitol/EMI on 31 October, available digitally and in a variety of physical manifestations – dual CD, double vinyl, or in box sets including 7in singles, shadow-boxes, signed lithographs and even a custom …

DecalGirl Hires Licensing Industry Superstar to Direct Company’s New License Strategy and Content Development – StreetInsider.com

Wednesday, August 31st, 2011

MILTON, Del. and SAN DIEGO, Aug. 31, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — DecalGirl, the original company that brought full-color, removable vinyl “skins” made to fit on small and large electronic devices to the U.S., announced today that it has hired Linda M. Castill…

The Beach Boys to release ‘lost’ album Smile after 44 years – NME

Wednesday, August 31st, 2011

The Smile Sessions’ sees three of the surviving members of the band collaborating to release “an approximation of what was intended to be the completed” album, reports The Guardian. The album will be available in double CD, double vinyl and a number of…

StubHub Pulls Plug On Broncos Fan’s Screaming Deal

Wednesday, August 31st, 2011

A die-hard Broncos fan who found what appeared to be an unbelievable deal on a set of Broncos season tickets on a ticket sharing website says he did what anyone would have done in his situation.

How where you live affects the life you prefer. Or not.

Wednesday, August 31st, 2011

How do people value a better life? The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) recently released the Better Life Index, an interactive graphic that lets you rank 11 different dimensions (income, environment, life satisfaction, etc….

Album review: Red Hot Chili Peppers, ‘I’m With You’

Wednesday, August 31st, 2011

2 stars (out of 4)