Going Ga Ga for Goo Goo

Still reeling from a triumphant sold-out tour of the U.K., The Goo Goo Dolls return home for another North American tour in support of their new album Let Love In. The tour will sweep across the US and Canada beginning November 4 in Seattle and wind down in Anaheim, California for a special New Year’s Eve show.

The new video for album’s title track and current single, “Let Love In,” premiered on MySpace.Com on Tuesday, October 17, 2006. The clip was filmed in Los Angeles and directed by P.R. Brown (Death Cab For Cutie, Billy Corgan, Audioslave).

Fans will also be excited to know that a plethora of exclusive recordings have just become available in cyberspace only via iTunes and Rolling Stone Originals. A whopping 23 tracks have just become available on iTunes, many of them recorded live at Capitol Studios in Hollywood exclusively for online purchase. Another session was recorded exclusively for Rolling Stone Originals and features new live-in-the-studio versions of “Broadway,” “Become,” “Let Love In,” and “Stay With You.” These recordings are not available anywhere else.

Goo Goo Dolls Fall/Winter Tour Dates:
Wed
Nov-8
Calgary, AB
Jack Singer Conference Hall
Thurs
Nov-9
Regina, SK
Conexus Centre of the Arts
Sat
Nov-11
Winnipeg, MB
Burton Cummings Theatre
Sun
Nov-12
Thunder Bay, ON
Community Auditorium
Tues
Nov-14
Toronto, ON
Massey Hall
Wed
Nov-15
London, ON
John Labatt Centre
Fri
Nov-17
Ottawa, ON
National Arts Centre
Sat
Nov-18
Montreal, QC
Olympia Theater
Mon
Nov-20
Moncton, NB
Moncton Coliseum
Tues
Nov-21
Halifax, NS
Halifax Metro Centre
Wed
Nov-22
Bangor, ME
Bangor Auditorium
Fri
Nov-24
Portland, ME
The Dome
Sat
Nov-25
Albany, NY
Palace Theatre
Sun
Nov-26
Syracuse, NY
Landmark Theatre
Tues
Nov-28
Baltimore, MD
Lyric Opera House
Wed
Nov-29
Upper Darby, PA
Tower Theatre
Fri
Dec-1
Boston, MA
Orpheum Theatre
Sat
Dec-2
New York, NY
Hammerstein Ballroom
Sun
Dec-3
New York, NY
Hammerstein Ballroom
Tues
Dec-5
Erie, PA
Warner Theatre
Fri
Dec-8
Chicago, IL
Chicago Theatre
Sat
Dec-9
Atlanta, GA
Arena at Gwinnett Center
Mon
Dec-11
Poughkeepsie, GA
Mid Hudson Civic Center
Tues
Dec-12
Hartford, CT
Hardford Civic Center Coliseum
Fri
Dec-29
Niagara Falls, NY
Seneca Niagara Casino
Sun
Dec-31
Anaheim, CA
House of Blues

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The Game of Pop

Singer–songwriter Josh Kelley is eager to announce the October 10th release of his third album, “Just Say the Word.” Entirely written, produced and performed by Kelley, “Just Say the Word” demonstrates an eclectic range of the artist’s recent musical and personal evolution: “I often heard people say that sometimes you just wake up in life and realize that you want to be better – well, that’s what happened to me about one year ago. I became a better guitar player, drummer, piano player, bass player, singer and songwriter. I found a new love in my life and an extra spark to my passion for music. "Just Say the Word" is a direct reflection of my growth. I had a vision for this record and finally there was only one cook in the kitchen.”

Kelley has independently partnered with manager Debbie Wilson of Wilspro Management to market and distribute the new material in a unique way. On June 6th, the album made a very successful pre-release launch on iTunes that lifted Kelley to the #1 position among all iTunes folk artists. On June 13th, “Just Say the Word” boasted a #27 position on iTunes Top Albums. In addition, a series of headlining club dates kicked off on May 28th in Las Vegas at the Suncoast Hotel and Casino and Kelley will continue to tour throughout 2006 in support of the album. “This is my rebirth,” Kelley noted, “I am ready to explore new and different ways of getting my music out there and go to the next level.”

Kelley broke through in 2001 on Hollywood Records with “For The Ride Home,” an album that showcased his no-nonsense expressiveness and disarmingly genuine delivery. These qualities were exemplified in the top five smash "Amazing," and follow-up top ten hit "Everybody Wants You." In early 2004, he left Oxford, Miss. for Los Angeles where he interacted with fellow songwriters and players, further refining his skills while determining where he wanted to take his music next. It all culminated with the sessions for his second Hollywood Records album, “Almost Honest.”

"Pop Game"

Me Radio Pretty One Day

Each week, some 1.7 million listeners tune-in to This American Life, an insightful, innovative radio program that broadcasts touching true-life stories that unfold like audio movies to listeners on over 500 public radio stations nationally. This fall, listeners can own a selection of the greatest stories from the show on a two-CD compilation, This American Life: Stories Of Hope & Fear, available November 7th from Shout! Factory. Host Ira Glass and the staff of This American Life selected some of their favorite segments from the Peabody® Award-winning series, organized along the title theme which, Glass admits, “Not only summarizes the theme of nearly every story on our program, but all human drama and literature besides.” Featuring segments by bestselling writer and humorist David Sedaris (Naked), Comedy Central’s “Daily Show” correspondent John Hodgman, and many others, this eclectic anthology addresses topics ranging from gender reassignment to karaoke comedy, with over two hours of alternately hilarious and heart-breaking spoken performances set against the music of Thurston Moore, Blonde Redhead, RZA, Calexico, Philip Glass, Morcheeba, Mogwai, Tom Zé, Tortoise, Carly Simon and others. The third installment in the This American Life CD series, the two-disc This American Life: Stories Of Hope & Fear set, includes 11 complete stories from the Chicago Public Radio series, with an album insert featuring original artwork by Divya Srinivasan (Sufjan Stevens’ Illinois) and liner notes by Ira Glass, for the suggested list price of $19.98.

David Sedaris: "So a Chipmunk and a Squirrel Walk Into a Bar"

Jerry.

Acoustic or electric, solo or side project; Jerry Garcia was prolific during his breaks from the Grateful Dead. Between 1972 and 1982, Garcia recorded five historic studio albums and jammed with a revolving cast of musicians in the Jerry Garcia Band. Rhino/J. Garcia Records salute the rich talents of an incomparable music icon with the first-ever compilation spotlighting Garcia's solo work. Highlights from his five solo studio records provide the foundation of the first disc, while the second disc serves as a comprehensive compilation of seminal solo performances dating from the early '70s all the way into the '90s. The Very Best of Jerry Garcia is available at all retail outlets and at www.jerrygarcia.com and www.rhino.com.

Listen Here (if you don't have all these songs already)

Barbie Can Kick Her Ass Anyday!

Diamonds are a girl's best friend--and so too is Bratz Forever Diamondz (Hip-O/UMe). The third installment in the wildly popular Bratz CD music series releases September 19, 2006 and features brand new songs by some of today's hottest pop songwriters and producers, notably Matthew Gerrard, best-known for his work on the #1-charting soundtrack to High School Musical and for hits by Kelly Clarkson, Hilary Duff and Jessica Simpson, to name a few. Song titles on the CD by Gerrard include "Let Go", "Hang On" and "You've Got It". Also contributing to the Bratz Forever Diamondz CD is leading entertainment hit-making firm, Engine. Among the tracks via Engine are "Wazz Up" and its Spanish version, "Que Tal," as well as covers of Christina Aguilera's "Beautiful" and a brand new remake of David Bowie's "Fashion." All music is inspired by MGA Entertainment's new Bratz Forever Diamondz fashion doll line hitting stores now.

I Miss My Barbies

Diamonds are a girl's best friend--and so too is Bratz Forever Diamondz (Hip-O/UMe). The third installment in the wildly popular Bratz CD music series releases September 19, 2006 and features brand new songs by some of today's hottest pop songwriters and producers, notably Matthew Gerrard, best-known for his work on the #1-charting soundtrack to High School Musical and for hits by Kelly Clarkson, Hilary Duff and Jessica Simpson, to name a few. Song titles on the CD by Gerrard include "Let Go", "Hang On" and "You've Got It". Also contributing to the Bratz Forever Diamondz CD is leading entertainment hit-making firm, Engine. Among the tracks via Engine are "Wazz Up" and its Spanish version, "Que Tal," as well as covers of Christina Aguilera's "Beautiful" and a brand new remake of David Bowie's "Fashion." All music is inspired by MGA Entertainment's new Bratz Forever Diamondz fashion doll line hitting stores now.

You Know What They Say About Guys With Little Feat...

...Little shoes?

Born in the heart of Hollywood, Little Feat wrote iconoclastic songs that combined rollicking rhythms and tight phrasing with cinematic lyrics about pill-popping truck drivers and burnouts sleeping in broken-down cars dreaming of hamburgers. Rhino Records salutes the band that's always "Willin'" with the group's first-ever, career-spanning single-disc compilation. The Best of Little Feat will be available September 26.

The Best of Little Feat contains 17 re-mastered versions of classic tracks released between 1971 and 1998 and follows the band's evolution from the Lowell George-led original to the modern-day incarnation that reunited in 1987 - almost a decade after George's untimely death in 1979.

Little Shoes Listening Party

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Pretenders I & Pretenders II

Despite only releasing two albums, the legacy of the Pretenders' original lineup still looms large. Singer Chrissie Hynde; guitarist James Honeyman Scott; bassist Pete Farndon; and drummer Martin Chambers scored back-to-back Top 10 albums on both sides of the Atlantic in 1980 and 1981. Rhino adds to the iconic band's canon with double-disc editions of the Pretenders' debut and follow-up that feature live cuts, demos, and previously unreleased tracks. Pretenders and Pretenders II will be available October 3rd.

Pretenders: http://www.rhino.com/store/ProductDetail.lasso?Number=74178
Released in 1980 and featuring the classic lineup of Chrissie Hynde, James Honeyman-Scott, Martin Chambers, and Pete Farndon, the band's raucous debut introduced the timeless tracks "Precious," "Kid," and "Brass In Pocket." A second bonus disc includes outtakes ("Cuban Slide"), BBC sessions ("Mystery Achievement"), and previously unreleased demos and live gems. An extensive booklet contains additional photos and new liner notes by James McNair.

Pretenders II: http://www.rhino.com/store/ProductDetail.lasso?Number=74177
Released in 1981 and featuring the classic lineup of Chrissie Hynde, James Honeyman-Scott, Martin Chambers, and Pete Farndon, the band's sophomore release delivered the hit single "The Adultress," as well as signature tracks "Message Of Love" and "Talk Of The Town." A second bonus disc includes previously unreleased demos ("Talk Of The Town"), outtakes ("I Go To Sleep," "Pack It Up"), and 13 tracks recorded live in 1981 at the Santa Monica Civic Center.

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Brass in Eardrums

Way Better Than a Dirt Sandwich!

Seemingly too traditional for Nashville's music establishment at the time, Dwight Yoakam moved to Los Angeles in 1977, whereby the early 80s his captivating performances at the Palomino Club, Club Lingerie, Hong Kong Cafe and other Hollywood venues earned him and his band-the Babylonian Cowboys-a loyal following among California's burgeoning cowpunk scene. Rhino celebrates the 20th anniversary of Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc., with a remastered version of his 1986 debut expanded with demos for the album recorded five years earlier. The double-disc set also features a live recording of Yoakam playing the Roxy shortly after the album's release and includes several unreleased live cuts. The deluxe edition of Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc. will be available October 17 from regular retail outlets and at www.rhino.com.
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Yee-haw!

A Guide to Recognizing Your Dito Montiel

Dito Montiel, lead singer of the ’90s band Gutterboy, returns October 10 with his self-titled solo debut. The 15-track release follows Montiel’s success with A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, a fictionalized account of his life that he made into a book in 2003 and an award-winning independent film currently in theaters. The album will be available through all digital retailers. The album is a companion to A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints as the semi-autobiographical subject matter of the songs take place after the time period in which the film was set.

Montiel gained notoriety in 1989 when Geffen Records signed Gutterboy to a $1 million record deal – an unheard of sum at the time. The band was dropped after its debut and was dubbed one of the most ‘successful’ unsuccessful bands in rock history. Prior to Gutterboy, as a kid, Montiel was in the hardcore band Major Conflict.

Montiel returned to the spotlight in 2003 in a big way with A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints, a fictional take on his life growing up in Astoria, Queens in the early ’80s during the rise of hardcore. After adapting his best-selling book into a screenplay, Montiel made his directorial debut this year with the film version of A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints, a gritty drama that ranks as one of the more indelible accounts of New York City street life in years.

Listen to the full album here

What It Was

Right on. Right on. Nothing puts a dip in your hip and a glide in your stride quite like a gritty funk groove that hits the beat hard on the one. The polyrhythmic kissing cousin of classic soul and R&B, funk’s sinuous slap-bass lines and booming kick drums from its heyday in the late ’60s through the late ’70s went on to inspire a generation of hip-hop heads. Rhino rocks funk’s foundation with a four-disc collection of rump-shaking beats and hard-to-find pimpalicious jams that don’t fake the funk. What It Is! Funky Soul and Rare Grooves (1967-1977) will be available October 3rd.

What It Is! celebrates some of the genre’s biggest names with the late Wilson Pickett’s “Engine Number 9;” “I’m Just Like You,” a song recorded by Sly Stone under the pseudonym 6ix, and “Stanga” a tune he wrote and produced for Little Sister (which included Vaetta Stewart, Sly’s little sister); and Earth Wind & Fire’s “Bad Tune” from the acclaimed group’s debut. The boxed set also includes tracks by Little Richard, Allen Toussaint, The Commodores, Curtis Mayfield, Labelle, P-Funk guitar virtuoso Eddie Hazel, and The Meters, who can be heard with Cyril Neville on the classic “Gossip,” performing undercover as The Rhine Oaks on “Tampin’” and under their own moniker for “Chug Chug Chug-A-Lug (Push And Shove) Part 2.”

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Check Yo'self Before You Wreck Yo'self

I Admit It, I'm a Starf*cker (Jus' Like My Daddy)

At the time of her debut in 1992, Tori Amos' captivating storytelling and quirky yet sublime mix of piano, pop, rock, and classical music were as conspicuous as her flaming-red ringlets among the dark-haired pop divas who ruled the charts. Since then, Amos' uncompromising studio albums and cathartic concerts have earned her recognition as one of the most influential artists of the past two decades while inspiring a legion of devoted fans. Rhino Records brings together Amos' classics, rarities, remixes, and previously unreleased music for A Piano: The Collection. Presented in deluxe packaging that resembles a piano's keyboard, this five-disc boxed set will be available on September 26.

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God
Jackie's Strength
Professional Widow
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Listen to "Sugar" and "Playboy Mommy"

Rebirth of Cool

Boost your cool factor with the Miles Davis new release, Cool & Collected, in stores NOW!! Celebrating his 80th birthday and his recent induction into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame, this single disc collection is a perfect distillation of Miles Davis and his cool world.

For the past half-century, when the subject turns to the simple question, “What defines ‘cool’?” there has always been one perfect answer: Miles Davis. Beyond his defiant stance, his piercing glare, his amorous conquests and those one-of-a-kind Issey Miyake fashion statements – there was and always will be the music of Miles Davis.

Cool & Collected is the first single CD anthology to zero in on a baker’s dozen of the recordings which created the swirling mythos of ‘cool’ that defines Miles, spanning 1956 to 1984, with a new previously unreleased bonus remix track to close the program. This definitive package of all-classic selections, which will be supported by one of the most aggressive multi-tiered consumer lifestyle marketing campaigns ever launched by Legacy Recordings, will arrive in stores September 5th on Columbia/Legacy Jazz, a division of SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAIN­MENT.

Transfer in Manhattan

Eight-time GRAMMY® winning jazz/pop harmony vocal group Manhattan Transfer has been releasing stellar albums and drawing rave concert reviews for over three decades with their sparkling song stylizations and prodigious vocal talents. The legendary group's collective voice has never sounded better than on two new albums previously available only in Japan.

An Acapella Christmas celebrates traditional Yuletide favorites with the savvy, spirit and elegance that define the Transfer's repertoire and makes for their best holiday collection ever. Following up 2004's acclaimed Vibrate, The Symphony Sessions finds the quintessential vocal quartet revisiting some of the best-loved songs they recorded earlier in their career. Both albums will be available October 3 at all retail outlets and at www.rhino.com.

Lizzen Up Old Peeps

Do You Wanna Get HARDCORE???

Emerging in the early 1980s, hardcore punk championed independent thought and a fuck-you attitude - all with a fierce "Do-It-Yourself" aesthetic. More than just loud, fast music driven by primal aggression, bands like Bad Brains and Black Flag helped launch an underground social movement that tapped into the disaffection of misfit kids who came of age in the Reagan era. Filmmaker Paul Rachman and writer Steven Blush capture the spirit of this subculture with their documentary, American Hardcore, and Rhino Records delivers the hard-hitting soundtrack.
American Hardcore - The History Of American Punk Rock (1980-1986) – Motion Picture Soundtrack will be available as a download at all digital retail outlets on September 26. The soundtrack will then be released at all physical retail outlets and at www.rhino.com on October 10.

American Hardcore - The History Of American Punk Rock (1980-1986) – Motion Picture Soundtrack
Track Listing

1. "Nervous Breakdown" - Black Flag
2. "Out Of Vogue" - Middle Class
3. "Pay To Cum" - Bad Brains
4. "Fucked Up Ronnie" - D.O.A.
5. "Red Tape" - Circle Jerks
6. "Filler" - Minor Threat
7. "I Remember" - MDC
8. "Nic Fit" - Untouchables
9. "Kill A Commie" - Gang Green
10. "Boston Not L.A." - The Freeze
11. "Straight Jacket" - Jerry's Kids
12. "Boiling Point" - SS Decontrol
13. "Who Are You?/Time To Die" - Void
14. "Came Without Warning" - Scream
15. "Friend Or Foe" - Negative Approach
16. "Bad Attitude" - Articles Of Faith
17. "Think For Me" - Die Kreuzen
18. "My Minds Diseased" - Battalion Of Saints
19. "I Hate Sports" - 7 Seconds
20. "Brickwall" - Big Boys
21. "I Was A Teenage Fuckup" - Really Red
22. "I Hate Children" - Adolescents
23. "Enemy For Life" - YDI
24. "Runnin' Around" - D.R.I.
25. "Don't Tread On Me" - Cro-Mags
26. "Ha Ha Ha" - Flipper

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Will Alicia Silverstone be in Tow?

Here at last is Aerosmith's single-disc greatest hits compilation. This definitive collection adds all the anthemic early Aerosmith chart-toppers cut for Columbia Records like "Dream On" and "Walk This Way," to the band's gem-hard Geffen Records sides, such as "Love In An Elevator" and "Janie's Got A Gun." Add to this mouth-watering synthesis a pair of new-recorded Aerosmith tunes, and you've got the answer to every Aerosmith fan's feverish dream.

Tour Dates (sans the effervescent Alicia, sadly.)

10/05/2006 Tinley Park, IL First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre
10/07/2006 East Troy, WI Alpine Valley Music Theatre
10/09/2006 Cincinnati, OH Riverbend Music Center
10/11/2006 Detroit, MI Dte Energy Center
10/13/2006 Indianapolis, IN Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
10/15/2006 St. Louis, MO Umb Bank Pavilion
10/17/2006 Kansas City, KS Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
10/19/2006 Nashville, TN Starwood
10/21/2006 Virginia Beach, VA Verizon Wireless Amphitheate
11/04/2006 Las Vegas, NV MGM Grand Hotel, Grand Garden Arena