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Mark Ronson - Record Collection out September 27, 2010

Superstar DJ, producer and uber-stylish hottie, Mark Ronson is releasing his 3rd album, entitled “Record Collection” on September 27, 2010.

The album will feature collaborations with Boy George, D’Angelo, Simon Le Bon and Nick Rhodes from Duran Duran and it will also feature the current NME 5 week chart topper “Bang Bang Bang,” which features guest vocals from Q-Tip and MNDR.  I’m very excited to add this to my record collection!

The tracklist is:

01 Bang Bang Bang [ft. Q-Tip and MNDR]
02 Lose It (In the End) [ft. Ghostface Killah and Alex Greenwald]
03 The Bike Song [ft. Kyle Falconer and Spank Rock]
04 Somebody to Love Me [Boy George and Andrew Wyatt]
05 You Gave Me Nothing [ft. Rose Elinor Dougall and Andrew Wyatt]
06 The Colour of Crumar
07 Glass Mountain Trust [ft. D'Angelo]
08 Circuit Breaker
09 Introducing the Business [ft. Pill and the London Gay Men's Choir]
10 Record Collection [ft. Simon Le Bon]
11 Selector
12. Hey Boy [ft. Rose Elinor Dougall and Theophilus London]
13 Missing Words
14 The Night Last Night [ft. Rose Elinor Dougall and Alex Greenwald]

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Alex Trimble of Two Door Cinema Club

Two Door Cinema Club’s debut album “Tourist History” has already secured a spot in my top 10 favorite albums of 2010 and it’s about to get even better!  On September 20, 2010 (my birthday!), TDCC is releasing a deluxe edition of “Tourist History” featuring a bonus disc of remixes (and 1 B-side).  The track list is:

01. Kids
02. I Can Talk (French Horn Rebellion Remix)
03. Come Back Home (Is Tropical Remix)
04. Undercover Martyn (Jupiter Remix)
05. I Can Talk (Moulinex Remix)
06. What You Know (Cassian Remix)
07. Come Back Home (Ted & Francis Remix)
08. Something Good Can Work (Ted & Francis Remix)
09. Undercover Martyn (Softwar Remix)
10. Something Good Can Work (The Twelves Remix)

The Ted and Francis remix of “Something Good Can Work” is my favorite remix of the year, and the album sounds like a greatest hits record instead of a debut album.  The band rocks live and they are all super nice.  If this doesn’t convince you, I don’t know what will.

However, if you are not sold by my glorious praise, you can sample the merchandise by downloading a free mp3 of their non-album track “Hands of My Cash, Monty.” by signing up on Two Door Cinema Club’s mailing list.

Photo courtesy of Jim Emmons.  Cover art by Wilf Frost.

Throwing Stars by Jim Emmons. Now available on I-Tunes!

In 2008, I collaborated with singer Jim Emmons on a project called “In The Absence of Red.”  Working in the style of Elton John and Bernie Taupin, I wrote song lyrics with no melodies in mind and emailed my contributions to Jim.  He then took the words and crafted R & B, Pop and Jazz songs around the words and before long, the 11 song album “In The Absence of Red” was born.  We released the project on I-Tunes and it was more successful than we could have ever imagined. 

We’ve continued to collaborate ever since and our second collection, “Throwing Stars” is out today on I-Tunes!  The album features the slow jam “So In Love,” the funky as hell “In Time,” the rockin’ ”Something” as well as “Pride,” which will surely become the anthem for a community that is finally starting to see equal rights.  You can hear samples of all of these songs at Jim Emmons’ official website, so get to clickin’.  We hope you enjoy listening to the album as much as we enjoyed making it.

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Seal 6: Commitment due September 28, 2010.

Some good news for Seal fans.  The singer has announced that his next album, “Seal 6: Commitment” will be released on September 28, 2010.  The singer has also dropped working with Stuart Price in favor of David Foster, which means the album will be ballad heavy instead of dance friendly.  The singer has also revealed that many of the songs on the album will be reflections of his perfect life, with his perfect wife and his perfect kids.  The first single, will be “Secret,” a string-laden ballad.  I love Seal’s music, but this is starting to sound like a snooze fest!  Guess we’ll find out on September 28, 2010.

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VV Brown

Attention fans of good music!  The incredibly talented VV Brown has a new EP that’s out today.  “I-Tunes Live From SoHo” features 6 live tracks from her wonderful debut album “Travelling Like the Light.”  The track list is:

1. Everybody

2. Game Over

3. Bottles

4. Back In Time

5. Quick Fix

6. Shark In the Water

If you haven’t heard her music yet, I urge you to do so.  She’s got a sexy smooth voice that has elements of Amy Winehouse, but without the drug addiction!  I will be horribly disappointed if VV Brown is not a huge star across the world next year at this time.

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Alison Moyet of Yazoo!

Exciting news for fans of Yazoo (or Yaz, as they were known in the US).  On September 27, 2010, the duo of Alison Moyet and Vince Clarke will be releasing a live 2-cd set from their 2008 tour called “Reconnected Live.”  There will be a deluxe package featuring the CDs bound with a 32 page hard back book as well as a standard edition with just the 2 cds and it will also be available as a digital download.  Sadly, a live DVD is not part of the set and it’s an extra bummer for me, since I was interviewed for a documentary that was supposed to accompany the DVD. I even signed a release form, which means that somewhere out there, my autograph is sitting in a pile whose owners are unaware of its value!

See the track list for “Reconnected Live” after the jump.

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Interpol!

Exciting news for fans of Interpol.  The band’s 4th self-titled album, “Interpol,” will be released on September 7, 2010.

The track list is:

01.  Success
02.  Memory Serves
03.  Summer Well
04.  Lights
05.  Barricade
06.  Always Malaise (The Man I Am)
07.  Safe Without
08.  Try It On
09 . All of the Ways
10.  The Undoing

If you go to Interpol’s official website, you can download the video for their new song ‘Lights.’