NEW RELEASES FOR TUESDAY JULY 7, 2009

MICHAEL JACKSON
Hello World: 3 CD Motown Collection

*DIGITAL ALBUM ONLY!

This 3 CD Motown collection was originally planned for release to coincide with the upcoming tour, so while the physical collection will be available in the coming weeks, it is now available digitally. The album features every recording released from 1971 to 1975, plus the Motown-era songs that were released after he left the company. Highlights tracks include “Ain’t No Sunshine,”"My Girl” and the classic “Ben.”

SIMPLE MINDS
Graffiti Soul
www.simpleminds.com
Dist: Universal Music Canada

Glasgow UK alternative music legends Simple Minds celebrate their 30th Anniversary with the release of their 15th studio album Graffiti Soul. The band that broke in America with their 1985 chart- topper “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” and the attendant Once Upon A Time album is as hungry and committed as ever. Graffiti Soul was produced by the band and Jez Coad, and was mixed by Bob Clearmountain in Santa Monica, California. The songs were written in Rome, Sicily, Antwerp and Glasgow, and the core Simple Minds line-up of Jim Kerr (vocals), Charlie Burchill (guitar, keyboards), Mel Gaynor (drums) and Eddie Duffy (bass) recorded the material at Rockfield studios near Monmouth, Wales. The first single from the album is “Rockets.”

LMFAO
Party Rock
www.myspace.com/lfmao
Dist: Universal Music Canada


As Hollywood locals, Blu and Foo already rocked the beat as experimental Djs, who had a knack for rockin’ the show by bringing electro into the commercial club scene. With their own musical aspirations, they continued to produce their own Hollywood brand of hip-hop and electro while constantly bringing that old school house party atmosphere. With the help of the single “I’m in Miami Bitch,” LMFAO has received almost 49 million hits on their Myspace page. So if you haven’t heard it yet don’t worry…you will.

MAXWELL
BLACKsummers’night
www.musze.com/
Dist: Sony Music Canada

BLACKsummers’night, the heavily-anticipated new studio album from the groundbreaking modern soul artist Maxwell, is the first full-length Maxwell release since Now, his critically-acclaimed third studio album, debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 in August 2001.
Following an extraordinary performance of Al Green’s “Simply Beautiful,” at the 2008 BET Awards in June 2008, Maxwell launched his 2008 BLACKsummers’night USA tour October. When all 144,000 tickets for the tour sold-out within minutes of going on sale, the tour was extended from 26 to 33 cities. Critical response to Maxwell’s’ tour was unanimously positive. Maxwell premiered new songs from BLACKsummers’night during his 2008 fall tour, among them “Pretty Wings,” “Bad Habits,” “Help Somebody,” and “Cold.”

MARCY PLAYGROUND
Leaving Wonderland…In A Fit Of Rage
www.marcyplayground.com
Dist: EMI Music Canada

Marcy Playground exploded onto the scene back in 1997 with the insanely irresistible hit single “Sex And Candy,” a song that notched fifteen consecutive weeks at number one on Billboard’s U.S. Modern Rock tracks chart, and a self-titled debut album that went on to sell 1.7 million copies.

Today, with the release their fourth album, Leaving Wonderland… in a fit of rage, Marcy Playground return to action in triumphant fashion. Armed with songs born of an intense and turbulent period in his life, singer/guitarist John Wozniak, has created a record that digs deep, taking the listener on an exhilarating and satisfying emotional and musical rollercoaster ride with songs such as the infectious “Star Baby”, the self reflecting “Good Times” and the vintage MP sound of “Gin & Money.”

PUSSYCAT DOLLS
Doll Domination: The Mini Collection
www.pcdmusic.com
Dist: Universal Music Canada

Pussycat Dolls – Doll Domination: The Mini Collection is a special Canadian edition which offers the top hit singles from the platinum selling Doll Domination and adds the previously unavailable “Jai Ho” feat. A,R, Rahman and Nicole Scherzinger. Also included is a new version of the current single “Hush Hush: Hush Hush.”


KEVIN HEARN AND THINBUCKLE
Havana Winter
www.kevinhearn.com
Dist: Warner Music Canada

Best known as a skilled multi-instrumentalist in platinum-selling international pop heroes Barenaked Ladies, Hearn has long pursued a parallel solo career path. As a solo artist, Kevin Hearn has operated underneath the commercial radar, but has earned a loyal international following with his highly idiosyncratic yet tuneful sound. Havana Winter is the follow-up to the much-lauded release The Miracle Mile, which Kevin found critical acclaim and emotional pathos with his exploration of personal struggle with leukemia and its treatment

FRITZ HELDER AND THE PHANTOMS
Greatest Hits : Limited Edition
www.fritzhelder.com
Dist: Universal Music Canada

Grammy Award winner and Multi-platinum recording artist Nelly Furtado, has launched her music company Nelstar Music and introduces Canadian Independent recording artist Fritz Helder & The Phantoms as the first act signed to the new label.
Fritz Helder & The Phantoms is an electro-pop foursome from Toronto who started out as a dance troupe, put together by choreographer Fritz Helder, who previously appeared with Nelly Furtado on tour. As word of mouth quickly spread on the group’s electrifying performances, they soon began booking their own gigs with acts like Lady Gaga, Dragonetter and Semi-Precious Weapons. The featured track is “Lagerfeld Lady.”

HANNAH MONTANA 3
Soundtrack
Dist: Universal Music Canada

The Hannah Montana 3 TV series soundtrack is the follow-up release to the 2007 4 X platinum Hannah Montana 2 TV series soundtrack. This brand new CD features all of the hits from season 3, two bonus duets with David Archuleta and Corbin Bleu, plus special access to a never-before-seen Hannah Montana concert video. Make sure not to miss any of the hit tracks like “It’s All Right Here,” “Supergirl,” “Ice Cream Freeze (Let’s Chill)” and more.

THE JAYHAWKS
Music From The North Country: The Jayhawks Anthology
www.jayhawksfanpage.com
Dist: Sony Music Canada

Formed in 1985, The Jayhawks became one of the most recognized and successful bands of the so-called “alt country” movement of the 1990’s. Yielding hits like “Waiting For The Sun” and “Blue” which showcased a blend of harmony vocals, acoustic guitar and pedal-steel-like leads which quickly became the band’s signature sound. Music From The North Country: The Jayhawks Anthology is a brand new compilation that tells the band’s story so far. Collecting key tracks from all of their releases and overseen by Gary Louris, this is a wonderful introduction to, and happy reminder of one of the great American bands of our time. A Deluxe version of the album also includes 20 rare and unreleased tracks from the band’s vaults along with a DVD of music videos and live performances.

ALL TIME LOW
Nothing Personal
www.myspace.com/alltimelow
Dist: E1

All Time Low’s sophomore album Nothing Personal is the follow-up to their highly acclaimed debut, So Wrong, It’s Right. The band went out of their way to stretch their songwriting muscle on the album, working with a variety of superstar producers including Butch Walker, David Bendeth, Matt Squire, and more. The resulting work is one that reaches to their ever-growing audience, while still maintaining every bit of story-telling charm that long-time fans have come to expect from All Time Low. Catchy songs, witty lyrics, and the band’s irresistible tongue-in-cheek personality are all present on Nothing Personal making it one of the most anticipated albums of 2009. The album features the singles “Weightless” and “Damned If I Do Ya (Damned If I Don’t).”

AGAINST ME!
The Original Cowboy
www.againstme.net
Dist: F.A.B.

AGAINST ME! have quickly ascended to the upper echelon of the punk scene. A pivotal step along the path that led to their current enviable status was the 2003 groundbreaking release of As The Eternal Cowboy. Now, to the delight of their faithful following, the band elected to release the predominantly never-before-heard demos from the album under the title The Original Cowboy. Singer/guitarist of AGAINST ME! Tom Gabel had this to say about the release: “recorded and mixed in only a couple of hours, The Original Cowboy was only meant to be a trial run, but, listening to it today, there’s a part of me that feels foolish for ever recording these songs a second time”.

THE RURAL ALBERTA ADVANTAGE
Hometowns
www.theraa.com
Dist: Fontana North

The Rural Alberta Advantage play indie-rock songs about hometowns and heartbreak, born out of images from growing up in Central and Northern Alberta. They sing about summers in the Rockies and winters on the farm, ice breakups in the spring time and the oil boom’s charm, the mine workers on compressed, the equally depressed, the city’s slow growth and the country’s wild rose, but mostly the songs just try to embrace the advantage of growing up in Alberta. Hometowns is the first full length album from The Rural Alberta Advantage and features the tracks “Frank AB” and “Don’t Haunt This Place.”

REVOLUTION MOTHER
Rollin’ With The Mutha
www.myspace.com/revolutionmother
Dist: Warner Music Canada

Being an iconic pro skater for the past 23 years and counting, Mike Vallely (AKA Mike V) vocalist of Revolution Mother definitely resembles the word intense. A towering, bearded lightning bolt who delivers raw punk venom in his vocals. All of the members of Orange County, Californias’ Revolution Mother have an image that reflects their music, an amalgam of greasy biker rock and charging skate punk. Capturing the fury of their live performances the band releases their second album Rollin’ With Tha Mutha featuring the track “Born To Rock N’ Roll.

POISON THE WELL
The Tropic Rot
www.myspace.com/poisonthewell
Dist: Warner Music Canada

With their fifth studio album, The Tropic Rot, Poison the Well reach the apex of the idea behind their name, rolling out a wide-angle take on heavy music that’s so fully realized in its boundary-pushing, it makes it impossible to imagine the genre in any other way. Like 2007’s Versions and the 2008 7” vinyl EP series I/III, II/III and III/III that sprang from that album’s sessions, The Tropic Rot is more post-hardcore than hardcore proper. Recorded in California with legendary producer Steve Evetts (Every Time I Die, Dillinger Escape Plan, The Cure, Story of the Year), the album finds PTW working with non-traditional instrumentation, cinematic influences, and bigger-than-ever guitar and vocal melodies. Unlike the more willfully eclectic approach on those releases, however, The Tropic Rot refines these outside inspirations to a veritable knifepoint.

TONIC
A Casual Affair: The Best Of Tonic
www.tonic-online.com
Dist: Universal Music Canada

After Tonic scored a platinum album, a pair of Grammy® nominations and several hit singles — including “If You Could Only See,” the most-played rock radio song of 1997 — the Modern Rockers went on hiatus in 2004. This summer, however, Tonic returns, first with a tour and then this fall with its first new album in seven years. In anticipation, the group’s first retrospective, A Casual Affair: The Best Of Tonic revisits the enormously popular band that blended the raw honesty of rock with unabashed pop appeal, killer melodies with revved-up guitar heroics. Featuring 12 selections from Tonic’s three albums (Lemon Parade, Sugar, Head On Straight) and three previously unreleased bonus tracks include a live version of their signature cut “Irish”, an acoustic take on “You Wanted More” and their live rendition of “Sugar”.

DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS
Live From Austin, TX
www.drivebytruckers.com
Dist: Fontana North

The Drive-By Truckers performance on AUSTIN CITY LIMITS was an instant classic. Recorded during their Brighter Than Creation’s Dark tour, the band line-up featured is Patterson Hood, Mike Cooley, Shonna Tucker, John Neff, Brad Morgan and Jay Gonzalez. Formed in 1996, these southern rockers are known for their three-guitar attack. The 13 songs recorded for AUSTIN CITY LIMITS feature a mix of new songs from Brighter Than Creation’s Dark alongside DBT classics “Let There Be Rock” and “18 Wheels Of Love” (off their second album Gangstabilly) and “Marry Me” (from Decoration Day).

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TUESDAYS DIGITAL SINGLE LEADS

-Mariah Carey “Obsessed”

- Justin Bieber “One Time”

- Drake “Best I Ever Had”

- Down With Webster “Back Of My Hand”

- A.C. Newman “Live In Montreal” (iTunes Exclusive)

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ALSO AVAILABLE THIS WEEK:

AMANDA PALMER A Collection Of Music Videos (DVD)
Amigo, Vicente Paseo De Gracia
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Summer Clothes
Big D & The Kids Table Fluent In Stroll
BIG STAR #1 RECORD/RADIO CITY
BILLY BOY ON POISON DRAMA JUNKIE QUEEN
BLEACH Season 3 – The Rescue Uncut (DVD Video) 5 Discs
BLEACH Season 3 – The Rescue Uncut LTD EDITION (DVD Video) 5 Discs
BLINK 182 PUNK POETS
BODEN, JON SONGS FROM THE FLOODPLAIN
BORN OF OSIRIS A HIGHER PLACE
BOWERBIRDS UPPER AIR
BUSCHMEYER, RALF Renewal
CAGE Depart From Me
CHOOGLIN’ Sweet Time
CLEAVES, SLAID Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away
CLONIOUS, THE Adroit Adventures EP
CUNNINLYNGUISTS STRANGE JOURNEY VOLUME ONE
CURRENT SWELL PROTECT YOUR OWN
D.O. STAY DRIVEN
Dave Matthews Band PLUGGING THE GAPS
DEATH BY STEREO Death Is My Only Friend
DONNAS, THE Greatest Hits, Vol. 16
DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS LIVE FROM AUSTIN, TX
EYE ALASKA GENESIS UNDERGROUND
FAUSTUS FAUSTUS
Fritz Helder and the Phantoms GREATEST HITS (PLATINUM ED
FRIZZELL & SHELLY WEST, DAVID The Very Best of David Frizzell & Shelly West
FROZEN PLASMA Monumentum
GARNEAU, CHRIS EL RADIO
GRANELLI V16, JERRY Vancouver ‘08
Horowitz, Vladimir The Yale Library Recordings Vol. 1
IRON MAIDEN LEGACY OF THE BEAST
IXXI Elect Darkness
Jayhawks, The Music From The North Country: The Jayhawks Anthology (Deluxe Edition)
Johner, Brad Lookin’ At You
JUNIOR BOYS Hazel
KEVIN HEARN Havana Winter
KIRKPATRICK, BENJI BOOMERANG
KNOWLES, DAVY & BACK DOOR COMING UP FOR AIR
Liebeck, Jack Dvorak: Violin Concerto, Sonata & Sonatina
LMFAO PARTY ROCK
Marcy Playground Leaving Wonderland In a Fit Of Rage
MARTIAL ARTS-COMEDY Shaolin Grandma (DVD Video)
MCCOMBS, CASS Catacombs
MILNE, ANDY / BENOIT DELBECQ Where Is Pannonica?
MINUS 5, THE Killingsworth
Nevins, Jason Ultra Weekend 5
OSMOND, HARVEY LEE A QUIET EVIL
OWEN THE SEASIDE EP
PINE HILL HAINTS, THE TO WIN OR TO LOSE
POISON THE WELL Tropic Rot
PSYCHE Until The Shadows
PUSSYCAT DOLLS, THE DOLL DOMINATION – THE MINI
REVOLUTION MOTHER Rollin’ With Tha Mutha
RURAL ALBERTA ADVANTAGE, THE HOMETOWNS
SERENGETI & POLYPHONIC Terradactyl [feat. Buck 65 & Doseone]
STEVIE B THE TERMINATOR
SILK FLOWERS SILK FLOWERS
SIMPLE MINDS GRAFFITI SOUL
SOUNDTRACK THE HANGOVER
SOUNDTRACK My Sister’s Keeper
SOUNDTRACK Endless Bummer
SOUNDTRACK Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs
SOUNDTRACK Fast & Furious
SOUNDTRACK - TV HANNAH MONTANA 3
STATE OF MAN IN THIS PLACE
Sun Volt AMERICAN CENTRAL DUST
TINY VIPERS Life On Earth
TONIC A CASUAL AFFAIR – THE BEST
UUVVWWZ UUVVWWZ
VARIOUS ARTISTS Ribbon Of Highway Endless Skyway: The Woody Guthrie Tribute Tour
WE WERE PROMISED JETPACKS THESE FOUR WALLS
WHITESNAKE SLIDE IT IN – 20TH ANNIVER
WHITESNAKE SLIP OF THE TONGUE – 20TH
WILKINS, JACK Until It’s Time
YOUNG FRESH FELLOWS I Think This Is
Zefiro Fasch, Concerti and Ouverture