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NEW VIDEO “YOU’RE EVER SO INVITING” ADDED TO MTV2 AND FUSE;

BAND CONFIRMED AS FEATURED ARTIST ON MTV2’s “THE DROP”

AIRING ON SATURDAY, JUNE 16;

EAST COAST VANS WARPED TOUR MAIN STAGE SUMMER RUN
SET FOR JULY 23 THROUGH AUGUST 9;

HEADLINING NORTH AMERICAN TOUR ON TAP FOR FALL

UNDEROATH and Solid State/Tooth & Nail have confirmed the July 17, 2007 release of 777, which marks the band’s first-ever DVD offering.

The DVD package includes never-before-seen footage from the band’s major 2006-2007 tours that encompass the Vans Warped Tour, Taste of Chaos International and Bamboozle Festivals as well as intimate shows spanning the last two years. Bonus features include behind-the-scenes clips from several world tours and backstage home videos as well as a “Making Of” documentary for the group’s current video “You’re Ever So Inviting” that was filmed in Sweden earlier this year. 777 includes select songs from the group’s “MySpace Secret Show” live performance shot on location in Tampa, FL on June 20, 2006, the launch date of UNDEROATH’s ground-breaking third album DEFINE THE GREAT LINE. 777 was produced by Michelle Caputo and directed by Shannon Hartman of Art and Industry (Bastards Of Young). For more information visit: www.artandindustryinc.com.

NEW ALBUM, IN OUR NATURE, RELEASED ON MUTE SEPTEMBER 25, 2007
FIRST SINGLE “DOWN THE LINE” TO BE RELEASED DIGITALLY AUGUST 14, 2007

Set to release his sophomore album “In Our Nature” on Mute September 25, 2007, José González announces the first of two US tours scheduled for Fall 2007.

Tues Aug 21 NYC, NY Spiegeltent (Special Preview Show)
Thu Sept 27 NYC, NY Gramercy Theater*
Fri Sept 28 NYC, NY Gramercy Theater#
Sat Sept 29 NYC, NY Music Hall of Williamsburg
Sun Sept 30 Boston Paradise#
Mon Oct 1 Philadelphia, PA World Café#
Tue Oct 2 Washington, DC 9:30 Club#
Thu Oct 4 Chicago, IL Park West#
Fri Oct 5 Portland, OR Aladdin Theater#
Sun Oct 7 Seattle, WA Showbox#
Mon Oct 8 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall#
Tue Oct 9 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall#
Wed Oct 10 Los Angeles, CA El Rey Theatre#
Fri Oct 12 Denver, CO Bluebird Theatre*
Sat Oct 13 Minneapolis, MN Fine Line Music Café*

*James Blackshaw
#Savath & Savalas

Beginning with a special preview show at the Spiegeltent in New York City’s South Street Seaport on August 21st, González will kick off the first of two upcoming US solo tours on September 27th with three consecutive New York City appearances during the week of album release. On this upcoming tour González will be performing songs from his forthcoming record “In Our Nature,” including the album’s first single “Down The Line” which is set for a August 14, 2007 digital release in North America. Savath and Savalas and James Blackshaw will open for González on select dates.

Performing seven times at SXSW in March 2006, González went on to sell out solo shows in virtually every major US market last year, in addition to performing at festivals such as Central Park Summerstage Austin City Limits, Hollywood Bowl, Bumbershoot, the Intonation Music Festival, V Fest and most recently at the Coachella Music Festival in April 2007.

After concluding the first US tour in Minneapolis on October 13th, 2007, González will tour the UK and Europe. He will return to the US for a second tour beginning November 2007 (dates TBA).

“In Our Nature” sees González coming into his own as a songwriter – displaying a heightened emphasis on melody and strong, focused lyrics with songs that are as instantly accessible as they are brimming with darkness and brooding intensity. It is the follow up to González’ debut album “Veneer” (reissued on Mute April 2006) which went platinum in the UK and Ireland and sold more than 700,000 worldwide.

Modern Life Is War have completed work on their forthcoming album, Midnight In America, with legendary indie-rock producer J. Robbins (Against Me!, Murder By Death).

The band, which calls Marshalltown, Iowa their home, will be touring this summer with Southern rock/Post-hardcore bands He Is Legend and Maylene & The Sons of Disaster. They will be joined by House of Fools on the first half of the tour, and Paulson on the second.

Expect Modern Life Is War to be carrying a two-song sampler of Midnight In America on the road with them featuring the songs “Stagger Lee” and “The Motorcycle Boy Reigns” from the new album.

Midnight In America will be released on August 21st through Equal Vision Records.

What can I say? I find this to be funny. Very funny. Who are these Good Charlotte guys anyway? Is this strictly a career move? I’d hope so? My have you come a long way, Good Charlotte.

GOOD CHARLOTTE ANNOUNCE THEY’ll JOIN JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE FOR A U.S. ARENA TOUR THIS SUMMER

NEW SINGLE “DANCE FLOOR ANTHEM (I DON’T WANNA BE IN LOVE)” TO ARRIVE AT RADIO JULY 10

Coming off a highly successful world tour encompassing Europe, Latin America, Southeast Asia and Japan, multi-platinum rockers GOOD CHARLOTTE have announced they’ll join headliner Justin Timberlake for an arena tour in the U.S. this summer beginning Monday, August 6 in Memphis, TN. The dates will include a two-night engagement at New York City’s Madison Square Garden (August 15 and 16) and culminate with two shows at Los Angeles’ Staples Center on September 16 and 17.

Modest Mouse will tour the US this August.
Tour Dates

8/1 Morrison, CO - Red Rock Amphitheatre
8/3 Kansas City, MO - City Market
8/4 Baltimore, MD - Virgin Festival
8/5 Chicago, IL - Lollapalooza
8/8 New York, NY - Keyspan Park
8/15 Columbus, OH - The LC Pavilion
8/16 Cleveland, OH - Time Warner Amphitheatre
8/17 Northampton, MA - Pines Amphitheatre
8/18 Boston, MA - Tweeter Center
8/19 Philadelphia, PA - Festival Pier
8/21 Louisville, KY - Louisville Gardens
8/22 Nashville, TN - Ryman Auditorium
8/25 George, WA - The Gorge
8/27 Troutdale, OR - The Edgefield

Since debuting on the ABC Family Channel exactly a year ago, Kyle XY has experienced unprecedented success for the network. This week MySpace Records released the original soundtrack for the show’s first season.

Music has played an important part in every episode of the series and pivotal tracks from the first season on the record include indie faves Earlimart, O.A.R., Matt Kearney, The 88, Cary Brothers, and Mates of State. In addition, MySpace Records’ artists, Sherwood and Kate Voegele, whose music will be featured in season two, are included on the compilation. Coinciding with the release of the Kyle XY original soundtrack is the release of Kyle XY Season 1 DVD.

Debuting on the ABC Family Channel in June of 2006, Kyle XY became an instant hit. The total audience for Kyle XY season one currently stands at over 46 million viewers. The series has been the most streamed video property on abcfamily.com with over 550,000 streams. Recently the show has been made available on iTunes and has sold over 275,000 downloads. Kyle XY has also found a star in Matt Dallas who plays Kyle in the series. Matt has been featured in TV Guide and US Weekly, and interviewed on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Good Morning America, and The View.

Kyle XY Soundtrack Track Listing:
1. The 88 - Hide Another Mistake
2. Earlimart - Never Mind The Phone Calls (Exclusive track until their album comes out in August)
3. In-Flight Safety - Surround
4. Irving - I’ll Write The Song, You Sing For Me
5. O.A.R. - Wonderful Day
6. Climber - Bug Bear
7. Cary Brothers - Honestly
8. Mates Of State - So Many Ways
9. Sherwood - Middle Of The Night
10. Marianas Trench - Alibis
11. Kate Voegele - It’s Only Life
12. Sean Hayes - 3 AM
13. American Analog Set - Born On The Cusp
14. April Matson - I’ll Remember You (Lori’s Song)

“There’s so much lost time to cover,” former VHS or Beta member Zeke Buck said in a recent interview with his hometown paper, The Louisville Eccentric Observer. “Basically, I’m trying to start anew.”

And that’s exactly what Buck is doing. After a successful 10 year run in VHS or Beta – which included a national arena tour with Duran Duran – Buck now devotes his time and talent to People Noise, the band he started with good friend and ex-Boom Bip member Matt Johnson.

The new act received a very warm response from the hometown crowd when it opened for TV On The Radio in Louisville, and now fans are catching on all throughout the US as the group continues to criss-cross the country in support of its upcoming debut album Ordinary Ghosts.

With Johnson on drums and Buck on, well, everything else, these Louisville natives have produced a unique and psychedelic rock sound that cites influences from Black Sabbath to Bjork. For its live shows, Johnson and Buck are joined by Rahman McGuinnis on guitar, Woody Woodmansee on keyboards and Mike DuFresne on bass.

People Noise Live:
06/05 Columbus, OH Skullys
06/08 Belleville, IL The Ground Floor
06/09 Chicago, IL Hideout Life During Wartime Party
06/11 Hamtramck, MI The Belmont
06/12 Grand Rapids, MI The Breakroom
06/14 North Manchester, IN The Firehouse
06/15 Doylestown, PA Siren Records
06/16 Washington, DC The Red and Black
06/17 Philadelphia, PA The Khyber
06/19 New York, NY Fearless Music TV
06/19 Brooklyn, NY Luna Lounge
06/20 Boston, MA Harpers Ferry
06/23 Buffalo, NY Broadway Joe’s
06/24 New York, NY Mercury Lounge
06/27 Nashville, TN The End
06/28 Memphis, TN Hi Tone Cafe
06/29 Lexington, KY The Dame
06/30 Louisville, KY Headliners Music Hall
07/03 Athens, GA Tasty World
07/07 Orlando, FL Backbooth
07/09 Jacksonville, FL Jack Rabbits
07/10 Tallahassee, FL The Beta Bar
07/12 Delray Beach, FL City Limits
07/13 Miami, FL Churchill’s Pub
07/14 Gainesville, FL The Atlantic
07/18 Little Rock, AR Sticky Fingerz Rock-n-Roll Chicken Shack
07/19 Lafayette, LA Grant Street Dance Hall
07/21 Austin, TX Beauty Bar
07/30 Boulder, CO The Trilogy Lounge
07/31 Denver, CO 15th Street Tavern
08/17 Boise, ID Neurolux
09/26 Durham, NC Duke Coffeehouse

Ordinary Ghosts Track Listing:
01. The Killing Fields
02. A Million Lives
03. Turn Around
04. Sedation
05. Ordinary Ghosts
06. The Sun & The Moon, The Moon & The Sea
07. The Nothing Place
08. Pretty Things
09. Harrison Bergeron
10. Older

6/14/07 Edmonton, Canada Starlite Room
6/15/07 Minneapolis, MN Loft Event Space
6/16/07 Detroit, MI Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit
6/29/07 Brooklyn, NY Studio B (with Black Strobe)
6/30/07 Boston, MA Axis
7/1/07 Toronto, Canada The Guvernment

While electronic live acts have merged further into the anonymity of the DJ booth, MOTOR guzzle petrol, bellow toxic fumes and roar from the stage as all three band members wrestle with vocal duties and (alter) egos over their instruments.

Last year saw MOTOR tour extensively around the US with Nitzer Ebb as well as their own domination of clubs, gigs and festivals across Europe and Japan. If anything the MOTOR live show is now a finely tuned barrage of stage energy, spit in your face noise and assured self belief as the band have matured into a well oiled trio of techno blazing and rock posturing sonic deviants. Their new material has taken this mutant disco hybrid and coerced it into a sleeker and more mature sound that smoothes the edges yet retains the attitude of their previous clubland destroying singles.

MOTOR will be touring in support of their brand new album UNHUMAN – which XLR8R magazine says “Unhuman sounds like Nitzer Ebb kicking Laibach’s ass at the sweatiest techno party ever.” UNHUNMAN is the follow-up to MOTOR’S 2006 debut album KLUNK.

Bob Marley’s masterpiece Exodus celebrates its 30^th anniversary this summer, and will be commemorated with the release of an exclusive new version of the album. Starting today, limited edition copies of the recording will be available on USB Memory Stick via Bob Marley’s official website www.bobmarley.com. The event marks the very first artist-specific album to be released using this groundbreaking format.

Described by Time Magazine as “the best album of the 20^th century,” Exodus catches Marley at the height one of his most introspective, rebellious and creative periods, and it will now continue to make history by offering an alternative way for fans to purchase music, introducing them to the exciting technology available in today’s music marketplace. In addition to the launch of this new format, the multi-layered promotion will also include a variety of added value and content to be released via Bob Marley’s official site.

4000 limited edition reusable USB Memory Sticks (see attached) feature not only the 10 original songs on Exodus but also audio and video content, including three video tracks recorded at London’s Rainbow Theatre in June 1977. Fans that join the Bob Marley Passport Fan Club via www.bobmarley.com will receive the Exodus USB and also receive an exclusive carrying case, a 10% discount at the Bob Marley shop on the site, as well as a quarterly newsletter. Passport members will also have access to rare Bob Marley audio, video, and photos, as well as future digital media.

Also available June 4^th, a variety of new and unique Bob Marley music and memorabilia never officially available before will be accessible for purchase to all Bob Marley site visitors:

• EXODUS 30^th ANNIVERSARY EDITION CD- Featuring the 10 tracks on the original release and now reissued as a special 30th Anniversary Edition packaged - for the first time - in a quality ‘hardback’ case.
• DELUXE CD/ DVD- Limited to just 5000 copies, this version features not only the album but also a separate DVD with 12 tracks from Marley’s historic Rainbow concerts in the summer of 1977.
• LP- The return of the original and legendary10-track vinyl album, as first released in June 1977.
• EXODUS 30th ANNIVERSARY BOOK- A new special edition 144-page hardback book that is lavishly illustrated with many previously unpublished pictures and includes contributions from such writers as the esteemed commentator and critic Richard Williams, Lloyd Bradley (author of the acclaimed Bass Culture), Vivien Goldman, Robert Christgau, Neil Spencer and the celebrated poet Linton Kwesi Johnson. The book, which features over 200 images, is introduced by Chris Blackwell, the founder of Island Records.
• Exodus T-shirt based on the original tour T-shirt

Released in 1977, Marley recorded the Exodus album in exile. Having escaped an assassination attempt in Jamaica, he arrived in London during the first week of 1977 and set to work recording his fifth studio album. Exodus became the album that transformed Marley’s career, a recording of extraordinary creative maturity which resonated with audiences around the world. The album established Marley as the Third World’s first superstar, a legacy that survives thirty years after the album’s release.

Rilo Kiley have built an illustrious career on creating masterful, deeply engrossing albums, the songs balancing an intimate confessional side with a kind of cavalier joie de vive and an increasingly affectionate nod to their Southern Californian musical heritage. The band¹s last record, 2004¹s More Adventurous, prompted Elvis Costello to praise the ³best lyric writing that I’ve heard in many a day², Coldplay to invite them on their 2005 arena tour and a plethora of critics to vote them into their annual ³best of² lists.
Lead singer and songwriter Jenny Lewis¹ dexterity for lush power pop, soulful synths and weepy country ballads has won the band a large and dedicated fan base, bolstered by the blistering live shows which match Lewis¹ astonishing charisma with singer/guitarist Blake Sennett¹s shimmering guitar and the exemplary drum and bass partnership of Jason Boesel and Pierre de Reeder.

Under The Blacklight, their fourth album and their first for Warner Bros, was recorded in Los Angeles in fall/winter 2006 and winter 2007, and is Rilo Kiley at their most robust and dazzling. It comes after an 18 month hiatus during with Sennett released a second album with The Elected, Boesel recorded with Bright Eyes and Lewis released her debut solo album. Lewis, having spent all of 2006 promoting the southern soul-influenced Rabbit Fur Coat, returns to her rock roots with obvious relish; the delicate acoustic harmonies of her solo sojourn have given way to deliciously full-bodied vocals and exuberant songs complemented by rich guitar sounds and opulent production.