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NEW
JIMI HENDRIX COMING IN MARCH
Rolling
Stone’s greatest guitarist of all time, Jimi Hendrix is back.
With a 40-year-old collection of tunes recorded during the legend’s
final studio sessions, “Valleys of Neptune” will hit the
shelves March 9.
The
album contains 12 tracks recorded during the late musicians “First
Rays of the Rising Sun” disc. It features studio versions of Hendrix’s
covers of “Bleeding Heart” and Cream’s “Sunshine
of Your Love,” as well as rerecorded versions of classics “Fire,”
“Red House” and “Stone Free.”
“Valleys of Neptune” is the title track of the album which
was recorded in 1969. The disc will also have an early recording of
“Mr. Bad Luck,” a track some believe may be the first original
tune Hendrix ever played.
The
album which launches a series of projects marking 40 years of Hendrix’s
death is produced by Janie Hendrix, John McDermott and Eddie Kramer.
Janie
Hendrix, the sister of the musician and CEO of Experience Hendrix, said
“his brilliance shines through on every one of these precious
tracks. Valleys of Neptune provides an essential, compelling, and up-till-now
largely unseen view of what Jimi Hendrix was up to musically in the
critical period between the release of Electric Ladyland in October
1968 and the 1970 opening of his own Electric Lady Studios.”


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Courtesy: RCA Records
KE$HA’S
ANIMAL DUE OUT THIS SPRING
The
breakout artist of the year, Ke$ha, is enjoying a hefty stint on the
US pop charts, and the Billboard’s singles chart as No.1.
Better
known for her vocals on Flo Rida’s 2009 hit “Right Round,”
the young singer is hitting the airwaves and flying high with catchy
dance beats on her “Animal” album.
The
recently released record channels the likes of Katy Perry, Uffie and
Avril Lavigne and has sold 151, 942 copies during the week ending in
January 10, data from the Nielsen SoundScan cites.
The
first single off the album “TiK ToK” has spent weeks at
No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and has become the most downloaded single
by a female artist in a week, after selling more than 600,000 units.
“Animal”
is Ke$ha unplugged. The singer describes it as an accurate documentation
of her life over the past four years and something she is eager to share.
“I’m
excited about it,” she says during an MTV interview. “I
think that throughout the album, what I’m really proud of is that
with every song you can tell it’s me. It’s all really honest
— almost to a fault — and really genuine.”


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Courtesy: Hollywood Records/ Photo Courtesy: Sony Music Entertainment
LIVE
IN CONCERT
Breaking
Benjamin and Three Days Grace set out on a US co-headline tour with
special guest Flyleaf.
Breaking
Benjamin is a multi-platinum American alternative rock band that has
been around for nearly a decade. The band returns this year with their
latest release “Dear Agony,” which debuted at No. 4 on Billboard’s
Top 200.
“I
Will Not Bow” is the albums first single which spent 5 weeks at
No. 1 on rock radio and was recently named the No. 1 rock song of 2009
by AOL Radio listeners.
Three
Days Grace is a Toronto-based rock band that recently released “Life
Starts Now,” debuting at No. 3 on the Billboard Top 200 charts.
The band released their first album in 2003, which generated three hit
singles. And currently enjoys two of their records, “Three Days
Grace” and “One-X”, having been certified Platinum
and selling over 4 million albums worldwide.
The
bands came together in January and will be on trek through March 2010.
They will visit Pennsylvania, Connecticut, New Jersey and our very own
Germain Arena in Estero, FL on February 26. Tickets on sale now.
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