Scottish rockers The Cinematics premiered the second single from their long-awaited sophomore LP, Love And Terror, on AOL Spinner last week.  The track, titled “New Mexico,” features a soaring, anthemic chorus while frontman Scott Rinning wonders, “are we staring at the same stars?”  Grab the song that Filter Magazine calls “sweet as candy,” here.

In other news, the band has been taking Europe by storm with their impassioned live shows for the last two weeks, and will continue to do so through November.  Seriously, there’s already been one injury and one illness due to the guys’ extreme rocking!  Read all about it on their MySpace page.

Love And Terror hits all stores on October 6th, but you can hold yourself over with the goodies below.

Download and share “New Mexico” from The Cinematics’ Love And Terror [Orchard Music]

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Watch the video for “Love And Terror” from The Cinematics’ Love And Terror [Orchard Music]
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Fans are flocking to become apart of Mook N Fair’s growing success. The group’s new song has been burning up the airwaves with their new single “Who’s Your Daddy”.  The song is receiving major radio play in top markets such as Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Tampa, FL. The group will also be capitalizing on their success by heading to the West Coast for a radio promotional run. They will be hitting the Los Angeles, Bay Area, and San Diego markets as well smaller West Coast cities. Also, the official video will be coming soon for “Who’s Your Daddy”.

The buzz around Mook N Fair’s latest single, “Who’s Your Daddy”, has caught the attention of a YouTube user who decided to create his own “Pimp’d Out” video to their song. Check out the “Viral Video” to Mook N Fair’s hit song “Who’s Your Daddy”:

Mook N Fair – Who’s Your Daddy (Fan Made Pimp Video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvcPVY90g9c
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The undisputed mother of female rock, Nancy Sinatra, is proud to announce the release of Cherry Smiles – The Rare Singles, today.  The brilliant digital-only collection of rarities that she recorded between 1970 and 1980 includes twelve tracks which were previously only available as 45s, originally issued via Reprise, RCA, and the Private Stock label.  Two of the cuts, “There Ain’t No Way” and “Southern Lady,” have never before been released in any format.

Now Nancy’s own label, Boots Enterprises, Inc., has compiled the rare gems to create Cherry Smiles, which features contributions from Ry Cooder, Duane Eddy and Lee Hazlewood, who duets with Sinatra on “Indian Summer.” Production duties are handled by Billy Strange, Andy Wickham, Lenny Waronker, Snuff Garrett, Jimmy Bowen, and others.

Some of the many quotes about Nancy Sinatra:

“the founding female rocker.” – The San Francisco Examine

“Nancy Sinatra is the First Lady of Rock and roll.” - Rodney Bingenheimer, KROQ DJ

“groundbreaking, heartbreaking and eternally cool.” - David Wild, senior editor Rolling Stone

“It was Sinatra who almost single-handedly transformed the image of female pop star from fluff to tough.” - Greg Haymes (journalist)

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After months of anticipation, and a near-constant stream of music and videos – a slow drip of Twitter demos, live streams from the recording studio, a series of stripped-down video performances of album tracks, and more – Myspace Music is exclusively premiering the latest LP from Danish noir-rockers The Raveonettes. In And Out Of Control, their fourth overall, and second for Vice Records, was recorded this summer with Thomas Troelsen at Delta Lab in Copenhagen, Denmark. From the streaking guitars and saccharine melody of lead leak “

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,” the album is easily the Raveonettes most accessible record to date, largely eschewing the noise of Lust Lust Lust for clearer focus and some truly memorable songs. Hear them all below.

Go Here To Listen To In And Out Of Control [Vice Records; October 6th]
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This morning Plug Research released a new Shafiq Husayn edition podcast mixed by the one and only Garth Trinidad of KCRW’s “Chocolate City”. The mix/podcast includes Shafiq’s past work with SA-RA, Erykah Badu, John Legend, Jill Scott, Pharoah Monch, and many more as well as new tracks from his upcoming Shafiq En’ A-Free-Ka album, including “Cheeba” featuring Bilal, a previously unleaked track.

Shafiq Husayn’s debut solo release, Shafiq En’ A-Free-Ka, hits stores on October 6th via Plug Research.

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(Soundcloud) Plug Research Podcast: Shafiq Husayn Edition Link:
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Earning itself recognition at film festivals, including a win for best documentary film at The Oxford Film Festival and a successful run at SXSW, Couple 3 Films’ Crude Independence is the documented work on one of the most intriguing topics at newspapers across country, including USA Today and The New York Times.

The film is directed by Noah Hutton, and shot in a small rural town that sits on 200 billion barrels of crude oil in Stanley, North Dakota.  Crude Independence is the 1,300 person population Midwest community’s attempt to control the world’s insatiable thirst for wealth possible from North America’s largest crude oil find.

Until recently, the resources were too far to be drilled, but new technology recreated a modern-day gold rush.  Miners come in droves to claim their piece.  The precious land is leased out for profits.  All of this happening while the locals struggle to determine land and mineral rights that will make some rich, while others get absolutely nothing.

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Track 1: The Holloways “Cool Down” from No Smoke, No Mirrors [The Orchard]
Track 2: The Almighty Defenders “Cone Of Light” from The Almighty Defenders [Vice Music]
Track 3: The Revelations feat. Tre Williams “I Don’t Want To Know” from The Bleeding Edge [Decision Records]
Track 4: Henry “Lo que puede ocurrir con el café” from Sensacional Soul Vol. 2 [Vampisoul]
Track 5: Dr. Victor Olaiya “Mofe Muyan”from Highlife Time [Vampisoul]

Bump music: Hess Is More “Ssshhhh” from Ssshhhh EP [Music For Dreams]

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Critically acclaimed, R&B/Soul group, The Revelations Featuring Tré Williams, have released a video for their track “How Do I Tell Him”.  This song is the debut single on their upcoming project, The Bleeding Edge, which be in stores on October 6th.  The album includes 16 deep soul tracks featuring singer Tré Williams alongside former Rocafella Records R&B artist Rell.  They are backed by an eight piece live band.  Check out the video below:

The Revelations Featuring  Tré Williams – How Do I Tell Him (VIDEO)
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“The Evil Genius” DJ Green Lantern, and Styles P “The Ghost” have joined forces to create a monster – “The Green Ghost Project” – and on Nov 17th the world will say “It’s Alive!!!”

“The Green Ghost Project”, a joint album filled with original production from DJ Green Lantern, Alchemist, Scram Jones, Statik Selektah, etc., can be seen as the next natural step for the two mixtape veterans who constantly look to push the boundaries of how Hip Hop is given to the fans.  “Styles and I got together and made a monster”, says Green of the project, which is being distributed through Invasion/The Orchard.

“Don’t call me ‘The Ghost’ right now, call me ‘The Green Ghost’”, remarks Styles P about the album’s sinister undertone.  “It’s a different display of talent.  We got together and brainstormed about it and it came out crazy!”

DJ Green Lantern and Styles also added some potent ingredients to the mix in the form of guest appearances from Jadakiss, Sheek Louch, M.O.P, N.O.R.E, Uncle Murda, Junior Reid, and more, taking “The Green Ghost Project” to truly “monstrous” proportions.

Legendary New York MCs, O.C. & A.G. return from a brief hiatus to quench the thirst of hip-hop fans worldwide.  The album, refreshingly titled, OASIS,  is executive produced by Show (of Showbiz & AG fame) and features stellar production by  Show, Lord Finesse, E. Blaze, and Statik Selektah.  O & A, longtime friends and crewmates, first collaborated together on the classic track “Weed & Drinks” and ever since then talked about doing a whole album together. “It was organic cause the chemistry was also so crazy, explains OC. “The whole process was really pure and from the heart and hip-hop fans are gonna love it!”,  says AG about their new album.

Born in the Brooklyn and raised in Queens, O.C grew up across the street from another lyrical legend, Pharoahe Monch of Organized Konfusion.  That neighbor spawned O.C’s recording debut was in 1991 on Organized Konfusion’s classic “Fudge Pudge.  O.C. was tour when he first ran into D.I.T.C. members Lord Finesse & Buckwild.  After the tour, Buckwild and O.C worked on a demo that would eventually become the Wild Pitch Records classic, Word…Life which contained the classic lyrical assault Time’s Up, later featured on Eminem’s biopic, 8 Mile.

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