‘Everybody’ is Ingrid’s first UK release, and will be followed by the single “Maybe” on 16 November.

In the US, she has become probably the most successful unsigned artist in history. She has sold over 400,000 copies of her debut album out of her manager’s office, and her track “The Way I Am” was downloaded over 1.5 million times after being featured on an Old Navy commercial. She’s appeared on Good Morning America, Conan O’Brien and Jay Leno, and been on the cover of Billboard.

Her UK profile seems likely to rocket, with “Maybe” already receiving huge Radio 2 support and a London Scala show booked for 23 November. Ingrid has also written the track “Parachutes” for Cheryl Cole, which will be a future single from Cole’s debut album.

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Based on the memoirs of Elliot Tiber, the comedy stars Demetri Martin as Elliot, who inadvertently played a role in making 1969′s Woodstock Music and Arts Festival into the famed happening it was.

Featuring a standout ensemble cast and songs from a score of ’60s musical icons including The Grateful Dead, The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, and Country Joe and the Fish – plus a new recording of “Freedom” from Richie Havens – Taking Woodstock is a joyous voyage to a moment in time when everything seemed possible.

Released in UK cinemas on 13th November, 2009.

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TAKING WOODSTOCK

SYNOPSIS

Taking Woodstock is directed by Academy Award®-winner Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain) with a screenplay by James Schamus (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, The Ice Storm), based on the book Taking Woodstock by Elliot Tiber.

The film stars Demetri Martin (Important Things with Demetri Martin on Comedy Central) as Elliot Tiber, Emile Hirsch (Milk, Into the Wild), and Liev Schreiber (Defiance).

It’s 1969, and Elliot Tiber, a down-on-his-luck interior designer in Greenwich Village, New York, has to move back upstate to help his parents run their dilapidated Catskills motel, the El Monaco. The bank is about to foreclose; his father wants to burn the place down, but hasn’t paid the insurance; and Elliot is still figuring how to come out to his parents.

When Elliot hears that a neighboring town has pulled the permit on a hippie music festival, he calls the producers, thinking he could drum up some much needed business for the motel. Three weeks later, half a million people are on their way to his neighbor’s farm in White Lake, NY, and Elliot finds himself swept up in a generation-defining experience that would change his life, and American culture, forever.

Release date: 13th November 2009

Soundbites featuring the stars of the movie below.

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Clip – Movie synopsis – Demetri Martin

Clip – Ang Lee package
Demetri Martin Soundbite
Imelda Staunton Soundbite
James Schamus Soundbite

Clip – Power of Woodstock package
Ang Lee Soundbite
Emile Hirsch Soundbite
James Schamus Soundbite

Clip – Comments on Demetri Martin
Ang Lee Soundbite
Eugene Levy Soundbite

Taking Woodstock Official Website

While Picture Me Broken was not live on stage with Green Day, Beyonce, Muse or Taylor Swift at MTV’s 2009 VMAs, the MTV feature on this high energy young band landed them a hard earned award as the VMAs MTV’s 2009 “SF Best Bay Area Breakout Artist”. The award was sponsored by Our Stage and MTV.

Picture Me Broken which is fronted by LAYLA BROOKLYN ALLMAN, (the 16-year old daughter of legendary R&R Hall of Famer GREGG ALLMAN), and their song “Dearest (I’m So Sorry)” whose live video was featured on MTV2 has been blazing a trail with teen fans that can instantly relate to both the sentiment of the lyrics and the scorching delivery of the track.

The band started out as four 12-year olds playing covers for fun, but fueled by passion and determination, they have emerged as a serious contender.

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“She’s got it in her blood…” remarks her famous father, who most likely is all but unknown to PMB’s growing legion of young fans!

PMB has played prestigious SF venues like “Bottom of the Hill,” grabbed an opening slot at the Shoreline Amphitheatre for Linkin Park’s Project Rev in 2008 and more recently played the 2009 SF Warped Tour.

Now they have just released their debut EP, DEAREST I’M SO SORRY.

As if reacting to the frightening state of the world they are growing up in, PICTURE ME BROKEN’S debut EP contains rites of passage themes, in the language of their peers.

Largely produced by Aveneged Sevenfold’s producer Mudrock (the title track was produced by Aaron Hellman at the Bay Area’s own Castle Ultimate Studios), the EP displays that it’s not only Layla Allman who’s talented, good-looking and charismatic, but the rest of the band members level the playing field: NICK LOIACONO (lead guitar), AUSTIN DUNN (bass) and CONNOR LUNG (drums).

Indeed, Picture Me Broken’s music all but redefines what will be expected from “kid bands” as there is nothing about PMB’s catchy driving rock that separates them from significantly more seasoned acts. Nothing shows this off more poignantly than the growing fan base on www.myspace.com/picturemebroken which continues to rave with surprise that there is a new band out there fronted by a “hot girl who can sing AND scream.”

Picture Me Broken will be featured on the front page of Purevolume.com on Sept 18, 2009 performing the first of many Hot Topic appearances on Sept 17th, and hosting an industry showcase in Los Angeles on October 16th 2009.

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Brooklyn born artist DAIN uses the platform for his first solo show to take us back to a time when life was simpler – the 1940’s. The good ol’ days as some might call them – New York City Style.

A time when words like cosmopolitan, elegant and modest, were a lot more relevant. A time when families spent the day on amusement rides at Coney Island and in the evening common folk mixed with celebrities in nightclubs like the Copacabana.

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The term “copasetic” meant that everything was fine and dandy. Even as war news dominated the headlines, a craving for fun and refuge abounded . . . a diversion. Much like today when the
economy looms large and America’s still at war, we too need a diversion. DAIN’s work and installations for “COPASETIC” will create just that.

Infusing the glamour and glitz of the 1940’s together with a Brooklyn working class edge, he seeks to turn back the hands of time – Even if we were never there before.

Dain
Copasetic
September 12 – October 10

Opening Reception
September 12, 2009
7-10pm Eastern

Special Musical Guest
Big Band Swing Machine

Brooklynite Gallery hours are Thursday – Saturday from 1-7pm.

Brooklyn, New York

Directions to the gallery are A or C subway to Utica Avenue.

Brooklynite Gallery

The song has been tapped for a sexy new ad for “Body by Victoria” featuring top super models Marisa Miller, Alessandra Ambrosio, Emanuela de Paula and Lindsay Ellingson.

The commercial is directed by Victoria’s Secret super-director and two time MTV Video Music Award nominee Michael Bernard, and premiered on all major networks including cable.

The tongue in cheek song lends itself perfectly to the fun and sexy themes of one of the world’s hottest brands.

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Victoria’s Secret Music Supervisor Vasili Gavre says, “Victoria’s Secret is really excited that they are the first to license an exclusive JET track in the U.S. before the release of the new album Shaka Rock at the end of August.”

“Victoria’s Secret continues to be one of the hottest brands with the hottest girls in the hottest ads and we couldn’t ask for JET’s first single to be partnered with a better concept for ‘She’s A Genius,’ – supermodels in their underwear,” said Allen Kovac, Manager of JET.

JET has just released their highly anticipated third studio album ‘Shaka Rock’ in the US and September 7, 2009 in the UK on their newly created Real Horrorshow Records/Five Seven Music with distribution through EMI Label Services.

‘Shaka Rock’ captures the charisma and energy of classic rock and roll with just enough punk swagger and contemporary flair to create something uniquely JET.

“She’s A Genius,” is already No 1 in Australia, top 5 in Canada and Japan and rising on the charts at multiple formats in the U.S, Germany, the UK and other territories worldwide.

The band will also be embarking on their UK, kicking off in Nottingham on the 9th September.

JET September 2009 UK tour dates:

(Dates and information subject to change.)

09 Sept Rock City, Nottingham
10 Sept Ritz, Manchester
11 Sept ABC, Glasgow
12 Sept Metropolitan Uni, Leeds
14 Sept Wulfrun Hall, Wolverhampton
15 Sept Bristol Uni, Bristol
17 Sept HMV Forum, London

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FILTER Magazine and American Rag Clothing are proud to unveil the seventh issue of RAGGED, featuring cover artist Taking Back Sunday, once again bridging the worlds of music and fashion with full-length articles and photo spreads of up-and-coming artists from FILTER’s editorial staff.

Other artists featured in the new issue include A Fine Frenzy, The Sounds, Landon Pigg, Those Darlins, and Busdriver.

Best of all, the entire issue is available as a FREE PDF download at the newly re-vamped www.raggedmag.com.

To celebrate the release of the new issue, RAGGED has produced this exclusive video playlist of cover stars, Taking Back Sunday, behind the scenes at their RAGGED photoshoot.

Behind-the-Scenes with Taking Back Sunday

Behind the scenes at Taking Back Sunday’s photo shoot for the new issue of Ragged, supported by American Rag. “New Again” in stores now. Shop American Rag at Macy’s and macys.com

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Actor Cambell Westmoreland is turning heads of big name Hollywood directors, and barely at thirteen years of age, he is set to show his wares again this summer in Robert Rodriguez’s new Warner Brothers film, Shorts.

Westmoreland’s role in Shorts places him alongside some of Hollywood’s top actors, such as William H. Macy, James Spader and Leslie Mann.

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Premiered on August 15, 2009 and opening in theaters everywhere on August 21, 2009, Shorts has all the elements to be a huge critical and commercial success.

Westmoreland, well into his success as a child actor, has landed roles in films by prominent directors Richard Linklater (Before Sunrise, Dazed & Confused), Bryan Ortiz and now Robert Rodriguez (Spy Kids, Sin City, Desperado).

Directors Rodriguez and Ortiz have praised Westmoreland, remarked that they really enjoyed working with him, were impressed with Westmoreland and his professionalism on the set, and has commented on how reliable the young actor was during filming.

Born in Moscow, Russia, Westmoreland now lives with his family in San Antonio, Texas. He’s already represented by one of IMDb.com’s top ten rated talent agencies, The Atherton Group. Growing up outside of Hollywood, Westmoreland enjoys all the normal stuff a kid his age likes to do. He loves playing sports and is the quarterback for his school’s football team.

Westmoreland’s diversity as an actor is already apparent from the variety of roles he’s played to the scope of projects he’s been involved in. His background includes commercials, theater and television, which has given him the experience and preparation for the growing fame in which his film career has brought him.

To keep up with the latest news and projects Westmoreland is working on, check out his site www.cambellrocks.com. Remember the name: Cambell Westmoreland. You’ll be hearing a lot more about him very soon!

Shorts movie – Warner Brothers Official Website

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Band’s original track “You And I” and cover of The Scooby Doo Theme Song to be featured in Scooby Doo: The Mystery Begins debuting mid September

Anarbor has lent its track “You And I” from its Hopeless Records debut EP ‘Free Your Mind’ to the upcoming Cartoon Network movie, Scooby Doo: The Mystery Begins.

The film will premiere on Cartoon Network on Sunday, September 13, 2009 and will be released on DVD and Blu-Ray on September 22. The home video version will include the music video for Anarbor’s “You And I” which premiered on Cartoon Network on August 2 following the weekend-long Scooby Doo marathon, and has been airing in between shows all month long.

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The exposure has helped to propel the video to the #12 spot on iTunes Alternative Music Videos chart and the song to #33 on the Top Alternative Songs chart (where it peaked at #25.)

Anarbor also recorded the theme song, “What’s New Scooby Doo” (originally done by Simple Plan). The song will appear during the end credits of the movie, and is featured in promos and commercials on Cartoon Network and Cartoonnetwork.com.

Meanwhile The Phoenix, area 4-piece is preparing to head back to the studio to begin work on its first full length release with producer Mike Green (Paramore, Good Charlotte, The Matches). In addition, the band will hit the road this fall on select tours.

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Anarbor August 2009 tour dates:

Aug 15
The Sets w/ The Amorous & The Record Life Tempe, Arizona

Aug 28
The Bridge w/ Hello Hollywood, A Change Of Pace, This Century, & It’s Like Love Glendale, Arizona

Watch the “You and I” video featuring clips from the Scooby Doo movie on CartoonNetwork.com

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Free Stream Of “Relator” Now Available At www.thebreakupalbum.com

In 2006, critically acclaimed singer/songwriter Pete Yorn contacted actress and recording artist Scarlett Johansson with the idea to record a duets album in the spirit of Serge Gainsbourg’s 1960s recordings with Brigitte Bardot.

“I was having a strange week of insomnia and when I finally passed out, it came to me in a dream,” says Yorn. “I woke up and the whole thing was in my head, fully formed.”

Johansson was intrigued by Yorn’s out-of-the-blue invitation. “It sounded like an interesting little adventure,” she explains. “The idea of two people vocalizing their relationship through duets.”

The resulting work is released on September 7th 2009, Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson BREAK UP, a deeply emotive yet hook-filled song cycle about a tempestuous relationship. A free stream of “Relator” is currently available at www.thebreakupalbum.com.

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‘Break Up’ includes eight original compositions by Yorn, ranging in tone from the lilting opener “Relator” to the disarming, retro/futuristic “I Don’t Know What to Do” to the climactic “Someday.” Completing the collection is a powerful interpretation of the art-rock classic “I Am the Cosmos” by the late Chris Bell, co-founder of quintessential cult band Big Star.

Produced by Sunny Levine, with Yorn and Max Goldblatt as executive producers, the album features contributions from guitarist Robert Francis; bassist Giuseppe Patane; and violinist Amir Yaghmai, with Goldblatt on banjo, synth bass and backing vocals, and Levine handling programming and mixing.

Predating Scarlett Johansson’s debut album, ‘Anywhere I Lay My Head’, by nearly two years; ‘Break Up’ was conceived and recorded in 2006, in Levine’s garage studio.

“I always thought of it as just a small project between friends,” explains Johansson. “I’ve loved the album ever since I heard it completed. It perfectly captured where I was in my life at the time.” Yorn was as protective of ‘Break Up’ as a father of his daughter, playing it for no one until last year.

When those close to him finally heard ‘Break Up’, the overwhelming response convinced Yorn that it was simply too strong a work to remain under lock and key.

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Break Up Track Listing:

1. Relator
2. Wear And Tear
3. I Don’t Know What To Do
4. Search Your Heart
5. Blackie’s Dead
6. I Am The Cosmos
7. Shampoo
8. Clean
9. Someday

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Not only did I receive the perfume, but also the white headphones w/ MP3 player that you can see in the Ma Dame Rose ‘N’ Roll video campaign.

Initially viewers had to guess who the mystery guest was in the video. It took me a couple tries, but of course now I know that it’s French Producer / DJ Martin Solveig.

The song included with the headphones is the trendy “Boys & Girls” by Martin Solveig, and also features Dragonette.

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The Ma Dame Rose ‘N’ Roll perfume is magnificent!

Such a gorgeous scent – as described:

“Fresh and fluffy, with a delicious and malicious score.
On the A-side: a zest of tangy oranges and velvety rose petals with a heart of grenadine sweetness.
On the B-side, tenderness: cottony white musk and the soft caress of warm cedar.”

Ma Dame 50ml Limited Edition in pouch £43.00
Exclusive to Debenhams from Mid-August 2009

Ma Dame 75ml Limited Edition £50.00
Available nationwide from the 1st September 2009

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