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 SAM ROBERTS BAND
Collider
http://www.samrobertsband.com/
Dist: Universal Music Canada
 COLLIDER reinforces the spirit of the band’s classic pop song craft and infectious melodies that countless critics and fans fell in love with the past 10-years over three full length albums. Produced by Chicago-based producer Brian Deck (Modest Mouse / Iron and Wine), on COLLIDER the band explores a world of rhythms, sounds and ideas that brings new energy and uses musical exploration as a vehicle for emotional introspection. Featuring the rock radio hit “I Feel You”!
 SLOAN
The Double Cross
http://www.sloanmusic.com
Dist: Outside
The 12 songs making up the album were recorded at the Sloan Space at the end of 2010. Jay wanted to share this insight on the album with you: I think every band always says of their latest LP "it's our best yet!" or perhaps "it's our greatest work since Exile On Main St.", and then you hear it and you say to yourself, 'hmm, well, not quite, guys'. Hopefully I'm not joining those ranks, but for this our 10th album, I personally feel it's up there with my favourites of ours such as One Chord To Another and Never Hear The End Of It...short and sweet with unexpected turns down different paths. Not bad for a 10th LP.
 THE LONELY ISLAND
Turtleneck & Chain
http://www.youtube.com/user/thelonelyisland
Dist: Universal Music Canada
Emmy Award Winning and Grammy nominated comedy troupe, The Lonely Island, return with album number two! Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone started making funny videos together in September 2000, having been friends since Junior High in Berkley, California. They are the most popular comedy outfit the internet has ever seen, whose early videos helped brand the fledgling YouTube as the mustwatch internet video site. Their recent hit “I Just Had Sex” has already racked up over 70 million views and is their most explosive digital short yet. New album features Akon, Nicki Minaj, Justin Timberlake & more. The DVD includes SNL Digital shorts (music videos).
 URGE OVERKILL
Rock & Roll Submarine
http://urgeoverkill.com
Dist: Outside
The insatiable rock and roll machine URGE OVERKILL returns with their first release in 16 years - all aboard the Rock&Roll Submarine! Almost two decades since 'Exit The Dragon' and their 'Pulp Fiction' hit cover of Neil Diamond's "Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon", founding members Nash Kato and Eddie Roeser have reformed the band that sold over 2.5 million albums and epitomized rock star personality in the early 90s with their celebrated releases on Touch & Go Records. With the energy of past albums' fusion of arena rock and punk coupled with the evolution of Kato and Roeser's songwriting over the years, 'Rock&Roll Submarine' is set to deliver its cargo of a new breed of UO rock torpedos to fans hungry for new material.
 MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA
Simple Math
http://www.myspace.com/manchesterorchestra
Dist: Sony Music Canada
Manchester Orchestra’s new album, Simple math, is about that experience. It was recorded at blackbird Studios in nashville and mixed by Joe Chiccarelli. Manchester Orchestra has always been about truth; about passion. It’s why alternative Press gave MO’s 2009 acclaimed Mean Everything To Nothing (which yielded the top 10 modern rock hit “I’ve Got Friends”) a five-star Lead review that called the album “a masterpiece of intricacy and honesty.” You can feel their passion in the power of Hull’s voice and the fury of the band’s music in every track they’ve ever laid down, a power that wraps itself around you and demands your attention as Hull’s lyrics guide you through the world as he sees it.
 TYLER, THE CREATOR
Goblin
http://oddfuture.com/
Dist: Select
Forget the bling and forget the ho’s, there is a new day dawning in North American Hip Hop and it’s being led by Tyler, The Creator. Fronting the hip hop collective Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All (OFWGKTA), the LA-based Tyler has exploded based on the critical response to his starkly original music with it’s dark energy and punishing beats. His 2009 debut Bastards made it to #32 on Pitchfork’s top albums of the year.
 GANG GANG DANCE
Eye Contact
http://www.ganggangdance.com/
Dist: Select
4AD is pleased to present the label debut from New York’s Gang Gang Dance, Eye Contact. Recorded in an old church converted to a recording studio in upstate New York, with a myriad of chimes, drums and good vibrations. Chris Coady was behind the board to capture the impromptu jam sessions as well as the structured songs the band had on hand when they started, while Alex Epton aka XXXchange, focused on vocals with Lizzi. When combined, we have the cleanest, freshest and most focused Gang Gang Record to date.
 CHRISTINA PERRI
Lovestrong
www.christinaperri.com
Dist: Warner Music Canada
The last eight months have been a whirlwind for this 24-year-old girl from Bensalem, PA who moved to LA three years ago with a suitcase, a guitar and a dream. Her life changed with "Jar Of Hearts" - a song that has been unstoppable since it was first heard on So You Think You Can Dance last June. "Jar Of Hearts" has catapulted Christina Perri far from barista to pop star in under one year. Christina Perri exits Sunset Sound Studio in Hollywood, CA, ready to take the world by storm with her debut album lovestrong. Ms. Perri spent the last month plus locked away at the famous studio with producer Joe Chiccarelli (White Stripes, Tori Amos, The Shins) working on the eleven songs that will be featured on lovestrong. - including her already platinum-selling single "Jar Of Hearts."
 RANDY NEWMAN
The Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 2
www.randynewman.com
Dist: Warner Music Canada
On The Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 2, the second in a proposed three-volume retrospective, the singer and songwriter offers another engrossing solo set, just piano and voice, that swings between the hilarious and the heartbreaking, sometimes brilliantly encompassing both. Longtime collaborators Mitchell Froom and Lenny Waronker, who were also behind the boards for Newman‘s acclaimed 2008 Nonesuch disc Harps and Angels, co-produced. These 16 tunes, drawn from a catalogue that now spans four decades, are not normal indeed.
 TRAMPLED BY TURTLES
Palomino
www.trampledbyturtles.com
Dist: Warner Music Canada
With a bracing hybrid of classic songwriting, bluegrass and folk, this breakneck acoustic quintet hails from Duluth, Minnesota, the Great Lakes port town that spawned such fabled Minnesota brethren as Dylan through to the Jayhawks. The result of this pan-genre spot-welding is a sort of North Country & Mid-Western Blue-collar ‘grass with a fistful of gunpowder tossed into the wood-burning stove. Trampled By Turtles‘ style is permeated by a poignant, seductive desolation that calls to mind the likes of contemporaries Avett Brothers, Blitzen Trapper, Bill Callahan and Justin Vernon (Bon Iver).
 RAPHAEL SAADIQ
Stone Rollin’
www.raphaelsaadiq.com
Dist: Sony Music Canada
Known for defying the confines of working within one genre, Raphael Saadiq returns with a new release that celebrates the classic sounds of 60’s and 70’s soul with a futuristic twist. Stone Rollin’ is a collection that showcases Saadiq’s gifted musicality and the stellar production skills that have become the artist’s signature. Recorded at his studio complex, the Blakeslee Recording Company in Los Angeles, Raphael Saadiq played bass, keys, guitar, percussion and even drums on most of the tracks.
 AC/DC
Live At River Plate
http://www.acdc.com/ca/home
Dist: Sony Music Canada
AC/DC Live At River Plate is a definitive live concert DVD documenting AC/DC’s massive Black Ice World Tour. Shot in December of 2009, AC/DC Live At River Plate marks AC/DC’s triumphant return to Buenos Aires where nearly 200,000 fans, and 3 sold-out shows, welcomed the band back after a 13-year absence from Argentina. This stunning live footage of AC/DC underscores what Argentina’s Pagina 12 newspaper reported by saying “no one is on the same level when it comes to pure and clear Rock ‘n Roll.” Directed by David Mallet and produced by Rocky Oldham, AC/DC Live At River Plate was shot with 32 cameras entirely in HD. AC/DC Live At River Plate features 19 songs totaling 110 minutes. Additionally, the DVD contains a bonus feature titled “The Fan, The Roadie, The Guitar Tech & The Meat,” containing interviews with AC/DC, their crew and fans among the excitement of the shows and the city of Buenos Aires.
 ANVIL
Juggernaut Of Justice
www.anvilmetal.com
Dist: Sony Music Canada
Since their 1981 debut, “Hard n’ Heavy”, the group - which was co-founded by singer/guitarist Steve “Lips” Kudlow and drummer Robb Reiner - has been listed by many as one of the creators of the thrash/speed metal genre (especially on such classics as 1982’s “metal on metal” and 1983’s “forged in fire”), but due to subsequent bad record deals, bad management, and just plain bad luck, anvil appeared to take a back seat to a new wave of metal bands - most of which listed the group as a prime influence. However, anvil has never stopped rocking, and with the arrival of the critically acclaimed/surprise hit film, “Anvil! The Story Of Anvil”, the group is back where they belong – at the forefront of heavy metal.
 MATTHEW MORRISON
Matthew Morrison
www.matthewmorrison.com
Dist: Universal Music Canada
Matthew Morrison is a successful singer/songwriter, musical theatre and television actor. He stars in his Emmy and Golden Globe nominated role as Will Schuester on the #1 FOX show, GLEE. He has also starred in multiple Broadway shows including Hairspray and The Light in the Piazza. Matthew’s debut solo album is set for release on
May 10th.
 NAZARETH
Big Dogs
http://www.nazarethdirect.co.uk/nazareth/
Dist: Universal Music Canada
After the critical success of the recent album “The Newz”, Nazareth approached the recording of this new studio album with a sophisticated challenge: no tricks, no studio gimmicks – just the real thing – the authentic sound of the four members of the band in the studio. The band ultimately wanted to bring the real spirit of rock and roll back. That’s why it only takes one play to realize “Big Dogz“ will be a fans’ favourite album as much as “No Mean City“(1979) or “Hair of The Dog“ (1975).
 BOOKER T JONES
The Road From Memphis
http://www.bookert.com/
Dist: F.A.B.
The Road from Memphis starts with a young Booker T. Jones hauling his stack of newspapers to Phineas Newborn’s front yard where, while folding them for his after-school delivery route, he could listen to the jazz great practice piano. It ends with Booker and The Roots roaring through a set of both timeless and contemporary originals (and propulsive covers of Gnarls Barkley’s “Crazy” and Lauren Hill’s “Everything Is Everything”). The Road from Memphis is classic Memphis soul, and classic Booker in the tradition of “Green Onions,” but beyond that it is the story of a sound, and how Booker, working with the inheritors of his sound, is keeping a tradition alive.
 MAN MAN
Life Fantastic
http://manmanbandband.com/
Dist: F.A.B.
Life Fantastic is the much anticipated follow up album to Rabbit Habits (2008), an album which inspired Paste magazine to proclaim of the band - “They are what rock ’n’ roll is meant to be and, frankly, what most rock bands have forgotten altogether: these songs are fun.” Working for the first time with producer Mike Mogis (Bright Eyes), Man Man have brought along the fierce energy of their renowned live shows while finding a new melodic voice on songs like “Oh, La Brea” with its Harry Nilsson music hall touches, or “Life Fantastic” loping along to a classic David Bowie piano vamp. Expanding their palette while keeping the found instruments (typewriter bell, anyone?), Man Man continue to evolve into an entirely new form of propulsive pop music.
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