New Music 2012

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Win 1 of 3 Phase 180 'Fingers' CDs

closing date: 8 Feb 2012

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PHASE 180 ' FINGERS

5 MARCH 2012
Universal Music Operations

Fresh from the South Coast of England, here comes this year's musical sensation: Phase 180 with their stunning debut single "Fingers".
Produced with the legendary K-Warren (Whitney Houston, Christina Aguilera, Gabrielle, Lil Wayne, Eternal) ', Fingers" conjures up all the elements of a timeless worldwide smash. With its club-friendly cocktail of rock-hard beats, euphoric synths & irresistibly cheeky vocals, big-name DJs across the globe are already rushing to drop "Fingers" in their sets !

Phase 180 comprises experienced Hastings-based DJs Jon Buckley & Adam P in collaboration with special guest producers, vocalists and artists. UK garage pioneer K-Warren sets the ball rolling in style, his production work helping the first single "Fingers" to become an instant classic.

This hot single comes packed with three alternative mixes of "Fingers" (the original pop version, the Club Mix and K-Warren's exclusive UK Garage Mix) have each blazed a trail across their respective scenes, rapidly earning Phase 180 love and support from radio stations such as 1Xtra, Kiss FM, Impact FM, as well as plays on Internet music channels all around the world.

Remember where you heard it first: "Fingers" by Phase 180. This single will be hitting Radio, Press and Clubs in January 2012 with an official release on all major download stores from 5 March 2012.

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Elton John Writing Book About AIDS Crisis

by Associated Press | January 09, 2012 11:15 EST

Elton John is writing his first book, a personal account of the AIDS crisis.

The musician says "Love is the Cure: Ending the Global Aids Epidemic" will include memories of friends who died of AIDS-related illnesses, including Queen frontman Freddie Mercury.

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British publisher Hodder & Stoughton says the book will be published in July along with an audio book read by the British pop star. The U.S. publisher is Little, Brown.

Proceeds will go to the Elton John's AIDS Foundation.

John said Monday the book would ask why more is not being done to cure the disease.

He said AIDS "is a disease that must be cured not by a miraculous vaccine, but by changing hearts and minds, and through a collective effort to break down social barriers."

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Lady Antebellum's Hillary Scott Ties The Knot

by Jason Lipshutz, N.Y. | January 09, 2012 10:20 EST

Lady Antebellum singer Hillary Scott tied the knot with country musician Chris Tyrrell on Saturday (Jan. 7) in an intimate ceremony in upstate New York.

The couple posted a video on Lady A's web site on Sunday confirming the news. "We love you. We're so excited to be starting our life together, and we just had to let you in on the excitement," Scott tells her fans.

According to a post on the band's web site, Scott wore "a custom Vera Wang strapless mermaid dress with abstract all-over lace underlay," while the groom sported "a gray Ermenegildo Zegna suit."

Scott met Tyrrell while opening for Tim McGraw in 2010. Tyrrell popped the question over the Fourth of July weekend in Tennessee last year.

Lady Antebellum scored their second No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 with the September release of their third album, "Own The Night." In December, Lady A guitarist Dave Haywood also got engaged to girlfriend Kelli Cashiola.

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Lady Antebellum Singer Gets Married

Hillary Scott of Lady Antebellum arrives at the American Music Awards at the Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE in Los Angeles.Jeff Kravitz/AMA2011/FilmMagic

Lady Antebellum singer Hillary Scott wed Love and Theft drummer Chris Tyrell in a ceremony in upstate New York on Saturday. Scott, 25, announced the marriage to her fans with a video on the Lady Antebellum website. "We got married! We just wanted you to hear it from us first," Scott gushed to fans after showing off her wedding ring.

Scott and Tyrell met when their bands were touring together as opening acts on Tim McGraw's Southern Voice tour in 2010. Tyrell proposed over Fourth of July weekend last year while the two were on vacation in Tennessee.

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'Dark Knight Rises': The Man Behind The Music

In the years since "Batman Begins" changed the superhero-movie game and "The Dark Knight" took it one step further, the masses have heralded Christopher Nolan as the singular source of genius behind the two films. No one — myself included — will ever deny Nolan's brilliance, but it is essential to recognize the wealth of creative masters working on the films.

Academy Award winner Wally Pfister used a mastery of cinematography to paint Gotham landscapes that are distinct in each entry in the series, yet never betray any sense of consistency with the setting. Editor Lee Smith worked with Nolan to cut the action in a way that thrills but always provides a sense of space.

But perhaps the most unsung hero of Nolan's Batman movies is composer Hans Zimmer. His work with James Newton Howard on the first two films can get lost within the chaos on the screen, but it is always there, accenting each and every memorable scene. His work on the first two films is worth revisiting, for now with the two trailers and the prologue, we've gotten a small sense of what to expect from the composer for the trilogy's conclusion.

Zimmer's last two scores for Nolan films, "The Dark Knight" and "Inception," have been, at least in part, concept-driven. A new video featured on /Film points out the uncanny similarities between the "Why So Serious?" track from the "Dark Knight" soundtrack and a song from the musical "Édith et Marcel." In another connection to the singer Édith Piaf, Zimmer famously incorporated an ultra-slow take on "Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien" into his score for "Inception." While both may have built off of previous pieces, Zimmer's interpretation of them made them his own and all the more memorable.

Barring any chance Édith Piaf connections, it appears Zimmer is going in an entirely different direction with his score for "The Dark Knight Rises." Though still concept-driven, the cult-like chanting signals an ambitious turn for the composer.

The second I heard the "dey-shay bah-sah-rah" chant as part of the viral campaign, it immediately caught my attention, as I'm sure it did for many others. There was something so unsettling about it then, and now that we have a better concept of what it may be in its final form, it's even scarier. When Zimmer put the request out to fans to add their voices to the chanting, we learned what kind of scale the composer and Nolan are going for. They want a worldwide chant, featuring thousands of angry voices.

The implications for Batman in "The Dark Knight Rises" could be ruinous. The talk surrounding Bane poses him as the most threatening baddie Batman has faced up until this point. We know from the trailer that at some point Bane will recruit legions to follow him and he'll be successful. The trailer tells us that the chant means "Rise," bringing the last word of the film's title into play. With so many rising against Batman and teases of the end of the legend, the question must once again be asked, "Will Batman make it out of this?"

However the story plays out, Zimmer, in his collaboration with Nolan, has created something that transcends the usual functions of a film score. He has planted an idea and created a tone that have already sparked interest even before the film hits theaters. That's an achievement worth praising, and there can be little doubt that when we do get our hands on a complete score, it will excite and thrill and prove again just how good Zimmer can be.

Check out everything we've got on "The Dark Knight Rises."

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The Used to release 'I Come Alive' single

Drake Had 'Greatest Freedom' Making <i>Take Care</i>

One look at the production credits on Drake's 2010 debut, Thank Me Later, serves as a reminder to just how hot the Toronto MC was out of the gate. Guests like Jay-Z, T.I. and Alicia Keys lent their voices, while multiplatinum producers like Kanye West, Swizz Beatz and Timbaland offered their sonic expertise.

The music world was truly Drake's oyster, but on his sophomore set, Take Care, Drizzy scaled things back in order to make a bigger impact. Instead of pooling together his resources and using his hitmaking influence, Drake went back to basics, choosing to record the entire album in Toronto with friend and engineer/producer Noah "40" Shebib, the studio wiz who helped Drake cook up his 2009 breakout tape, So Far Gone.

"I can't sit there and tell you that anybody made any conscious decisions to the extent of, 'Oh, we're gonna make this feel of an album,' " 40 told MTV News in December from Take Care studios in Toronto. "We really just make records and cut music until someone says, 'That's it: You can't make any more music; you gotta stop.' "

The result was a cohesive and emotional 18-track ride, with two bonus tracks for iTunes. The MC revealed to MTV News that the narrative that drives his latest LP was inspired by "Houstatlantavegas," a So Far Gone track produced by 40. "I really didn't start working with Drake production-wise until So Far Gone," Shebib said. "As far as Drake and music and the people around him, he really controls that, and he picks all those records, and my goal is to facilitate that."

And facilitate he did. 40 either produced or co-produced 15 of the 20 total Take Care tracks. One song in particular, the Lil Wayne- and Andre 3000-assisted "The Real Her," started with a reverse piano loop that the beatsmith had given to Drake a year before they began working on the album. It might have seemed insignificant at the time, but Drake eventually came back with a song idea off of that one sample.

"What ends up happening a lot of times with our records is that, because I can do a lot of things in the studio, whether it be play instruments or produce or edit or run Pro Tools or edit vocals, whatever the case may be, I help him get out his ideas," 40 said. "I think that's the goal of any good producer, is to make sure the artist is delivering what they want."

With Cash Money/ Young Money's track record of success, Drake's label trusted in the rapper and producer's abilities, allowing them to create without looking over their shoulder. Safe to say, it all paid off when Take Care debuted at #1 on the Billboard albums chart, pushing over 631,000 copies in its first week after it was released November 15. The album is now well-past platinum, on its way to 2 million records sold in just under three months.

"We get to do what we want: We don't have to clear it with the A&Rs or anybody. We are our own A&Rs," Shebib explained. "And that's the greatest freedom you can possibly have in this business."

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