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Bowling For Soup Are Sorry

Jive reports: Bowling For Soup is set to release their 10th studio album Sorry For Partyin' on October 13th on Jive Records.

The band recently released their new single "No Hablo Inglés" and just finished shooting the accompanying video directed by Sum 41's drummer Steve Jocz (who has directed videos for 3OH!3 and McFly). The foursome's comical single "No Hablo Inglés" follows their late summer double-entendre filled single and video "My Wena."

On Sorry For Partyin' the Denton, Texas group enlisted producer Linus of Hollywood and special friends/guests to join their one-of-a-kind brand of fun-pop/punk. They added cameos from former ALL vocalist Scott Reynolds and Nerf Herder frontman Parry Gripp on "America (Wake up Amy)" and Fastball's Tony Scalzo on the rollicking kiss-off to an ex, "I Don't Wish You Were Dead Anymore." - more on this story

Dawn Landes Sets New Release

PR reports: Sweet Heart Rodeo, the third full-length album from acclaimed Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Dawn Landes, will be available January 19 on Essential Music.

In anticipation of the record's release, Landes is currently in the midst of a special series of U.S. shows, including a date as part of New York's CMJ Music Marathon on October 21 at the Bell House. Additionally, in January, Landes will joined acclaimed musician Justin Townes Earl on the road. More details will be announced shortly.

Raised in Branson, MO and Louisville, KY, Landes currently lives in Brooklyn where she owns and operates her homemade recording studio Saltlands. "I actually built it!" Landes declares proudly, "Some friends and I put up the walls and floated the floors." It is here that Landes joined with longtime collaborator and drummer Ray Rizzo, multi-instrumentalist Josh Kaufman and bassist Annie Nero in making the 11-track album. Of working on the record, Landes notes, "Maybe it was the rodeo imagery that kept rearing its head in the songs, something definitely inspired a little bravado in the studio when we were making the record." - more on this story

Orenda Fink Goes Soph

PR reports: Orenda Fink's sophomore solo album Ask The Night arrived in stores on Tuesday. Following her heralded 2005 release Invisible Ones, the new album is an homage to her Southern roots and inspired by traditional American folk music and Southern Gothic literature.

The album has been striking a chord with the press; the blog Captain's Dead remarked, "Orenda Fink's Ask The Night...plain and simple is a beautiful and haunting record and definitely one of my favorite sounding records of the year...Highly recommended!"

Orenda will travel to New York City for the CMJ Music Marathon later this month to perform at an Oct. 21st day party presented by Rachael Ray's Feedback, The Syndicate, and Amnesty International, as well as the Saddle Creek showcase on Oct. 22nd. - more on this story

Mind Control's Nervous Nitelife: Addicted

PR reports: Mind Control's Nervous Nitelife: Addicted is set to be released November 22, 2009 on Nervous Records. Here is a little background info:

Discerning dance music fans are often turned off by the term "big room." Yes, while big room is typically associated with more commercial – cheesy – sounds there are also some really interesting things going on. In NYC, for example, Mind Control (AKA Peter Bailey and Richie Santana) are opting to create an entire experience rather than merely drop the hottest bombs on a crowd. Sure, most fans would be happy to hear the biggest tracks, but that's too easy. This skilled team grabs the reins and operates the crowd with extended sets that gradually shift moods and directions. This isn't about "glorious synths" and "peak time bangers." It's about doing something interesting and cool - but for the masses.

Named after their Stereo Productions smash of the same name, Mind Control launched it's residency in late-2006 at world-famous nightclub Pacha New York. The party takes a bit of a unique approach in the club world, letting the two DJs tag-team track-for-track as their set progresses. But don't think that the sets are disjointed - It's almost like, as the name suggests, Bailey and Santana are working from the same brain, or at least the same control center. "It allows us to really work off each other, and work off the crowd as well," Bailey says. "Sometimes Richie will play a song, and it will remind me or inspire me to throw up a track that I didn't even expect to play. It has a nice spontaneity to it, and the crowd really seems to appreciate that." - more on this story

The Country's HotList

PR reports: United Stations Radio Networks, Inc., (USRN) an independent leader in the creation and marketing of network radio programming, today announced that it is introducing a brand new four-hour Country Music program titled The Country's HotList with Shawn Parr.

The first broadcast of the new network property is this weekend, October 9-11. The Country's HotList is the creation of producer/host Shawn Parr and his Eleven 11 Productions group in Los Angeles. United Stations EVP/Programming, Andy Denemark made this announcement today at the company's Headquarters in New York City.

The Country's HotList with Shawn Parr is a brand new, music-intensive show that is designed to respond quickly to today's fast-breaking world of music, entertainment news, celebrity gossip and life on the internet. The show will regularly recap lists of what's hot – in movies, on iTunes, on YouTube and in all corners of entertainment – and the show will also utilize interactive technology to involve the audience in both the programming and the promotional and contesting components of the show. The playlist for The Country's HotList will consist of carefully researched Country music hits that will be compatible with every mainstream Country station in America, and the show will also showcase superstar artist interviews. - more on this story

Penance Coming To DVD

MVD reports: IMD Films and MVD Visual are proud to announce the DVD release of Penance on November 17, 2009.

Based on a true character, and from the award winning horror writer/director Jake Kennedy (Days of Darkness), and Will Clevinger (producer of the indie horror hit Automaton Transfusion), PENANCE stars Marieh Delfino (Jeepers Creepers 2) as a stripper who falls into the hands of sadistic surgeon (Graham McTavish) with genital mutilation on his mind.

Previously titled The Devil's Dungeon and filmed in 2008 in Los Angeles, PENANCE is the tale of a young, demure single mother, Amelia (Delfino), who hits upon hard times and decides to take her future into her own hands and becomes a stripper. Everything is going well until Suzy, her stripper friend, is beaten up on a job and recruits Amelia to take her place. Reluctantly, Amelia takes the job, only to find the job isn't everything it seems. Driven to a strange location by a dark and mysterious man (Tony Todd), and confronted by a grizzled hit man (Michael Rooker), Amelia's world is turned upside down, as her captor (the mind bending McTavish), is intent on one thing and one thing only - to purify Amelia and the other women in his incarceration. - more on this story

The Colorful Story Of The Father Of Modern Day Tattooing

PR reports: Widely known as the father of modern day tattooing, Sailor Jerry's story and mystique are explored in depth in HORI SMOKU SAILOR JERRY, a new DVD documentary from IndiePix.

Through stories and memories shared by peers and protégées such as Don Ed Hardy and Mike Malone, a dynamic tale is woven that chronicles the story of a great American artist whose work has never been displayed in museums, but on the bodies of those brave and fortunate enough to serve as Jerry's canvas.

Written and directed by first time feature filmmaker Erich Weiss, HORI SMOKU SAILOR JERRY earned multiple film festival honors in 2008 and 2009, and will debut on DVD complete with bonus features on October 13 for $24.95srp wherever DVDs are sold, online and at indiepixfilms.com.
HORI SMOKU SAILOR JERRY explores the roots of American tattooing through the life of its most iconoclastic figure, Norman "Sailor Jerry" Collins. Considered by many as the foremost tattoo artist of all time, Collins' uncompromising lifestyle and larger than life persona made him an American legend. Through rare interviews, photographs and hours of archival footage, HORI SMOKU SAILOR JERRY imparts the past, present and future of the global tattooing phenomenon. - more on this story

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