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Remember that chick with the three foot long neck on "The" OC who kinda looked like E.T.? Don't expect her to phone home, since she apparently isn't paying the rent. AP reports that Mischa Barton's landlord says the actress is refusing to pay rent on her $7,000-a-month apartment in New York City. more - more on this story

Public Viewing And Memorial Service For Teddy Pendergrass

A Public Viewing and Memorial Service for Teddy Pendergrass will take place today and tomorrow at the Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church in Philadelphia.

Here is some info his PR peeps sent over: Teddy Pendergrass, one of the leading soul singers of all time and R&B's reigning sex symbol in the 1970s and '80s, to be remembered with family by friends, dignitaries, celebrities and fans from around the world.

The legendary, Grammy Award-nominated singer-songwriter, whose powerful vocals helped define The Sound of Philadelphia, first with Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes ("I Miss You," "Bad Luck," "Wake Up Everybody," and the two million seller "If You Don't Know Me By Now") and later with an incendiary solo career as an international R&B superstar ("Close the Door," "Turn Off the Lights," "I Don't Love You Anymore" "Love T.K.O."), was an inspirational figure to millions through the charitable Teddy Pendergrass Alliance (TPA) and his partnership with the National Spinal Cord Injury Association. - more on this story

Chilly Gonzales Residency with Special Guests Sia, Andrew WK smf ,ptr

Fresh from his Guinness World Record for longest live piano performance by any individual (27 hours, 3 minutes and 44 seconds), his piano battle with Andrew WK in New York, and a sold-our run at London's La Pigalle Club, Paris-based pianist and showman Chilly Gonzales crosses the Atlantic for four "Piano Talk Shows" in New York City in February.

The self-proclaimed "Entertainist" will play every Thursday at Joe's Pub, finally giving NYC a full-on taste of his futuristic cabaret performance. Each show will feature a guest from Gonzo's extended musical family, each promising to bring fresh surprises of their own!

Chilly is currently celebrating two new releases: a spellbinding 7" piano remake of Erol Alkan and Boys Noize's club banger "Waves" (coupled with a spoken music lesson on the B-side) and his 4-album live Guinness World Record set "The Works" (released through Believe digital). - more on this story

Lonestar Return with New Album

The New Year of 2010 launches with the promise of the much-anticipated return to the charts of a true country music super-group—Lonestar –whose career path to date has been marked by countless multi-platinum milestones.

The band is releasing their first studio album in four years—cause enough for celebration to the universe of country/pop cross-over fans who have long embraced them. And the news gets better. Party Heard Around The World, their 10th album, is a total 'hands on' creative effort, produced by the band with eight of the ten tracks written by the foursome. Noted lead guitarist and original member Michael Britt said in a recent interview: "We feel that this album is a complete reflection of the group, circa 2010. It's personal and powerful music that reflects the core values of Lonestar through lyrics, performance and production."

Lonestar's commitment to open the new decade with a new chapter of music will have the full label support of Saguaro Road Records and be the subject of a major multi-phase national retail/radio/media/marketing campaign set to roll-out in advance of the April 27th street date. - more on this story

Jen Gloeckner Goes Soph

Eccentric Midwestern songstress Jen Gloeckner releases sophomore album this Spring. Mouth of Mars is the follow-up to her critically acclaimed One Little Indian debut Miles Away. This sophomore effort was recorded at her own Hazy Sky Studio in Dubuque, IA with additional recording by Brian McTear and Amy Morrissey at Miner Street Recordings, Philadelphia. The album was mixed by Brian McTear and produced by Jen Gloeckner and McTear; special guests include Joseph Arthur, cellist Helena Espvall (Espers), violin player Joel Zifkin (Rufus Wainwright), bassist Lisa Umbarger (Toadies) as well as McTear and Amy Morrissey (Bitter Bitter Weeks).

MOJO Music Magazine has described Gloeckner's sound as "spell-weaving.different, dark, ethereal, funky; an alluring big-sky, small-room mystery." The new album is an instinct-driven exploration of primal emotion, where minimal lyrics and layers of sound evoke a universal, gut-level knowledge of desire, separation, and the sacred connection of souls. Jen depicts the human condition through sound-raw, dirty, brutal, healing, serene, and holy all at once.

Gloeckner draws artistic inspiration from moods and images that she receives in dreams, and listeners discern a mythical, collective-unconsciousness underlying her music -songs that can be as daunting as the darkest nightmares and as redemptive as purest desire. At times Jen comes across as a fearsome seductress-cruelly masculine in her lyrical directness and often aggressive, driving rhythms, then delicate and weak with longing as a Victorian lady taking to her fainting couch. As on Miles Away, Mouth of Mars achieves impressive coherence in the masterful balance of the opposites it embraces. - more on this story

Get Busy Committee Ask Fans To Fund Vinyl Pressing

In November of last year hip hop group Get Busy Committee (the new collaboration between Ryu from Styles of Beyond and Fort Minor, Apathy, and producer for Snoop, Clipse, Game, Busta Rhymes and more, Scoop Deville) released their new album, Uzi Does It in a very unique format: 2GB Uzi-shaped Flash drives. The format was a hit and surprisingly the band sold through their first order of 1200 Uzis in less than three months.

Tuesday evening the band quietly released to their fans a project to fund the pressing of 500 limited, numbered picture disc 12" vinyl records via Kickstarter. Pledges to the product came with premiums ranging from a download of the EP (featuring three unreleased songs) for $5 to actually having one of the songs written ABOUT the purchaser and having the album delivered in a platinum plaque for $1000.

The band was pleased and surprised when one fan, Damon Black, purchased the $1000 package less than 24 hours from release. "We hadn't sent out a Twitter, blog post, or anything except one email to the fan list," said Ryu of Get Busy Committee. "It just goes to show, respect your fans and they'll come through for you." "We don't know who Damon Black is," commented Apathy, "but you're our new best friend. Get at us so we can write this masterpiece for you." - more on this story

Bleed Electric Debut

The time has finally come for the release of Bleed Electric's much anticipated debut single, "The Last Night of 1989 / XII Special Weapons and Tactics." Bleed Electric is a Hip Hop / Alternative / Electro trio from Cardiff, Wales that is a result of the partnership between Altsounds.com owner Chris "MUG5" Maguire and band mates Silk and Siege. Originally a solo project for Maguire, Bleed Electric quickly grasped its definitive sound and identity upon Maguire's collaboration with Silk and Siege.

"The Last Night of 1989 / XII Special Weapons and Tactics" serves as an introduction to the several double A-side singles to be released in the next 18 months from Bleed Electric's debut albums "Radio Friendly Unit Shifter" and "The Butterfly Effect." The double A-sides actually consist of one track off of each respective album, with "Radio Friendly Unit Shifter" playing the role of the more commercially-acceptable counterpart to Bleed Electric's concept album, "The Butterfly Effect." Essentially these two albums are polar opposites of each other in all possible senses: sound, subject matter, and overall feel. Why this combination? Bleed Electric aims to draw in the masses through the lighter pop of "Radio Friendly Unit Shifter" in order to simultaneously hit listeners with the main focus of the band, which is the much darker material on "The Butterfly Effect." Touché, Bleed Electric, touché.

Bleed Electric plans to release the rest of the double A-side singles throughout the next two years in order to create a piecing-together effect for the listener. Each back-side single from "The Butterfly Effect" is denoted with a Roman numeral to indicate in which order that single lies on the album. After Bleed Electric has released all the singles, the listeners will be able to recreate the entire storyline of "The Butterfly Effect," which essentially follows the life of main character Andy Turner and his walk through all sorts of crazy events involving love, drugs, murder, hostage situations, and everything else leading up to the taking of his own life. - more on this story

Skiggy Rapz Releases New Digital Single

Dutch rapper/producer Skiggy Rapz (Marcel Tegelaar) will release his new single, "Talk To You Soon", through iTunes and www.beatsbroke.com on Tuesday, January 26th. The track is from the forthcoming full-length Bang to the Boogie, the follow-up to 2009's Bang To The Boogie EP.

On "Talk To You Soon", Skiggy Rapz reflects on the passing of his father, and turns to the future for hope. "Life has been rough the past few years, but you work through it with your loved ones. Things are good, now," he says.

In keeping with the mood, Beats Broke is offering the CD version of Skiggy Rapz' Bang to the Boogie EP for only $5 with the discount code "LOVE" at www.beatsbroke.com. The code is valid through midnight on Valentine's Day (February 14, 2010). -

The Hush Now Release New Song

Boston indie-popsters, The Hush Now, are releasing the second single, Contrails, from their upcoming, sophomore album, Constellations (due out February 16th).

The Hush Now have a unique, ivy league, indie-pop-rock sound reminiscent of early Weezer and Wilco with the muscle of shoegaze' s glory days mixed in. Their self-titled debut and the special Christmas single (Wishing You A Merry Christmas, released December 2009) produced a tremendous amount of buzz throughout the blogosphere. Gaining coverage from outlets such as the UK Telegraph, Magnet, The Devil Wears Tuna, Boston Phoenix, Green Shoelace, and My Crazy Music Blog, among countless others.

The first single from Constellations, Hoping and Waiting, has been circulating the web since it's release in December 2009, and now it's time for Contrails. Constellations will be offered to the public as a free digital download upon it's release on 16 Feb 2010 (THN's debut is also available for free download at THN's - official Myspace page).