Miley Fuming- Ice T Arrested- Justin Bieber In the Studio With Dr. Dre- Britney Declared Fit- Drake for the Ladies- Lohan In Prison- Jennifer Aniston Stalker- Soup Nazi Returns- more

(Yahoo) The soup stand that inspired the Soup Nazi episode on "Seinfeld" reopened in midtown Manhattan on Tuesday, six years after its famously brusque owner, Al Yeganeh, shut it down and licensed his recipes to a franchising company. more -

Taylor Swift Announces New Album Release

Taylor Swift took to the web on Tuesday to announce directly to fans via a web chat that her third studio album will be released worldwide on October 25th. Now here is the official announcement with some details:

Entitled SPEAK NOW, the album will be released on Big Machine Records and contains 14 tracks, all written solely by Taylor. Taylor co-produced the project with Nathan Chapman, and the first single from the new record, "Mine," will be released on August 16th.

"Saying the right thing at the right moment is so crucial that most of us start to hesitate, for fear of saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. But lately what I've begun to fear more than that is letting the moment pass without saying anything," Taylor says of the very personal collection that is Speak Now. - more on this story

Jason Mraz Fall Tour

Jason Mraz will kick off his upcoming North American tour on September 11th at Bangor, Maine's Bangor Waterfront and then continues through early October

In tandem with his own tour, Mraz will also be making a series of additional appearances, including a September 12th headline performance at the Life is Good Festival 2010 in Canton, Massachusetts. The Grammy Award-winning tunesmith will also join his longtime pals Dave Matthews Band for a pair of shows at Chicago's world famous Wrigley Stadium on September 17th and 18th.

Having spent much of the past few months in the studio working on his next studio album, Mraz scheduled the upcoming itinerary as a way of getting fans' response to some of his new material. Moreover, the San Diego-based troubadour wanted to take the opportunity to visit a number of markets missed by his previous North American tour: "Even though we performed 250 shows all around the world in 2008 and 2009, I still got emails and Facebook messages from fans whose hometowns we missed," said Mraz. "When I found out I had some time off, I called up the band and said, 'Let's get to some of these places.'" Support for most dates on the trek will come from acclaimed singer/songwriter – and fellow Atlantic recording artist – Robert Francis. Also Christina Perri, whose song "Jar of Hearts" has created a national stir, will appear on a few select dates. - more on this story

Cursive Frontman Tim Kasher Announce Solo Debut, Preview Show

Cursive Frontman Tim Kasher will release his debut solo album, The Game Of Monogamy, on October 5th, 2010 via Saddle Creek. On July 27th, Kasher will headline a show at the Tonic Room in Chicago and perform material from the new album for the first time with a backing band. More solo touring news will be announced soon.

Recorded this past January in Whitefish, MT, at SnowGhost Music and in his rental home in the small town, the album marks the first time Kasher - frontman for celebrated acts Cursive and The Good Life - has written, recorded, and produced an album under his own name.

Kasher enlisted Patrick Newbery (trumpet/keys for Cursive; also of Lacona and Head of Femur) to help with the arrangements, the production, and to play on the record. Friends Erin Tate (Minus The Bear) and Matt Maginn (Cursive) also stopped by to add some drum and bass parts, respectively, and members of the Glacier National Symphony were recruited for the classical instrument parts. - more on this story

Tokio Hotel Humanoid City Live

Tokio Hotel's 2010 concert in Milan, Italy has been captured and released as Humanoid City Live as a special deluxe two-disc DVD+CD package. The concert's 19 audio tracks are also available a digital album at all web providers.

In addition to the 19-song Milan concert video, the DVD will offer the bonus content of Backstage at Humanoid City. This will include an episode of their beloved Tokio Hotel TV, a DVD chronicle of life on the road with one of the world's most hair-raising bands. This new episode catches them during their secret rehearsals in London, and gives an exclusive sneak peek behind the scenes of the HUMANOID CITY LIVE stage production. The DVD will also contain a gallery of rare and previously unseen photography.

Tokio Hotel – lead singer Bill Kaulitz and his twin brother guitarist Tom Kaulitz, drummer Gustav Schafer, and bassist Georg Listing – earned heaps of praise from their legions of fans on the 2010 tour, for their performances of all 12 songs from the album (albeit in an entirely different sequence for the concerts): "Noise," "Human Connect to Human," "Pain Of Love," "World Behind My Wall," "Hey You," "Humanoid," "Dogs Unleashed," "Love & Death," "Automatic," "Darkside of the Sun," "Zoom Into Me," and "Forever Now." - more on this story

Frontier Ruckus Release New Album

Frontier Ruckus released Deadmalls & Nightfalls on Ramseur Records yesterday, July 20th, 2010 and you can catch them on the road supporting the effort.

The former college friends use traditional instrumentals – banjo, pedal steel, harmonium, bellows, mandolin and guitars – as well as the occasional tasteful horn flourishes and Hammond organ, to adorn their stark travelogues in a unique and heartfelt way.

Don't be fooled by their moniker; this band's frontier is urban and its landscapes are the industrial wastelands of their native Detroit. But the world portrayed in Deadmalls and Nightfalls is a land purely of frontman/multi-instrumentalist Matthew Milia's creation: a new, sacred landscape populated with the memories of the strip mall stretches and Michigan roadways of his youth. His sense of detail and place is beautiful and visually descriptive, like a Midwestern Cormac McCarthy. Milia's vocals are unadorned and honest, the songs haunting and spare.
Upcoming Tour Dates: - more on this story

Kylie Minogue Hosting Logo TV's NewNowNext PopLab

Kylie Minogue will host the 100th episode of Logo TV's NewNowNext PopLab, the destination for up-and-coming party music in all its forms, on Tuesday, August 3 at 7/6C.

For more than 20 years, Kylie Minogue has been a global force in pop music. She is one of the world's most successful female artists with more than 60 million albums sold worldwide and 50 hit singles, including the U.S. Billboard dance-chart toppers "Can't Get You Out of My Head," "Love At First Sight," and the Grammy-Award winning "Come Into My World." She has received countless awards and has performed 8 sold-out world tours. The press recently announced Minogue as the first solo artist in U.K. history to have four number one albums in four different decades. - more on this story

Trek Life Releases Mixtape

Trek Life is set to release a mixtape entitled Before Everything Changed prior to the release of his new album, Everything Changed Nothing, which launches later this month. The mix is blended by DJ Tommy Blak and hosted by Trek Life collaborator/producer J. Bizness.

The mixtape is a goldmine of rare Trek Life material, much of which features collaborations with a host of key indie artists and producers. When asked how the mixtape came into being, Trek explained, "This mixtape came about by Tommy Blak raiding my studio Hard Drive and finding a folder of tracks that I had done with other people over the last few years... he felt like he should put them together so that people could see what other stuff I had done since Price I've Paid." Blak's efforts have resulted in something very special for fans.

"(Tommy Blak) felt like there were some "golden" verses that the Trek Life fans had never heard," he explains. Blak's selection includes the emcee's work with artists like Oddisee (producer of Trek's upcoming LP) who checks in on the "Heralds of Change" a thick track decorated with a barrage of heavy distorted bass, as well as "Radio Talk". The mix also features the track "Do It Again" a track by LMNO that featured Trek and Kev Brown. Trek Life's work with J. Bizness is also showcased on tracks like "Temporary Goodbye". - more on this story

Sinatra Remastered September of My Years Album Set For Release

Concord Records ushers in the bittersweet season of autumn with a digitally remastered version of Frank Sinatra's September of My Years on August 31, 2010.

In the spring of 1965, Sinatra huddled with his arranger and friend, Gordon Jenkins, to record September of My Years, a collection of 13 songs from an iconic balladeer taking stock in a life well lived and recommitting himself to making the best of the years ahead. It was an album that spawned such classics as "This Is All I Ask," "Once Upon a Time" and of course, "It Was a Very Good Year." Four Grammys and 45 years later, the 1965 album is considered one of the finest recordings of his career.

In addition to the 13 songs from the original recording, the reissue also features two bonus tracks — a live version of "This Is All I Ask" and an alternate version of "How Old Am I?," which was released as a single in 1968. The packaging also includes extensive new liner notes, an engaging mix of first-hand historical record and personal reflections penned by music journalist Stan Cornyn, who won a Grammy Award for his liner notes to the original recording. - more on this story

Autolux Announce New Album and Tour

Autolux have announced North American tour dates in support of their upcoming release Transit Transit, which hits stores on August 3rd.

The trek kicks off on August 11th in San Francisco and ends September 18th in Los Angeles.

Autolux's sophomore album, Transit Transit, will be released this summer, August 3rd, 2010 – on TBD Records (Radiohead, White Rabbits) in North America and Japan, and ATP Recordings (Built to Spill, Spiritualized) for the rest of the world. - more on this story

Mogwai Web Event Announced

Mogwai have announced a virtual screening. Here are the details: Burning, the visionary collaboration between Mogwai and La Blogotheque directors Vincent Moon and Nathanael Le Scouarnac will be getting screen time around the US this fall.

Before it hits the big screen, it will be available for fans to watch on a smaller screen - directly on your computer, world-wide. On July 27th, Burning will be streaming live on websites and blogs in real time.

This special screening will happen just once, at 12pmPST/3pm EST so don't miss out! Directly following the screening, Mogwai's Stuart Braithwaite and director Vincent Moon will be answering fan submitted questions about the film offering fans an opportunity to interact directly with the masterminds behind this creative project.

A full list of current 40+ participating websites are available on - Mogwai.co.uk

Atlantic/Pacific Set Debut

Garrett Klahn of Texas is the Reason and John Herguth of House & Parish have a new group called Atlantic/Pacific who have just signed with No Sleep Records and announce the release of their debut album, Meet Your New Love, due out October 26th, 2010.

These two experienced rockers are joined by Ian Love (Rival Schools) who contributes guest instrumentation as well production skills to help the group create their psych/folk sound that will appeal to fans of indie-rock as well as rock and roll traditionalists with its' looped yet tribal yet shuffling drums and both dynamic and big guitar sounds.

Meet Your New Love was recorded and produced by Ian at the Brooklyn Love Studios this past winter and features 10 songs of give and take intimate vocals – Garrett's immediate, John's hushed, a study of layered guitar work and pensive melodies ranging in influence from Fleet Foxes, Beach House, Washed Out and The Smiths. In addition, the album was mastered at the Boiler Room in Chicago by Collin Jordan, whose skills can be seen on albums from Kanye West to Ministry. - more on this story

The MIDI Mafia On Jersey Shore

The MIDI Mafia will be a featured artist on MTV's Jersey Shore Season 2. Songs from their Vegas Lights EP distributed by MTV Networks, released June 8, 2010 will be featured throughout the series.

"Last Call" off of the Vegas Lights EP is also included on the Jersey Shore soundtrack being released on Universal Republic July 20.

"For those in the know The MIDI Mafia are recognized as an unstoppable urban talent powerhouse. We are stoked that they have achieved such a high profile within the Jersey Shore, which is a testament to their creativity. They came to us via our parent company SonyATV and this kind of commercial/production music crossover opportunity highlights what sets us apart from other publishing companies." said Russell Emanuel President Extreme Music. - more on this story

Bobby Bare Jr.'s Carpool America Tour

Bobby Bare Jr. announces the "Carpool America" tour with Blue Giant. The 22-city tour will kick start in Memphis, TN on August 24th and end in Minneapolis on October 9th.

Blue Giant will open the shows and serve as his back up band along with Bare's drummer Matt Martin.

Bare will release A Storm-A Tree-My Mother's Head on August 31, 2010. It will be Bare's sixth album and his first in nearly four years. A Storm-A Tree-My Mother's Head was co-produced by Bare and David Vandervelde (Jay Bennett). Bare also produced Twistable, Turnable Man: A Tribute to the Songs of Shel Silverstein a tribute album in memory of his close friend and mentor, Shel Silverstein.
- more on this story

Harry Potter On The Lawn

Attention Southern California Harry Potter fans: You'll grab onto the edge of your beach chair as you watch Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince at the Orange County Great Park Movie on the Lawn Saturday, July 24th at 8:30 p.m. Admission and parking are free, and Harry Potter fans can picnic on the Great Park lawn before the movie.

As Harry Potter begins his 6th year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Voldemort is tightening his grip and Hogwarts is no longer the safe haven it once was. The movie is rated PG, and contains content that some younger children may find scary. Warm clothing is recommended, and inclement weather may prevent the showing. - more on this story

Randy Montana To Make Opry Debut

Randy Montana will make his Grand Ole Opry debut this Friday, July 23rd, which can be heard live from the Ryman Auditorium on Sirius XM, Nashville's WSM 650 AM and on www.wsmonline.com.

The Nashville Chapter of The Recording Academy welcomed Montana to their offices yesterday. He performed debut single "Ain't Much Left Of Lovin' You" and other tracks from his forthcoming Jay Joyce-produced debut album, including a track that features the harmonies of Emmylou Harris and another track Montana co-wrote with his dad, songwriter Billy Montana ("More Than A Memory", "Suds In The Bucket").

The second installment of Randy's new online Van Cam Series is available now and can be viewed
- here