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Thursday, October 18, 2007

 

SOUNDS GOOD


Fly to Vegas if you’re a J. Lo fan

  ON October 26, Jennifer Lopez will have a concert at the MGM Las Vegas and one Filipino fan will be flown to Las Vegas to watch the concert for free! Sony BMG Music Entertainment has hatched this promotion with the MYX Music channel via the “Brave Fly Away” contest.

Jennifer Lopez’s new pop album is called Brave and it’s the Latina superstar’s second CD release this year. Her first was the all-Spanish album Como Ama Una Mujer, which made history as the highest-selling Spanish album debut. For this hotly anticipated new album, Lopez returns to her hip-hop roots, as evidenced by the CD’s first single, the up-tempo “Do It Well.” Fans of Lopez’s classic dance singles will definitely start grooving to her new hits like “Hold It Don’t Drop It,” “Forever,” “Gotta Be There,” “Mile in These Shoes” plus other catchy, upbeat dance tracks and a few ballads.

On the other side of the fence, Lopez is busy promoting the movie El Cantante where she shares the spotlight with real-life partner Marc Anthony. Both are currently on tour at some of the hottest venues in the United States and Canada to promote the film and their musical works. Few artists have traveled so effortlessly from one artistic medium to another as Lopez with her incredibly array of talent as an acclaimed movie actress, a chart-topping musical artist and a fashion industry entrepreneur. Get a copy now of Jennifer Lopez new album Brave, tune in to MYX and who knows, you might be in Vegas before Halloween.


No one ever gets tired of Barry Manilow

TIMELESS musical artist Barry Manilow revisits the songs of the decade that launched his career—the seventies. The Greatest Songs of the Seventies is the next release of music giant Sony-BMG in a best-selling series of tribute albums of popular music which already includes the fifties and the sixties.

The new album is a fan’s dream wish-list of favorites covering both sides of the Atlantic, from The Beatles’ “The Long and Winding Road,” to Elton John’s “Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word,” as well as a duet with Melissa Manchester on Carole King’s “You’ve Got a Friend.” Other selections include Simon & Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” the “Hollies’s “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother,” Albert Hammond’s “It Never Rains in Southern California,” and The Carpenters’ “(They Long To Be) Close To You.”

Manilow’s tributes are flawlessly performed and arranged, starting with a homage to Barbra Streisand’s “The Way We Were,” Frankie Valli’s “My Eyes Adored You,” the Bee Gees’ “How Can You Mend A Broken Heart,” and the Christopher Cross masterpiece “Sailing.”

The 18-track CD also includes a section called Acoustic Manilow. For the first time ever, new, stripped-down acoustic versions of “Mandy,” “I Write The Songs,” “Weekend in New England,” “Even Now,” “Looks Like We Made It” and “Copacabana (At the Copa).”


Wildlife: Pupil’s all-original CD

  AFTER a very successful nationwide campaign for their debut album Beautiful Machines, Pupil returns to the scene with their much-awaited follow-up album, Wildlife, and is ready to surprise listeners with the group’s newest, rock sound that is totally its own.

With its carrier single “Sala” already burning up the country’s rock music charts for weeks even before the release date, Wildlife is definitely set to revolutionize the OPM scene and turn it upside-down and inside out.

For this all-original 12-track stunner, Ely Buendia (vocals, guitar), Yan Yuzon (guitars, vocals), Dok Sergio (bass, vocals) and brand-new drummer Wendell Garcia acquired the much sought-after services of producer Jerome Velasco (also of Teeth, The Mongols, Daydream Cycle) to create a fresh global sound for OPM rock. The monstrous result is one of the most gargantuan sounding track records in Philippine music history.

Other sure-fire hits are also in tow, such as “Monoblock,” “Talon,” “Sumasabay’ and fan-fave “Disconnection Notice.” It also features the eagerly anticipated release of “Set Me Apart,” which international cable TV animation giant Animax adopted as its theme song, thereby flying Pupil’s music out to broader international music markets in Southeast Asia via a killer video filmed in Manila, animated in Malaysia, and aired from Singapore.

Wildlife is out in stores now, for all who live in the wild, under Sony BMG Music Entertainment and is presented in cooperation with Red Horse Extra Strong Beer, Information Gateway and Animax.


The best dancers in one SUPAH album

THE much-awaited ASAP Supahdance Album is finally out in the market. From the amazing team-up of ASAP Music and Star Records, CD is a must-have for all the dance aficionados.

The ASAP Supahdance Album contains 14 hip tracks of various dance mixes with original dance steps from some of showbiz’s sought-after dance royalties: Ultimate Dance Four (UD4), Gerald Anderson, Gabriel Valenciano, Iya Villania, Full Circle, Saicy Aquila/Mickey Perz, Wowowee’s ASF Girls, Kitty Girls, Vina Morales, Vhong Navarro and Kokey.

Stomp to the Supahdance beat with dance instructional music videos of the tunes “Supahdance Interlude,” “Dulce Tirah Tirah,” “Stop N Go” and “Kokey Dance Remix.”

Find out who truly reigns on the dance floor. The ASAP Supahdance Album will soon be released internationally.

   
 

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