After announcing our involvement with Lily Allen's New York debut show, we soon started to realize how much buzz this young singer had generated. Probably in hopes of capitalizing on it and to generate further interest, Lily Allen is set to release her first US EP 'Smile' on September 26th. Featuring four tracks, 'Smile,' 'Cheryl Tweedy,' 'Absolutely Nothing' and 'Smile (Gutter Mix)' this EP will proceed the US release of her debut album 'Alright, Still,' which will drop next year on January...

In support of her forthcoming album, 'Public Warning,' due out October 17th via Def Jam, Lady Sovereign will hit the road beginning at the end of October. After opening up for The Streets for a handful of shows, Lady Sovereign will go at it on her own this time around. TOUR DATES 10-23 Montreal, QC - Club Soda 10-24 Toronto, ON - Opera House 10-26 Boston, MA - Paradise Rock Club 10-28 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club 10-29 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom 10-30 New York, NY - Bowery...

With TV On The Radio's 'Return To Cookie Mountain' set to be released next week on September 12th via Interscope Records, AOL is now exclusively playing the video for "Wolf Like Me" at aolmusicindie.com (also below through the powers of linking). And if I had to give my opinion, this video is done much better than 2006's VMA Rock Video Winner, A.F.I.

With a handful of fall tour dates, as well as recent tours, getting your fill of Jamie Lidell isn't too hard. But for those that can't get enough, he is set to perform on the Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson on 10/30. Additionally, while it has not been official announced, he will perform at the Beck-curated "Wired Magazine Next Fest" on 9/26 in NYC. 10/26/06 - Austin, TX @ The Parish 10/28/06 - New Orleans, LA @ Voodoo Music Fest 10/27/06 - Chicago, IL @ Metro 10/29/06 - Las Vegas,...

KCRW is going to offer Skye's "Morning Becomes Eclectic" performance of "Love Show" as a featured download on September 12th! KCRW has recently started a new feature on their new music stream, kcrwmusic.com - a daily download called "Today’s Top Tune." Each day, a new song is featured for just 24 hours on kcrwmusic.com, aol and iTtunes. Here's what you need to do to access the song: 1) Go to iTunes music store 2) Search for KCRW 3) KCRW's" Today's Top Tune" podcast icon...

A pioneer and influential super-DJ, Gilles Peterson is renowed for his deep and diverse record collection, influencing artists from New Zealand to Croatia, Nigeria to the U.S. This fall Gilles will cross the Atlantic for an inimitable DJ Set at Cielo (NYC), October 17th. Peterson a long time worldwide club DJ, BBC Radio 1 personality, and Record label owner (Brownswood Recordings) is the original innovator of modern music. A master of what he terms “joining the dots”, Gilles’...

Now in it's 13th year, Billboard's annual Dance Music Summit, will take place in Las Vegas this year from September 17-20 at the Palms Casino Resort. Considered dance music industry’s most important business-to-business event, this year hosts a handful of panelists with appearances by Kristine W., Jody Watley, Ferry Corsten, Kaskade and Junkie XL. For a complete schedule of events, see below or visit www.myspace.com/bbdms ....

Yes, it may seem like DJs who are still spinning vinyl are a dying breed, but Compost Records sees things differently. For they recently released the 45 Twister, which allows DJs to be able to scratch, mix and cut a 7-inch record just as perfect as a 12-inch. Working on every turntable, the 45 Twister was developed and designed by DJ Enne. To get a better understanding on why they decided to bring this to the market, and to make sure they weren't just going crazy, we got a chance to have a...

By now, most of you probably heard that Mos Def was arrested last night, after giving an unauthorized performance in front of NYC's Radio City Music Hall during the MTV Video Music Awards. According to reports, the Brooklyn bred rapper pulled up around 10pm in a flat-bed truck and started to perform the song "Katrina Clap," a song that attacks President Bush's slow response to Hurricane Katrina, before being arrested. While it is not known what exactly happened that an arrest had to...

With MySpace slowly becoming a dumping ground, many MySpace competitors are looking to provide an alternative. One such site is epiTUNES. Like MySpace, epiTUNES allows users to create custom profiles and artists to create band pages with music, iamges, bios, and upcoming shows dates. However, with Web 2.0 features, such as podcasts, blogs, RSS feeds, tagging, rankings, etc., epiTUNES give users the ability to do far more than what MySpace gives you. According to co-founder Toren Ajk,...