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The Pusher is a very interesting four-piece pop rock band from Stockholm, Sweden.

They have just released their major debut album "The Art Of Hit Music": the record dropped yesterday on the german and south african's markets, while it will out on the 20th of September in their country for EMI Records Sweden.

The Pusher is a talented band with a great commercial appeal, as the first two singles can testify: watch the video for "Blinded By The Dark" here and the one for "Blow Me And Run" here.

The swedes will supporting Sunrise Avenue in Germany, Austria and Switzerland this coming autumn. See all the dates at their webpage.

As I told you earlier, Indiana singer/songwriter Jon McLaughlin has a new album coming out.

It's titled "Forever If Ever" and Joe wrote, played and recorded it by himself, with the help of his band's players.

The album will be released this September, 6th and if you pre-order it, you get an instant download of the single "Summer Is Over".

Not sure about buying it? So, preview the whole album (90 seconds for each song) at Jon's website. The clips sound very promising!

From the bio: "Founded in Los Angeles in 2009 by a "lover and lunatic" named French, and a crew of musicians and friends, Annie Autonatic started the ceremonial fire immediately with their EP "Fighting Chances" - started, finished, and made available within 90 days. In 2010 they released 3 singles. They also began working on a more in-depth, powerful album, "Don't Look Down", to be released August, 23."

French is influenced by everything from early Beatles and Motown to the trash of glamorous punks like Iggy Pop to even the pulsating electronic sounds of the underground clubscenes in LA, NY and Europe.

Get a taste of Annie Automatic's music listening to "Burn This Prison" and "Miss McKenzie", the first two singles off "Don't Look Down", at the band's facebook page. For further info you can also visit their official webpage at annieautomatic.com.

*** UPDATE *** Annie Automatic have a brand new single out, and they're giving it away for free at their facebook page. It's called "Dear, Charlie" and, according to French "is a letter to a sad old man, who has spent his years so focused on money and shallow pursuits that he never got to truly live. It's a message to him, and anyone like him, telling that there's so much more to this life than money - which is why we were especially excited to give this song away as a free download. We hope that it gets through to someone".

English alternative rockers Young Guns let us know that their new album is close to completion. They got two more weeks booked in a studio in London to finish off the vocals and a few final touches.

The band is starting for a UK/European tour, after playing in a couple of festivals at the beginning of September. Support on UK dates will come from Every Avenue, The Xcerts and Dangerous!, while in the rest of Europe the opening bands will be What Now and Vera Cruz. In Spain and Portugal Young Guns will be supporting Yellowcard and Saves The Day.

The complete list of dates:

02.09.11 - BINGLEY (England), Bingley Music Live Festival
04.09.11 - MERTHYR TYDFIL (Wales), Merthyr Rock Festival
09.09.11 - ABERDEEN, Lemon Tree
10.09.11 - GLASGOW, QMU
11.09.11 - INVERNESS, Ironworks
12.09.11 - NEWCASTLE, Northumbria Uni
14.09.11 - MANCHESTER, Academy 2
15.09.11 - BIRMINGHAM, HMV Institute ***SOLD OUT***
16.09.11 - LONDON, HMV Forum
22.10.11 - STOCKHOLM, Klubben
23.10.11 - GOTHENBURG, Brewhouse
24.10.11 - OSLO, John Dee
26.10.11 - COPENHAGEN, Vega - Small hall
27.10.11 - HAMBURG, Molotow
28.10.11 - POZNAN, Minoga
29.10.11 - WARSAW, Radio Luxeburg
31.10.11 - HANNOVER, Chez Heinz
01.11.11 - PARIS, La Bastille
02.11.11 - EINDHOVEN, Club Dynamo
03.11.11 - AMSTERDAM, Sugar Factory
16.12.11 - BARCELONA, La[2]
17.12.11 - MADRID, Caracol
18.12.11 - LISBON, TMN AO Vivo

For more info and updates, follow this link: younggunsuk.

RA's frontman Sahaj Ticotin has just released via SoundCloud the first draft of the mix of a brand new RA's song, named "Running Blind".

It's been recorded with band's mates Ben Carroll and P.J. Farley, with special guest Dave Chavarri from Ill Nino on drums.

The new song will be uploaded on iTunes in a couple of days, as soon as Sahaj feels that the mixing is perfect. Meanwhile, listen to the released version here. Great track, by the way!

As you may know, Pearl Jam Twenty is a movie representing the definitive chronicle of the band's past two decades, written, directed and produced by Cameron Crowe.

The movie will debut next Semptember, 20th and, on the same day, Columbia Records will release the soundtrack from the film: 2 CDs with 29 rare and unreleased tracks from across the band's 20 year history.

Today Pearl Jam issued a song from the soundtrack, a live version of Mother Love Bone's "Crown Of Thorns", recorded at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on October 22nd, 2000. Stream it at their twenty website now.

One more day and we'll have the new Blue October's cd "Any Man In America" in our hands!

But, thanks to aol.com, we can stream the entire album right now, just heading to this site.

I'll talk to you later about this mighty piece of Art: right now I'm too excited and I've no sane words to describe it, except "f***in' masterpiece"!!!

Satellites & Sirens are a synth-pop rock driven band from Nashville, Tennessee. They debuted last year with an interesting self-titled full-length album through Word Records.

The lead singles of that record, "Take Me Back" and "Anchor" climbed several charts and led the band to a couple of Dove Award nominations.

But that was apparently not enough for Word Records, as the label dropped the band. Geoff Hunker & Co. chose not to give up and, with the help of a Kickstarter campaign, they raised enough money to record a new EP with producer Rusty Varenkamp, to be released later in the year.

The first taste of the EP is the single called ""Ready To Save": watch the lyric video for it here.

Edit (16/08/2011): Satellites & Sirens are giving away for free a new song called "Tell It" through NoiseTrade. Get it following this link now..

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