Chris Cornell is pleased to announce the release of his new song "The Keeper", lead track on the original motion picture soundtrack for forthcoming movie "Machine Gun Preacher".

Based on a true story, the movie is directed by Marc Forster (Finding Neverland, Monster's Ball) and stars Gerard Butler (300, The Phantom of the Opera) as Sam Childers, a former drug-dealing criminal who finds faith leading him on a path to East Africa. Shocked by the mayhem in Sudan, Childers becomes a crusader for hundreds of refugee children fleeing death and enslavement.

A portion of all sales of "The Keeper" go directly to Sam Childer's Angels of East Africa charity. The track is now available for sale on iTunes and the full moviesoundtrack album is released September 20. Machine Gun Preacher hits select US theatres on September 23.

The trio use to draw from the worlds in graphic novels and the music of NIN, The Cure and Muse, but with "Sleepwalker" the inspirations were a little different: "For this album we wanted to really explore our cinematic influences first, then pull from our musical influences. I wanted the record to sound like a soundtrack to movies like "The Crow" or "The Dark Knight." explains Brandon. "The bands we were listening to at the time that also helped influence us were Innerpartysystem, Daft Punk, The Prodigy, Justice, 30 Seconds To Mars, Filter and The Faint."

The first single off the new album is called "Glass". Watch the video, directed by Chris Do, by clicking here.

"Sleepwalker" has been produced by Brandon Smith, Chris Lietz and Jurgen Engler and it's out now via Cleopatra Records.

To celebrate the 21st anniversary of their first single issue, Manic Street Preachers are releasing an ultimate singles collection on October, 31st.

"National Treasures – The Complete Singles" gathers 38 songs from the band's rich history, starting with initial Heavenly Records release "Motown Junk" (1990) to tracks taken from last year's "Postcards From A Young Man" album – the band's tenth which was greeted with universal critical acclaim.

The album will be released in several formats: as a double CD, a 2 x CD + DVD set featuring all 38 videos and some bonus video content and an amazing box set with 38 x vinyl finish CD Singles, a poster, a DVD of all the videos, 7" vinyl of "New Art Riot", "Suicide Alley", "Jackie Collins Existential Question Time", Manics lipstick and vanity mirror and a limited number will also contain a 7" of "Motown Junk". All the singles have been re-mastered.

"National Treasures" also features a brand new song: it's called "This Is The Day" and will be available as a single from September 18th. It's a cover of the 1983 The The track taken from the synth-noir classic album "Soul Mining".

Florence + The Machine have just released a new song called "What The Water Gave Me": it's the first single off the second, as-yet-untitled, studio album, which will be released on November 7th.

"The song is about water in all forms and all bodies -Florence explains- "It's about a lot of things; Virginia Woolf creeps into it, and of course Frida Kahlo, whose painfully beautiful painting gave me the title."

"What The Water Gave Me" was released on iTunes in the UK on August 23, 2011. See the official video, featuring Paul Epworth, producer of the track, here.

Singer/songwriter Will Hoge from Nashville, Tennessee is primed to release his seventh studio album, aptly titled "Number Seven", on September 27th via Rykodisc Records.

Every Monday & Friday up until his album release, Hoge will be counting down the days with an official track-by-track webisode series on his Facebook page. The first two webisodes are already online.

The first single from the the new album is a song called "When I Get My Wings" and is already available on iTunes.

Click here to check out a video of Will singing it on The Grand Ole Opry, August 19th.

Tiffany Arbuckle Lee (a.k.a. PLUMB) is a contemporary christian singer/songwriter who has released 5 full-length studio albums and contributed to numerous film and TV soundtracks. She has also written for other artists (such as Mandy Moore and Michelle Branch) and garnered wide acceptance in the dance/remix community.

She's about to release "Drifting", the first single from her upcoming new album, featuring Dan Haseltine of Jars Of Clay (see the trailer here).

NoiseTrade has just released a free 6-track career-spanning sampler that includes the 2011 versions of "Damaged" and "Blush".

This is a great opportunity to get in touch with PLUMB's music and extraordinary voice and prepare yourself for the new album. The sampler is available only for 3 days, so grab it now clicking on the image on the left.

Singer/songwriter Joe Hedges is the frontman of Ohio-based alternative rock band July For Kings.

What you can see clicking on the image on the left, is the new video for the song "Ladders", from his second solo studio album "Alchemy". The video was directed by Keith Rutowski and shot and edited by Chris Joecken in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Joe is also a visual artist that has shown paintings, photographs and collages at galleries around the tri-state area. To learn more about his art, head on to his website now.

Hollywood Records released a few days ago "Shallow Bay: The Best of Breaking Benjamin", a compilation album from the Pennsylvanian alternative hard rock band that features every song they released as a single, including the remixed version of "Blow Me Away" featuring Valora (see the video for this version of the track here).

A 2-disc deluxe version was also released on the same day as the regular version, the second disc of which includes b-sides, covers, acoustic performances, live recordings and other rarities.

Released last August 16th, "Shallow Bay" debuted at the first place of the Billboard US Hard Rock Albums Chart (22nd place on the general US Billboard 200).