In one of the final clips from Sheryl Crow's EPK series in support of her new record 100 Miles From Memphis, Sheryl gives fans a little bit of background on her soulful cover of Terence Trent D'Arby's 1988 hit "

In one of the final clips from Sheryl Crow's EPK series in support of her new record 100 Miles From Memphis, Sheryl gives fans a little bit of background on her soulful cover of Terence Trent D'Arby's 1988 hit "Sign Your Name."  Be sure to watch the clip until the very end to catch a cameo from Justin Timberlake, who sings background vocals on the track  To see all the clips from the 100 Miles series visit her artist page on Vevo.com.

100 Miles From Memphis is Sheryl's seventh studio album and is available now on iTunes. Visit SherylCrow.com for all the latest updates as she travels the country on tour, now through October.

JIMMY EAT WORLD has just released their first single, "My Best Theory," off their highly anticipated album, Invented. You can hear the track now on the band's site, www.jimmyeatworld.com. On Tuesday August

JIMMY EAT WORLD has just released their first single, "My Best Theory," off their highly anticipated album, Invented. You can hear the track now on the band's site, www.jimmyeatworld.com. On Tuesday August 10th, "My Best Theory" will be available for purchase at all digital retailers and Invented will be available for pre-order at iTunes.

In addition to the release of "My Best Theory," Jimmy Eat World has added two Arizona dates to their North American headlining tour. Jimmy Eat World will play a special record release show in Tuscon, Arizona at The Rialto Theatre on September 27th and conclude their first run of dates in their hometown of Phoenix, AZ at the Marquee Theatre on October 30th. Tickets for these two shows go on sale to the public on Friday August 13th on 10am PST. Tickets for the rest of the tour are available now through the band's official site. Performing alongside Jimmy Eat World will be Phoenix resident Courtney Marie Andrews and supporting acts Civil Twilight and We Were Promised Jetpacks on select dates (details below).

Check out Jimmy Eat World's Twitter and Facebook pages for more updates on what the guys are up to and look for Invented available everywhere September 28th.

Jimmy Eat World Headlining Tour
9/21    Center Stage                                                               Atlanta, GA*
9/22    The Orange Peel                                                         Asheville NC*
9/24    Starland Ballroom                                                       Sayreville, NJ
9/25    Virgin Mobile Free Fest/Merriweather Post Pavilion    Columbia, MD
9/27    Rialto - Record Release Show                                    Tucson, AZ** / on sale Friday, August 13th at 10am (PST)
9/29    The Wiltern                                                                 Los Angeles, CA**
9/30    Warfield Theatre                                                         San Francisco, CA**
10/1    SLO Veterans' Auditorium                                          San Luis Obispo, CA**
10/3    Ogden Theatre                                                            Denver, CO**
10/4    Sokol Auditorium                                                        Omaha NE**
10/5    Pabst Theatre                                                              Milwaukee, WI**
10/7    Riviera Theatre                                                            Chicago, IL**
10/8    Royal Oak Music Theatre                                            Royal Oak, MI**
10/9    Newport Music Hall                                                    Columbus, OH**
10/11    Electric Factory                                                          Philadelphia, PA**
10/14    Terminal 5                                                                  New York, NY**
10/15    House Of Blues                                                          Boston, MA**
10/17    Kool Haus                                                                  Toronto, ON**
10/30    Marquee                                                                    Phoenix, AZ / on sale Friday, August 13th at 10am (PST)

*Civil Twilight open
** We Were Promised Jetpacks open

Chiodos To Release New Album:
Illuminaudio, Available October 5th 

Chiodos To Release New Album:
Illuminaudio, Available October 5th 

AUG 9 - Chiodos will release their third full-length album, Illuminaudio, on October 5th, 2010. The album will be the debut Chiodos recording for new lead vocalist Brandon Bolmer (formerly of Yesterday’s Rising) and drummer Tanner Wayne (formerly of Underminded and Scary Kids Scaring Kids). Alongside Bolmer and Wayne are established Chiodos members Bradley Bell (keys), Jason Hale (guitar), Pat McManaman (guitar), and Matt Goddard (bass). 

With the core composers of the music still at the heart of Chiodos, fans can be reassured that they will hear the sound that they have grown familiar with over the years. Bell explains, “Even if the lineup had stayed the same, I feel that the direction of sound would've turned out similar. We don’t feel like our vision was lost or compromised in any way throughout the writing process.”

Featuring grandiose, haunting melodies and delicate piano-work contrasting intense, bellowing screams and powerful guitar leads, Illuminaudio proves Chiodos to be just as brilliant as ever before. Bell adds, “We put an incredible amount of thought, time, sacrifice, emotion, and stress into the process of making this beautiful monster. I believe all of that will shine through the music as soon as people press play.”

Illuminaudio was written over the course of 15 months and was recorded just outside of New York City at The Machine Shop, with producer Machine [Lamb Of God, Every Time I Die, Cobra Starship].

Pre-order packages for the album will be available on MerchNow next week. The complete tracklisting for Illuminaudio can be seen below:

 1.  Illuminaudio 
 2.  Caves                       
 3.  Love Is A Cat From Hell
 4.  Modern Wolf Hair
 5.  Notes In Constellations
 6.  Scaremonger
 7.  His Story Repeats Itself 
 8.  Let Us Burn One
 
 9.  Hey Zeus! The Dungeon
10. Stratovolcano Mouth
11. Those Who Slay Together, Stay Together
12. Closed Eyes Still Look Forward

The first single off Jimmy Eat World's new album "Invented" is titled "My Best Theory" and it will be coming out tomorrow. Look for more info soon.

The first single off Jimmy Eat World's new album "Invented" is titled "My Best Theory" and it will be coming out tomorrow. Look for more info soon.

“I want my album to make people feel, I want to touch my listeners emotionally,” Jared Evan states flatly. “I want to leave a musical impact; I want to alter the state of music. I want to offer something that’s never

“I want my album to make people feel, I want to touch my listeners emotionally,” Jared Evan states flatly. “I want to leave a musical impact; I want to alter the state of music. I want to offer something that’s never been—internally diverse but still with one single musical identity. I want rock heads and hip-hop heads and mainstream listeners to enjoy it all at the same time. I think with the mélange of sounds on it, it will be a classic album.”

Immodest goals. But this is no pre-rehearsed pep talk. Jared’s eyes smolder when he talks about his creative process, and also people’s habit of trying to categorize just what to expect on Fourth Chapter, his forthcoming debut on Interscope Records. “When someone asks me what kind of music I make, I tell them all different kinds. The melodies that come out of me have been within me my whole life. The track –the changes, the chords, the energy– will make me feel a certain way and tell me what to talk about.  I’ll hear a voice on it, whether it’s rapping or singing. I don’t call myself a rapper. I’m drumming, playing percussion vocally and rhythmically. And what I talk about is just what I see out in the world that anybody can identify with. My music is a reflection of all my influences, and I have a lot of them. If it’s quality, it doesn’t matter what you call it.”

Call it mesmerizing. Jared Evan sings and raps with equal aplomb. But on this day, his voice carries a different tenor: awe. “I just got of the studio with Dr. Dre,” the jetlagged Jared stammers. “It was crazy. He really loved what we did. But just being able to work with him was so valuable.”  Indeed, the pace has quickened for this versatile 21-year-old. Merely two years ago, Jared was nonchalantly phoning in the winning verse to the Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival’s Spit 16 competition held by the Source Magazine. Today, he’s making music alongside the game’s most iconic figures such as Dr. Dre and Polow da Don. From the outside, the rise seems meteoric. But to Jared Evan, everything is going according to plan.

“This is something I always expected to do,” Jared insists. “There’s never been a time when I didn’t want to make music. When I was five years old, I started to bang on my parents’ furniture with Nok-Hockey sticks. Eventually they decided to buy me a drum set and save what was left of the furniture.” So Jared spared the chair legs and focused his energy on mimicking his father’s idols John Bonham and Keith Moon—inherited as his own idols. Destructive about-faced to productive.

But all was not well. As it turned out, Jared’s penchant for percussion betrayed other forces at work. “From the beginning of my life, I had behavioral issues,” Jared reveals. “It turned out to be ADHD. I got suspended all the time, starting in preschool. After 6th grade, the public school system had enough and mandated I attend a therapeutic boarding school, a facility for troubled kids. I saw a lot there I’d never seen. It took me out of the box I had always lived in and dropped me into the real world. It made me tougher, and it made me understand and read people better.”

And in reading Jared, one can only commend his turning a dark period into a bright spot. The school not only offered stability, but a galvanizing watershed moment: exposure to hip-hop, namely the raw funk of Wu-Tang’s “M.E.T.H.O.D. Man.” Jared’s appetite was insatiable. He began supplementing his meaty rock background with this newfound delicacy. He concocted an intoxicating rock/rap/pop blend, which he translated into his Radio in My Head mixtape. Jared and his manager Matt Graham put the tape, a fecund artistic canvas smacking of Radiohead’s scope and breadth, in the hands of their friend and famed hip-hop video director Rik Cordero. Rik and Jared conjured a series of immersive videos to support the tape. Label offers flooded in, and Jared chose the vaunted Interscope camp as his new musical home. The stage was set for Fourth Chapter.

Fourth Chapter is an amazingly organic mixture of styles, genres, tempos, and vibes. Nothing feels forced or out of place, each song a fitting piece to a larger whole. Part of that coherence stems from the production. While most albums today are an ill-fitting mishmash of myriad producers, Fourth Chapter is not. The bulk of the beats comes from Grammy-nominated boardsmith Ill Factor and also Evan’s supreme ally, Polow Da Don, who hosted Radio in My Head and who contributed scorching first single “In Love With You,” available for download on iTunes. “This reminds me of ‘Whole Lotta Love’ by Led Zeppelin,” harkens Jared, who sings/shrieks his way through the album’s opening salvo. “To me it carries an angry tone, like ‘I’m mad at you right now, but I still love you.’” The emotive song is brought to life in a video by Bernard Gourley.

“Better Now” displays the artist’s ample creative range. A surging, rollicking drumbeat and synth soundscape underpin Jared’s evocative singing. “The beat just made me feel vulnerable,” he notes. “The song refers to a relationship that was getting old and stale and strained. There was a lot of pain involved. It was something that I needed to let go of for both of our sakes.” That accessibility also courses through “Say Goodbye,” a melancholy ballad full of vivid cityscapes and pithy turns of phrase like “Sitting still is making me exhausted.

Elsewhere, “Fourth Chapter” is Jared’s proudest moment. It is an aural and visual tour de force, a visceral slap upside the head to a listener tiring of today’s repetitive fare. “I just saw a camera in my head,” Jared shares. “The camera was panning on all my different musical influences. So without thinking about it, I broke the verses up into eras and genres and identified them by chapter. The first verse is chapter one, and it’s all about classic rock; in addition to Zep and the Who you hear about the Beatles, Queen, Eric Clapton, the Police, so on. Then comes more modern rock like Sublime and Radiohead. Then I run through rap influences like Mos Def, The Roots, A Tribe Called Quest, the Wu-Tang Clan, Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg. It continues up to the point I’m at now musically. The song is totally spontaneous; it didn’t exist in my head before the very moment I created it. Now it’s the name of my album. Conceptually it’s everything that I am.”

Jared's manager Matt Graham says this about his long time friend and client: "Jared's music represents Americana, at a time where music is heavily influenced by euro beats and programmed synths, he is fusing classic rock sounds with hip hop sensibilities to create something fresh while also eliciting a sense of nostalgia."That kind of appeal, wrapped up in a unique sonic package, is the heart of Jared Evan. He conveys truth and insight in a remarkably entertaining way. A listen to Fourth Chapter doesn’t prompt confusion

Sum 41 have released their latest video update from Warped Tour 2010. This time the guys start in Coney Island and enjoy what little time they have at the water park. Then the group heads to Milwaukee and Cincinnati to give the large crowds an amazing show for which they are known.

Sum 41 have released their latest video update from Warped Tour 2010. This time the guys start in Coney Island and enjoy what little time they have at the water park. Then the group heads to Milwaukee and Cincinnati to give the large crowds an amazing show for which they are known.

Check out the video and visit www.Sum41.com for more information.

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