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BRETT DENNEN
HOPE FOR THE HOPELESS
3 / 4 STARS
People Magazine
Oct. 29, 2008
TRACK LISTING:
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San Francisco
Make You Crazy (feat.
Femi Kuti)
3. Heaven
4. Closer To You
5. Wrong About Me
6. So Far From Me
7. When She’s Gone
8. World Keeps Turning
9. Who Do You Think You
Are?
10. Follow Your Heart
11. Ain’t Gonna Lose You
With the release of Hope For The
Hopeless, the folk and rock influenced
singer/songwriter’s authenticity,
willingness to weave meaning into his
melodies and reputation as one of the
best new live performers, Brett calls to
mind his influences. Drawing on a deep
appreciation of Paul Simon, Joni
Mitchell and World artists, Hope For
The Hopeless is a narrative-rich album
from an artist who was aptly summed
up by Grammy winning musician John
Mayer, who said, “He’s timeless. He’s
probably twenty-five but he seems like
he’s twenty-five in 1972.”
In fact, several musicians have given Brett
the “nod.” He has toured with Mayer and
received praise from Michael Franti and
Jason Mraz. Femi Kuti flew in specifically
to record with Dennen and the
collaboration is the new album’s first
single, “Make You Crazy.”
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TONIGHT SHOW WITH JAY LENO performance 1/14
LATE NIGHT WITH CONAN O’BRIEN performance 2/9
“Make You Crazy” will make its move to the Hot AC radio format in
January
“Make You Crazy” video serviced January 5th
“Ain’t Gonna Lose You” featured in Grey’s Anatomy
Full media servicing
National and regional advertising
Montreal @ Cabaret du Musee Juste Pour Rire Feb 15th
Toronto @ The Mod Club Theatre - Feb 16th
Catalogue Number
Price Code
Label
RIYL
FNCD5548
SP
Downtown Records / Fontana
North
Jason Mraz, Jack Johnson,
Dave Matthews
Bar Code
Format
File
Order Due
CD
Pop
January 15, 2009
Box Lot
G.C.
Street Date
30
33
February 3, 2009
03020 14252
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For more information please contact Chad Wiseman:
chad.wiseman@fontananorth.com
The Brighton Port Authority
TRACK LISTING:
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He’s Frank (feat. Iggy Pop)
Dirty Sheets (feat. Pete York)
Seattle (feat. Emmy The
Great)
Jumps The Fence (feat.
Conan)
Electric Love (instrumental)
Should I Stay Or Should I
Blow (feat. Ashley Beedle)
Spade (feat. Martha
Wainwright)
Super Lover (feat.
Cagedbaby)
Superman (fea. Simon
Thornton)
Island (feat. Justin Robertson)
Sme As The Came (feat.
Jamie T)
So Fuckt (feat. Lateff)
Toe Jam (feat. David Byrne &
Dizzee Rascal)
So It Goes (Olly Hite)
I Think We’re Gonna Need
A Bigger Boat
The legendary forgotten sessions of
The Brighton Port Authority were
recently uncovered much to the
surprise of The Chairman of The BPA
Norman Cook and his long standing
studio partner Simon Thornton. The
tapes had been sitting in a disused
warehouse space and discovered as
the building was to be knocked down.
Genre bending music that was ahead
of it’s time feature collaborations with
Iggy Pop, David Byrne, Jamie T,
Martha Wainwright amongst many
others creating nothing short of a
historic masterpiece.
KEY SELLING POINTS:
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This is a new project from Norman Cook, aka dj FATBOY SLIM
FEATURES: David Byrne, Iggy Pop, Martha Wainwright, Jamie T, Dizzee
Rascal and more
Serviced Toe Jam to select AAA leaning Hot AC stations, select CHR stations,
CBC and College Radio
Full national press servicing for reviews and features
www.thebrightonportauthority.com
Video for Toe Jam was serviced to MuchMusic
Catalogue Number
Price Code
Label
RIYL
CDSFR001
SP
Southern Fried
Records/Fontana North
Fatboy Slim, David Byrne,
Dizzee Rascal
Bar Code
Format
File
Order Due
CD
Pop
January 15, 2008
Box Lot
G.C.
Street Date
30
33
February 3, 2009
34457 50532
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For more information please contact:
Jennifer.mcleod@fontananorth.com
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Ben Kweller
RECORDING NOTES:
All songs written and produced
by Ben Kweller.
All-analogue recording – tracked
to 2” tape, with limited overdubs.
TRACK LISTING:
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Gypsy Rose
Old Hat
Fight
Hurtin’ You
Ballad Of Wendy Baker
Sawdust Man
Wantin’ Her Again
Things I Like To Do
On Her Own
Homeward Bound
Changing Horses
I grew up in a small east-Texas town called
Greenville where my whole childhood was spent
playing in creeks, bass fishing, shooting BB
guns, thinking about girls and listening to Garth.
After The Beatles and before Nirvana, country
music was the soundtrack to my life. That
music shaped who I am. My albums, which
tend to be diverse, usually have one or two cuts
on them that are rootsy-americana-folkiewhatever-the-fuck ya wanna call it. This album
just focuses on that one side of me. The stories
are all over the place. – BK
Over the course of his three studio albums,
Ben Kweller has become known as a topshelf purveyor of the powerhouse pop
song, but on his new album, a straight-up
country charmer, he has gone back to his
roots. “Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson –
those guys ruled the radio when I was 11.
So some of the first songs I wrote as a kid,
before I got into punk rock and
underground bands, were country songs.”
For Kweller, who was influenced at a
young age by the records his father’s
high-school buddy Nils Lofgren made
with Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen,
releasing a country album is the
realization of a long-held goal. “We
recorded it in 11 days but Changing
Horses is 13 years in the making.”
KEY SELLING POINTS:
North American tour in February 2009 includes a show at Toronto’s Mod Club on
February 22nd. Kweller has a solid touring history in Canada.
Digital marketing will be a major driver for this project – the last album, 2006’s Ben
Kweller, scanned 15% digital.
Catalogue Number
Price Code
Label
RIYL
88088-21645-2
SP
MapleMusic Recordings/ATO
Records
Ryan Adams, Jeff Tweedy
Bar Code
Format
File
Order Due
CD
Alternative
January 15, 2009
Box Lot
G.C.
Street Date
30
2
February 3, 2009
For more sales-related information please contact Jennifer McLeod: jennifer.mcleod@fontananorth.com
For more marketing-related information please contact Tara Luft: tara.luft@maplemusicrecordings.com
Various Artists
Music From Degrassi The Next Generation
TRACK LISTING:
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PARAMORE – Misery Business
RED JUMPSUIT APPARATUS
– Face Down
THE ACADEMY IS – Neighbors
HELLOGOODBYE – All Time
Lows
NATASHA BEDINGFIELD –
Pocketful Of Sunshine
JAKE EPSTEIN – My Window
SKYE SWEETNAM – (Let’s Get
Movin) Into Action
ALL TOO MUCH – More Than
A Friend
ARMY OF ME – How Long
ALL TIME LOW – Come One,
Come All
THE HIGHER – Rock My Body
SILVERSTEIN – Bodies And
Words
JAKALOPE – Degrassi Theme
Song
This soundtrack accompanies the
7th Season of Canada’s longest
running and favorite teen drama,
Degrassi: The Next Generation
and features some of radio’s
hottest new North American acts.
From Grammy nominated
Paramore to SoCal indie sensation
Hellogoodbye, this record is sure to
rock the socks off of teenyboppers
nationwide. And if that isn’t
enough, also included is Natasha
Bedingfield’s remix of her Top 20
hit single Pocketful Of Sunshine,
featured in the show, and
exclusively available here!
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Highest-rated show on Nickelodeon’s “The-N” network in the United Stated
Most-watched domestic drama series in Canada
Winner of nine Gemini Awards, two Teen Choice Awards and five Directors
Guild of Canada Awards
Exclusive Johnny Vicious Radio Mix of Natasha Bedingfield’s Pocketful Of
Sunshine
All songs featured in Season 7 episodes, including gold and platinum artists:
Paramore, Red Jumpsuit, Apparatus, Natasha Bedingfield, and Hellogoodbye
Catalogue Number
Price Code
Label
RIYL
859104
SP
Bulletproof/Fontana North
Jake Epstein, Natasha
Bedingfield, Paramore
Bar Code
Format
File
Order Due
CD
Soundtracks
ASAP
Box Lot
G.C.
Street Date
25
19
December 30, 2008
05859 10422
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For more information please contact:
Jennifer.mcleod@fontananorth.com
VARIOUS ARTISTS
TRACK LISTING:
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GET RHYTHM - Philip Steir Remix
BIG RIVER - Count de Money
Remix
COUNTRY BOY - Sonny J Remix
I WALK THE LINE Featuring
SNOOP DOGG - QDT Muzic Remix
DOIN’ MY TIME - The Heavy Remix
LEAVE THAT JUNK ALONE Alabama 3 Remix
PORT OF LONELY HEARTS Midnight Juggernauts Remix
FOLSOM PRISON BLUES - Pete
Rock Remix
STRAIGHT A’S IN LOVE Troublemaker Remix
SUGARTIME - Kennedy Remix
ROCK ISLAND LINE - Wolf Remix
BELSHAZZAR - Machine Drum
Remix
I HEARD THAT LONESOME
WHISTLE BLOW - Apparat Remix
BONUS TRACKS:
Music World Music licensed classic
Johnny Cash songs from legendary Sun
Records (the first label to introduce Elvis,
Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Roy
Orbison, among others). Johnny Cash is
an icon of American music. And as such
his work has touched every
contemporary genre, from Rock to Pop,
from Emo to Hip Hop. The exciting
possibility presented by the Sun catalog
asked the question “what would have
been?” These songs were recorded with
Cash’s band, the Tennessee Two, and
were pure and stark with only the
essentials; guitar, light percussion and
Johnny’s unmistakable voice. The
challenge was to maintain Cash’s
fantastic charm and personality while
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Catalogue Number
CR9295122
Includes “Making Of” documentary DVD
Advertising in Details, Big Shot, Remix, and ACL. Online banners on Pitchfork
and Stereogum
Full media servicing
Publicity in Rolling Stone, Spin, E! Online, Blender, Spin, Paste, Pitchfork,
Stereogum, People and many more
Many promotional contest giveaways including a customized MP3 giveaway at
CMT.com and guitar giveaway at artistdirect.com and bullz-eye.com
National and regional print advertising
Price Code
CR9295121
SP
Bar Code
MM
Format
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filling out the sound and creating bold reinterpretations. The remix producer’s
reverence and gratitude were essential to
the process. Our goal was to bring the
sensibility and technology of 2008 to
recordings universally accepted as
timeless with the endorsement and
cooperation of the custodians of Johnny
Cash’s legacy.
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WIDE OPEN ROAD - Count de
Money Remix
TRAIL TO MEXICO - Mexican
Institute of Sound Remix
HEY PORTER - Mocean Worker
Remix
KATY TOO - DJ Enjay Remix
MY TREASURE - J. Scott G Remix
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Johnny Cash Remixed
CD/DVD
LP
Box Lot
30
Label
RIYL
Music World/Fontana South
Snoop Dogg, Alabama 3,
Everlast
File
Order Due
Pop
January 08, 2009
G.C.
Street Date
34
For more information please contact Chad Wiseman:
Chad.wiseman@fontananorth.com
January 27, 2009
Chamillionaire
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Mixtape Messiah 6
World Domination Intro
Remember The Name
Aint Playin Wit You
You Loose
Publicity Stunt
Untouchable
Switch Styles Reloaded
Internet Nerd’s Argue
You Don’t Know Me
Big Bad Boss
Focused
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The World Aint Ready
Message Erased
The Media Maniac
Skit
Koopas Revenge
Too Playa
The Mail Box
Check My Stats
No Next Time
Koopa Break
Venom Kills
Chamillionaire is a platinum selling and Grammy Award-winning hip-hop artist who has received lots of
love in the mainstream. But before he was ‘Ridin Dirty’ on commercial radio, he was the underground
mixtape king for all of Houston thanks to his legendary Mixtape Messiah series.
Now, a wiser and more fluent Chamillionaire drops his latest installment exclusively through 101
Distribution, appropriately entitled Mixtape Messiah 6. There are 22 new and never before released tracks
featuring the Houston kingpin as the center of attention and there are even several hot collaborations with
neighborhood rappers Trae, Slim Thug and Killa Kyleon. With high quality records, Mixtape Messiah 6 is
an instant classic.
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Catalogue Number
Price Code
Label
RIYL
10104236
S
101 Distribution/Fontana North
Young Jeezy, T.I.
Bar Code
Format
File
Order Due
CD
Rap/Hip-Hop
January 15, 2009
Box Lot
G.C.
Street Date
25
34
February 3, 2009
02061 57832
6
For more information please contact:
jennifer.mcleod@fontananorth.com
Queer As Folk
The Ultimate Threesome/Seasons Three, Four & Five
Queer As Folk is an American and
Canadian television series co-production,
produced by Showtime and Temple Street
Productions which was based on the
British series of the same name created by
Russell T Davies. The show was noted for
its somewhat frank depiction of gay life, as
well as its vivid sex scenes. The show
drew strong ratings for both Showtime and
Canada’s Showcase. The series ran for
five seasons (2000 to 2005 on Showtime
and 2001 to 2005 on Showcase). Another
US cable channel owned by Viacom, Logo,
began broadcasting edited, commercially
sponsored episodes of QAF on 21
September 2006.
posted on January 9 and one additional
episode will be posted each week until all
56 episodes from Season 1, 2 and 3 are
online by December 15, 2008.
As of January 9 2008, Showcase began
offering Queer as Folk episodes or their
website. The first seven episodes were
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Featuring such artists as Cassius, Soundtrack Of Our Lies, Broken
Social Scene, Scissor Sisters, Fatboy Slim, Ultra Nate, Madeleine
Peyroux, P.J. Harvey, Marilyn Manson and many more!
Key markets: Montreal, Toronto, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver
Catalogue Number
Price Code
Label
RIYL
TB17192
BA
Tommy Boy/Universal
Queer As Folk
Bar Code
Format
File
Order Due
4 x CD
Soundtrack/Alternative
January 15, 2009
Box Lot
G.C.
Street Date
15
19/2
February 3, 2009
61868 17192
1
For more information please contact:
Jennifer.mcleod@fontananorth.com
Patti Smith
Dream Of Life
“Steven Sebring’s gorgeous,
up-close-and-personal doc
about the legendary rocker is
both a journey into Smith’s
storied past and a portrait of
her life today.” – New York
Magazine
“An act of rapturous
devotion…joyous, elegiac,
warm and vibrantly present,”
– Manohla Dargis, The New
York Times
“Few documentaries about
living artists get as deep into
their subject’s brain and
heart as this one about the
rock priestess and poetess.”
– NY Daily News
Eleven years in the making, Patti Smith:
Dream Of Life is a unique and intimate
portrait of the renowned singer, songwriter,
poet, and activist. Patti Smith’s music,
poetry, and politics are fearless, funny, raw,
and original.
Photographer-director Steven Sebring
creates a beautiful collage of images,
memories, and performances, illuminating the
complexities and capturing the essence of
this distinctive, legendary icon. The film
traces Patti Smith’s punk-poet roots
throughout the trails of daily life and untimely
deaths that have formed her life and art.
Smith narrates the film touching on her early
days in New York City, the people dearest to
her (late husband Fred ‘Sonic’ Smith, Allen
Ginsberg, Robert Mapplethorpe, and others),
her family, and the political causes she
champions.
Through beautiful cinematography (both black &
white and color), Sebring captures the essential
nature of this vital and relevant American artist.
KEY SELLING POINTS:
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Key markets: Quebec (Montreal), Ontario (Toronto), Calgary, Edmonton,
Vancouver
Extensive music site banner ads and online promotions with Facebook,
Myspace and Google
Aggressive print and online campaign in national music, political and
entertainment media
Special features include deleted scenes, an interview with Patti’s son Jackson
Smith, theatrical trailer, 16 min raw footage montage
Catalogue Number
Price Code
Label
RIYL
PALMDV3166
PP
Palm Pictures/Fontana North
Joni Mitchell, Kate Bush, Rickie
Lee Jones
Bar Code
Format
File
Order Due
DVD
Rock
January 8, 2009
Box Lot
G.C.
Street Date
30
37
January 27, 2009
60200 31662
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For more information please contact:
Jennifer.mcleod@fontananorth.com
FIRES OF ROME
You Kingdom You
TRACK LISTING:
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Dawn Lament
Set In Stone
It Makes Me Weak
Songs As Yet
Unsong
5. Bronx Bobardier
6. Love Is A Burning
Thing
7. Handgernade
8. But You’re Such A
Cherry
9. I’ll Take You Down
10. Monkey In A Cage
Not much is known about the true origins of
Fires Of Rome, but regardless of how it all
happened they have recorded what is sure to be
one of next year’s most enthralling and
captivating debuts. On You Kingdom You,
Andrew Wyatt, Matt Kranz and Gunnar make the
kind of sound that embodies everything that is
exciting about music today: uncategorized,
anthemic and daring.
The heartbreaking “Dawn Lament” kicks off the
album eith its keyboard drone, military beat and
a guitar that sounds like horn stabs. The driving
beat and riff descend into a frail piano melody
and rise back up. These adventurous song
structures abound in You Kingdom You. “Set
In Stone” think funk bass and chic-like guitar
build up to a soaring chorus sung in a
shimmering falsetto. “Songs As Yet Unsung” has
a punk ferocity with glam rock sheen that dares
you to attempt remaining still. The T. Rex stomp
and seductive vocal of “But You’re Such A Cherry”
illustrate the song’s tale of coming on to someone
younger.
Fires Of Rome have made an album of the highest
quality at a time when the album is an endangered
species. Listen to it beginning to end and then do it
again, this is one of the few new artists who can
captivate you for ten songs and leave you wanting
more.
**SHORT SELL CYCLE**
KEY SELLING POINTS:
• Servicing to college and specialty radio
• Digital promotion campaign that includes one million banners bought via
indiechick
• Reviews already confirmed in: Interview, BlackBook, Hustler Men’s Health,
Metro.Pop, Zink Magazine, Spin Magazine, Rolling Stone, Under The
Radar, and PitchFork
• Aggressive PR campaign
• Video shot directed by Asa Mader – Cold Play
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Catalogue Number
Price Code
Label
RIYL
TH02
SP
The Hours/Fontana South
Pop Levi, M83
Bar Code
Format
File
Order Due
CD
Rock
January 1, 2009
Box Lot
G.C.
Street Date
30
37
January 20, 2009
44003 70312
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For more information please contact Chad Wiseman:
Chad.wiseman@fontananorth.com
Gutter Tactics
Dalek
TRACK LISTING:
1.
Blessed Are They Who
Bash Your Children’s
Heads Against A Rock
2. No Question
3. Armed With Krylon
4. Who Medgar Evers
Was…
5. Street Diction
6. A Collection Of Miserable
7. Thoughts Laced With Wit
Los Macheteros / Spear
Of A Nation
8. We Lost Sight
9. Gutter Tactics
10. 2012 (The Pillage)
11. Atypical Stereotypical
Newark, NJ’s underground hiphop duo, Dalek (pronounced dialekt) start the New Year with the
group’s fifth album, Gutter
Tactics. A group whose intense
lyrics would clear the air even as
its sonic density threatened to
clear the room. This is a
collection of who they are at this
point and what they see around
them, so it’s a dark album, full of
anger, some fear and also hope.
influences and spitting out sonic
altercations that have seen the
group garner tremendous
European support even as they
stay true to their east coast
origins. It’s an album that’s raw,
heavy but full of clarity.
Dalek have spent a decade-plus
voraciously consuming leftfield
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Servicing to urban, college and satellite radio
Aggressive online campaign
Part of Mike Patton/Melvins All Tomorrow’s Parties line up
www.myspace.com/dalek
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Catalogue Number
Price Code
Label
RIYL
IPC109
SP
Ipecac/Fontana South
Fat Jon, Tricky
Bar Code
Format
File
Order Due
CD
Hip Hop
January 08, 2009
Box Lot
G.C.
Street Date
30
34
January 27, 2009
89230 01092
0
For more information please contact Chad Wiseman:
Chad.wiseman@fontananorth.com
Joey Cape
Bridge
TRACK LISTING:
1. The Ramones Are Dead
2. Errands
3. We’re Not In Love
Anymore
4. Canoe
5. B Side
6. Memoirs and Landmines
7. Non Sequitur
8. No Little Pill
9. Mission Unaccomplished
10. Gun It, No Don’t
11. Who We’ve Become
12. Home
Joey Cape is the singer / songwriter
of Lagwagon, one of the most
successful punk bands on Fat Wreck
Chords ever. They were the first
band Fat Mike (NOFX) signed to the
label and they have released 7
studio albums to date.
Joey was also the creative force
behind the experimental indie/punk
band Bad Astronaut until they
disbanded and he plays guitar for the
best cover band in the world – Me
First And The Gimme Gimmes. He is
also a member of The Playing
Favorites who released their debut
album in 2007.
with various albums by The Ataris, Nerf
Herder etc as well as his own bands.
This is Joey’s debut solo album in full length
format. He has previously released an
acoustic split with Tony Sly from No Use
For A Name.
As a producer he has been involved
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Joey Cape is the singer/songwriter of Lagwagon
Key markets: Quebec, Ontario, Alberta, BC
Catalogue Number
Price Code
Label
RIYL
BTR126
SP
Bad Taste Records/Fontana
North
Lagwagon
Bar Code
Format
File
Order Due
CD
Pop
January 8, 2009
Box Lot
G.C.
Street Date
30
33
January 27, 2009
7 330169 667268
For more information please contact:
Jennifer.mcleod@fontananorth.com
WIDEAWAKE
Something That We Can’t Let Go
PRESS QUOTES:
“...an ambitious Austin Rock band that
won 4 local music awards in March...if
their live show is anything like this
album, they kick ass. Along with
catchy original songs and hooky
melodies, the stars are aligned for a
major breakout.” —CMT
TRACK LISTING:
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Higher
Stay
Little More Time
Land Of Opportunity
Forgotten
Gravity Won’t Win
Maybe Tonight,
Maybe Tomorrow
8. Fall Together
9. Bigger
10. These Days
11. Danger
Something We Can’t Let Go Of is
WIDEAWAKE’s third studio album. The
album contains the song “MAYBE TONIGHT,
MAYBE TOMORROW” that has already sold
in excess of 15,000 downloads on iTunes via
a partnership with the Lance Armstrong
Foundation. The song is used at all of their
events as well as all of their institutional
advertising. Maybe Tonight won the 2007 ISC
(International Songwriting Competition) Grand
Prize and was selected from almost 15,000
entries from 88 countries by a panel of judges
that included Tom Waits, Brian Wilson, Jerry
Lee Lewis, Macy Gray and Robert Smith from
the Cure. The band’s songs have been
featured on Grey's Anatomy, Ghost
Whisperer, and Scrubs. Songs have also
been featured in The Gridiron Gang (Sony),
Tristan and Isolde (Fox), Freedom Writers
(Paramount) and other major motion pictures.
The band has sold in excess of 30,000
combined units on their two independent
releases. They have played over 1000 shows
www.myspace.com/wideawake
KEY SELLING POINTS:
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since 2000 and have shared the stage with
Switchfoot, Blue October, Third Eye Blind,
Sister hazel, Sheryl Crow, Better than Ezra,
Hootie and the Blowfish, Tears for Fears, Glenn
Phillips, Mark Broussard and Gavin DeGraw. In
2006, the band co-headlined the Rock Bus Tour
with the Zac Brown Band, which visited 30 cities
across the country. The band will be on the road
for the duration of 2009.
Aggressive online based marketing campaign encompassing myspace,
youtube, facebook and the band’s homepage
Streaming versions of the album will be released on Dec 25th
Servicing to rock, college and satellite radio
Promotional shirts will be made available to fans for free
Catalogue Number
Price Code
Label
RIYL
ARGA 24
SP
Artist Garage/Fontana South
One Republic, Maroon 5
Bar Code
Format
File
Order Due
CD
Rock/Pop
January 08, 2009
Box Lot
G.C.
Street Date
30
37/33
January 27, 2009
91041 00224
1
For more information please contact Chad Wiseman:
Chad.wiseman@fontananorth.com
Driftwoods
RAN BLAKE
TRACK LISTING:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
Driftwood
Dancing in the Dark 2
Dancing in the Dark 1
Lost Highway
Unforgettable
Cancao do Sol
No More
I Loves You, Porgy
Strange Fruit
Pawnbroker
There’s Been A Change
Portrait
I’m Going to Tell God
14. You Are My Sunshine
Ran Blake is an iconoclast. Since
his 1961 collaboration with
Jeanne Lee on RCA, Ran Blake
has released 35 albums on such
labels as ESP, Soul Note, Arista
and hatOLOGY. His 2006 album
on Tompkins Square, All That Is
Tied, received 4 stars in
Downbeat and earned the top
award for excellence in the 2007
Penguin Guide to Jazz.
Penguin's editor Brian Morton and
Wire Magazine hailed the record
as a "masterpiece”.
For his new solo piano album,
Driftwoods, Ran salutes his
favourite singers, interpreting songs
popularized by Billie Holiday,
Mahalia Jackson, Hank Williams,
Nat King Cole and more.
www.ranblake.com
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Servicing to key lifestyle publications
Servicing to campus, CBC and jazz stations across Canada
Penguin Guide top award winner for excellence
Catalogue Number
Price Code
Label
RIYL
TSQ2097
SP
Tompkins Square/Fontana
South
Connie Crothers, Geri Allen
Bar Code
Format
File
Order Due
CD
Jazz
January 15, 2009
Box Lot
G.C.
Street Date
30
24
February 03, 2009
94807 00209
7
For more information please contact Chad Wiseman:
Chad.wiseman@fontananorth.com
THOR
Thornado Absolute Power
TRACK LISTING:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
Thornado (Intro)
Dead Man Walking
Look 4 Me
Keep My Name Out Your
Mouth (feat. Drift)
Countdown (Thor’s In Da
House)
The Set Up (Skit)
East Side Borders
X-treme (feat. Boogie Da
Man)
Celebrate
What You Talkin’ Bout
(feat Leseya Lee)
The Heist (Skit)
I Told You
We All We Got
I Got ‘Em ( U Drive Me
Crazy)
She Needs A Man (feat.
Dawna Pazant)
X-Traction (Skit)
Fat Lady
Coming straight from Boogie Down
Bronx, Thor has had a chance to
experience some of the best Hip Hop
music firsthand. Doing tracks with KRSOne, Buckshot, Prodigy, Redman
Keith Murray, Killah Priest and more,
he’s become an integral part of New York
Hip Hop Life. Thor completed his debut
album fully satisfied with what he had
accomplished. With the support and
backing from two of New York’s finest,
KRS-One and Grandmaster Flash, Thor
has included something for everyone on
his debut Thornado Absolute Power. For
party people, he has a track called
“Celebration”. For the die-hard fans of
Thor’s gritty dark side there is “Dead
Man Walking”. Thir even included
something for the ladies with “She
Needs A Man”. The lead single, “Keep
My Name Out Your Mouth” is
www.myspace.com/allmightythornyc
KEY SELLING POINTS:
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supported by a groundbreaking video
that will surely make sure everyone
keeps Thor’s name in mind. Thor’s new
album and his recent collaboration with
Grandmaster Flash will let the world
know he is here and here is where he will
stay. Steadily smashing the competition
with his mighty lyrical hammer with hits
that will make emcees want to go back to
vocational school.
Advertising on BET, ESPN, MTV2 and VH1
Aggressive online marketing campaign including extensive coverage
and positioning with over 1000 music lifestyle sites
Servicing to urban, college and satellite radio
Video for “Keep My Name Out Your Mouth” will be serviced to BET and
regional video shows
Confirmed features with Allhiphop.com, hiphopgame.com, vibe.com and
more to come
Catalogue Number
Price Code
Label
RIYL
RUFF 0006
SP
Ruffnation/Fontana South
Rakim, EPMD
Bar Code
Format
File
Order Due
CD
Hip Hop
January 15, 2009
Box Lot
G.C.
Street Date
30
34
February 03, 2009
55114 00600
0
For more information please contact Chad Wiseman:
Chad.wiseman@fontananorth.com
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Jan-28 Brooks
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Jan-29 Lethbridge
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Jan 30
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Jan-31 Whitecourt
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Feb-01 Fort St. John
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Wank Punter
Jan-02 Burlington
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Jan-14 Montreal
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QC
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Mark Olson & Gary Louris
Feb-04 Toronto
ON
Age Of Daze (FNCD5541)
Dec-31 Edmonton
Sugar & the Trews
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Various Artists
Music From Degrassi
The Next Generation
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Bang Camaro
Bang Camaro II
BSR02
SP
Fires Of Rome
You Kingdom You
TH02
SP
Release Scheduled for: January 27, 2009
DC
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Ten Second Epic
Hometown
BBR014
SP
Dalek
Gutter Tactics
IPC109
SP
Joey Cape
Bridge
BTR126
SP
Various Artists
Johnny Cash Remixed
CR9295122
SP
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Johnny Cash Remixed
CR9295121
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Patti Smith
Dream of Life
PALMDV3166
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Wideawake
Something That We
Can’t Let Go
ARGA24
SP
Release Scheduled for: February 3, 2009
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Thor
Thornado Absolute
Power
RUFF0006
SP
Ran Blake
Driftwoods
TSQ2097
SP
Queer As Folk
The Ultimate
Threesome
TB17192
BA
Chamillionaire
Mixtape Messiah 6
10104236
S
Brett Dennen
Hope For The Hopeless
FNCD5548
SP
Ben Kweller
Changing Horses
88088216452
SP
BPA
We’re Gonna Need A
Bigger Boat
CDSFR001
SP
Fontana North
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