‘What is Blu-ray?

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White Lies play free show!

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White Lies play free show and meet fans at HMV’s Manchester store
WHAT: Free show and signing session
WHERE: HMV Manchester, 90 Market Street
WHEN: Monday 12th January at 6.00 pm
White Lies – one of the NME’s bands tipped for 2009 – celebrate the release of their new single, ‘To Lose My Life’, with a free show and signing session at HMV’s Market Street store in Manchester, on Monday 12th January.
Showtime starts at 6.00 pm, after which the band - who will be touring with Glasvegas and Friendly Fires on the NME Awards tour - will remain in the store to meet fans and sign copies of the new CD which is released through Fiction Records the same day.
‘To Lose My Life’ is the title track on the band’s much anticipated debut album, which is set for release on Monday 19th January.
Due to anticipated demand, the event will be wristbanded. Fans can pick up free wristbands at HMV, which allows them access to the event. Wristbands will be available only from the HMV Manchester, 90 Market St store from 9.00 am on Monday 12th January onwards. One pair of wristbands per customer maximum, in person only, while stocks last, subject to availability, at participating store only. 

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Amazing Magic Trick

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Neko Case

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Neko Case
New album: Middle Cyclone (2nd March 2009)
Anti- Records release the eagerly awaited new Neko Case album Middle Cyclone on Monday 2nd March 2009. The fifteen-track album is Case’s first release since 2006’s highly acclaimed Fox Confessor Brings The Flood.
Middle Cyclone was produced by Case with Darryl Neudorf and recorded in Tucson, Brooklyn, Toronto, and Vermont. It features Case backed by her band - guitarist Paul Rigby, bassist Tom V. Ray, backing vocalist Kelly Hogan, multi-instrumentalist Jon Rauhouse, and drummer Barry Mirochnick - along with numerous guests including M. Ward, Garth Hudson, Sarah Harmer, and members of The New Pornographers, Los Lobos, Calexico, The Sadies, Visqueen, The Lilys, and Giant Sand. In addition to twelve new songs written by Case, Middle Cyclone includes covers of Never Turn Your Back on Mother Earth by Sparks, and Don’t Forget Me by Harry Nilsson.
In 2006, SPIN Magazine called Case “one of pop music’s best” voices, and NME hailed her album Fox Confessor Brings The Flood as “the real deal and mesmerizing.” The album also earned Case Female Artist of the Year honors from the PLUG Independent Music Awards, and a placement in Uncut Magazine’s annual “50 Best Albums Of The year.” Fox Confessor Brings The Flood was Case’s first album to debut in the Billboard Top 100, and has sold over 250,000 copies worldwide.
Track listing for Middle Cyclone:
1. This Tornado Loves You 
2. The Next Time You Say Forever
3. People Got A Lotta Nerve
4. Polar Nettles
5. Vengeance Is Sleeping
6. Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth
7. Middle Cyclone
8. Fever
9. Magpie To The Morning
10. I’m An Animal
11. Prison Girls
12. Don’t Forget Me 
13. The Pharaohs
14. Red Tide
15. Marais La Nuit

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Top Ten Albums of 2008

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1. Lykke Li - Youth Novels
2. Neon Neon - Stainless Style
3. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
4. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
5. Santogold - Santogold
6. Ladyhawke - Ladyhawke
7. Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak
8. Late of the Pier - Fantasy Black Channel
9. Nick Cave - Dig!!Lazurus Dig!!
10. Sons of Noel and Adrian - Sons of Noel and Adrian

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We7 offer Free Music over xmas period!!

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As a Christmas gesture to its supporters, We7 is to remove all audio advertising from millions of great music tracks for the festive period (between Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve), allowing music fans to listen online to as many full tracks and albums as they want for free, completely uninterrupted by ads.
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We7 CEO, Steve Purdham, said: “2008 has been a sea change year for digital music, with positive support and action coming from the music industry and great growth and acceptance for We7.” He continued, “We7 is fast becoming one of the top UK music destinations for listening to music people want, and we are very optimistic about the prospects for digital music in 2009. We wanted to mark the end of 2008 with a token of thanks to our most important supporters, the music fans who use We7, hence the idea of an Ad-Free Christmas.”
About www.We7.com
We7 is the first free and legal service of its kind in Europe delivering music in the way consumers want it. We7 users can listen to music for free whenever they want, and buy whatever they love. The service works by ‘grafting’ short, relevant ads which precede the free music tracks based upon information known about the user, such as location, age and gender. This advertising ensures that artists and labels receive royalties for making their songs available, whilst consumers receive streamed legal music free of charge. We7 showcases exciting music of all genres from all four majors and loads of great independents in including PIAS, Finetunes, MTunes and The Orchard as well as directly from unsigned artists. Co-founded by Peter Gabriel, We7 received a BT Digital Music Award in 2008 for Best Music Service.

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Sheffield gets Spiked

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Ctrl Alt Shift

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Ctrl Alt Shift is a social site dedicated to charity through action rather than donation. Their aim is simple – to give you a platform to change the world.
They are racing to get 50,000 people to join Ctrl Alt Shift for World Aids Day. Each sign-up will be a protest against the 12 countries that ban people living with HIV from entering, including Russia, Saudi Arabia and South Korea.
Unbelievably, the US had the same ban until October this year. They’re now in the process of lifting it. It was only by people making their voice heard that this changed.
In the UK there are no travel restrictions against those with HIV. Have we turned into a nation of lepers as a result? Of course not. The ban doesn’t prevent the spread of infection, it just reinforces the stigma already faced by people living with HIV.
The biggest challenge with HIV is that there’s no cure. The second is stigma; not just from governments, but from our own communities. There are so many myths and stereotypes flying around that people living with HIV are driven underground. Would you admit to your mates that you had it? No, didn’t think so.
This is why people all over the world living with HIV have NOTHING TO DECLARE.
It is unjust and unacceptable in the 21st century for there to be such restrictions in place, violating people’s basic human rights.
What you can do to help? Well it’s easy:
1) Register at www.ctrlaltshift.co.uk and get involved!
2) Email your friends or copy and paste the following to your social network profiles:
Register your email here and make things happen ! Political change is in the tips of your fingers. http://www.ctrlaltshift.co.uk
3) Embed the Ctrl Alt Shift Widget to show your support for the campaign and encourage your peers to sign up.
In addition, by joining the Ctrl Alt Shift community you also get the quarterly magazine for free with interviews with the likes of Estelle, Sway and Sam Roddick. You can also submit your own articles and content to be part of the magazine, highlighting issues that concern you.
Key partners such as Vice Magazine and the British Film Institute (BFI) offer you the chance to get involved through creative competitions, with mentors such as Noel Clarke, Alexia Chung. Music partners include Young Knives, GoldieLocks, Mystery Jets and Boy Better Know.
Get involved! Be Creative! It’s your world - Take Control!

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‘Dom Joly - That Winning Feeling’

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Control of Footie

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