The Walkmen: 'You & Me' and charity

Radiohead allowed fans to pay any they wanted for its new album, �In Rainbows.� Nine Inch Nails went one better by giving away �The Slip� for free on its Web site.

What�s adjacent in the world of innovative on-line album firing marketing?

Charitable causes, according to the Walkmen.

The New York indie band recently released its new allbum, �You & Me,� through AmieStreet.com�s �Download To Make a Difference Campaign.� The payoff go to the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and the Joy Fund, which provides amusement and activities for patients.

The Walkmen�s charitable gesture is in the name of 7-month-old Luca Vasallo, wHO is battling AML leukaemia at the New York-based hospital.

�(Vasallo is) doing a great job fighting a very difficult disease,� said the Walkmen�s Peter Bauer in a statement. �This is a very good formation that surely deserves the attention.�

Talk just about guilt-tripping downloaders into not stealing.

The superiority mp3 download of �You & Me� costs $5; AmieStreet.com will donate every penny to the causal agency. The album, already generating strong reviews, will be released in traditional formats through Gigantic Music on Aug. 18.

Catch the Walkmen at the Middle East in Cambridge on Sept. 18. For more on Vasallo�s fight against leukaemia, go to loveforluca.com.

Moz on delay

Morrissey fans don�t incisively need another reason to mope more or less like they�re suffering from a freaky throat infection, but they got one last week.

Billboard reported the release of Mozzer�s new album, �Years of Refusal,� will be delayed until sometime in 2009. No reason for the delay was tending by Morrissey�s publicists, only it could have something to do with the recent head hemorrhage and hospitalization of producer Jerry Finn.

Originally expected to drop next month, �Years of Refusal� will be Morrissey�s Polydor Records debut. The album is expected to be a bit more rocking than recent efforts and share some guitar work DNA with Moz�s hard-edged 1995 release �Southpaw Grammar.�

Looks like we�ll take in to expect and see.

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Oasis To Meet Fans During Special Rehearsal

Oasis are holding a very limited competition where fans rear end win the chance to meet the band during a secret rehearsal session.

Fans will have to enter a draw, if they hope to win an invitation to the dry run held in London on August 14th. During the day, Oasis will perform live versions of currently-unreleased songs from their forthcoming new album 'Dig Out Your Soul' and it may as well be recorded for next broadcast.

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Hologram

   
Artist: Hologram

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Rock
   

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   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 9

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Artist: Inimigos da HP

   Genre(s): 
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Discography:


   
 E Quem Nao Gosta Dos Inimigos

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 12


   
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   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 14

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Garner Recovering From Stroke

Latest: Movie veteran James Garner is on the road to recovery after suffering a stroke last month . The Murphy's Romance star was hospitalised in May after collapsing and undergoing surgery. America's National Enquirer reports the 80-year-old was kept in intensive care for three weeks, and only released on 30 May. Sources claim Garner is now regaining the power of speech, and making signs of recovery. The insider tells the Enquirer, "He's pulling through, but he has a long recovery ahead of him. But he's improved steadily. "Jim will definitely need intensive physical and speech therapy. Fortunately Jim's a fighter - and his wife Lois has been at his side." His publicist confirmed to the tabloid, "His improvement is wonderful."


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Lost actress released from jail early

'Lost' actress Michelle Rodriguez has been released from jail after serving 17 days of a six-month sentence for probation violation.
The 29-year-old actress was freed from prison on Wednesday night, according to a statement released by the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department yseterday.
Last October a judge sentenced Rodriguez for violating her probation on previous drunken-driving and hit-and-run offences, saying that she should not be granted work furlough, early release or home confinement.
However, a Sheriff's official claimed that her early release was not unusual, saying that factors such as overcrowding and the severity of the crime are taken into consideration.
Rodriguez was previously sentenced to 60 days in jail for a probation violation in May 2006, but was released from prison after just four hours and 20 minutes.

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Indie
   

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   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 12

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