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UK POP PRINCESS DANIELA BROOKER TO RELEASE NEW SINGLE ‘FORGET ABOUT YESTERDAY’
Fresh off a sold out arena tour with the UK’s hottest girlband ‘The Saturdays’, Daniela Brooker is set to release her eagerly anticipated single ‘Forget About Yesterday’ on February 13th 2012.

“Forget About Yesterday, with its uplifting vibe and pop credentials, sounds like the first big hit of many to come. A natural on stage and with songs as pleasing to the ear as she is to the eye, this is definitely a name to watch out for in 2012”. - Gigjunkie

2011 was an exciting adventure for golden girl Daniela Brooker. Not only did she headline a US tour for the Hard Rock Cafe, but upon returning to the UK, Daniela embarked upon an arena tour with the pop sensations ‘The Saturdays’ playing in prestigious sold out venues such as Wembley Arena, the MEN and the Dublin O2.

Daniela’s latest offering, ‘Forget About Yesterday’, is scheduled for release on the 13th of February, with a launch party at top London venue 229 to follow on the 17th. The pop starlet will be showcasing her vocals, performing a number of hits as well as her catchy and care-free self-penned new single.
The video for the new single has already caused quite a stir. Having debuted with MTV Buzzworthy in the US on January 26th , and Yahoo! OMG exclusively revealing the visuals for this feel-good anthem in the UK on the 27th, it looks as though Daniela’s star will continue to rise during 2012, so watch this space.
Check out the video that’s got everyone talking here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11PYDMutK9w
For details and tickets for the single launch visit:
http://www.feedmemusic.co.uk/Events_Details.aspx?Event_ID=1124&CurrentPageNumber=0&ActiveTab=Tab_Lastest_Events

The Berlin singer/songwriter’s debut single “Buckle Up” is an autobiographical song in which Roxanne captures the challenges she faces as a young artist, far from home in today’s diminished music industry. Ed Dark, in charge of visual effects on Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 & 2, directed the video … a high-risk extravaganza that required spy cameras, escape plans, bail money and unwittingly involved the BBC and Hugh Jackman!

For Roxanne de Bastion there is no plan B. Performing since she was 10 and composing since she was 15 years old, she is a musician, heart and soul. Roxanne moved to the UK in 2007. She had her guitar, a suitcase and a one-way ticket. In the 4 years since then, she has gone from playing open mic nights to headlining some of England’s most prestigious venues such as the 100 Club, the Cavern Club and the Barfly.

Roxanne performs regularly in the major music centres, Berlin, London and New York. Berlin’s raw cool, England’s musical legacy and New York’s vibrancy have all coloured her music - it’s honest, quirky and in a genre of its own. Her song writing has been aligned to Dylan, Ray Davies and Regina Spektor. Roxanne’s song “One Morning” was embraced by the BBC, receiving national and regional airplay (Tom Robinson, Martin Winch and Dave Monks).

Together with her songs, it is Roxanne’s remarkable stage presence and spirit that captures ears and hearts – her live shows are magically dynamic and engaging, invariably mass sing-along.

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Zack Knight, British born of Eastern descent is the UK’s newest “homegrown” multi-talented Singer, songwriter and Producer. At 21 he is finally ready to unleash his electrifying debut single All Over Again on April 2nd- out on Prestige Records. It is the first track to be released from his highly-anticipated debut album which will be released later this year.

All Over Again is instantly catchy and promises to be one of the hottest dance floor fillers this year. The accompanying video is shot by Award-Winning director Nick Barlett (Taio Cruz, Pendulum, Courteeners). Making of the video: http://youtu.be/_myipZF5DVQ

This year is going to be a big year for Zack Knight. Don’t Miss Out!!

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THE EXPLORER’S COLLECTIVE

NEW VIDEO & SINGLE “Nothing at All”

IMPACT DATE: 11th March 2012

From South East London a bit of HardcorePop - that features Frazer, Pablo, and Mark, with special guest Adele Red and musicians. The band makes it their mission to combine great hooks & wry observational wit with cutting-edge leftfield imagination their current single, ‘Nothing At All’ has it all.

Their debut single “The Factory” gained great radio support including:
Q Radio
Spark FM 6-6 playlist & interview
Salford City Radio
BBC Introducing Three Counties play and Interview
BBC Introducing Cambridge Interview and Live Session
The British Breakfast in Richmond Virginia USA

“hard core adj. and n. (usu. As one word) orig. U.S., (a) adj. denoting…extreme versions of various types of popular music typically faster, louder, or more experimental than related forms, and determinedly less mainstream”

BB Virginia - “funk rock at it’s best!” newsinglesreview.blogspot.com

Curators of a new concept in touring, they’re rolling out the principles of their successful residency at the uber-cool New Cross Inn:

The new single follows the same Oxymoron-powered lines; accessible, widely appealing, with more than a touch of the experimental and anarchic, Hardcore Pop - at its freshest.

Myspace: www.myspace.com/theexplorerscollectivemusic
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/02Collective?feature=mhum
Twitter: http://twitter.com/DeExplorer

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Tipped for a major breakthrough as one of XFM’s 12 for 2012, All The Young will released their new single ‘The Horizon’ on March 26th on Warner Bros. Records, with the video going live today, 31st Jan.

Recently seen on stage as guests to Morrissey, The Courteneers, The Wombats, Hard-Fi and The Pigeon Detectives, All The Young are on a run of eleven dates with the Kaiser Chiefs which has seen them ecstatically received by the Kaiser’s fans. This will then be followed by their own headline tour in March. They’ll also headline a HMV Next Big Thing / XFM New Music Award night at Manchester’s HMV Ritz on February 8th and the This Feeling club night at the Queen of Hoxton on February 11th.

March – headline shows

21st – Newcastle, Cluny

22nd – Glasgow, King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut

23rd – Manchester, Academy 3

24th – Keele, University

25th – Birmingham, O2 Academy 3

26th – Nottingham, Bodega

28th – Bristol, The Fleece

29th – Brighton, Green Door Store

A new we app entitled ‘Live At The King’s Hall, Stoke-on-Trent’ is currently available to access for free at http://app.alltheyoung.co.uk/kingshall. It comprises the band’s full ten-song homecoming set in front of an audience of 1000+, two live videos from the show, official videos for their introductory singles ‘Welcome Home’, ‘Quiet Night In’ and ‘The First Time’, a photo gallery and liner notes written by the band. Fans can also download the app’s full audio content by signing up for the band’s e-mail list and can also share it with friends.

www.alltheyoung.co.uk www.facebook.com/alltheyoung

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CARO EMERALD

‘Dr Wanna Do’ – The new single released 26th March 2012

From the album ‘Deleted Scenes From The Cutting Room Floor’

www.caroemerald.com

Tour Dates for 2012:

Thursday 15th March – Birmingham Symphony Hall

Friday 16th March – London Roundhouse

Sunday 18th March – Glasgow O2 ABC

Monday 19th March – Manchester Bridgewater Hall

Thursday 21st June – Hampton Court Palace, London

Friday 22nd June – Isle of Wight Festival

“She came armed with a series of irresistible melodies that burrowed into your consciousness and refused to leave” – Evening Standard

“Emerald’s carefree sense of fun is, ultimately, disarming” – The Independent

“This is pop that’s meant to be popular” – The Arts Desk

Caro Emerald returns to the UK in March for her largest UK tour to date – tickets for which are already sold out. On March 26th she’ll release ‘Dr Wanna Do’ as the last single from her phenomenally successful debut album ‘Deleted Scenes From The Cutting Room Floor’, which has now sold more than 1 million copies throughout Europe and been certified Platinum in the UK.

The scat-tinged ‘Dr Wanna Do’ is yet another effortlessly winning pop song from the Dutch singer – a record breaker in her homeland – who seems to have a limitless supply up her sleeve. It follows in the footsteps of her radio smash hits ‘Back It Up’, ‘Riviera Life’, ‘The Other Woman’, ‘Stuck’ and ‘A Night Like This.’ The album ‘Deleted Scenes From The Cutting Room Floor’ was one of the top selling independent releases of 2011, and was re-released in November with a bonus live DVD of Caro’s performance at Amsterdam’s Heineken Music Hall.

In addition to her March tour, Caro has already announced two festival shows for the summer. 2011 saw her on the bill for BBC Radio 2’s Live In Hyde Park, and this year she’ll be performing for Hampton Court’s summer festival series, and also featuring at the Isle of Wight festival. A smash hit when she appeared on Jools Holland’s 2011 Hootenanny, Caro’s sassy combination of uptempo verve with old-school glamour is an unmissable treat live.

Maverick Sabre

Debut album – Lonely Are The Brave

Released 6th February

Maverick Sabre’s stunning debut album ‘Lonely Are the Brave’ is now set for release, and is sure to be one of the highlights of early 2012 with it hitting the shelves on 6th February 2012.

Maverick has quickly established himself as one of the most unique voices in UK pop. A genuine talent who worked his way to prominence, his voice has done the talking. Retro-tinged soul numbers meet the hardened lyrics of his past. It’s the sound of a man that has lived a life, away from the bright lights of the Brit School generation and learned his craft the hard way, with no outside assistance, just his voice and an indefinable inner belief.

London-born and Ireland raised, his childhood has given him a unique voice, blending the accents he picked up in the two areas of his childhood with a natural, almost retro-soul tinge, a voice that he has developed since first emerging with his ‘Travelling Man’ mixtape. At first a rapper, he found his own voice over time, and this is what shines through here. As a socially-aware voice for his generation, he is in a unique position for these uncertain times.

Brought up on the music of his father, Maverick immersed himself in Chuck Berry and Bob Dylan as a kid, and it’s from the latter that he developed his broader worldview, a belief that it’s his duty to shine a light on the burning issues of the day.

Recent single ‘I Need’ is a burnished modern day blues track whilst debut single ‘Let Me Go’ is built around a classic sample by Isaac Hayes, it’s blasts of brass underpin a brilliantly distinctive vocal that helped mark out Maverick as one of the most exciting and unique voices in credible UK pop. ‘No One’ will follow these two Top 20 hits as the third single to be taken from ‘Lonely Are The Brave’.

In the last year he has toured with Snoop Dogg, as well as working with Professor Green (who he won an NME Award with for the track ‘Jungle’), Chase & Status and Cee-Lo Green. His songs are filtering through to the mainstream, with new fans in the likes of Katy B who recently covered ‘Let Me Go’ on Radio 1’s Live Lounge. Earlier this year he pulled out a show-stopping performance on Later With Jools Holland with his rendition of ‘I Used To Have It All’. Other TV appearances include an acoustic performance as part of this year’s BBC Glastonbury coverage, as well as slots on Soccer AM and T4 interviews.He has garnered praise in Q, Sunday Times Culture, Guardian, Dazed, Time Out, Wonderland, Clash and more, and been championed by Mistajam, Zane Lowe, Huw Stephens and Fearne Cotton at Radio 1, going on to be one of the moist played acts at the station this year, Maverick Sabre is set to fly into 2012 on the back of his unique and beautifully crafted debut album

Tracklisting:

I Need

Let Me Go

Open My Eyes

Memories

Cold Game

No One

These Days

Sometimes

I Used To Have It All

Shooting The Stars

I Can Never Be

Running Away

I Don’t See The Sun

Maverick Sabre will embark on his biggest tour to date in March 2012. Following recent tours that have included sold-out dates at Koko, this Spring tour will conclude at London’s prestigious Roundhouse, and is sure to be another unforgettable night.

March live dates:

Thu 1st Glasgow O2 Academy

Fri 2nd Leeds Met University

Sat 3rd Manchester Academy 2

Mon 5th Cardiff University Solus

Tue 6th Birmingham HMV Institute

Thu 8th Bristol Anson Rooms

Fri 9th Portsmouth Pyramid

Sat 10th London Roundhouse

www.mavericksabre.com / www.myspace.com/mavericksabre / www.facebook.com/mavericksabre

CARO EMERALD AWARDED THE IFPI PLATINUM EUROPE AWARD

‘Deleted Scenes From The Cutting Room Floor – Platinum Edition’ CD/DVD Out Now

Dramatico Records and Grandmono are proud to announce that Caro Emerald’s debut album ‘Deleted Scenes From The Cutting Room Floor’ is now certified Platinum in both Britain and Germany, 6x Platinum in Holland, and has been awarded the IFPI Platinum Europe Award for sales exceeding 1 million copies in Europe.

‘Deleted Scenes From The Cutting Room Floor’ spent 30 weeks at number 1 in Holland following its release in January 2010. Released across Europe in late 2010 and early 2011 the album has proved to be a perfect example of a word-of-mouth hit. This week in Britain it has been certified Platinum, with sales exceeding 300,000 copies, where it spent ten weeks in the top ten of the album chart. Caro has also been awarded the prestigious Edison Award and been nominated for both an MTV EMA and for ‘Best Independent Breakthrough’ at the inaugural AIM Awards.

Caro’s career started when an impromptu performance of her first song ‘Back It Up’ on a local TV station in Holland was posted to YouTube, leading to an overwhelming clamour to hear more of this phenomenally exciting new singer. Working with her producers David Schreurs, Jan van Wieringen and Vince Degiorgio, the result was an album that has now become the third best-selling independent record of the year in the UK, with Adele’s ‘21’ and ‘19’ taking the top two positions.

Upon its release in late 2010 ‘Deleted Scenes From The Cutting Room Floor’ debuted at number 1 on the Official Charts Company’s UK Jazz and Blues Albums Chart, knocking Michael Bublé’s ‘Call Me Irresponsible’ from the top spot. With strong reactions to her first two singles ‘Back It Up’ and ‘Riviera Life’, Caro was forced to take time off her promotional activities at the start of 2011 when a routine check-up revealed a polyp on her vocal chord that required emergency vocal surgery. Since her return to the spotlight in May, Caro has been a constant feature on UK TV, radio and in the press, with televised performances on ‘This Morning’, ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ and ‘Children In Need’, as well as a planned appearance on Jools Holland’s annual New Years’ Eve Hootenanny. To celebrate the album’s Platinum status, a new edition of Caro’s album has been released which comes bundled with a DVD of her live performance at the Heineken Music Hall in Amsterdam.

Caro has only played a handful of sold-out live dates in the UK thus far, including an appearance for BBC Radio 2’s Live In Hyde Park. She played a capacity show at O2 Shepherds’ Bush Empire on December 13th, and will return for her first UK tour in March 2012, which is already well on the way to become another sell-out.

Featuring the singles 'Back It Up, 'Riviera Life' and 'A Night Like This', ‘Stuck’, The Other Woman’ ‘That Man’, Caro’s album is a winning, assured and highly individual pop record. Drawing from a rich pool of swing, jazz and pop influences, ‘Deleted Scenes From The Cutting Room Floor’ is an accessible record that recalls the glamour and sophistication of 40’s and 50’s film and music while updating that sound for a modern audience.

www.caroemerald.com

Alyssa Reid
ft. Jump Smokers
Alone Again

Alyssa Reid is a Canadian songstress currently blowing up the UK music scene with her first single “Alone Again”. Already added to BBC Radio 1 Playlist, Record of the Week on Scott Mills, Kiss, Capital FM and covering all regional stations plus Number 1 in the Shazam prelease chart this has hit written all over it!

Alyssa was number 1 on the Billboard Emerging Artists Chart for a record breaking 25 weeks. And “Alone Again” has clocked up over 3 millon collective views on YouTube already.

The thing that sets Alyssa Reid apart is her relentless pursuit of her muse. “Music is my entire world” she admits, it’s all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life”. From as far back as her memory serves, Alyssa has been writing and singing, she wrote her first song at the age of 7. The self -taught musician writes on the guitar and piano both of which she’s skillfully mastered over the past few years gaining her a scholarship to the Performing Arts school in New York.

In 2009, in a somewhat ironic twist of fate Alyssa was discovered by her record label through a Youtube performance that she posted of her own interpretation of the Justin Bieber hit “One Less Lonely Girl”, written from a girls perspective and re -titled “One More Lonely Boy