Toronto, ON – TELUS today announced that it is the first wireless carrier in Canada to offer over-the-air DRM-free (digital rights management) music tracks to Canadians.

Canadians now have the freedom to play back music purchased from the TELUS Music shop on any of their digital music capable devices. DRM-free music expands the TELUS music experience by allowing clients to transfer the music they buy from TELUS to their own electronic devices including cell phones, smartphones or PCs.

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Gorillaz’ Plastic Beach is available on iTunes for pre-order. Fans that pre-order the album will get the single “Stylo” download immediately. The super-smashing album will feature two extra-special bonus tracks and much, much more.

The video selections from the Gorillaz Web site featuring various segments of Plastic Beach are now available. Check out the links below.

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Co-headliners to tour the U.S. together for the first time in nearly two decades

Recession-proof $10 tickets available in all U.S. markets

LOS ANGELES — Slayer. Megadeth. Two names synonymous with fierce, crunching power. Two bands whose histories are inevitably intertwined in defining the thrash/metal genre. Individually, their respective prowess and accomplishments are impressive; but together, they’re brutal and unstoppable. Megadeth and Slayer will join forces to co-headline “American Carnage”, the most blistering, the most explosive and the most eagerly-anticipated mega-tour of the winter—and you do not want to miss it.

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Jamaican-born reggae/dancehall artist Honorebel recently dropped a new single, “Now You See It (Shake That Ass)”, featuring Pitbull and Jump Smokers. Check out the new video!

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If you’ve been paying attention to the radio at all this summer, there is no way that you’ve missed this track by Kim Sozzi – it just passed Lady Gaga’s “Pokerface” as Billboard’s Most Played Dance Single of 2009. We’ve got the super hot video for the top dance track in the US (and around most of the world as well), off her album, Just One Day (Ultra Records) – available online and in stores now [iTunes, Amazon].

The Mars Volta – Octahedron
Warner Bros. (6/23/09)
Progressive/Experimental rock

“I consider it to be our acoustic album”, reveals Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, guitarist for The Mars Volta and producer of their fifth studio album. Vocalist Cedric Bixler-Zavala adds, “We know how people can be so linear in their way of thinking, so when they hear the new album, they’re going to say, ‘This is not an acoustic album! There’s electricity throughout it!’ But it’s our version. That’s what our band does—celebrate mutations. It’s our version of what we consider an acoustic album.”

Octahedron is less intense than previous efforts, and the band claims that this is not a concept album. However, it still packs that Volta “punch”, with explosive guitar riffs, bombastic drumming and eerie sounds that fans have become accustomed to hearing.

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This volume of Blaps, Rhymes & Life is dedicated to Eli Matthew Ibanga R.I.P.: Sunrise – 05.27.08 | Sunset – 06.23.09

The Blaps, Rhymes & Life compilation series continues, as the blapmaster Illmind, and Dub MD bring you volume 3, as yet another EXCLUSIVE free download. Blaps, Rhymes & Life Vol. 3 is jam-packed, full of more classic Illmind production, as he showcases his music with a mix of mainstream and underground artists. In this volume, he collaborates with mainstream artists like 50 Cent, Scarface, Masta Ace, Young Buck, and Marsha from Floetry, and keeps the balance with underground artists and rising stars Termanology, Wale, D-Black, Skyzoo and Torae, to name a few. Also included is an official remake of 88 Keys‘ single “Stay Up!”, featuring Alchemist, Evidence and 88 Keys himself on the rhymes. Master Shake from Adult Swim’s hit TV show Aqua Teen Hunger Force also makes an appearance!

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me·dic·i·nal: A preparation or product having the properties of a medicine.
li·ba·tion: The pouring of a liquid offering as a religious ritual.

When super-producer J Dilla passed away in 2006, few could claim they felt the loss more than Madlib. He and Dilla had come together to present one of the most critically claimed albums of 2003, Champion Sound, and were planning on coming together again to continue to bring jaw-dropping soundscapes to the masses for years to come.

But it just wasn’t meant to be. Since the loss of J-Dilla, Jaylib’s other half has continued pushing his beat factory to its limits, interweaving solo projects dedicated to or predicated by Dilla’s spirit with EPs and albums highlighting some of today’s most underrated lyricists and singers. Madlib is the textbook definition of an “über-producer”—one who raises the bar consistently in quality and quantity, leaving a legacy few (besides his partner J-Dilla) could even come close to touching.

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The official Blaps, Rhymes & Life mixtape series is back! Dub MD and super-producer Illmind re-connect for a second time to bring you another exclusive free mixtape project. Blaps, Rhymes & Life, Vol. 2 is a 22-track digi-zip packed full of classic illmind production. This time around the mixtape features established artists such as 50 Cent, Eminem, Scarface, Talib Kweli, Kool G Rap, Diamond D and Heltah Skeltah, as well as featuring a whole host of up-and-coming artists from the likes of Bambu, Megaciph, Above Ave and Grynch, just to list a few.

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Dub MD presents the brand-new EXCLUSIVE mixtape project, entitled Hip Hop Renatus, with some of the most slept-on and underrated emcees, featuring the likes of Supastition, Skyzoo, Sha Stimuli, Mr. Live, 6th Sense, Sic Osyrus, Fred Knuxx, Karneige, Access Immortal, Donny Goines, Diablo Archer, Emilio Rojas, D.V. Alias Khryst, Wordsmith and many more, doing what they do best over instrumentals by some of the greatest producers in hip-hop, including J Dilla, DJ Premier, Pete Rock, ?uestlove, Large Professor, Hi-Tek, The RZA, Erick Sermon, Rockwilder, Marley Marl, Madlib and 9th Wonder, just to list a few.

“Renatus” is Old Latin for “Born Again/Reborn”. This new mixtape features 44 emcees over 34 handpicked beats. Thirty-four tracks of that raw, authentic, no-apologies hip-hop music for the purest; 100% EXCLUSIVE from the emcee to this project, with a classic intro by the genius that is DJ Unexpected. Hip Hop Renatus is available for EXCLUSIVE FREE DOWNLOAD right here, so pass it around, throw it on your iPod or burn it to CD-R… it’s yours! Thanks to everyone for all the continued support!

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