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Fresh on the heels of making Billboard chart history with back-to-back No.1 album debuts from acts Danity Kane and Day26, P. Diddy has announced his intention to let the good times keep rolling by putting the two groups on the road.

Read more about the tour…

Danity Kane – Welcome To The Dollhouse Album Review 

In contrast to the last post featuring the stanky new Three 6 Mafia video, some of the biggest stars in music get together for what they call responsible music. “Grow up!,” they say. How timely.

They’re all working on new material for Usher’s upcoming Here I Stand, due May 27. Check it out for yourselves if you haven’t already.
VIDEO: Usher – “Love In This Club”

www.usherworld.comwww.myspace.com/usher

Here’s the official video for “I’d Rather.” See how many skanks you can count in this one. Their new album, Last 2 Walk, is due in stores June 24.

VIDEO: Three 6 Mafia ft DJ UNK – “I’d Rather”

http://www.triplesix.com/

Congrats to our winner of last week’s giveaway.

This week we have Maysa’s Feel The Fire. Most fans of grown ad sexy R&B/soul music know Maysa as a vocalist for jazzy outfit Incognito. Maysa dropped this set in May of 2007 and it features her smoky vocals covering some of her favorite slow jam classics such as “Send For Me,” “Ain’t No Sunshine,” “You Are My Starship” and more.

Released by Shanachie Records, the set contains 10 sweet soul classics interpreted by this modern day singer and a big hit with fans.

Enter here.

Maysa’s Official Site

REVIEW

Edit: Congrats to this week’s winner Charles Hubbert from Milwaukee, WI! 

Aside from the high profile upcoming album from Mariah Carey due to drop this week, there is an exciting range of offering in the New R&B/Soul Releases for April arena.

Conya Doss’ Still offers smooth soul with a funk kick, while Leona Lewis’ Spirit brings label giants Clive Davis and Simon Cowell into collaboration on a winning international release. Meanwhile, looming on the horizon is the third album from Lyfe Jennings, Lyfe Change. The set sees him, for the first time, collaborating with several producers and artists such as Snoop Dogg, Lil Wayne, and Wyclef Jean.

Get the entire April release list here.

As promised to all you Ying Yang freaks… enjoy!

VIDEO: Ying Yang Twins – “Drop”

Earth Day Network & Green Apple Festival have added a bevy of genre-crossing top names to its Earth Day celebrations on Sunday, Apr. 20th, including will.i.am, Ne-Yo, Talib Kweli, Doug E. Fresh and Jordin Sparks.

The festival will take the form of eight free simultaneous Earth Day celebrations in landmark parks across the country in cities: New York City (Central Park), Chicago IL (Lincoln Park Zoo), Miami FL (Bicentennial Park), Denver CO (City Park), Dallas TX (Fair Park), San Francisco CA (Golden Gate Park), Los Angeles CA (Santa Monica Pier) and Washington DC on the National Mall.
Interspersed with the live music will be environmental addresses by prominent speakers, green-minded business and educational displays on ways to combat the climate crisis.

Green Apple Festival Schedule:

WASHINGTON DC “Earth Day on the National Mall”
The Roots & Friends (Will.i.am, Ne-Yo, Doug E. Fresh, Talib Kweli, Chrisette Michele)
Gov’t Mule
Toots and the Maytals
Thievery Corp – DJ set
Warren Haynes – solo acoustic set
Umphrey’s McGee
DC Boys Choir
City Dance
*The National Anthem with Jordin Sparks
*Acoustic performance with O.A.R.

NEW YORK (Central Park)
Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder
Big Head Todd and the Monsters
The Bacon Brothers
Vusi Mahlasela
Vienna Teng

SAN FRANCISCO (Golden Gate Park)
Mickey Hart’s Mass Drums (with Jon Fishman of Phish and Tommy Lee of Motley Crue)
Yonder Mountain String Band
Brett Dennen

MIAMI (Bicentennial Park)
Menudo
Arrested Development
Baby Loves Salsa
Caravan of Thieves

CHICAGO (Lincoln Park Zoo)
Derek Trucks Band
Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Meshell Ndegeocello
Bassnectar
Chicago Afrobeat Project
Miss Lori Holton Nash
The Gwalla Gwallas
Event MC- Kyle Orton – Chicago Bears

DALLAS (Fair Park)
Los Lonely Boys
Martin Sexton
Junior Brown
Cas Haley
The Steps
George Stanford

LOS ANGELES (Santa Monica Pier)
Taj Mahal
Ziggy Marley solo acoustic
Escalera (with pro-skaters Danny Way and Bob Burnquist)
Juliette and the Licks
School of Rock Hollywood Allstars
The Frequency
Coby Brown

DENVER (City Park)
The Neville Brothers
The Benevento/Russo Duo
Rose Hill Drive

Jermaine Dupri has teamed up with Island Def Jam Music Group, and Procter & Gamble’s TAG Body Sprays to launch the hip-hop oriented TAG Records. Dupri will be the president of the New York-based venture.

Aimed at the teen boy market, TAG deodorant body sprays feature titles like “After Hours,” “First Move” and “Lucky Day,” while warning its users they might be attacked by hot babes.

“Today, we make history in the music industry with TAG Records,” said Dupri. “This label is going to provide new artists with a chance of a lifetime. New artists will receive ten times the typical marketing support – a first in the industry. I’m hand selecting and molding these artists to make history in hip hop.”

TAG Record’s first artist will be officially announced in May.

Fresh on the heels of beating Elvis for No. 1 songs, Mariah Carey is already dropping “Bye Bye,” the second single from her upcoming E=MC².

Check out this exclusive performance of the song from T4 4Music on the U.K.’s Channel 4.

“Mariah Carey – “Bye Bye”


In addition to the single, Carey’s also launching a contest that will give contestants the opportunity to create their own E=MC² cover. The winning design won’t be the final album cover (too bad cuz these naked Mariah pics are getting tired), but the winners get some cool swag. Get the details.

And if that isn’t enough, Carey is also slated to appear on Idol Gives Back (Apr. 9), The Oprah Winfrey Show (Apr. 14) and will actually be a mentor for the Idol hopefuls on Apr. 16.

E=MC² Official Album Tracklist:
1. Migrate feat. T-Pain
2. Touch My Body
3. Cruise Control feat. Damian Marley
4. I Stay In Love
5. Side Effects feat. Young Jeezy
6. I’m That Chick
7. Love Story
8. I’ll Be Lovin’ U Long Time
9. Last Kiss
10. Thanx 4 Nothin’
11. O.O.C.
12. For The Record
13. Bye Bye
13. I Wish You Well