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The 22 time Grammy Award winner Stevie Wonder, a performer often reviewed as a singer par excellence, is all set to undertake a concert tour across North America with more than a dozen shows lined up in the month of June and July. Stevie will be starting off his concert tour on June 18th in New York’s Wantagh and will be traversing the eastern coast of North America during the month of June. In July, he will travel along the Western coast for shows booked at Washington, British Columbia, Nevada, California and Colorado. His mother Lula Hardaway instigated Stevie Wonder’s return to the touring circuit again after a gap of 12 years and his next album will be a tribute to her.

Aimee Mann is a pumped up woman as she has just finished recording her seventh album “@#%&! Smilers” and the differently named album is all set for a release on June 3rd this year. Aimee said that the album will be coming out under the label of her own company, Super Ego Records. The album is produced by her close friend and associate Paul Bryan, who was responsible for bringing out her last album in 2006 “One More Drifter in the Snow”. Aimee Mann says that her fans will be hearing a totally different sound in this album.

Aimee says that the album has a lot of synthesizer sounds added to it and will sound similar to the car sounds a little bit. She says that she has attempted to make every song a different one by treating each song differently and it is up to her fans to listen to the songs and tell her how different it is. Mann also revealed that the entire album does not have an electric guitar sound in it and is an all keyboard situation album, which she feels will linger for long in the minds of her fans. Mann said that she will be coming up with a concert tour in a few weeks time to promote her new album.

Alanis Morissette is preparing for the release of a new album on May 20th. The Album named “Flavors of Entanglement” is her original studio release after a gap of four years. Alanis has done many tours around the world with her own songs and has performed in many shows in collaboration with Dave Matthews, Ringo Starr and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan over the years. A parody made by her last year named “My Humps” was released in You Tube and was one among the top downloads of 2007. It is calculated that this particular video of Alanis has been viewed by more than 12 million viewers.

Alanis was also into acting in films, television as well as on stage during these years. She has given good performances in her roles on “Curb Your Enthusiasm”, “Sex and the City”, “Nip/Tuck” etc. In the film “Dogma”, she did the role of God and recently did a role in “Radio Free Albemuth” the film adaptation of Philip K Dick’s Novel. Morissette was touring with the group Matchbox Twenty and is planning for world tour in June. The world tour will start with performances in Europe followed by shows in North America during the fall this year.

The Foo Fighters, a very popular heavy metal band, was awarded the Best International Album award in the recently concluded Brit Awards 2008 ceremony. This was the second award that the Foo Fighters received at the Brit Awards and the first award they received was the Best International Group Award. The Foo Fighters have been entertaining fans worldwide since 1995 with their loud, heavy guitars synching with pretty melodies and the success of the Foo Fighters has to be attributed to the founder of the group, Dave Grohl. As the Foo Fighters were not available at the awards function, the Foo Fighters Dave Grohl thanked the Brit Awards for their second award of the evening through a video message.

Dave Grohl, in his televised message, said that it was an honor for the Foo Fighters to be recognized among great music personalities like Culture Club, MC Hammer, Kula Shaker and Huey Lewis and the News. All the mentioned personalities have won the Brit Awards before them and Grohl said that he was happy to see the band graduate to such greater heights. The Foo Fighters were nominated along with The Eagles, the Kings of Leon, Arcade fire and Kylie Minogue for the Best International Album Award.

Rapper Lil’ Kim has left Atlantic Records and intends to release her upcoming as-yet-untitled album independently.
On DJ Kay Slay’s Sirius Satellite Radio show “Streetsweeper Radio” last week. Kim said that she harbors no ill feelings toward Atlantic. She said she was afraid to release her music independently several years ago but now she feels more comfortable in her knowledge of the music business. Lil Kim’s upcoming album (originally slated for February) is  tentatively set for April or May 2008.
Kim’s Atlantic swan song, 2005’s “The Naked Truth,” has sold 394,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Plus, the singer is gonna perform her shows very soon.

Get ready, because one of the most famous and successful rock bands of the United States, Foo Fighters is giving lots of shows during 2008! They start their tour on Jan 16, 2008 in Fort Lauderdale, FL. Tickets are available! So don’t miss their fabulous shows!

Kelly Clarkson is definitely gifted. She’s a  pop and rock singer, actress with the Grammy Award. At the beginning she was sang pop music and her first album “Thankful” was released in 2003. Kelly will perform her show on Jan 26, 2008 in Crown Center of Cumberland County,
Fayetteville, NC.

Rumors say that Michael Jackson has turned black again. Jackson, is currently in Ireland to record new music albums. As is well known, over the past several decades, Jackson had managed to change his complexion from a solid, honest black into almost lily white. Now, it has been reported that his skin is now ‘blacker than the inside of a cow at midnight’.

I found out recently that the Atlantic Records had announced about the upcoming release of P.S. I Love You - Music From The Motion Picture, which is the original motion picture soundtrack to the Warner Bros. Pictures/Alcon Entertainment romantic comedy/drama. The album will be available for sale on December 4th, and features tracks from a raw of eminent pop singers and artists, including James Blunt, Paolo Nutini, and the one-and-only Pogues.