Legacy Recordings, in cooperation with Elvis Presley Enterprises, Inc. and Viva ELVIS by Cirque du Soleil at ARIA Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, proudly announces the release of Viva ELVIS – The Album, a 21st century celebration of Elvis and his music, featuring the voice of the King in a whole new context. Viva ELVIS – The Album will be available everywhere this November. For more information, visit www.vivaelvis.com.

The undisputed King of Rock ‘n’ Roll, Elvis Presley remains one of the most iconic and powerful forces in popular culture. “Before Elvis,” said John Lennon, “there was nothing.”

“Viva ELVIS is a tantalizing musical experience,” said Adam Block, Senior Vice President/General Manager, Legacy Recordings. “It’s so creative and so contemporary, it effortlessly places Elvis in a current context that appeals to fans of all ages and all kinds of music. There’s a freshness, a newness to these songs that grabs you and shakes you and ultimately testifies to the remarkable artist Elvis remains to this very day.”
“What would the songs of Elvis be like if he were doing them for the first time today?” asks the album’s producer and arranger Erich van Tourneau, Musical Director and Arranger for Viva ELVIS by Cirque du Soleil. “We set out to evoke the soul and spirit of Elvis Presley while building a bridge between his music and future generations of fans.”

Katy Perry just released the cover for her upcoming album Teenage Dream. The artwork, shown above, shows Katy posing naked on a cloud of cotton candy. Will this entire album be inspired by Willy Wonka? Is that what teenagers dream about every day?

Katy also announced that her next single will be “Teenage Dream” and it is expected to hit radio on July 26th.

What do you think of Katy’s Teenage Dream album cover?

Australian singer / songwriter Sia – who recently co-wrote four songs on Christina Aguilera’s new album ‘Bionic’ – performed at London’s Roundhouse earlier this year, and you can now check out some of the videos that have just been released.

‘Cloud’ and ‘Clap Your Hands” are taken from her excellent new album ‘We Are Born‘, which is out on 27th September.

After its release last month, We Are Born debuted at #2 in Australia, and reached the top forty of the Billboard 200.

The first official single ‘Clap Your Hands’ gets its official UK release on 19th September.

Check out the clips below!

Eminem, the Nielsen SoundScan Artist of the Decade for 2000-2009, is already kicking off the new decade with more of the same. His latest album, Recovery (Aftermath Entertainment/Interscope Records), makes its debut atop the charts this week with sales of 741,000 copies; easily outpacing any other release for this year, and setting a bar that no other album has reached for first week sales in almost two years.

The album’s first single, “Not Afraid,” debuted at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in May. The song was only the 16th in the 52-year history of the Hot 100 to debut at the top spot, and the first rap song to do so in 13 years. The second single from the album, “Love The Way You Lie” (featuring Rihanna), is already showing tremendous growth at radio, and debuts at #1 on the Singles chart this week, with sales of 337,000.

“It’s been 12 years since Eminem signed to Aftermath and Interscope,” remarked Jimmy Iovine, Chairman, Interscope Geffen A&M Records. “This is a real watershed moment in his career. In my opinion, with this album Eminem’s impact on popular culture, and as a lyricist and writer, puts him on course to be mentioned in the same sentence as Dylan, Springsteen, and Bono.”
Recovery is being hailed as a tour de force for the rapper, receiving a four-star review in the current issue of Rolling Stone, and being described as “his fiercest and most focused work in a long time … a strong return to the form that made him a star in the first place.” (USA Today, 6/21/10)

Kelly Rowland’s new single “Commander” made its UK chart debut at #17 this week. Most likely this hot dance track will climb the charts.

Check out the music video for “Commander” that was just released below!

What do you think of the former Destiny’s Child member’s music video?

Chart topper B.o.B. and Hayley Williams have premiered the music video for their hit single “Airplanes.” The song is the second single to be released of B.o.B’s debut album The Adventures of Bobby Ray, which hit #1 on the Billboard charts in May.

“Airplanes” is currently #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. You can’t help but love this song!

Check out the music video which actually came together pretty nicely!

The Scissor Sisters will be releasing their new album Night Work on June 29th, and we’ve got not one, but two new tracks for you to check out before they’re officially released!

Invisible Light –

Fire With Fire –

Here’s the Tracklisting for The Scissor Sisters new album Night Work:

1. Night Work
2. Whole New Way
3. Fire With Fire
4. Any Which Way
5. Harder You Get
6. Running Out
7. Something Like This
8. Skin This Cat
9. Skin Tight
10. Sex and Violence
11. Night Life
12. Invisible Light

Usher Raymond IV tops the charts this week as his hit song, “OMG” featuring will.i.am jumps to the No. 1 position on Billboard’s Hot 100 Singles and Digital Singles charts. This marks Usher’s ninth No. 1 single on Billboard’s Hot 100 Singles chart. Indeed, the song is emerging as a world-wide contender for 2010’s hot summer song; “OMG” has reached No. 1 on iTunes charts in the UK, Australia and Ireland.

Iconic performer and musical chameleon Cyndi Lauper will release Memphis Blues on June 22nd on Downtown Records. The collection of blues cover songs, recorded this March at Electraphonic Studios in Memphis, Tennessee, features appearances by such great artists as B.B. King, Jonny Lang, Allen Toussaint, Ann Peebles and Charlie Musselwhite.

“This is the album I’ve wanted to make for years,” said Lauper. “All of these beautiful songs, and all of the great players on the album, were carefully chosen because I’ve admired them my entire life. And I knew from the moment Alan Toussaint hit the keys in ‘Shattered Dreams’ that we were creating something really special.”

The feel of Memphis Blues is gritty and full of life. It bristles with the kind of energy that earmarked the hit singles invented on the fly at Stax Records, the historic and spiritual prototype for Electraphonic, where musicians of multiple generations work side-by-side creating soul-driven anthems for the brokenhearted, the unrequited, and the overlooked.

Lauper, who traveled from New York to Memphis to set up camp at Electraphonic Recording Studio, assembled a team of crackerjack session players to cut the way she knew this record had to be done: live, analog, with Cyndi herself calling out arrangements on the studio floor.

Produced by Scott Bomar and mixed by longtime collaborator William Wittman, Memphis Blues features appearances by a veritable dream team of blues and soul greats, including harmonica master Charlie Musselwhite, vocalist Ann “I Can’t Stand the Rain” Peebles, brilliant Crescent City organist Allen Toussaint, and hotshot guitar heroes Jonny Lang and legend B.B. King.

Memphis Blues session players include Stax veterans Lester Snell and Skip Pitts, and Hi Rhythm Section alums Leroy Hodges and Howard Grimes, studio careerists who cut their teeth recording with the likes of Isaac Hayes and Al Green. Along with the punctuating blasts provided by trumpeter Marc Franklin, baritone saxophonist Kirk Smother, and tenor saxman Derrick Williams, they provided a steadfast foundation for Lauper’s impeccable vocals.

Ranging from the harmonica blues ballad “Just Your Fool,” to “Don’t Cry No More,” originally a hit for Bobby “Blue” Bland, Cyndi starts with a slow burn and then pours on the gasoline, giving “Rollin’ And Tumblin’” an authentic hill country blues read and collaborating with the one and only B.B. King on the up-tempo Louis Jordan raver “Early in the Morning.”

As demonstrated by her scorching, tell-it-like-it-is renderings of Memphis Slim’s “Mother Earth” and Lowell Fulsom’s “Shattered Dreams,” even Cyndi’s topical themes – which, on past albums, have addressed homophobia and racism – are stripped away as she focuses on the most basic problem to plague humankind: love, and the havoc wreaked because of it.

Memphis Blues track listing:
1. I’m Just Your Fool (feat. Charlie Musselwhite)
2. Shattered Dreams (feat. Allen Toussaint)
3. Early in the Morning (feat. Allen Toussaint & B.B. King)
4. Romance in the Dark
5. How Blue Can You Get (feat. Jonny Lang)
6. Down Don’t Bother Me (feat. Charlie Musselwhite)
7. Don’t Cry No More
8. Rollin and Tumblin’ (feat. Kenny Brown and Ann Peebles)
9. Down So Low
10. Mother Earth (feat. Allen Toussaint)
11. Cross Roads (feat. Jonny Lang)
12. Wild Women Don’t Get the Blues

For more information visit:
Official website: cyndilauper.com
Official Twitter: twitter.com/shebop_aka_cyn

Check out Macy Gray’s music video for her new single ‘Beauty In The World’ –

‘Beauty In The World’ is taken from Macy Gray’s upcoming album THE SELLOUT (Concord) available June 22, 2010.