Hurley

Weezer are now streaming
their forthcoming new album, Hurley, in its entirety online at www.myspace.com/weezer. The album is currently available for pre-
order at Epitaphstore.com, Amazon.com and iTunes.com and will be released everywhere on Sept. 14.

The latest addition to Weezer’s catalog features a much talked about and delightfully kind photo of actor Jorge
Garcia, who plays the character named Hurley on ABC’s hit show Lost. “We struggled super hard
trying to come up with an album title,’” Rivers Cuomo said recently. “I just loved this photo of Jorge Garcia
– it just had
this amazing vibe. We didn’t want to do a fourth self-titled record and we knew people would refer to it as ‘the
Hurley record’ even if we left it without that title, so we just called it ‘Hurley.’ No words are on the cover because all
we wanted was his amazing face.”

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Leftover Salmon

From LeftoverSalmon.com:

“We are excited to announce our return to the Fillmore Auditorium in Denver to celebrate Halloween! Zombie
Jamboree will be Salmon’s 5th time decking out the Fillmore in Halloween fashion. Costumes and Halloween has
always been a big part of Leftover Salmon. This October 30th we will continue that tradition with special guest Todd Snider back by Great American Taxi to open the show.
A limited amount of tickets will be sold through our fan ticketing today Wednesday September 8th at 10am MST.
Buy Tickets here.”

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In 1996, a group of Mali’s best-known musicians were due to fly into Havana for a collaboration with some of Cuba’s
singers and instrumentalists. However, the Malians never arrived due to travel complications, and a very different
album was recorded instead: The Grammy Award-winning, multi-million-selling Buena Vista Social Club,
which became the biggest-selling world music album ever.

Nick Gold, the man behind the 1996 venture, finally brought the original invitees together with a line-up of
additional talent at a recent series of recording sessions. On October 19, World Circuit/Nonesuch Records will
release the lost Afro-Cuban album, AfroCubism, 14 years after originally planned.

Fronting the Cuban team is the cowboy-hatted singer and guitarist Eliades Ochoa, singer of the
celebrated Buena Vista theme Chan Chan. The two original Malian invitees are multi award-winning ngoni lute
master Bassekou Kouyate and the acclaimed Rail Band guitarist Djelimady Tounkara, both
considered to be among the world’s great instrumentalists.

Joining them are Ochoa’s Grupo Patria, one of Cuba’s longest running and most revered bands; the
Grammy Award-winning kora master Toumani Diabate; legendary Malian griot singer Kasse Mady
Diabate; and the innovative balafon player Lassana Diabate.

Seventeen songs were recorded in five days, with all the musicians playing together live in one large room. A second
session was convened some months later and produced a further nine songs.

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OK Go have partnered with
Indaba Music and the Rock Band Network to launch a remix contest for their new single, “White Knuckles.”

The grand prize winner will have his/her remix turned into a game track by The Authority, a premier Rock Band
Network authoring studio and made available for download for Rock Band 3 in late November. They will
also receive a gaming console, a copy of Rock Band 3, and a set of Rock Band instruments to jam with friends to
their winning remix. In addition, two runners-up will receive copies of Rock Band 3 and OK Go’s Of the Blue
Colour of the Sky (Deluxe Edition) album, as well as a “White Knuckles” UK vinyl import single and a signed
set of ping-pong balls from the band’s “This Too Shall Pass” (RGM version) video. The contest runs from September
7 through October 14 with the grand prize winner announced on October 29. Contest entry forms and further
details are available at Indaba
Music and
OKgo.net.

Here’s the band’s last two official videos. They do set the creative bar for folks!

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