If you and your friends like live music, pub-crawls and doing your thing for charity, then this is the event for you. All proceeds raised from MacmillanТs Brick Lane Takeover will go towards improving the lives of people affected by cancer. Giving has never felt - or sounded - so good.Sony Commercial Music Group today announced the brand new release of a 20-track album of Jimi HendrixТs greatest hits entitled Fire The Jimi Hendrix Collection on 7 June 2010. With title track FireТ specially selected for ITVТs World Cup promotions running throughout May and June, the guitar superheroТs outstanding work is, once again, reaching a whole new generation 40 years after his death.The album will include all of Jimi HendrixТs essential and greatest tracks including All Along The WatchtowerТ, Purple HazeТ, Voodoo ChildТ, Are You ExperiencedТ, Foxy LadyТ, Hey JoeТ and Little WingТ Additionally, Fire The Jimi Hendrix Collection will feature four tracks off the newly curated Valleys of Neptune album - never previously available on any past collection.

The word on Langhorne Slim has been that he is very much on the up and this album seems to confirm his arrival.It took some time to work him out but in the end it comes down to one simple fact – he writes good songs and plays them brilliantly.Mother Mother are the latest in a line of quirky Canadian pop-alternative groups, hoping to make a splash in Europe after doing well in their home country Although O My Heart has been available stateside since 2008, the time has come for the quintet to ply their trade over here, and as expected, O my Heart will polarise their listeners somewhat.

Think of Me is billed as a lullaby and it is very easy to imagine this delicately arranged song being used to quiet the carpetcrawlers. It’s sparse and ethereal instrumentation, slowly builds as the song progresses, gliding towards a satisfyingly, atmospheric climax. The gel is Jo Hamilton’s voice, which is special, and this is a sublime performance of grace and subtlety.Ke$has success certainly sees no end on the back of tracks like this. Taken from her Animal album, Your Love is My Drug is going to follow on from Tik Tok and Blah Blah Blah to make it another huge hit. With a summer vibe and mightily catchy chorus which does remind me of P!nk in places this has hit written all over it.All sorts of cliches come to mind with this album – A Curates Egg’ is probably the most appropriate, Good In Parts.

Last week, NARM unveiled its music + more sticker to draw more consumers towards value-added CDs. Now, NARM and the RIAA are pushing another sticker, this time to encourage the gifting of music. The Give the Gift of Music logo, shared with Digital Music News this morning, comes comfortably ahead of the Christmas season.But this is a variation on a theme that the recording industry has been employing for about 30 years. In 2010, things are just getting spruced up a bit. In March, NARM and the RIAA invited companies and individuals to participate in a design contest to give this campaign a fresh look and the response was overwhelming, explained NARM President Jim Donio. The winning design came from Richard Jennings of WEA Corp.Donio cited a study showing that gifting can be a powerful revenue driver, one that goes far beyond physical In that spirit, the groups are encouraging inclusion across websites and social media campaigns, as well as in-store campaigns.