If you’ve got a tween in your family, you’ve probably heard of Honor Society. They’ve been on tour with the Jonas Brothers and like them are New Jersey Natives (as am I). They’ve recently released their new album, Fashionably Late their done a nice cover of Jordin Spark’s latest single “Battlefield”. To find more information about Honor Society check out their myspace page, and their twitter page.

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Calling All One Republic Fans: Be Sure to Check Out One Republic performing their new single, “All the Right Moves” on The Ellen DeGeneres Show Today!

Click Here to view their music video for All the Right Moves

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Shwayze has been added to LMFAO’s Party Rock tour. Be sure to check them out in the following cities, and to pick up their new album, Let It Beat, on November 3.

Thursday, November 5       Reno, NV                         Theatre at Grand Sierra
Friday, November 6            Las Vegas, NV                 House of Blues
Saturday, November 7        Los Angeles, CA              The Wiltern 
Monday, November 9          Portland, OR                    Hawthorne Theatre
Tuesday, November 10       Vancouver, BC                Gossip
Thursday, November 12     Seattle, WA                      Showbox
Saturday, November 14      Boise, ID                          Knitting Factory
Tuesday, November 17       Englewood, CO               Gothic Theatre
Wednesday, November 18 Lincoln, NE                      Bourbon Theatre
Thursday, November 19     Lawrence, KS                  Granada Theater
Friday, November 20          St. Louis, MO                   The Pageant
Saturday, November 21      Milwaukee, WI                 The Rave
Sunday, November 22        Chicago, IL                      Congress theatre
Tuesday, November 24       Des Moines, IA                People?s Court
Friday, November 27          Pontiac, MI                       Clutch Cargos
Saturday, November 28      Cleveland, OH                 House of Blues
Sunday, November 29        Pittsburgh, PA                  Diesel
Monday, November 30        State College, PA            The Cell Block
Tuesday, December 1         Philadelphia, PA              Theatre of the Living Arts
Thursday, December 3       New Haven, CT               Toad?s Place
Friday, December 4            New York, NY                  Irving Plaza
Sunday, December 6          Farmingdale, NY             Crazy Donkey
Tuesday, December 8         Richmond, VA                  The National
Wednesday, December 9   Norfolk, VA                      The Norva
Thursday, December 10     Charlotte, NC                   The Fillmore
Friday, December 11          Myrtle Beach, SC             House of Blues
Monday, December 14        Orlando, FL                      Firestone
Wednesday, Dece,ber 16   House of Blues                New Orleans, LA
Thursday, December 17     Houston, TX                     House of Blues
Friday, December 18          Dallas, TX                        House of Blues
Saturday, December 19      San Antonio, TX              The White Rabbit
Sunday, December 20        McAllen, TX                     Las Palmas Event Center

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Tina Fey is gracing next months cover of Harper’s Bazaar, and giving a hilarious interview about balancing her career, motherhood and marriage. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: “A typical Fey day sounds like a punch line, but more for a black comedy: “Work, come home, play, kid bounce, work again, go to bed.” She has thought about yoga, even done it a couple times. “But,” she notes, “even yoga classes go on 80 or 90 minutes.” Not for Tina the ethos of Gwyneth Paltrow or Madonna, with their two hours plus of bendiness a day. “You will still die,” she observes. “I’ll do grave yoga. Someone can come and stretch me in my grave.”

Read the rest of the interview here

I would’ve posted Raising Victor Vargas anyway because I love this movie, but it seems appropriate being that its Hispanic Heritage Month and this movie stars three talented  Latina/o young actors Victor Rasuk (Stop-Loss, Lords of Dogtown) and Judy Marte (On The Outs, X’s and O’s) and Melonie Diaz ( Be Kind Rewind, Itty Bitty Titty Committee). Check out the rest of the movie here.

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Pop-Rock group One Republic has released their new single “All The Right Moves” today. Its featured on their sophomore album Waking Up, which is set to debut on November 17. If you’re a fan of One Republic or just love good music, be sure to check out listen here, and buy it on iTunes and Amazon.

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On being a professional artist and landing a record deal new artist Marina Chello describes it as “surreal”. The daughter of rocker father, she chose to continue the family’s tradition for the love of music, just a different genre: R&B and Pop.  She moved with her family to New York City at age 11, transitioning from Russia to New York was a huge change for her, especially adapting to the culture “It was a big task because I didn’t know the language”. Her passion for music helped her make the transition. She listened to the music industry’s greatest female singers, Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, etc. to help her learn English. Having the arguably the world’s greatest singers be her guide to the English language was definitely shows through the vocal range, singing  songs by Andrea Bocelli and Alicia Keys featured on her YouTube page. Though she always wanted to be a singer, during her high school years she had an alternative career to fall back on: attend college and eventually law school.

She’s another “MySpace” success story, after opening an account; she met President of Crazy Joint Records, Harve Pierre (former executive at Bad Boy Records) and auditioned for him.  She was signed soon after and recalls the Her favorite song on her debut album “What’s Done Is Done” is “ Sideline”, an emotional R&B/Pop ballad that tells the story of neglect. The song was an immediate match for the album, “Sideline is the reason why we chose it, the moment I heard it, and I had tears in my eyes.” Since she’s still in the midst of recording her debut album, she knows how hard it is to actually live out your dream and deal with the reality of it, in terms of advice, she recommends “work on your craft if you really love it, work on the business but really get in the studio and work on your craft.”

Her top 5 favorite albums (in no particular order):

1. Eagles “When Hell Freezes Over”
2. Michael Jackson “History”
3. Mariah Carey “Emotions”
4. Shania Twain “ Come On Over”
5. White Snake “Greatest Hits”

For more information on Marina Chello check out her Myspace page, Youtube Page, and listen to “Sideline”

I’ve taken a break recently and now will begin posting regularly with music news, pop culture posts and an interview with new pop/R&B singer Marina Chello.

Stay-tuned