Norah Jones Releases New CD “LITTLE BROKEN HEARTS”

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Jazz-pop siren Norah Jones has set to release Little Broken Hearts (Blue Note/EMI) through Polyeast Records, her stunning new album produced by Danger Mouse (aka Brian Burton). The 12-track album features the gently rolling first single “Happy Pills."

Little Broken Hearts, which features original songs co-written by Jones and Danger Mouse, is the fascinating next step in the artistic evolution of one of the most intriguing singers to have emerged in the past decade. Together they have married their highly personal styles to create an entirely new sound.

Jones drew the inspiration for the album cover from the vintage movie posters that adorn Burton’s Los Angeles studio. “Brian has this great collection of Russ Meyer posters in his studio,” explains Jones, “and this particular one, called Mudhoney, was right over the couch where I sat every day. I always was looking at it and thinking ‘that’s so cool I want to look like her!’ I remember staring at the poster the whole time we made the record. It’s a great visual."

The duo reconvened in Danger Mouse’s Los Angeles studio this past fall to finish what they had begun. The songs were all built from the ground up in the studio, with Jones and Danger Mouse sharing all the songwriting credits and performing the majority of the instrumental parts; Jones on piano, keyboards, bass, and guitar, and Danger Mouse contributing drums, bass, guitar, keyboards, and string arrangements

Jones first emerged on the world stage 10 years ago this month with the February 2002 release of Come Away With Me, her self-described “moody little record” that introduced a singular new voice and grew into a global phenomenon, sweeping the 2003 Grammy Awards and signaling a paradigm shift away from the prevailing synthetic pop music of the time. Come Away With Me has just become the #10 best-selling album of the Soundscan era. The album has sold 25 million copies worldwide.
Since then, Jones has released three more critically acclaimed and commercially successful solo albums—Feels Like Home (2004), Not Too Late (2007), and The Fall (2009)—as well as two albums with her country collective The Little Willies. The 2010 compilation …Featuring Norah Jones showed her to possess an incredibly versatile voice by collecting her collaborations with artists as diverse as Willie Nelson, Outkast, Herbie Hancock, and Foo Fighters. Jones previously collaborated with Danger Mouse on his acclaimed 2011 album ROME, a valentine to classic Italian film score music that also featured Jack White.


American Songwriter Magazine says “She reteams with Burton for her fifth solo album, Little Broken Hearts, which may be the most dramatic and rewarding departure she’s made in her career. Burton plies an imaginative panoply of ‘60s elements – French pop, psych rock, and soundtrack compositions.”

Norah Jones’ new album is available May 2, 2012 in stores nationwide,  released by Polyeast Records.


Gladly went to Polyeast Records yesterday and we're very privileged to listen to Norah Jones new album "Little Broken Hearts" featuring original songs co-written by Norah Jones and Danger Mouses, aka  Brian Burton.


Here are Norah Jones Little Broken Hearts Tracklisting:

* Good Morning 
* Say Goodbye
* Little Broken Hearts
* She's 22
* Take it Back
* After the Fall
* 4 Broken Hearts
* Travelin' On
* Out on the Road
* Happy pills
* Mirriam
* All a Dream

Norah Jones – Happy Pills (Behind The Scenes)

"Happy Pills" Music Video - Norah Jones

Jason Mraz Spells Out His Brand New Album: “Love Is A Four Letter Word”

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A few years ago, Grammy winning singer and songwriter, Jason Mraz released an album that would change his life– the multi-platinum best-selling, We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things. The album featured the record breaking “I’m Yours” — a buoyant, reggae-flavored love song which captured the hearts of people across the globe, surpassing twenty-one million sales worldwide and setting a record for the longest-running song in the 51-year history of Billboard’s Hot 100 chart with 76 weeks on the chart. The track earned Jason Mraz a Grammy “Song of the Year” nomination, was ASCAP’s 2010 “Song of the Year” and led to Jason Mraz being given the Songwriters Hall of Fame’s prestigious “Hal David Starlight Award,” which is presented to songwriters who have made a significant impact in the music industry with their original songs.  In 2010, Jason garnered two Grammy wins to add to his long list of accomplishments winning “Best Male Pop Vocal Performance” for “Make It Mine” and “Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals” for “Lucky,” his duet with Colbie Caillat, both from We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things.

Though the album had a major effect on the public and the music industry, it had the biggest impact on Jason Mraz himself, propelling the Virginia-born singer and songwriter to international stardom and creating touring demand across the world playing everywhere from Carnegie Hall to the Sydney Opera House to stadiums around the globe- a sweet invitation for this socially conscious and environmentally minded artist whose mission is to celebrate music’s lasting power to inspire change and help others through global citizenship.

Jason Mraz spent 22 months on the road promoting We Sing, which followed on his previous studio albums, the 2002 debut Waiting For My Rocket To Come and 2005’s Mr. A-Z. “The tour was a blast and a whirlwind,” he says. “I got turned on to the power of the voice and the power of the melody, and it created this desire in me to do it again immediately. Being able to inspire people and take a very simple message global gave me a preview of what that can do. I got home from the tour and thought, ‘How can I spread love to the world through this new platform that I have?’ That became my starting point for this new album.” That album, Love Is A Four Letter Word, contains a heartfelt, uplifting collection that explores love’s ups and downs or as JasonMraz puts it: “What one does in love to make it work, and what one does in love when it’s time to let go.”

Jason Mraz had been writing steadily, putting all of his experiences into song.  He eventually pared down to the final 12 that appear on his fourth studio album, Love Is A Four Letter Word. Recorded at Hollywood ’s legendary Sunset Sound with producer Joe Chiccarelli (White Stripes, Christina Perri, My Morning Jacket) and a line-up of all-star session musicians, the album’s clever arrangements and rich musical textures cushion the diamond-cut clarity of Mraz’s pure tenor voice. “I feel like it showcases a variety of moods, from soulful baby-making-jams, to colorful new-jazz, to love-fueled acoustic-guitar-strokery, to rhythmic sunshine-pop,” Jason Mraz says. “And lyrically, I wanted the album to have a balance of the sacred and the silly because I want listeners to have both experiences. I want them to be able to go deep, but not get stuck there. I want them to have sunshine, but not get sunburned.”

What ties the songs together is their theme. “I had this vision that the album was going to be called ‘Love’ and I was going to talk about love and share love in one way or another,” Jason Mraz says. “I thought it was going to be easy because everything I write comes from a place of love, whether it’s a new understanding of it, or a retelling of it, or a reawakening to it. But the more I looked at the subject, the more I realized that love almost can’t be defined and who am I to define it anyway? So I went on a journey to try to define the word and be an expression of it in the world.”

That journey led to such songs as first single “I Won’t Give Up,” an emotional acoustic-driven declaration that has already connected with the public, debuting at No. 1 on Billboard’s Digital Songs chart and topping the iTunes “Top Songs” and Hot AC radio charts. “It’s about the experience I had with someone in which I had to go dark and let go of a lot things in order to see that I had everything already,” Jason Mraz says. Another movingly reflective moment is the hushed song of longing “In Your Hands,” as well as “93 Million Miles,” in which Mraz finds peace in the realization that you can feel at home in the world no matter where you are.

Fans of Jason Mraz’s upbeat, groove-fueled work will appreciate the feel-good “Everything is Sound” which Jason Mraz says was inspired by his love for Kirtan — a form of devotional call-and-response group singing in Sanskrit. “I had been going to several Kirtans around L.A. and wanted to write something with a bit of a chant in it so that people could just lose themselves a bit,” he says. “I like the idea of sneaking some of that Hallelujah into contemporary pop music.”

Other highlights include the breezy “Living In The Moment,” the earthy story-song “Frank D Fixer” (inspired by Mraz’s grandfather), and the album’s horn-driven opener “Freedom Song,” which was written by Seattle singer-songwriter Luc Reynaud. “Luc composed this song with some kids in a shelter in Baton Rouge after Hurricane Katrina and it was released on a CD called Harmonic Humanity and sold by homeless people as a way to raise money,” Jason Mraz explains. “When I heard it, I wrote to him and asked him if I could sing it for everyone I knew because it’s important to keep the message going.” During Jason Mraz’s 2010 trip to Ghana to work with anti-slavery organization Free the Slaves, he sang “Freedom Song” at a school whose many students are former child slaves. The group has adopted it as its theme song.

It’s that crossroads where music, love, hope, and giving back intersect that makes it all meaningful for Jason Mraz a dedicated surfer, cyclist, yogi and activist. Having worked with the Surfrider Foundation, Free the Slaves, and the True Colors Fund, as well as actively supporting VH1’s Save the Music, Free the Children, SPARC,  (the School of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community), MusiCares, and Life Rolls On, Jason Mraz recently established the Jason Mraz Foundation to help sustain organizations aligned with his pillars of service, including working to end human trafficking within the human rights arena and promoting human equality, fighting for environment preservation, advocating for the arts and education, and aiding with recovery and assistance.

“My mission is simple: it’s to shine a light through music, which can easily be applied to why I sing these songs,”Jason Mraz says. “Often times that light is on the very obvious subject of love. This album represents my view of the world and the realization that I am an important part of it in how the choices I make affect other people. But a little bit of love goes a long way, especially on a planet crowded with individuals struggling with seven billion different versions of human triumph and human suffering. When I remember to simply enjoy being where I am, it makes a world of difference.”

Jason Mraz “Love Is A Four Letter Word” is available in the Philippines under Warner Music Philippines.

Other Links : The Freedom Song by Jason Mraz

“American Pie: Reunion” (Uncut) Hit Comedy To Open May 2

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Welcome to the reunion of the Class of 1999 from East Great Falls High. In the comedy American Reunion, all theAmerican Pie characters we met a little more than a decade ago return for their high-school reunion.  In one long-overdue weekend, they will discover what has changed, who hasn’t and that time and distance can’t break the bonds of friendship.

It was summer 1999 when four small-town Michigan boys began a quest to lose their virginity. In the years that have passed, Jim (Jason Biggs) and Michelle (Alyson Hannigan) married while Kevin (Thomas Ian Nicholas) and Vicky (Tara Reid) said goodbye. Oz (Chris Klein) and Heather (Mena Suvari) grew apart, but Finch (Eddie Kay Thomas) still longs for Stifler’s Mom (Jennifer Coolidge). And Stifler (Seann William Scott) remains the same as he ever was. Now these lifelong friends have come home as adults to reminisce about—and get inspired by—the hormonal teens they were.

Completing the core group returning for the long-awaited American Reunion are comedy legend Eugene Levy as Jim’s Dad, Natasha Lyonne as the sexually-wise Jessica, John Cho and Justin Isfeld as the world’s biggest MILF enthusiasts, Chris Owen as The Shermanator and Shannon Elizabeth as Jim’s first on-screen tryst, Nadia.

They are joined by a supporting group of actors new to the series: Dania Ramirez as Selena, the East Great Falls ugly duckling whom no one thought would become so gorgeous; Katrina Bowden as Mia, Oz’s vapid model girlfriend; Chad Ochocinco as himself, playing Oz’s on-air co-host; Jay Harrington as Dr. Ron, Heather’s pompous cardiologist boyfriend; Ali Cobrin as Kara, Jim’s sexy next-door neighbor; and Chuck Hittinger as AJ, Kara’s idiot boyfriend.

“Amerian Pie: Reunion” is a Universal Pictures Presentation directed by Jon Hurwitz & Hayden Schlossberg and is distributed locally by United International Pictures through Solar Entertainment Corporation showing in theaters on May 2.

Mike Chan Rocks the Ramp at Tiendesitas

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Mike Chan, rock balladeer just launched his self titled second full length solo album under Heroes Records and Star Records last  night April 28, 2012 at Tiendesitas in Pasig City.

The album contains songs composed by Mike entitled "Don't Go" ( carrier single) , She’s the One, Ngayon ang Panahon, Heroes, Moon in A Day, Unforgettable and Leave Me Alone.

Mike believes that this album could be his breakthrough work as a solo artist. Mike hopes that his listeners will understand the real message behind this album. “This is not just about the songs in the disc. It’s about the passion and determination that went into the making and the production of these songs. It’s about believing in yourself and knowing that you are responsible for your own success or failure in life. It’s about creating your own luck and never giving up.”

Jason Fernandez ( formerly of Rivermaya)

With special guests Jason Fernandez ( formerly of Rivermaya), Tricia Garcia, Gary Ignacio (formerly of Alamid), FMD Combo, Kursonada, I-Ray, Flicker Fusion, Ariel Heights and other Heroes artists.

Mike Chan the album is presented by My Phone, DJM Music, Shimmian Surgicenter Manila, Eventus Advertising, Game Club and Epipes. Buyers of the new Mike’s CD always get special discounts on My Phone units. Fans and audience have been treated to promos in where they would get a chance to win phones, gift certificates, CDs DJM acoustic guitars, and other cool prizes!

I enjoy watching Mike’s performance, love listening to his songs and luckily I won a DJM acoustic guitar in the raffle given at the end of the show!

Photo Courtesy of Orange Magazine Tv

Beyoncé Named 2012 World's Most Beautiful Woman by People Magazine

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Sixteen-time Grammy Award winner Beyoncé was recently named People Magazine's World's Most Beautiful Woman for 2012.

This singer tells People how motherhood makes her feel beautiful. On People.com, the singer is quoted as saying, "I feel more beautiful than I've ever felt because I've given birth. I have never felt so connected, never felt like I had such a purpose on this earth."

The singer, who's known for hits like "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" and "Irreplaceable," gave birth to baby Blue Ivy Carter on January 7. "The best thing about having a daughter is having a true legacy," she told People. "The word 'love' means something completely different now."

Other stars on the magazine's list are Modern Family actress Sofia Vergara, Mad Men star Christina Hendricks, and the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton.  You can check out People's preview of their list online.

Singer and American Idol judge Jennifer Lopez was named World's Most Beautiful Woman in 2011.

Inside Beyoncé's Most Beautiful Cover Shoot

Check more updates on People Magazine.