Day in Pop for 10/12: Boyband Star Dies- Soulja Boy Arrested- New Michael Jackson Song Out- Underwood Preview- Britney's Ex Pleads- New Winehouse Coming? and more top pop music news stories of the day

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Boyband Star Dies- Soulja Boy Arrested- New Michael Jackson Song Out- Underwood Preview- Britney's Ex Pleads- New Amy Winehouse Coming?- Katy Perry and more

Day in Pop reports: Here is today's quick round up of pop news stories: Stephen Gately, a singer with the Irish boy band Boyzone who made headlines when he came out as gay a decade ago, has died while on vacation in Spain, the group said on its Web site. He was 33. more

Police say rapper Soulja Boy was charged with obstruction after telling officers that people gathered at an abandoned Georgia house were shooting a music video.more

A former boyfriend of singer Britney Spears has pleaded no contest to leaving the scene of an accident that injured a man who was trying to serve him with a restraining order.more

Amy Winehouse is "hopefully" going to release the follow-up to her 2006 album 'Back To Black' next year, according to her record label boss.more

FMQB reported on Friday that the unreleased Michael Jackson track "This Is It" will get a worldwide digital release on Sunday night, October 11, at midnight EST. The song also plays during the closing sequence of Sony Pictures' forthcoming movie. more

Now, before you can hear it anywhere else, Billboard.com has an exclusive preview of Carrie Underwood's "Mama's Song," a new track from her new album "Play On". Check it out more

Elle.com has an exclusive video of Katy Perry interviewing Karl Lagerfeld during Paris Fashion Week. Katy talks to Karl Lagerfeld about music and fashion at his Spring 2010 runway show. Check it out - here

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Alicia Keys Sets New Album Release

RCA reports: This year wouldn't mean anything without a brand new album from Alicia Keys and on December 1, the 12-time Grammy Award winner will release The Element Of Freedom, her 4th studio album on MBK/J Records.

Keys' first single, "Doesn't Mean Anything," was written and produced by Alicia and her longtime production partner Kerry "Krucial" Brothers. The moment the single impacted radio on September 21st, critics declared it an instant hit.

While Keys' collaboration on Jay-Z's "Empire State of Mind" and "Doesn't Mean Anything" continue to climb the charts, Keys will make her television debut performance of the single on Regis & Kelly on October 12th. - more on this story

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Susan Boyle Releases Song Details For Debut Album

Columbia Records reports: Susan Boyle will make her highly anticipated album debut with 'I Dreamed A Dream' out on Columbia November 24 and once again, defy preconceptions.

Produced by Steve Mac, 'I Dreamed A Dream' features her signature songs, "I Dreamed A Dream" and "Cry Me A River." The album also includes a haunting rendition of Rolling Stones' "Wild Horses," Madonna's "You'll See," The Monkees' 'Daydream Believer,' and "Who I Was Born To Be," an original recording written specially for Susan.

Susan enthused: "It was my greatest ambition to release an album and I have finally achieved it. There is happiness out there for everyone who dares to dream." - Full tracklist

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Lauryn Hill and Fly Gypsy Mix It Up

Audible Treats reports: D.C.'s dynamic hip-hop duo Fly Gypsy invites singer/rapper Lauryn Hill to join them once again on the latest track off their Vodka Rum Mixtape.

Producer Alexei Jendayi creates an upbeat backdrop with grooving bass punches and a clap snare that weaves in and out of a repeated sample, courtesy of funk/R&B singer Curtis Mayfield. The sunny production and forward-looking, flowing lyrics combine to effectively epitomize "feel-good music."

Emcee Kowboy Kom states, "I love doing songs that mean something and this song has a lot of heart in it. I think a lot of our fans from all walks of life will draw from it in different ways. This is also a personal song to me because music affects people and as a lyricist I try to affect people in a beneficial way."
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Bobby Long Returning To America For Fall Tour

PR reports: Singer-songwriter Bobby Long will return to the U.S., beginning October 22 in New York City, to begin his fall tour. The young Brit, whose song "Let Me Sign" is included in the soundtrack of the blockbuster film "Twilight," headed to Europe for shows in Spain, France, Germany and his home base in London after two months on the road in the U.S. He now has U.S. dates scheduled until the end of the year.

The "Dangerous Summer" tour took him all over the U.S. and Canada, playing more than three dozen packed club dates and selling nearly 10,000 copies of his 10-song collection, DIRTY POND SONGS, that was recorded in his bedroom especially to be available during the tour. Two songs from the CD, "Left to Lie" and "The Bounty of Mary Jane," are available for download from iTunes and other digital outlets. He also has a live recording available of his first performance back in April at New York's Arlene's Grocery, with his "Being A Mockingbird" from that recording available from digital outlets.

Fans first discovered Long's compelling brand of acoustic music via the film, YouTube and his continually-updated MySpace page, which surpassed one million views during the summer tour. He appeared on television's "Good Morning Texas" in Dallas, "Live at 9" in Memphis, the WGN Midday News in Chicago, KABC-TV's "On the Red Carpet" Report in Los Angeles and Canada's MuchMusic Network and national "Canada AM" during the first leg of the tour. - more on this story

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David Guetta US Tour

EMI reports: International DJ/Producer David Guetta has announced dates for his most extensive U.S. tour to date, kicking off Nov. 18th at Opera in Atlanta, GA, and spinning around the country until Dec. 3rd playing at Beta in Denver, CO.

The tour is in support of Guetta's new critically acclaimed album 'One Love' (Astralwerks) which has hit #1 across Europe and entered the U.S. iTunes album chart at #12.

Guetta has been on a hot streak since early summer, having produced the Black Eyed Peas record-breaking "I Gotta Feeling" along with the global success of 'One Love's' summer anthem "When Love Takes Over" featuring Kelly Rowland and new monster hit "Sexy Bitch" featuring Akon. - more on this story

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Diamond District Set Release

Audible Treats reports: Hip-hop trio, Diamond District, comprised of producer/emcee Oddisee and emcees X.O. and yU, is proud to announce the official retail release of their debut album, In The Ruff, featuring two brand new tracks. In The Ruff will be available October 27th via Mellow Music Group.

In The Ruff was crafted to fill a void � musically and regionally. Creating what they are calling a golden era-type album for a city that never truly embraced this type of hip-hop, In The Ruff is Diamond District both looking back and forward, releasing an album that pays homage to music of an earlier time while not sounding out of place in the current indie hip-hop scene. Speaking directly to those sentiments, Oddisee says, "Our love for the particular sound and the need for D.C. to contribute to that sound was our true inspiration for this album." Two new tracks are featured at the end of the album. The first additional track, "Something for Y'all," features production from Oddisee's fellow Low Budget Crew member Kev Brown, while the second track, "Hologram," features production from Oddisee himself, as does the majority of In The Ruff. In addition to the two new tracks, Oddisee will also be crafting remixes for a select number of tracks from the album, which will be released free for fans.

While In The Ruff's original release came as a free online download through, with the numerous changes and added tracks Diamond District decided to release a retail version. One of the most prominent alterations is the album's change from clean to explicit. The original release was edited for content, while the upcoming re-release is untouched, giving the album, in its entirety, a more authentic feel - raw and unaltered from the way Diamond District intended. In order to give the album a proper release, Diamond District has partnered with rising Phoenix, Arizona-based label Mello Music Group, also home for artists Trek Life, Kenn Starr, Sareem Poems, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Dudley Perkins, and more. On wanting to work with Diamond District for In The Ruff's official release, Mello Music Group founder, Michael Tolle, stated, "We heard In The Ruff and thought 'this is the best album of year.' We had to document it in a physical, tangible way. MP3's are cool, but in the end, we wanted to leave behind a cd, some vinyl � something audiophiles could hold in their hands." - more on this story

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Stephen Michael Thornton Releases New Songs

PT reports: Singer Stephen Michael Thornton officially hit the digital market with the recent release of two new pop singles.

A preview of his upcoming album, Love Machine and Time to Get Dirty are funky pop club bangers with a Jackson esk feel. An incredible talent, Thornton wrote and arranged both singles while co-producing with DJ Paul Wicked, and tracking guitar, keyboard, and background vocals.

In addition to his singles release, Stephen will make his Beatport debut next week being featured on "I Want You" by house producer northboundHOUSE. - more on this story

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Zeep Set Release

PR reports: Allow us to introduce you to People & Things - the wonderful new opus from Zeep, aka London-based musicians Nina Miranda and Chris Franck. Together they have crafted a fresh, immediate pop album that dips its elegant toes into every musical pool they have previously explored as Smoke City and Da Lata, as well as embark onto exciting new waters. (Out 10/27)

The soaring confidence of a band on peak form is perhaps at its most evident on a daring Brazilian folk rewiring of the Specials' classic "Ghost Town", which retains the British pop and Jamaican reggae influences of the original, but, with words rewritten in Portuguese, reapplies its anger and ominousness to inner city tensions in modern-day Rio. Zeep's "Ghost Town" has already been given the greatest endorsement possible: the enthusiastic backing of The Specials' Jerry Dammers.

Fans of Zeep's summery debut record ("A signature album of 2007", according to The Times UK), will feel immediately at home with the wry, fiendishly catchy escapade of the opening track, "Elasticated Master Peace", the space-age down tempo rock of "Light Your Touch", the tripped-out bossa of "Just A Little Bit". There is also swooning drama, in the form of the cinematic 'Desert' which tackles the subject of an agonising break-up set against the backdrop of a spaghetti western soundtrack with disco playfulness, as well as 'Hidden Surprises', which focuses on the corrosive effect that greed and ego can play in relationships. - more on this story

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Michael Jackson Glove Auctioned Off

PR reports: Profiles in History sold Five Million on the auction block at its 37th Hollywood Memorabilia Auction on October 8-9, 2009.

Auction Highlights - Sold Prices
. $141,600 Original Amelia Earhart flight goggles worn during her historic 1932 solo transatlantic flight.
. $106,200 Elvis Presley's personal Martin D-28 guitar state-used in his final Las Vegas performance.
. $94,400 Original hero screen-used T-800 Endoskeleton from T2 3-D: Battle Across Time (Universal,1996)
. $88,500 Full-scale screen-used Hero Bumblebee robot from Transformers.
. $76,700 Large-scale model of front section of Discovery ship from 2010.
. $76,700 Full-scale Velociraptor maquette from Jurassic Park.
. $70,800 Michael Jackson's iconic illuminating glove worn on state during The Jackson's Victory Tour.
. $70,800 Archive of 1,300+ puppets and set pieces from Emilio and His Magical Bull.
. $70,800 Walker Edminston archive of Time for Beany show puppets and memorabilia.
. $70,800 Original full-scale T-800 endoskeleton from Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.
. $64,900 Ooogie Boogie puppet from The Nightmare Before Christmas.
. $57,500 John Steed derby hat from The Avengers.
. $56,050 Harrison Ford signature hero "Indiana Jones" bullwhip from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
. $53,100 Stephen Boyd complete "Messala" charioteer costume from Ben-Hur.
. $47,200 Full-size Predator display from Predator and Predator 2.
. $35,400 Michael Jackson stage-worn Boyd Clopton design from "Going Back to Indiana" and otherconcerts.
. $35,400 Christopher Reeve hero evil Superman suit from Superman III - more on this story

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Katie Garibaldi Takes The Next Ride Out

PR reports: Katie Garibaldi proudly releases her new full-length CD, Next Ride Out. This marks the sixth full-length CD release for the 25-year old singer/songwriter who Radioindy calls, "a folk-pop tour de force to rival those of similar singer-songwriters whose brands are veritable household names. Like Sheryl Crow, Jewel, Fiona Apple or Ani DiFranco, Garibaldi is a soulful singer/songwriter of real � if largely unheralded - merits." Michael Molenda, noted producer, engineer, and editor-in-chief of Guitar Player Magazine, the most authoritative guitar magazine in the world, produced Next Ride Out.

Next Ride Out features ten original soul-satisfying tracks comprised of five brand new songs and five previously released and now rerecorded songs featuring fresh arrangements and performances. Gilli Moon of Songsalive! states, "Her voice is almost like Sarah McLaughlin, and a touch of Feist, on a bed of edgy rockin' grooves, country feels and memorable melodies."

Next Ride Out is altogether vibrant and rich with lively performances, from strong Americana Roots Rock tunes, including "Hey, Hey Darlin'" and "Nothing Good Lasts", to upbeat catchy pop treasures, such as "Say The Word" and "A Love Without Chains", to moving ballads, "Falling For You", a heart-tugging gem sure to grab every listener's attention. The album also includes an enjoyable re-creation of Katie's song "Went Too Far (Foot In My Mouth)," which features Michael Gallant, Keyboard Magazine Senior Editor, on Grand Piano, giving a whole new spin on such an already likable song. - more on this story

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Greg Giraldo Midlife Vices DVD

The Syn reports: Comedian Greg Giraldo is prepping the release of his new comedy CD and accompanying DVD Midlife Vices on October 20th.

You know him as the guy who rips everyone apart at Comedy Central's "Roasts." Now watch sardonic social commentator, Greg Giraldo, in this killer stand-up special "Midlife Vices." On Tuesday, October 20, Greg Giraldo: Midlife Vices stand-up special will be released nationwide on DVD by Comedy Central Home Entertainment, on CD by Comedy Central Records and download-to-own including iTunes (pre-order Wednesday, September 30) and Amazon Video On Demand. In addition, the special will be available in standard and high definition versions on Xbox LIVE Marketplace, Zune and Playstation Store.

Midlife Vices DVD, released extended and uncensored by Comedy Central Home Entertainment and Paramount Home Entertainment, features the following bonus materials: "Comedy Central Presents: Greg Giraldo" half-hour stand-up special and the never-before-seen pilot, "Adult Content." - more on this story

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