After hitting #1 on the Billboard dance chart with “Boom” her slinky, Nancy Sinatraesque 60’s era vibe first single, pop music alchemist Anjulie is gearing up for the release of her self-titled debut album from Hear Music, August 4, 2009.

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mtvU recently tapped her as one of their “Freshman 5” this summer, one of five exciting new artists the channel believes are about to jump from college favorites to household names.

MTV has heavily supported the Adria Petty directed video for “Boom” while featuring many songs from the album in the hit shows The Hills and The City. Additionally, VH1 has showcased her songs on their show Tough Love.

USA Today recently gushed “rising indie diva” Anjulie’s music “a soul- kissed confection” and NEXT Magazine raved “The album has intelligent lyrics and a point of view. One of the few records this year we’ve loved from start to finish.”

Canadian born from Guyanese descent, singer-songwriter / multi-instrumentalist Anjulie is a captivating and authentic new talent in pop music. Ingeniously fusing the world-music rhythms and Top 40 melodies she was inspired by growing up in Toronto, she creates startlingly imaginative songs that underscore her undeniable melodic gifts and crackle with provocative, confessional, lyrical word-play.

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‘Anjulie’ was co-written with her producer and longtime songwriting collaborator Jon Levine (of Canadian R&B hit makers the Philosopher Kings), and produced by Colin Wolfe (Dr. Dre, Monica). “Boom” received heavy airplay nation-wide beginning with Santa Monica’s influential public radio station KCRW where celebrated DJ Chris Douridas first championed it.

The new single “The Rain” is a flamenco-flavored, sophisticated urban gem that hits with the sharp initial blast of her contemporaries, M.I.A., Nelly Furtado and Corinne Bailey Rae.

Anjulie has spent the year playing to rapturous audiences, including a sold-out national tour opening for Jesse McCartney while putting the finishing touches on what is sure to be one of 2009’s most exciting debuts.

Her sparkling new website can be found at anjuliemusic.com and you can follow her as she launches the new record at Twitter.com/Anjulierocks.

Beginning August 4th, ‘Anjulie’ will be available at participating Starbucks locations in the U.S. and Canada and wherever music is sold.

Anjulie Official Website

Anjulie on Twitter

Boys Like Girls and Gym Class Heroes co-headline festival with special guests The Academy Is, The Veronicas and NeverShoutNever!

mtvU, MTV’s 24-hour college network, is heating up the stage this summer with the first-ever “mtvU Sunblock Music Festival,” a four-city Festival featuring the hottest and most buzzed about performers.

Co-headliners Boys Like Girls and Gym Class Heroes, with special guests The Academy Is, The Veronicas, and NeverShoutNever! are partnering with mtvU and MTV to bring this killer musical event to MTV’s summer-themed Sunblock programming on mtvU, MTV, MTV2, MTV Tr3s, and online on MTV.com and mtvU.com.

Boys Like Girls, who won the mtvU Breaking Woodie Award in 2007 and have been in the studio working on their second album, due later this year, will take the spotlight as one of the Festival headliners alongside Gym Class Heroes, who won a 2007 MTV Video Music Award for “Best New Artist.”

2007 Viral Woodie Award winners, The Academy Is, will also take over the stage with their guitar-driven pop-rock tunes. Performing tracks from their hit album ‘Hook Me Up,’ MTV’s New Year’s Eve 2009 co-hosts The Veronicas will also play alongside NeverShoutNever!, a recent mtvU Freshmen winner who previously performed on MTV’s Total Request Live’s “On Your Radar” segment.

The “mtvU Sunblock Music Festival” will hit the following cities this summer 2009:

(Dates and information subject to change.)

7/23-New York City, NY- Jones Beach Bay Stage
TBD-Boston, MA- Suffolk Downs
7/25-Meadowbrook, NH- US Cellular Pavilion
7/27- Baltimore/DC- The Pier 6 Concert Pavilion

For more information or to grab Festival tickets, check out www.tours.mtvu.com.

Festival Performances Rock MTV & mtvU beginning August 10, 2009.

mtvU/MTV Presents is also the exclusive media sponsor of the Boys Like Girls upcoming club tour which will feature stops in over 26 cities and features special guests Never Shout Never, The Ready Set, and more. For more information and the full tour schedule, head to www.tours.mtvu.com.

About mtvU

Broadcast to more than 750 college campuses and via top cable distributors in 700 college communities nationwide, mtvU reaches upwards of 9 million U.S. college students – making it the largest, most comprehensive television network just for college students.

Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, mtvU can be seen in the dining areas, fitness centers, student lounges and dorm rooms of campuses throughout the U.S., as well as on cable systems from Charter Communications, Verizon FiOS TV, Suddenlink Communications, AT&T u-Verse and nearly 70 others. mtvU is dedicated to every aspect of college life, reaching students everywhere they are: on-air, online and on campus. mtvU programs music videos from emerging artists that can’t be seen anywhere else, news, student life features and initiatives that give college students the tools to advance positive social change. mtvU is always on campus, with more than 500 events per year, including exclusive concerts, giveaways, shooting mtvU series and more. For more information about mtvU, and a complete programming schedule, visit www.mtvU.com.

mtvU also owns and operates the College Media Network, the largest interactive network of online college newspapers in the US, and RateMyProfessors.com, the Internet’s largest listing of collegiate professor ratings. The College Media Network comprises 550 campus publications that serve institutions including Brown University, the University of Illinois, the University of Southern California, the University of Texas at Austin and Duke University, with a combined enrollment of over 5.5 million students, reaching an average of 5 million unique users each month. RateMyProfessors.com reaches approximately 2.9 million college students each month, via the site’s more than 6.6 million student-generated ratings of over 1,000,000 college professors.

Sunblock Music Festival on mtvU

Somewhere between Avenue A and the Williamsburg Bridge, the heart of Manhattan’s downtown rock scene beats with a vibrant pulse. This scene generates a surplus of fresh musical talent that often rivals most other parts of the U.S.

Within this outpour, one band has managed to attract more unsolicited press attention and underground buzz in its one year of life than most will see in a lifetime.

Meet Young Lords; Austin expats and New York-based alt-country revivalists.

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In Young Lords, the spirit of the outlaw lives, in them, the unchecked propulsion of punk bellows forward and is buoyed by the wily exuberance of vintage rock ‘n’ roll. With rumbling guitars, sneering vocals, and the same insistent drumming as their 60’s forefathers, the band has managed to make a blistering and familiar racket.

Having derived the last word of their name from an admiration for British nobility, lead singer Blair Van Nort admits, “We’re inspired by a lot of (what can be considered as) ‘English’, but,” he adds, “what we produce is very American.”

Following an initial meeting with guitarist Adam Gerard at The New School, Blaire and guitarist/brother, Reed Van Nort brought bassist Maxwell Kamins on board and proceeded to nickel-and-dime their way into low-budget practice spaces. Though their initial beginnings were rough, with Blair and Adam having nothing more than a mutual admiration for a certain professor between them, the Young Lords’ allowed their work ethic to shine through in rehearsals and a working partnership solidified.

Watch “Tryin” video clip from mtvU’s Ahead of the Curve series

Adam recalls, “When they asked me to be part of the band they were like, ‘You know you’re going to be playing most of the lead parts?’ Though I only knew some chords, I learned all the songs. Since then we’ve been a core unit.”

After many diligent months of practicing and playing along side of, personal and local favorites, The Fratellis, The Willowz and VietNam, the Lords’ inimitable cowpunk sound and distinctly retro look lead the likes of Nylon and Anthem to acknowledge the band’s sonic impact over the scene in which they reigned.

Similarly, L’Uomo Vogue and John Varvatos’ Converse brand recruited the fashionable foursome for layouts and national print campaigns. Eventually, mtvU would recognize the band in an, appropriately titled, “Ahead of the Curve” featurette.

With critical attention already paid to their 2007 EP, ‘Turn It Up‘, this fall will see the release of the Young Lords first full-length.

‘Rodeo Songs’ is a digital-only LP that defines the boys’ unique brand of dirt-rock and twang. With sonic tinges of everything from Jesus and Mary Chain (see: “Silver Bullets” and “Trying”) to reminiscences of The Kinks on jam-outs like “Pretty Little Mess”, the Young Lords’ sound is poised to reinvent the very notion of “Gothic Americana”.

Young Lords’ debut album, ‘Rodeo Songs’ is set for release October 7, 2008.

For more music and information, go to:

Young Lords MySpace