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Hallelujah! Praise be to Jesus! (and I'm not even religious) Five tracks off Fiona's latest effort Extraordinary Machine have been leaked out on the radio and you know what that means...they're on the Net. If you are crafty enough, you can find them. Jon Brion, the album's producer, has said that the album has been done for some time yet Sony has it sitting on its shelves collecting dust because they don't know how to market it for radio. Translation: it must be brilliant. Ironically enough, this past weekend Seattle's 107.7's DJ Andrew Harms found a spot on radio for five of the tracks off of Extraordinary Machine on his show. Three are still a little rough but "Better Version of Me" and the title track sounds ready for release. Oh my these are so very nice. Surprisingly, Sony hasn't hit Harms with a cease and desist order. Now the question is, how can I get away with playing these incendiary tracks on my radio show without the man coming after me? Hmmm...

Read the full release at MTV.

So you think you know The Godfather huh Cochise? Did you know that the infamous horse head was real? The crew found the horse in a New Jersey rendering plant and had it's head packed in ice and shipped to the set. Also, the Godfather was the first movie in over twenty years in which Marlon Brando was required to audition. The studio heads wanted nothing to do with him, however they relented with the insistence of Coppola.

While it doesn't match up to the real thing, a live album can cure those missed concert blues, and luckily the Morrissey fix is on its merry way. Not one, but two live Morrissey releases will be put on shelves on March 29th. First up is a DVD called "Who Put the 'M' in Manchester", and covering the audio side is a CD informatively titled "Live at Earl's Court".

Read the full article with complete track listings at Soul Shine Magazine.

Well, it looks like we'll have to wait even longer for the latest release by Coldplay.

The guys have said they will release their long-awaited third album in June, as they announced plans to kick off their biggest world tour with U.K. gigs in London, Bolton and Glasgow.

Checkout the full Yahoo! article.

Cullum recently met with Pharrell Williams prompted by Williams hearing Cullum's rendition of "Frontin'". From that meeting the Neptunes have agreed to work on Cullum's forthcoming release. Cullum, the British jazz singing and piano sensation that has been riding high on his breakthrough effort Twentysomething, has also been working with Dan the Automator of Gorillaz. Cullum has already prepared 16 tracks for his new effort and hints that he wants to push out the borders of traditional jazz. Cullum featured several modern classic artists on Twentysomething including Radiohead, Jimi Hendrix and Jeff Buckley and looks to continue along this tangent on his upcoming release. Perhaps we'll see a little AC/DC "Highway to Hell" and Bjork "Human Behavior" among the tracks. Expanding the borders of jazz indeed.

Read the full article at MTV.