"I Want My Video on Music Mix USA!" Music Mix USA and Sonicbids have joined together to give one lucky band a chance to be seen by a national audience! Sonicbid Winners! Still Standing Zoltan Orkestar Brian Huber The Scrubjays The Steak House Mints Luke Jackson The GoStation Jeff Tain Watts Quartet Alejandro Toledo Freedom Hawk Chelsea Automatic The Green Children Mia Sable Eric Roberts   Win a Free CD! Click on CD & Send Name & City!   Grammy Award winners The Black Eyed Peas return with the release of their eagerly anticipated fourth album, 'Monkey Business' on 6th June through A&M Records. 'Monkey Business' is a madcap musical journey, mixing fat basslines with Latin rhythms, witty rhymes and hip-hop beats. It is the follow-up album to the 4 x platinum selling (1.4 million UK sales) 2003 release 'Elephunk'. The first single to be taken from the album is 'Don't Phunk With My Heart' - released on May 16th - which has a distinct BEPS funkafied, hip hop meets Bollywood sound. Look out for the video, directed by The Malloys, which sees Will, Apl and Taboo trying their luck as dating show contestants, battling for a date with Fergie. Producer Will.i.am says of the album, 'I like it better than Elephunk. We recorded the majority of it in London, also in Brazil and in the US on airplanes, in hotel rooms, bus lobbies, museums and bathrooms'. Guest collaborations include; Justin Timberlake (My Style), James Brown (They Don't Want Music), Jack Johnson (Gone Going Gone) and Sting (Union).   The Bottom Line Lady Gaga lets the love monsters out of the closet and they are stepping to a martial beat. If you had any fears that Gaga would be a one album flash in the pan, the room filling beats and melodies of "Bad Romance" should help dispel them. The song is an intense litany of nearly pathological romantic entanglements all set to beats designed to crowd the dance floor. Lady Gaga's singing is at its best so far here as she moves from snarling threats to floating sweetness and back again. "Rah-rah-ah-ah-ah! Roma-Roma-ma-ah! Ga-ga-ooh-la-la! Want your bad romance!" It's Lady GaGa's call to arms against the monsters of negative love relationships. This is one of the songs she wrote ver the last year while touring and turning into one of the world's biggest pop stars. She has stated in press releases that the songs are all about the various monsters she faced during the time. One of those was the love monster. RedOne is back in the collaboration chair, and this is their biggest achievement yet. "Bad Romance" may not be as instantly engaging as "Poker Face" or "LoveGame," but songs about the seamier, uglier side of life do not endear themselves quite as quickly. However, seen in the light of the love monsters it is attempting to chase down, "Bad Romance" becomes a powerfully cathartic exercise.Musically, "Bad Romance" is a creature of the fashion runway. It was no coincidence that the song had its official premier in Paris fashion week. The music is a perfect, driving soundtrack for viewing arresting fashion designs. However, it remains quite listenable and danceable apart from that context. It is a reminder that the Lady Gaga experience is visual as well as musical. The full effect involves video, clothing, and stage sets in addition to sounds. "Bad Romance" should easily keep Lady Gaga front and center in the very crowded pre-holiday music release schedule. It is an intriguing introduction to the eight new songs that will be included on the re-release of The Fame titled The Fame Monster. There is depth here that goes well beyond the party and drink atmosphere where we first met Lady Gaga on "Just Dance." Music Mix USA Merchandise        Jay Seidl's latest CD availiable on iTunes and Amazon.com Featuring a tribute to John Lennon, this album mixes insightful writing with classic progressions. Just months after Coldplay released their #1 debut album, Parachutes, in England, they were hailed as Band of the Year 2000 in the music press. How did these four college friends become the poster children for a nation's emotions? It may have happened at the speed of light, but it wasn't as easy as it seems. Coldplay secured a permanent position in Britain's music elite by writing beautiful, simple songs that gently pulled at the heartstrings of a nation. Somewhere in between the confident, vulnerable guitar playing of Jonny Buckland, the melodic bassline of Guy Berryman, thoughtful drumming of Will Champion, and lead Chris Martin's stark, tenor vocals are answers for the soul. Although melancholy stands behind every Coldplay song, each one is also steeped in an unusual and sincere optimism rarely found in English bands. Songs face an inevitable sadness and yearning - a little thing called being real - to get to a better place where the truth held firm in pure emotion is pivotal. Songs like the remorseful "Trouble," with its memorable piano-line, the lonely "Spies" and mega-hit single "Yellow" reveal a hybrid of lyrics that can only be described as joy and remorse, all wrapped into one. "We just want the songs to reflect reality," says Chris. OutKast's blend of gritty Southern soul, fluid raps and the rolling G-funk of their Organized Noize production crew epitomized the Atlanta wing of hip-hop's rising force, the Dirty South, during the late '90s. Along with Goodie Mob, OutKast took Southern hip-hop in bold, innovative new directions: less reliance on aggression, more positivity and melody, thicker arrangements, and intricate lyrics. After Dre and Big Boi hit number one on the rap charts with their first single "Player's Ball," the duo embarked on a run of platinum albums spiked with several hit singles, enjoying numerous critical accolades in addition to their commercial success.

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