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SongVest, the company that reinvented the music memorabilia business by offering the ultimate fan collectable - the songs themselves - has announced their next major online auction will take place Nov 1-21 at songvest.com and will include 'Trouble In The Streets', the debut album from classic metal band Black Sheep.

The fifth Von Sleight album, New Kraut, takes the avant-electronic, jazz, space rock, and warped pop styles from previous albums and infuses these sounds with Krautrock and dub. The result is something like the analog tape recordings of Neu! being accidentally spliced together with Hawkwind, Cluster, Lee “Scratch” Perry, Miles Davis, and The Residents. The instruments used on this album include Korg MS-20, fretless bass, Electribe, trumpet, electronic and analog drums, Kaossilator, and MIDI instruments. The video for the title track follows a UFO that delivers New Kraut to the good people of earth. Like a virus from outer space, the New Kraut is discovered and gets propagated into supermarkets for mass commercialization. New Kraut is not a sandwich, it’s a casserole.

Award winning singer/songwriter Maya Solovey will launch "Maya's Culinary Concerts" at this month's CMJ Music Marathon Networking. Opening the "Musicians As Entrepreneurs" showcase, Maya will discuss her newest project with Women in Music President Evangelia Livanos and how it can serve as a template for independent artists to expand their opportunities beyond music, followed by a performance with her band. Maya's song "Tonight" from her self-titled album will also be included on the official CMJ Music Marathon CD compilation, which is distributed with CMJ Registration Bags, at the CMJ Exhibitors' Loft and mailed to CMJ New Music Report subscribers.

Gonzalez y Gonzalez, one of downtown Manhattan's hottest destinations, has been selected as the "Official Bar" for Nightmare: Superstitions, New York’s Most Horrifying Haunted House. This is the second year that Gonzalez y Gonzalez partners with Nightmare - a unique, fully immersive haunted house experience. The attraction runs from September 24 through November 6 at the NoHo Event Center. Frightened Nightmare: Superstitions ticketholders will be able to calm their nerves afterwards with an exclusive two-for-one margarita drink special at the Mexican restaurant, bar & Salsa club.

MIDEM unveils the judges panels for the MidemNet Lab 2011 who will choose the most innovative companies in the mobile applications, industry services and consumer services categories. The 3 winners will be elected amongst 30 finalists, selected through a call for entry opened for submissions until 31 October 2010.

Portland, Oregon-based Hello Morning successfully completed an innovative fundraising campaign to support the release of their upcoming album. This talented quad utilized the power of crowdfunding to galvanize their fans through RocketHub, a revolutionary crowdfunding community developed for Creatives by Creatives. Hello Morning, described as "a monstrous band united by a common passion for creating big, epic rock songs," offered unique and personal rewards to their fans in exchange for financial contributions - including an "advance copy of the CD with a personalized Haiku" for $20, tickets to "a listening party at the studio where the album was recorded" for $100, and a custom written song for $1,000.

Shorty after the new hot iTunes single release titled "It's Saturday" by Singer/Songwriter Mateo Medina, KutRoc Records knew the results would be great to see him in visual action dominating a music video. The request for dance track video was in demand by more than a thousand fans who joined Mateo's Facebook fan page from around the globe which continues to be on the rise daily.

Musicnotes.com, the leading digital sheet music retailer and publisher, announced today a new release of its free iPad app, designed to allow musicians to import, manage and interact with their Musicnotes.com digital sheet music library on the popular mobile device.

It was a very active weekend at the Wizard World Big Apple Comic Con past weekend at the Penn Plaza Pavilion. The event hosted many celebrities including Lee Majors, "The Six Million Dollar Man," signed lunchboxes and action figures in his first U.S. convention appearance in 30 years. Erin Gray, from "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century" and "Silver Spoons," is another regular on the autograph circuit.

Music publishing and administration company Missing Link Music congratulates their producer Sidney "Omen" Brown for contributing production to Lil Wayne's #1 digital album, "I'm Not A Human Being." Omen co-produced the song "I'm Single" which also features vocals from Hip-Hop sensation Drake, and additional production from Noah "40" Shebib.