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JUNKIE XL LAUNCHES NEW SINGLE “MORE” FOR

EA GAME ‘NEED FOR SPEED PRO STREET‘

‘MORE‘ EP SET FOR RELEASE SEPTEMBER 25 VIA ARTWERK

No stranger to gaming enthusiasts, JUNKIE XL (Tom Holkenberg) has composed the score for two top-selling Electronic Arts (EA) games, SSX Blur TM and Need For Speed TM. This fall “More,” the lead track from the highly anticipated release of Need For Speed Pro Street TM–which is the next release in the franchise–will be front and center in the consciousness of both music and gaming fans.

Scheduled for release on October 31, 2007, Need For Speed Pro Street TM already has fans anxiously blogging about who will pick up the first copy. The fast-paced action game by EA consists of extreme car racing backed by a twist of accelerated police pursuits. Fans will get a little taste of the action before the game hits shelves, as JUNKIE XL‘s “More” will be available as an EP for digital download September 25, 2007 through all major DSP (iTunes, Emusic, Napster, Rahpsody).

Set for release through the Artwerk label, a joint venture of EA and Nettwerk Music Group, the “More” EP will feature the original song–an 80‘s-inspired saucy club track with newcomer Lauren Rocket on vocals–along with three different mixes: Junk O Rock remix, Junk O Punk remix and Junk O Flamenco remix. Also included is the b-side “Clash” which originally appeared on EA‘s monster FIFA 08 TM game. The EP serves as a lead-up to JUNKIE XL‘s new artist album, titled Booming Back At You, which will be released in February 2008.

JUNKIE XL is scheduled to shoot a video for “More” September 10 and 12 in Brooklyn, NY with Dutch directorial team Kaap & Van Bellen. Inspired by famed party website www.lastnightsparty.com and a short film Kaap produced in China five years ago, the treatment lands JUNKIE XL and Lauren Rocket on the cobblestone streets of D.U.M.B.O. flanked by various partygoers including photographer Bronques of Lastnightsparty.com and others for a visual raw mash-up of dirty music and the fascinating NYC club scene.

www.myspace.com/junkiexl

www.nettwerk.com

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Recently featured as an artist to watch on the influential music blog, Stereogum, T.H. White has announced that he will be performing songs from his forthcoming new album ‘The Private Spotlight‘ (Sky Council) as part of this year‘s CMJ New Music Marathon. The showcase performance will be Friday, October 19th at Piano‘s on the lower east side of Manhattan.

The show kicks off a busy fall for White, who will confirm additional dates soon, and has also been working on a number of projects since completing the recordings for ‘The Private Spotlight‘. He is currently completing two remixes for Friendly Fire recording artists, The Faunts. (Another remixer of note for that release will be Fischer Spooner). This Fall will also see him co-writing and producing the debut by Meghan Wolf which will also be released on Sky Council in 2008.

After seeing his ‘05 debut praised everywhere from Entertainment Weekly to Paper Magazine, T.H. White‘s second offering of downbeat club grooves, solid pop songwriting and ethereal soundscapes is set for release on Nov. 27th of this year. The varying influences represented on the album stem from the textures that have affected and influenced T.H. White over his years in New York City. This release spotlights his surplus of talents as multi-instrumentalist (and crack guitarist), producer, songwriter, arranger, and programmer, The Private Spotlight manages that rare feat: amalgamating an intriguing variety of sonic textures into a cohesive - and fun - set of songs that might just provide a soundtrack to the bustling city from which it draws inspiration.

For more information on T.H. White contact Nick Baily (nbaily@shorefire.com)

or Brendan Gilmartin (bgilmartin@shorefire.com) at Shore Fire Media - 718-522-7171

SEPTEMBER 5, 2007

FR: ALEXANDRA GREENBERG/MSO

818-380-0400 x223, agreenberg@msopr.com

DAVID GUETTA ANNOUNCES U.S. TOUR IN SUPPORT OF

HIS NEW ALBUM ‘POP LIFE‘

ALBUM NOW TO BE RELEASED NOVEMBER 13

As much as he is a heralded multi-platinum producer, DAVID GUETTA is also one of the world‘s top in-demand DJs who makes music that satisfies mainstream pop radio and discerning dance floors alike. Perfecto/Ultra Records–the label releasing his new album Pop Life in the U.S.–has announced it is moving the album‘s release date from October 23 to November 13 to coincide with the French pop/dance music superstar‘s upcoming November DJ tour. On his “Pop Life” U.S. trek, Guetta will pass through eight major markets for special engagements at the hottest clubs in support of his new release.

These dates will highlight the dancefloor maven‘s stellar DJ sets, emphasizing remixes and special edits of album tracks from Pop Life along with his favorite underground club cuts. They kick off November 15 in Denver at Church with back-to-back stops at On Broadway in San Diego, Vanguard in Los Angeles, Slide in San Francisco, crobar in Chicago, Cielo in New York City and The Estate in Boston. The tour will be rounded out with two appearances in one night at Cameo and after hours at Space in Miami.

Earlier this year, Guetta‘s foray into the U.S. as a DJ included outstanding showings at Coachella (USA Today tapped him as one of the key highlights of the festival) and the Ultra Music Festival. He packed the country‘s biggest nightclubs including Ruby Skye in San Francisco, Vanguard in Los Angeles crobar in Chicago and Cielo in New York. Along with his wife Cathy Guetta, he also transported his world-renowned ‘F*** Me I‘m Famous‘ party–which draw the likes of P Diddy, Penelope Cruz, Kate Moss, Jade Jagger, Damon Dash, James Blunt and Prince to their events in Paris, Ibiza and London–to Cameo in Miami during the Winter Music Conference which Billboard tapped “Best Party Of The Conference”).

Pop Life is David Guetta‘s third artist album overall and second full-length offering in the states following the release of Guetta Blaster earlier this year. Just released in the U.K. August 20, Pop Life debuted at #3 on iTunes Dance Album Chart, with international taste-maker magazine Zoo stating, “Guetta‘s third album is a rare beast: a dance music album with heart. Each track boasts soaring vocals that suck you in, alongside chart-friendly rave beats that you can‘t write off as generic mixing mash-ups.” In France, the album debuted at #2 marking it Guetta‘s largest yet. In the U.K., Pop Life‘s first single “Love Is Gone” with Chris Willis on vocals charted at #9 on the national pop charts and is garnering major attention with heavy radio play on Radio 1, Capitol FM and Kiss FM. Across Europe the song ranked in the top 10 and in the U.S. it‘s charting at #5 on Billboard‘s Hot Dance Airplay chart. Prior to heading west, Guetta will serve as the closing headline DJ at the prestigious Ibiza club Space, heralded by many of the biggest turntable talents as #1 club in the world, wrapping up the most successful season for a DJ/producer ever recorded there.

The complete dates for DAVID GUETTA‘s Pop Life DJ tour in the U.S. are:

Date City Venue

Nov 15 Denver, CO Church

Nov 16 San Diego, CA On Broadway

Nov 17 Los Angeles, CA Vanguard

Nov 18 San Francisco, CA Slide

Nov 21 Chicago, IL crobar

Nov 22 New York, NY Cielo

Nov 23 Boston, MA The Estate

Nov 24 Miami, FL Cameo

Nov 24 Miami, FL Space

For DAVID GUETTA: www.davidguetta.com or www.myspace.com/davidguetta

For F*** ME I‘M FAMOUS: www.fmif.fr

www.ultrarecords.com

www.myspace.com/ultrarecords

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Images of David Guetta photographed by Jean-Baptiste Mondino and advance copies of Pop Life are available upon request. For more information, contact:

Alexandra Greenberg/MSO

818-380-0400 x223, agreenberg@msopr.com

DATE: August 14, 2007

FROM: MITCH SCHNEIDER/MARCEE RONDAN/DIANA MENDOZA

DAVE GAHAN

RETURNS WITH ‘HOURGLASS‘

OCTOBER 23 VIA MUTE/VIRGIN RECORDS

ALBUM‘S FIRST SINGLE “KINGDOM” TO ARRIVE AT RADIO AUGUST 27

“I feel this record has been an amazing opportunity to push the artist in me,” says DAVE GAHAN of his second album HOURGLASS, due October 23 via Mute/Virgin Records. The record follows the Depeche Mode front man‘s acclaimed 2003 solo album Paper Monsters that marked his debut as a full-fledged songwriter.

The album‘s first single–the soaring and pulsating “Kingdom”–will arrive at radio August 27. “It‘s this idea that there‘s a better place, and it‘s not up there in the clouds, it‘s right here,” says GAHAN. “And it‘s about becoming more accepting of life and the way it is. I would be lying if I said the world didn‘t affect me. I have children and I want to protect them; and sometimes I don‘t really have the ability to do that.”

GAHAN wrote and produced all the songs on HOURGLASS–decidedly more electronic than Paper Monsters–in collaboration with Christian Eigner (drums) of Depeche Mode‘s touring band and Andrew Phillpott (guitars), who served as a programmer for Depeche Mode touring. Tony Hoffer, known for his work with Beck, Air, the Kooks and the Fratellis, mixed the album.

On HOURGLASS, Eigner proves a strikingly versatile drummer, creating gentle rhythmic ambiance one moment, and thundering, freight-train beats the next. And with electronics providing most of the musical environment of Hourglass, Phillpott‘s guitar playing roams freely into fantastical atmospherics, especially evident on “Kingdom.”

What might surprise Gahan followers most are the album‘s moments of exhilarating industrial aggression, as in the blistering, hyper-sexual “Deeper and Deeper.” Perhaps more importantly for the singer, Hourglass is a journey of the soul. In “Kingdom” he confesses that “Glory doesn‘t mean that much to me” while wondering aloud if there really is something beyond what we can see with our own eyes–a superstar struggling to find a humbler self within him. And his personal doubts are in full evidence on the ethereal, Eno-esque “Miracles” where he admits, “I don‘t believe in Jesus / But I‘m praying anyway.”

With its themes of racing against–and running out of–time, the songs on HOURGLASS dig deeper into Gahan‘s psyche.

“I don‘t know if it‘s about age, just getting older,” he wonders. “But there are certain things that just don‘t work anymore. There‘s no longer the luxury of being able to get blind drunk every night and just hide behind that. My fear is that I‘ve wasted so much time in fear, in fear of diving in. I feel like I‘m racing against the clock; I feel constantly like I haven‘t got enough time to get to where I wanna be. And I think what I‘m afraid of is what the future may hold, and am I doing anything of meaning?”

The HOURGLASS track listing is:

1) Saw Something

2) Kingdom

3) Deeper And Deeper

4) 21 Days

5) Miracles

6) Use You

7) Insoluble
Endless

9) A Little Lie

10) Down

www.davegahan.com

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