“All we need is music, sweet music, there’ll be music everywhere…”

09 is indeed fine, (so far, knock on wood) and we are serving another platter of warm tunes, and tasty tracks this week. MMMMM food (sorry, it’s really close to lunchtime…).

New releases are below, attached, and featured on the ops site. Special attention given this year of course goes to Motown, as they celebrate 50 years of turning people on to the sweetest sounds on Earth. Titles will be featured (and paid homage to) on the ops site, so please feel free to wander that wonderful site, and download some good-time music at will!

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Hello Faithful….I wonder what Barack Obama has on his Ipod?? Any guesses? I was thinking about this, this morning, and was quite impressed with what he had to say a little while back in Rolling Stone…

“If I had one musical hero, it would have to be Stevie Wonder,” says Obama, who grew up on Seventies R&B and rock staples including Earth, Wind and Fire, Elton John and the Rolling Stones. “When I was at that point where you start getting involved in music, Stevie had that run with Music of My Mind, Talking Book, Fulfillingness’ First Finale and Innervisions, and then Songs in the Key of Life. Those are as brilliant a set of five albums as we’ve ever seen.
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The Hammer of the Gods is now currently striking music lovers directly in the eardrums, soul, and heart, everywhere there is an AMI jukebox. The Mothership has landed so-to-speak. The Levee is currently Breaking. “Oooooh Baby Baby” is being heard in joints across the map, and that’s the way it should always be. The primal sounds of Zeppelin, arguably the band who kicks you directly in the gut with most ease. The quartet had the thump, the monster riffs to topple buildings, the bushy hair, the grit, the scream, the tight pants, the able bass player, the blues, the metal, the groupies, the sought-after merchandise, the live shows….kapow! Zeppelin is an essential jukebox band. (more…)

The Dandy Warhols’ new album, “Earth To The Dandy Warhols,” was released on AMI Entertainment Network, which delivers music to more than 10,000 jukeboxes around the country. AMI-powered jukeboxes began pumping out “Earth’s” 14 tracks back on May 5, almost three months before the album hit retail stores. (more…)

This is a big, beautiful rock band of epic proportions. Rock and Roll didn’t feel right without them in the mix after their break-up. Urban Hymns is a staple of the jukebox network, and Forth traces all their classic angles. (more…)