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Most Viewed Artists For December 08
Last month was Higher Plain Music’s biggest month to date with almost 2,000 views in the month alone and two of the busiest days of…
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Higher Plain Music’s Top 10 Music Releases of 2008
Well in the previous post we told you what we’d bought, now its time for our top 10 countdown. There were some excellent releases this…
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Vienna Teng – Inland Territory – New Album
Vienna Teng’s 4th album is entitled “Inland Territory” and will be released on the 7th of April 2009. Let the excitement begin! This looks set…
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Ayumi Hamasaki – Asia Tour DVD Release Date
Not like Ayu to take five minutes rest, now that her second tour of Asia is over, we have a gleeful DVD to commemorate it!…
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Sarah Slean – The Baroness Redecorates out 9th December
Sarah Slean had said she cut many songs off The Baroness when she released it, now they appear to gave resurfaced with “The Baroness Redecorates”.…
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Unto Ashes – New Album Soon
Unto Ashes have their latest album in the mastering stage. Album number six entitled “The Blood of My Lady” went into mastering in August this…
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Charlotte Martin’s Oprhan’s Gets Date
Charlotte Martin’s “Orphan’s” gets its release date as 11/11/08. The EP (so probably 5-8 songs) will contain songs that she hasn’t put on other records…
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Ayumi Hamasaki – New AA Single
Ayu is back after her usual two second break inbetween albums! Her new single is a double A side with the songs entitled “Days” and…
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Gackt Returns
Gackt returns after a year away with new single “Jesus”. Due for release on the 3rd of December appears to have no first press bonuses.…
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Utada Hikaru – Eternally Drama Mix sample
A re-release of sorts, “Eternally”, a beautiful ballad taken from Utada’s second album Distance is getting a digital single release with slightly different vocals. Apparently…
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Deborah Henson-Conant Birthday Bash Concert!
It’s rude to ask of a ladies age however as Deborah is showing, the older we get, the more we should celebrate! She is holding…
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LittleBigPlanet delayed after so-called controversal song
Has the world gone mad? It seems so. Sony’s big trump card for the PS3 has been the excellent LittleBigPlanet which threatens to take any…
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Where art thou Tori’s new CD?!
Retail annoys me. For some reason Tori Amos’ new CD and DVD is considered a “specialist release” and therefore unless you live in London you…
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Tori Amos – Live At Montreux Sneak Peak!
We’ve found two sneak peak clips of the DVD released on Monday in the UK (a week on Monday elsewhere) Live at Montreux 91/92. We…
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Shiina Ringo – Album Boxset Cometh!
Shiina Ringo has been having a very busy 10 year anniversary and now she completes it all with a box set re-release of all her…
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New Kate Bush Book Seriously Delayed
Music critic Ann Powers’ book on Kate Bush’s album The Dreaming has been postponed until mid 2009. The book was due for release next month…
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Whispers of the Plains #1 – Interview with Gary Lucas
Welcome to Whispers of the Plain – our new segment which will hopefully take a weekly interview with our musical talents we like to look…
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Picture It DVD’s
Hi All, I’ve recently left my lovely old job to go it alone as a self employed peep – the result of which is www.pictureitdvds.co.uk.…
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Charlotte Martin – Orphans Video Blog
Charlotte Martin popped up today on a video blog explaining “Orphans”, her new EP which is as we predicted a compilation of more b-sides and…
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Calender Girls (And Boys)
Can you believe it that its only the 3rd of September and already we have 2009 calenders ready and waiting. Golden J-Pop queens Ayumi Hamasaki…
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Charlotte Martin – New EP Coming Soon!
She’s always so busy! Charlotte Martin has just announced on her website that a new EP entitled “Orphans” is in the works. Its a studio…
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Utada confirmed for new album in New Year
Utada has made the press as part of the upcoming 6 months of new releases from her record label UMG. This means its highly likely…
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Emiliana Torrini – 3 New Songs on Myspace + mini reviews
Emiliana is finally back. Three songs from “Me and Armini” are on her myspace page entitled “Gun”, “Big Jumps” and “Me and Armini”. “Gun” reminds…
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Gary Lucas – “Half My Life In Headphones” Review
Uk Based Gary Lucas, knows about putting things together on a string budget but he’s finally out with his first release. “Half My Life In…
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Norihiko Hibino Gets Piano Collection
Norihiko Hibino will have a piano collections arrange album released from his “Sekaiju no Meikyu” albums. Songs will be taken from both volumes. As a…
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Final Fantasy Remix Trailer
Final Fantasy Remix nears the horizon and here’s a video trailer for it here It has to be said that I’m not too optimistic for…
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Motoi Sakuraba Heads “Tales of…” Piano Collection
Motoi Sakuraba will be performing many of his own songs from the “Tales Of..” series in a piano collection. Whether other instruments will be included…
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Happy 50th Birthday Kate Bush!!!
Who’d have thought Kate is now 50! Her music is still gold and shiny and here’s to a new year with perhaps a little bit…
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Ayumi Hamasaki – CD Japan Present Campaign
CD Japan is a great site to order VGM and Japanese artist’s music and with Ayu’s 10th Anniversary release they’ve got a new present giveaway.…
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Deborah Henson-Conant – New Musical
She’s at it again! Deborah is back with a new show that’ll be lasting for two weeks at Central Square Theatre, MA starting on the…
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Gackt – Returns With “Nine”
Gackt returns to the musical plains with an excellent sounding live boxset called “Nine”. I’m new to Gackt to be honest, although I’ve got a…
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Ayumi Hamasaki – Mass Singles Collection Release!
Ayu is never off the release calender and this time she hits back with “A Complete ~All Singles~” which is to include all 43 singles…
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Beth Orton Reissues “Trailer Park”
Beth Orton bounces back after a quiet spell with the announcement of a reissue of Trailer Park, her début album. What’s best is that it…
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Tori Amos Bootlegs To Get International Release
If you’ve not been living in America (like me), you must be feeling the pain I have being unable to get Tori’s Bootlegs from the…
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Motoi Sakuraba – Releases First “Tales Of…” Arranged CD
Looooong overdue is the release of the first “Tales of…” arrangement CD. Taking only one song from each game, Motoi Sakuraba will be at the…
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Patrick Wolf – “Careless Talk” New Song
Patrick Wolf has uploaded a new song onto his myspace page. Entitled “Careless Talk” this is done in a 1950’s style light jazz and kind…
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Shiina Ringo – New DVD
Good old Shiina is enjoying her 10 year anniversary a lot! Her latest release this year will be “Zazen Extasy”, a live dvd to Shiina’s…
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Imogen Heap – Album Update
Imogen discusses more of her album and lets us listen to samples of upcoming songs including songs called Little Bird and Swoon. Imogen’s iBlogs are…
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Emiliana Torrini – New Album September
Icelandic wonder Emiliana Torrini will be releasing her latest studio album entitled “Me and Armini” this year, rumoured for the 8th of September. Emiliana’s styles…