Blog Posts by Martin Dio

There's a growing fanbase out there for Jordan Witzigreuter--who is professionally known as The Ready Set, and whose new album, I'm Alive, I'm Dreaming, is getting noticed in all the right places.

Released on the Decaydance/Sire label, the album--the first under the Ready Set banner--represents the fruition of 20-year-old Witzigreuter's journey as musician. And in these days of bedroom recordings--see also Owl City, etc.--it appears to be a growing trend: Boy meet band. A multi-instrumentalist who play keyboards, drums and sings, he's essentially a solo artist with a touring band of accompanists, but still one with a significant amount of touring under his belt. Among those artists The Ready Set have appeared with are Good Charlotte, Forever the Sickest Kids, Boys Like Girls and Hey Monday, among others.

With their signing to Pete Wentz's label, Decaydance, and plenty of summer exposure coming their way, The Ready Set are clearly ready and set to go, which of course is the point of

The new Twilight: Eclipse movie is out next week, and needless to say it's one of the most anticipated films of the year. It's also one of the year's top soundtracks, featuring all sorts of hipster acts: Muse, the Bravery, Florence & The Machine, the Dead Weather, the Black Keys, Sia, Beck with Bat For Lashes, UNKLE, Vampire Weekend, and more. (Get more info at http://www.eclipsesoundtrack.com).

So to celebrate, three other cool Eclipse soundtrack artists--Cee-Lo Green, Metric, and Eastern ConferenceChampions--are performing live as part of a very special streaming event on Yahoo!Music. Hosted by Los Angeles radio station Star 98.7, the event takes place at the 98.7FM studio, with a live concert stream plus fan Q&A session.

Watch the in-studio concert below!

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To celebrate the upcoming international release of her new album, Can't Be Tamed, the seemingly unstoppable Miley Cyrus performed on a one-hour ABC-TV concert special, "Miley Cyrus: Live From London," this past weekend. Shot at the famous O2 Arena in London (the venue where Led Zeppelin held their reunion gig, and where Michael Jackson's "This Is It" concerts were supposed to take place), the special featured clips from the full-length concert that will be available on the deluxe version of Miley's album, out in stores tomorrow (June 22).

In case you missed the ABC special (and can't wait for tomorrow's album release)--or if you just want to watch it again--check out the full broadcast below. It's a party in the U.K.!

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Singer-Songwriter Jewel has been making music that connectswith people since the mid-'90s--and her latest album Sweet And Wild is likely to make that connection on an evenstronger level.

The singer, whose shift to the country genre was evidencedvia her 2008 album Perfectly Clear, hasalready offered a successful taste of the new album with "Stay Here Forever,"and the rest of Sweet And Wild resonatesjust as strongly. "The theme of this album is finding what's true about you andyour life, and defending it and valuing it above all else," says Jewel of herlatest opus.

With a sturdy core of co-writers including Liz Rose, BrettJames, Dave Berg and Rick Nowels among others, Jewel has fashioned a completepackage that ranks among her very best. Give it a listen and you'll surelyagree.

It's one more reason we here at Y! Music are more than pleasedto present you with the following set of performances  by Jewel--as well as an interesting interview--thatshowcases some of the latest and best work

One of this year's brightest and catchiest new albums comes courtesy of Two Door Cinema Club--a young Irish pop group who, with the debut album Tourist History, arrive sounding as if they've been honing their craft for years.

Comprised of Alex Trimble (vocals, guitars), Kevin Baird (bass, vocals), and Sam Halliday (guitar, vocals), the trio--who are joined by a drummer during their live gigs--play a sophisticated blend of layered and percussive rock, anchored by singer Trimble's unique vocals and the precise jangle of Halliday's guitar, which simultaneously evoke the best of '80s-ish Britpop while never sounding less that fresh.

The band's profile is rising in Europe and definitely on the rise here in the States, especially since their recent stint on the Phoenix tour. During that tour, in fact, the band popped into the Y! Music studios and gave an enthusiastically received performance--which you can view here--as well as a surprisingly sharp interview that we thinks shows them to be a

Few would deny that the Congratulations--the most recent album by critically-lauded band MGMT--has been the subject of much discussion since its release.

It's too far out, says one camp. It doesn't sound like the last one, says another. What are they trying to do to their career, asks yet another.

Frankly, we like the way it sounds!

But maybe you'd like a chance to check out MGMT for yourself one more time. And to that end, we've got just the thing. Check out the band's recent Live On Letterman webcast, originally presented by CBS Interactive Music Group on May 11th, and featuring the band in fine form throughout.

What do you think?

The band once responsible for a classic album called The Unforgettable Fire are back to offeran in-depth view of The Unforgettable Tour.

And that view is on full display on the newly released U2 - 360° At The Rose Bowl DVD.

Capturing U2 during the height of their highly-lauded 360°Tour-and representing the band's biggest American show to date, in front of anaudience of 97,000-the DVD was fully shot in HD and is available in standard,2-disc deluxe and Blu-ray editions.

This same concert represented history in the making on otherlevels as well: It was the first-ever, live streamed stadium concert, andnetted over 10 million YouTube views in just one week.

To get a taste of what U2- 360° At The Rose Bowl offers, checkout the band's memorable take on "Ultra Violet (Light My Way)."

We bet you'll like it!

History may hold that there was really only one Bionic Woman--maybe two, if you count that classic TV show's failed remake--but Christina Aguilera is likely to change that with her new album, which bears the same Bionic Woman title but sounds like nothing that happened in the previous millennium.

With its striking cover illustration, which depicts Aguilera as an apparent android, to the much-viewed video for "Not Myself Tonight," the singer is moving forward artistically on a very conspicuous level. Collaborations with top-level artists abound on the new album, some of them surprisingly esoteric for a singer with such a broad commercial following--including M.I.A., Sia, LeTigre and Peaches, among others.

Aguilera will be all over the place in 2010, not least due to her highly anticipated appearance in Burlesque, a film bowing this fall that will feature her alongside Cher, Kristen Bell and Stanley Tucci and promises to be an eye-opener.

Y! Music recently had a chance to sit down with