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altsounds June 10, 2008 09:29 PM

CITY AND COLOUR TAKING PART IN “MYSPACE TRANSMISSIONS”
 
CANADA'S CITY AND COLOUR TAKING PART IN "MYSPACE TRANSMISSIONS"

LOS ANGELES - June 10, 2008 - MySpace Music (MySpace Music: Bands, Music Videos, Concerts, Tour Dates, Musicians, Artists) the world's most popular social network, is proud to announce City and Colour's installment of "MySpace Transmissions", going live today on MySpace.com - MySpace Transmissions - Exclusive Live Online Acoustic Music & Band Video Clips. "MySpace Transmissions" a music program that empowers top recording artists with a new platform to create and distribute exclusive video content available for viral distribution and audio tracks available for purchase in the U.S. MySpace Transmissions underscores the company's commitment to building unique music programming and business models that benefit labels, bands, and fans. The audio portion of City and Colour's transmission will be sold exclusively through Amazon mp3 in the US and in the rest of the world through My Merch Table.

City and Colour is the solo project by vocalist and rhythm guitarist Dallas Green of the post-hardcore band Alexisonfire. The second City and Colour album, Bring Me Your Love was released February of this year and debuted at #3 on the Billboard's Top 200 Album Chart. Green who hails from Canada won both a Juno and a MuchMusic award for City and Colour.

City and Colour is signed to Canadian label Dine Alone with albums then licensed abroad to Vagrant in the U.S., Hassle in the U.K. and Shock in Australia.

The songs for City and Colour Transmissions are:
Against The Grain
Body in a Box
What Makes A Man
As Much as I Ever Could
The Girl
Love Don't Live Here Anymore.

All content from MySpace Transmissions will be archived and available on-demand on the MySpace Transmissions profile and via MySpaceTV (MySpaceTV Videos: Watch and share your favorite videos, trailers, movies, tv shows, music videos, and clips). Users will be able to add the content to their profiles and virally share the artists' videos throughout the network, and purchase the audio tracks via MySpace. MySpace Transmissions represents a progressive music model that truly encourages artists and labels to generate revenue while still maintaining an organic and intimate connection with their fans.

MySpace Music centers around the more than six million major, indie, and unsigned artists that use their MySpace music profiles to communicate and intimately connect with fans and friends. Each music profile empowers artists to upload video content, blog, post tour dates, lyrics, and make their music available to fans for stream or download. As one of the most popular and most trafficked music platforms in the world, MySpace Music has evolved into an offline experience by connecting bands and fans around the world through various concert series and live events including Secret Shows, MySpaceLIVE, and The List.


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About MySpace
MySpace, a unit of Fox Interactive Media Inc., is the premier lifestyle portal for connecting with friends, discovering popular culture, and making a positive impact on the world. By integrating web profiles, blogs, instant messaging, e-mail, music streaming, music videos, photo galleries, classified listings, events, groups, college communities, and member forums, MySpace has created a connected community. As the first ranked web domain in terms of page views*, MySpace is the most widely-used and highly regarded site of its kind and is committed to providing the highest quality member experience. MySpace will continue to innovate with new features that allow its members to express their creativity and share their lives, both online and off. MySpace's international network includes 20 localized community sites in the United States, Canada, Latin America, Mexico, Australia, Finland, Germany, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, Denmark, France, Ireland, Netherlands, Spain, Austria, Japan and New Zealand. Fox Interactive Media is a division of News Corp. (NYSE:NWS - News, NWS.A - News; ASX:NWS - News, NWSLV - News).


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