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CHARLOTTE SOMETIMES "Waves and the Both of Us" - Out NOW!!
Performing on WARPED TOUR all summer!

Once, years ago, Charlotte Sometimes traveled out to a field in Pennsylvania to perform at a balloon festival. She had no idea where shed ended up, and instead of the multitudes she imagined attended such events, found only a handful of onlookersfestival workers, at that. High school, she explains, and it becomes a bit clearer how this guitar-wielding, soul-bearing spark of a songstress spent her formative years.

From a childrens book, she borrowed the name of a precocious boarding school student who finds herself transported 40 years into the past, into the body of another girl. This curiously dark story of time-travel and interchangeable identities, written in 1969 by Penelope Farmer, captivated Charlotte and embedded inside her restless mind the inspiration for detailing her own exploits, into that tentative space between confrontation and escape. The idea that you could actually be someone elsethat people often did adopt alter egos, depending on the circumstancefascinated her.

Maybe the fact that she was adopted had something to do with it. For a long time, Charlotte didnt have a clue about her actual birth date, or ethnic background for that matter (her mother has blonde hair and blue eyes; she does not). The simple things that everyone else knows, you dont know, she explains. It doesnt seem like a big deal to anyone else, but its such a big deal when youre young and you dont know anything about where you came from.

Dead set on coming from somewhere, she threw herself into the rigors of dance and musical theater until age 14, when she traded in her leotard for a guitar. It was a relief, she says, to no longer be forced to stare into a mirror all day and told to suck in this and suck in that. Instead, she began writing songs and playing them for people in her small town of Wall, New Jersey (just north of Brickno joke), eventually making treks to New York and, on at least one occasion, to a poorly attended Pennsylvania balloon festival.

Charlotte Sometimes enchanting debut full-length, 1918: Waves and the Both of Us, is a product of insomnia, airplanes, and bodies of water, not to mention countless hours of daydreaming to the mesmerizing sounds of Billie Holiday, the Everly Brothers, Jeff Buckley, and Fiona Apple, among others. An allusion to the year to which Farmers protagonist travels, the title isnt so much an overt reference to the book as it is a recognition of the fact every one of us is stuck somewhere, trying to be someone else, or at least play the role of one of our personalities. Also named for one of its songs (Waves and the Both of Us), the record tells a story of the currents that pass through our lives, some more uplifting or traumatic than others, Charlotte says. Its about all the different waves that live inside my head and heart, and how they affect others, myself, and the person I want or pretend to be.

Its difficult to say whether Charlottes onstage persona is an outlet from these personalities or just one of them. Probably both. As a performer, shes flippant and seductive, and as a songwriter, she gravitates toward the shadier elements in life, like spiders and Valium (Sweet Valium High), using the eclectic imagery to dissect the dynamics between women and men. The whole idea of the power struggle between a man and a woman entertains methe idea of what a womans role is, if its to be submissive to a man, or if its to be in charge of a man, if its to be equal to a man.

Leave it to a Cypress Hill lyric to score one for the girls. On How I Could Kill a Man, Charlotte reinterprets the refrain of a rap classic, graciously turning male bravado on its head. Its a disarmingly upbeat and happy song colored with darkness and condescension. Her warm, amber voice isnt murderous, per se, but you believe it when she says shes killed men, metaphorically speaking. And still, you smile and move your feetproof once again that dancing and misery are not mutually exclusive.

Its almost like you can dance your troubles away, Charlotte says. Take another rosy song, Ex-Girlfriend Syndrome, which digs relentlessly inside an ex-boyfriends head. I always imagine teenage girls in their car on a summer day just dancing around in their car listening to the songs, and being, like yeah, Fuck you! A lot of the record is about getting those kinds of feelings out, but you dont have to mope about it. Throughout the album, beatsboth instrumental and electronicare a vital part of the drama, pushing the record forward and allowing the music and stories to pulsate underneath your skin.

Meanwhile, the somber, piano-laced Pilot, tells a different story, filling in the unspoken space between two people. Charlotte readily admits shes not terribly successful at relationships, and this disheartening recollection is just one example. I feel like, sometimes, people pretend to be so much more connected than they really are. Its a beautifully patient, if melancholy, glimpse into a familiar and hopeless situation.

While her high school years yielded a few homemade EPs and one live CD, recorded when she was only 14, 1918: Waves and the Both of Us is Charlottes first fully realized albumcall it a graduation of sorts. Having poured so many of her influences into the album, shes not entirely sure which genre its intended for, except that it pulls liberally from throughout her own personal arsenal of loves and neuroses, including dark poetry, dance beats, and indie folk. Her brain buzzes constantly, and she confesses to an obsessive streak. Why limit herself to one genre, she figures, when she can draw from everything shes ever done? Music is mood, first and foremost, and in the midst of diversity, her songs remain alluringly bare and revelatory. 

I want to make sure that whole emotional connection is in each and every word and in each and every note of my songs, because if thats not there, then whats the point in music? Music is supposed to transport you somewhere. Its supposed to make you feel connected to something, she says. I would hope that Im making a connection with people because if not, its almost like masturbating when it comes to music. Thats fun, but sex is better.

With over 27.5 million views and more than 864,000 friends, Somaya Reece, the 1 Latina artist on MySpace has successfully proven to be a viral marketing powerhouse! 

Somaya is a voluptuous vixen with 38/40-28-46 dimensions. It's easy to see why this Salvadorian beauty from South Central was recently named the Hottest Latina in Music by Maxim en Español. 

Prior to unveiling her myspace page, in spite of her harsh upbringing, Somaya Reece accomplished an impressive and extensive resume. Born and raised in South Central Los Angeles. Somaya Reece grew up in a garage to an immigrant Latino family cleaning houses as a maid with her mother. Refusing to be another statistic living "La Vida Loca" in gangs, jail, experiencing a deadly gang related death scare. Somaya Reece decided to change her life and began her journey to great accomplishments. 

Somaya Reece has proven to be more than a triple threat in mainstream media. Somaya Reece’s diverse talent has successfully crossed over from acting, modeling, to being the most successful independent artist of our time. Somaya’s DIY technique, a unique digital approach of viral marketing has fans and media across the world talking. She has single handedly crossed over into the UK radio stations, building a massive fan base. Somaya’s music has been received in the music industry with open arms and was even called the Latina Missy Elliot with the late Selena’s humble approach. 

As an entrepreneur, Somaya Reece self produced a 14 month national calendar and HD dvd. The Somaya Reece 2009 calendar is a combination of an elegant inspiration of Sophia Loren and a raw edge of our contemporary pop culture. The calendar sold out within the first week of sales and can now be purchased across the globe. After conquering the big screen, the editorial world and music, the marketing power house Somaya Reece is venturing into the fashion industry. Now in collaborations with the hottest hip hop urban apparel designer in New York City, The Geoffrey Allen Corporation. The latest project Geoffrey Allen Corporation set to unveil is Pinkdice. Pinkdice is a high end urban sneaker for the consumer who stays in the know of what tomorrows hottest styles will bring. This collaboration between Somaya Reece & The Geoffrey Allen Corporation will be the root product of the "Stupid Fresh" Somaya Reece high end urban apparel & accessories. 

As a musician, beginning at the early age of 9, she was inspired by the late Celia Cruz to play the violin earning her honors as the lead in her public school choir, and now turning down 3 record deals. Somaya has independently achieved over 3.3 million spins in just ten and a half weeks for her debut single "Mira Mi Pum Pum", debuting on The "Latino Top 20 Countdown" show with Nico Jones on popular Latin radio station, Latino 96.3. Her second single a club/dance mix "Girls Night" produced by The Pharmacy reached over 1 million spins in less than 10 weeks! Somaya Reece's music has hit 1 in the top ranked music charts of Imeem and myspace. She held her spot along side all of today's popular and recognizable artists, Jonas Brothers, Beyonce, Shakira etc. Somaya’s music in America began to open doors across the world and the European market began listening. In Sept of 2009, Somaya Reece’s music successfully began the cross over into the UK. In Sept of 2009, Somaya’s single “Ooh Baby Baby” was played on rotation at Liberty Radio and Europe’s top radio station Choice FM. Somaya’s mass appeal and experimental music was received with open arms. It has continued to grow into the UK market and is now a regular in the red carpet circuit and media of Wireimage and Getty Images. 

As a commercially recognized persona, she has appeared in high-profile campaigns for Ralph Lauren, DKNY, Colgate, Pepsi, Budweiser, and Coors Light. As a TV personality, when Somaya’s career began to soar, national television networks took notice. Somaya was invited by producers of the Dr Phil show to come on board and share her story. Dr Phil told Somaya “Your music is very good, you set a great example to young women”, her show became one of the most talked about. In 2008 alone Somaya was nominated "Internet Hottie" By Spike TV Guys Choice Awards, "Hottest Woman on the Web" by E! Television and Telemundo calls her "The Latina Jessica Rabbit." 

As an actress, she has participated in American Psycho (2002), The Scorpion King (2002), Ride or Die (2003), Miss Cast Away (2004), GB2525 (2008), The Girl From The Naked Eye (2009), Go For It (2009), and in the hit television shows on The UPN Network Girlfriends and HBO's Entourage. 

Somaya's current album sets to release in 2009, and has begun working with billboard charting producers such as Scoop Deville (Snoop Dogg, Murs, Cypress Hill, Baby Bash), 1500 or Nothin (Estelle, Game, T.I), Andre Merritt (Chris Brown, Rihanna), The Pharmacy (Taryn Manning, Britney Spears) , and Qura Rankin AKA 007 Blaq (Christina Aguilera, Pink, PussyCat Dolls).

As the female member of hip-hop's Flipmode Squad (which also counts Busta Rhymes, Rampage, and Lord Have Mercy among its ranks), Rah Digga is one of rap's most prominent women MCs. Though her rapping is hard-hitting, Digga's background is surprisingly stable. Born in New Jersey, she attended a private school in Maryland and studied electrical engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. She started rapping with Twice the Flavor and was the only woman in Jersey's Da Outsidaz clique. When A Tribe Called Quest's Q-Tip discovered her at a performance at New York's Lyricist Lounge, he introduced her to Busta Rhymes, who invited her to join the Flipmode Squad. As a part of that hip-hop clique, she appeared on Rhymes' 1997 album When Disaster Strikes and the Flipmode Squad's The Imperial Album from 1998. She also appeared on the Fugees' "Cowboys" and dueted with Bahamadia on "Be Ok" from Lyricist Lounge, Vol. 1. Her full-length solo debut, Dirty Harriet, arrived in 2000 and featured cameos from Rhymes and the Ruff Ryders' Eve. Heather Phares, All Music Guide

CHARLOTTE SOMETIMES "Waves and the Both of Us" - Out NOW!! Performing on WARPED TOUR all summer!

Once, years ago, Charlotte Sometimes traveled out to a field in Pennsylvania to perform at a balloon festival. She had no idea where shed ended up, and instead of the multitudes she imagined attended such events, found only a handful of onlookersfestival workers, at that. High school, she explains, and it becomes a bit clearer how this guitar-wielding, soul-bearing spark of a songstress spent her formative years.

From a childrens book, she borrowed the name of a precocious boarding school student who finds herself transported 40 years into the past, into the body of another girl. This curiously dark story of time-travel and interchangeable identities, written in 1969 by Penelope Farmer, captivated Charlotte and embedded inside her restless mind the inspiration for detailing her own exploits, into that tentative space between confrontation and escape. The idea that you could actually be someone elsethat people often did adopt alter egos, depending on the circumstancefascinated her.

Maybe the fact that she was adopted had something to do with it. For a long time, Charlotte didnt have a clue about her actual birth date, or ethnic background for that matter (her mother has blonde hair and blue eyes; she does not). The simple things that everyone else knows, you dont know, she explains. It doesnt seem like a big deal to anyone else, but its such a big deal when youre young and you dont know anything about where you came from.

Dead set on coming from somewhere, she threw herself into the rigors of dance and musical theater until age 14, when she traded in her leotard for a guitar. It was a relief, she says, to no longer be forced to stare into a mirror all day and told to suck in this and suck in that. Instead, she began writing songs and playing them for people in her small town of Wall, New Jersey (just north of Brickno joke), eventually making treks to New York and, on at least one occasion, to a poorly attended Pennsylvania balloon festival.

Charlotte Sometimes enchanting debut full-length, 1918: Waves and the Both of Us, is a product of insomnia, airplanes, and bodies of water, not to mention countless hours of daydreaming to the mesmerizing sounds of Billie Holiday, the Everly Brothers, Jeff Buckley, and Fiona Apple, among others. An allusion to the year to which Farmers protagonist travels, the title isnt so much an overt reference to the book as it is a recognition of the fact every one of us is stuck somewhere, trying to be someone else, or at least play the role of one of our personalities. Also named for one of its songs (Waves and the Both of Us), the record tells a story of the currents that pass through our lives, some more uplifting or traumatic than others, Charlotte says. Its about all the different waves that live inside my head and heart, and how they affect others, myself, and the person I want or pretend to be.

Its difficult to say whether Charlottes onstage persona is an outlet from these personalities or just one of them. Probably both. As a performer, shes flippant and seductive, and as a songwriter, she gravitates toward the shadier elements in life, like spiders and Valium (Sweet Valium High), using the eclectic imagery to dissect the dynamics between women and men. The whole idea of the power struggle between a man and a woman entertains methe idea of what a womans role is, if its to be submissive to a man, or if its to be in charge of a man, if its to be equal to a man.

Leave it to a Cypress Hill lyric to score one for the girls. On How I Could Kill a Man, Charlotte reinterprets the refrain of a rap classic, graciously turning male bravado on its head. Its a disarmingly upbeat and happy song colored with darkness and condescension. Her warm, amber voice isnt murderous, per se, but you believe it when she says shes killed men, metaphorically speaking. And still, you smile and move your feetproof once again that dancing and misery are not mutually exclusive.

Its almost like you can dance your troubles away, Charlotte says. Take another rosy song, Ex-Girlfriend Syndrome, which digs relentlessly inside an ex-boyfriends head. I always imagine teenage girls in their car on a summer day just dancing around in their car listening to the songs, and being, like yeah, Fuck you! A lot of the record is about getting those kinds of feelings out, but you dont have to mope about it. Throughout the album, beatsboth instrumental and electronicare a vital part of the drama, pushing the record forward and allowing the music and stories to pulsate underneath your skin.

Meanwhile, the somber, piano-laced Pilot, tells a different story, filling in the unspoken space between two people. Charlotte readily admits shes not terribly successful at relationships, and this disheartening recollection is just one example. I feel like, sometimes, people pretend to be so much more connected than they really are. Its a beautifully patient, if melancholy, glimpse into a familiar and hopeless situation.

While her high school years yielded a few homemade EPs and one live CD, recorded when she was only 14, 1918: Waves and the Both of Us is Charlottes first fully realized albumcall it a graduation of sorts. Having poured so many of her influences into the album, shes not entirely sure which genre its intended for, except that it pulls liberally from throughout her own personal arsenal of loves and neuroses, including dark poetry, dance beats, and indie folk. Her brain buzzes constantly, and she confesses to an obsessive streak. Why limit herself to one genre, she figures, when she can draw from everything shes ever done? Music is mood, first and foremost, and in the midst of diversity, her songs remain alluringly bare and revelatory. 

I want to make sure that whole emotional connection is in each and every word and in each and every note of my songs, because if thats not there, then whats the point in music? Music is supposed to transport you somewhere. Its supposed to make you feel connected to something, she says. I would hope that Im making a connection with people because if not, its almost like masturbating when it comes to music. Thats fun, but sex is better.

I’m a Rising singer-songwriter Stacie Rose is earning rave reviews for her newly released deliciously; buzz-worthy, lush and hooky, record SHOTGUN DAISY! With songs on MTV's THE HILLS, FX's THE RICHES, AMC, AMERICAN AIRLINES and in an ESCADA Sunset Heat campaign, the songs of this east coast, indie-sensation are justifiably infiltrating the American mainstream, and music culture over seas. A radio/podcast darling, Rose is a musicians-musician, that has been hailed for her super-hooky, confessional songs that effortlessly, fuse pop, soul, country & rock and stay in your head. Critics have compared her song writing prowess to the likes of Rosanne Cash, Bruce Springsteen, Heart, Joni Mitchell, CSNY, Bob Dylan, Suzanne Vega, and Aimee Mann and her pop sensibility to artists like, Sheryl Crow, Jewel, Nelly Furtado, Dido and Avril Lavigne; but have praised her for a vocal & visceral sound all her own.