This wasn’t an official press release, but I thought just in case you’re in the area of this performance you should check it out. Here’s the email I received from Jake Kongaika aka Cubworld:

Aloha Friends.
Just dropping in to remind you that CUBWORLD will be playing Friday night the 10th at the Music School in American Fork Utah. If you are in the area or even if you want to fly in Please come and check us out. This show is in practice for next weeks big show in Amsterdam. We will also be selling CDs at the show and it would be cool to just have you come chill out. Opening music will be by a friend Kimo Watanabe and then we will take the stage. In total the show will be about an hour. Heres the directions.

The Music School
350 East State Street
American Fork Utah

Map of Music School:801-492-1342 350 E State Rd American Fork, UT 84003, US

Show from 8-9 pm hope to see you there
Aloha
Jake

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It’s a celebration for Kristian Lei with the release of her new full length Christian CD entitled Take My Hand and a special gathering on Wednesday, August 22 at Rumours.

The CD is a dream come true for premiere vocalist Kristian Lei. On this recording are eleven spiritually influenced songs including two tunes that Kristian wrote. Other featured songwriters are well-known local entertainer, Irmgard Mihana A. Souza and internationally-famous, Johnson Enos. New contributors are James Okubo and Liza T. H. Yogi with their compositions. Three specially chosen cover songs are on this album: “The Lord’s Prayer,” Kathy Trocolli’s “My Life Is In Your Hands”, and the Auntie Irmgard Aluli’s song “For A Peaceful World” which features her daughter, Mihana. The album was recorded at Rendezvous Recording with Multi-Hoku and Music Award winning Producer/Engineer, Pierre Grill. Additional Special Guests on the CD are Grammy Award Winner, Jeff Peterson, and Anita Hall, Tesz Milan, Gavin Vinta and Choir Direction by Kala’i Stern. Executive Producer for this production is Women of Our World.

Kristian Lei welcomes the public to a CD Party at Rumours located at The Ala Moana Hotel on August 22 at 6:30 p.m. til 10 p.m. Super songstress, Kristian Lei will perform songs from her new CD and will feature some of Hawaii’s most talented singers in the celebration: Mihana, Marlene Baldueza, Tiffany Thurston, Mandy Suganuma, Gavin Vinta and Yvette Umi. Internationally acclaimed designer Takeo will be providing Kristian’s wardrobe for this special evening. General Admission: $10

Known for playing the leading role of “Kim” in “Miss Saigon” in Germany, Kristian has performed in the Philippines and across the nation. Most recently, she was invited to sing at the prestigious Freedom Festival in Utah, which honored men and women in the Armed Forces. In upcoming weeks, Kristian will be making appearances at the “Four Doctors, a Patient, and the Mayor” concert produced by the Aloha Medical Mission at the Blaisdell Concert Hall, The Sacred Hearts Academy Gala, Lee Donahue’s VIP Fundraising event and will be preparing for appearances in Utah, the Philippines, China and Japan.

Kristian Lei’s CD will be available at stores near you and online at www.kristianlei.com For more information, please contact Gavin Vinta at 941-5227.

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Here we are all three of your hosts are online and from the top of the program. Dr. Trey, The Icon and Vbro are all hanging out talking story. We talk about Raiatea Helm’s newest CD which is surprisingly good according to Trey. Also, we refer to the tribute concert to Princess Diana. Is her last name Spencer? Yes this show is longer than usual, but we needed a bit extra time to cover some of the topics that Bran missed out on. Once again Daniel and House join us in the chat. If you want the promised link because you have DoctorTrey.com on your top 8 MySpace, email Dr. Trey with the link to your MySpace Page. For the record, meebo has a chatroom now, so we’re going to use it for the live shows. Also, if you want to get notified when we’re doing a live show, jump on twitter and get text messages sent to your phone informing you of this.
Links:

DoctorTrey.com Radio
Our Chatroom
Twitter Dr. Trey
V. Brown
Makena
Raiatea Helm
Daniel Cole
Mighty J
The Icon
The Aloha Podcast Network
The New DoctorTrey.com

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We’ve been talking about this for a long time now, and I am aware that this website shares many visitors with the Mighty J website, but this post is for those who don’t visit MightyJMusic.com. Just wanted y’all to know that Mighty J’s debut cd releases today. This CD is the one that we’ve been working hard on, and for you the fans of The DoctorTrey.com podcast, keep in mind that this group is our baby. We actually saw the birth of this group on episode 14 of season 1. So if you’ve missed that one, go check it out. The CD itself features 13 songs, 12 of which are originals. If you haven’t had a chance to head out to pick up your copy yet, please do so now. I’ll wait.

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I thought that although this isn’t music related, y’all might be interested.

Jeremiah and Heidi Rasmussen sent an email over to me regarding a fundraiser they are holding for the Victims of the Virginia Tech Tragedy. The fundraiser will be held on Saturday, May 5th. From 9am till 7pm at Office Max in Waikele. They will be accepting cash and check donations. Checks can be made out to UWMRF, please indicate in the memo line the gift is specifically for United In Caring Fund. All proceeds from this fundraiser will be sent to the United Way to:

1. Fulfill unmet needs of the victims and their families, including emergency needs and mental health services.

2. Support community-wide recovery through programs like mental health support and children���s programs to address school violence.

They are holding this in part with Office Max, Aloha Signs, and United Way of Montgomery, Radford, and Floyd counties in Virginia.

This is a very nice way to share Aloha so if you’re in the area or aren’t doing anything, please be sure to stop by. Incidentally this isn’t entirely non-music related because Heidi is actually a singer!

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This is from the press release. I think we’re moving in the right direction.

CUPERTINO, California���April 2, 2007���Apple�� today announced that EMI Music���s entire digital catalog of music will be available for purchase DRM-free (without digital rights management) from the iTunes�� Store (www.itunes.com) worldwide in May. DRM-free tracks from EMI will be offered at higher quality 256 kbps AAC encoding, resulting in audio quality indistinguishable from the original recording, for just $1.29 per song. In addition, iTunes customers will be able to easily upgrade their entire library of all previously purchased EMI content to the higher quality DRM-free versions for just 30 cents a song. iTunes will continue to offer its entire catalog, currently over five million songs, in the same versions as today���128 kbps AAC encoding with DRM���at the same price of 99 cents per song, alongside DRM-free higher Read more »