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Ladies and Gentlemen, the brand new single by DVAS "Society" is this week's iTunes Single Of The Week in Canada! Do you know what this means? It means you can download the single for FREE right here for this week only! And as a special treat - you need not wait longer to hear the new album SOCIETY - iTunes launched an exclusive pre-sale of DVAS - SOCIETY today! Order here. You can pre-order the Digital 45 of Society + The Hood Internet Remix feat. Kid Static right here in the UC Boutique.

The Anthem-in-waiting “Society” is the first single from the DVAS full-length album of the same name, and as a wondrous bonus treat – The Hood Internet partners with Chicago party-rapper Kid Static to throw down for their super-fly take on the DVAS single. The Society video, created by Toronto stars on the rise Shark Teeth Films will debut worldwide exclusively at Spinner.com June 11–17.

The album SOCIETY hits stores July 27 and will be the soundtrack of summer, with that chunky slice of emphatic energy-induced music we oh-so-crave. Its mix of high energy electro dance pop music; tracks…

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The Upper Class family sends our love, respect and congratulations to Roland Pemberton aka Cadence Weapon and the Pemberton family!

Teddy Pemberton, Rollie's dad, was a pioneering college radio DJ in Edmonton, and is being honoured this week at the Stylus Awards. He went by T.E.D.D.Y. and is credited with not only helping launch CJSR-FM back in 1980, birthing one of Canada's finest college radio stations, but is known as the man who brought hip hop, jazz, funk, rhythm and blues and reggae to Alberta through his show The Black Experience In Sound.

Tonight, May 31, Canada's National DJ…

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Do you like The Hidden Cameras? One of their esteemed members, Toronto's own Gentleman Reg had Cadence Weapon remix a track from Reg's latest solo album Jet Black. You've never before heard Reg over thick thumping disco beats… AND the Cadence remix features the bass licks of DVAS bass-man Dan Carlyle! Hear it over at the Gentleman Reg Myspace. Hot

As The Russian Futurists prepare for this summer’s unveiling of the long awaited new album The Weight’s On The Wheels coming courtesy of yours truly Upper Class Recordings, our friends at Ghostly International have just released a compilation that features The Russian Futurists covering Dykehouse’s “When You Come”

The Horizon Line / Ghostly By Night is a Ghostly International double-disc compilation featuring ten remixes and reinterpretations of Ghostly International classics and ten new, forthcoming, and unreleased songs. Contributors include Madlib, Max Tundra, Solvent, Dabrye, Bullion…and the compilation closes, fittingly, with an oldie…

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Canada's beloved indie rockers Sloan have released B-Sides Win: Extras, Bonus Tracks and B-Sides 1992-2008.

The Album features a beautiful remix by The Russian Futurists of the Pretty Together classic "Are You Giving Me Back My Love?" The album is available from Sloan's official store here.

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DVAS + PARALLELS are joining forces to kick off the official EYE Weekly Canadian Music Fest opening night party at The Roosevelt Room on Wednesday, March 10, this party is guaranteed to kick off spring!!

As a very special treat, UC has teamed up with EYE Weekly to give you a sneak listen at the brand new single by DVAS, “Society”. The track has already been determined that it “has 2010 Summer Anthem written all over it” (Canadisco.com)

Click here to read EYE Weekly’s feature on DVAS.

Click here to sneak a preview of DVAS new…

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The Russian Futurists have emerged from studio seclusion in a flash of live awesomeness. The completely expanded and incredible live band will perform at a select few dates to unveil tracks from Matthew Adam Hart aka The Russian Futurists long-awaited new album The Weight’s On The Wheels. The Weight’s On The Wheels is Hart’s most ambitious creation to date and is sure to be a summer monster.

Two weeks ago the band played the Wavelength 500 Festival in Toronto, previewing 5 brand new cuts from The Weight’s On The Wheels, to fanatic reviews! Next week The Futurists…

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The UC Triple Threat is in effect at this year’s Canadian Music Fest
Dance your face off!

DVAS – WEDNESDAY MARCH 10 @ THE ROOSEVELT ROOM 10:00pm
EYE Weekly Canadian Music Fest Opening Night Party
w/Parallels, Styrofoam Ones and CFCF
Buy a Ticket

DVAS, our newest UC addition, will put forth a set of jams from their impending album Society at The Roosevelt Room. If you don’t know by now that you have to experience these guys live, then take this as an advisory to come on out and get your sweat on the dance floor!!

CADENCE WEAPON…

Our boy Cadence Weapon has done it again! Just when we thought the week couldn’t get any better for Cadence Weapon, after being interviewed on CBC Radio’s The Current by the one and only Shania Twain, Canada’s newest national broadcast music television station AUX.TV named Cadence Weapon & Shout Out Out Out Out’s music video for “Coming Home” the #1 Music Video of 2009

For those of you who haven’t seen “Coming Home”, it’s one of the hottest music videos we’ve seen in along time, literally! These guys are on fire! Literally!

Congrats to Cadence Weapon and…