I hope your boots are polished and your chrome is shiny; there is so much to do and so little time to do it in. This year the Leather Mart is at the Palmer House Hilton and as always, is open to the public! A day pass is required to enter the Leather Market. There is a $2.00 suggested donation with all proceeds going to the Leather Archives Museum.

The hours of the IML 2006 Leather Market will be:

· Friday, May 26 - Market Open 12 PM to 7 PM
· Saturday, May 27 - Market Open 11 AM to 7 PM
· Sunday, May 28 - Market Open 11 AM to 5 PM
· Monday, May 29 - Market Open 11 AM to 4 PM

Now that you are all fired up, The RCA Music Group announced this morning it has released the second installment of the RCA DANCE VAULT, its dance music series presenting both reissues of out-of-print classics and previously unreleased remixes of contemporary hits from artists on RCA, Arista and J Records. The new offerings in the popular series arrived May 8, released as downloads through iTunes exclusively for thirty days. The series will then be made available through additional subscription services such as RealNetworks' Rhapsody and Sony Connect. The artists range from such current stars as Christina Aguilera and Whitney Houston to Seventies, Eighties, and Nineties hit makers like Hall & Oats, Pointer Sisters and Deborah Cox. It will bring back memories and create some new ones! Dance music enthusiasts can also enter through the RCA and J Records/Arista websites (www.rcamusic.com and www.jrecords.com).

International superstar Michael Bolton has taken on another extraordinary challenge with Bolton Swings Sinatra (slated for release May 23 from PASSION MUSIC CO. /Concord Records). The collection finds him singing classics like "New York, New York," "Night and Day," "My Funny Valentine," "Fly Me to the Moon," "Girl >From Ipanema" and "That's Life," and bringing in special guest Nicollette Sheridan for a duet on "The Second Time Around." Backed up by a spectacular big band of what he calls "A-plus musicians," including 17 horns and 35 string players, and working with top-flight arrangements and audio technicians in the legendary Capitol studios where the Chairman of the Board and countless other icons have put down tracks, Bolton went to work on a batch of songs he'd loved since childhood. This is a must have for Sinatra fans.

Lose your good behavior and refined etiquette in the mighty tide of the Atlantic Ocean and welcome back the colorful cast of outrageous characters from the land of Little Britain, as BBC Video releases onto DVD Little Britain: The Complete Second Series. Following the broadcast of the third series on BBC America, Little Britain: The Complete Second Series will be available as a 2-disc DVD set on May 23, 2006 for the suggested retail price of $29.98.

 

 

Superstars, renegades, innovators, heroes, villains, and moms - over almost a decade, the Dixie Chicks have grown from a band into a phenomenon. Now more than ever, the eyes of the world are on them, and with TAKING THE LONG WAY, they come out swinging, surpassing the pressures and expectations history has placed upon them. The nine time Grammy-Award winning Sony Recording artists will release this highly-anticipated fourth album (Open Wide/Columbia/Sony BMG) on May 23, 2006.