It's been a busy couple of weeks for MySpace/DGC recording artist Meiko: first she was featured alongside Jack Johnson and Sara Bareilles in a USA Today cover story about the "new wave of troubadours."

Singer, actress and superstar Mandy Moore will release her new, highly anticipated album, Wild Hope, on June 19 via the innovative partnership between The Firm Music and EMI Distribution. Recorded at Allaire Studios in Woodstock, NY and produced by John Alagia (John Mayer, Dave Matthews, Liz Phair), Wild Hope epitomizes a labor of love and showcases Moore's foray into songwriting.

Singer, actress and superstar Mandy Moore will release her new, highly anticipated album, Wild Hope, on June 19 via the innovative partnership between The Firm Music and EMI Distribution.

Windy City rock/soul singer-songwriter Todd Carey has wrapped work on his new set Watching Waiting due out on March 27 on Inspiration Factory Records (distributed by High Wire Music / Fontana). For the effort, Carey's second, he recruited acclaimed producer Marshall Altman (Marc Broussard, Matt Nathanson, Brooke Fraser), engineer/producer Niko Bolas (Neil Young, Rachael Yamagata) and mixer Brian Malouf (Pink, Natasha Bedingfield, O.A.R.).

Actor/film-maker Zach Braff has compiled the soundtrack for his latest film The Last Kiss and hopes to replicate the success he had with the music for his directorial debut Garden State. Braff won a Best Compilation Soundtrack For A Motion Picture Grammy Award last year for Garden State, on which he served as the compilation producer.

Verve Forecast is proud to announce the release of Rhett Miller's second solo album, The Believer, due in stores on February 28th 2006. A follow-up to the highly acclaimed The Instigator, the new record is brimming with, as Blender said, "knock "em dead songs."