Get a free download of “Anarchy,” the first single release from Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music alumnus Sam Belkin’s band Nobody Can Dance.

If you prefer to buy your music, the song is available on most digital music stores.  Enter “Nobody Can Dance” in the search bar of a store like iTunes or Amazon.com and choose from 17 different tracks, many of which have titles we can’t repeat here.

Nobody Can Dance plays National Underground for FREE on Sept 29 and for M.E.A.N.Y. Fest 2009 on Oct. 2. To stream music or find out about other upcoming shows, visit Nobody Can Dance on the web.

Sam is in the suit and tie on the left.

In May 2008, Dan Chertoff was getting ready to graduate from The Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music. He’d also just started a new A&R gig at Canvasback, a record label headed by industry vet Steve Ralbovsky as a joint venture with Sony Music Entertainment.

Now Canvasback has jumped the Sony ship and moved over to Atlantic Records. Dan has become the first A&R exec on the label.

Dan is working on his first project: Fanfarlo, a multi-instrumentalist UK based folk/ chamber pop band with an eclectic Euro background: lead singer Simon Balthazar is Swedish and the band’s mandolin/violinist is Belgium. Fanfarlo’s debut, Reservoir, was produced by Peter Katis (The National, Interpol) and drops October 13th on Atlantic Records. The band’s spent time on the road with Snow Patrol.

Ever the multi-tasker, Dan is also a part of management venture Beekeeper Artists (also a joint venture with Atlantic), helping oversee the career Warner Bros. Records singer-songwriter Rachel Yamagata.

Fanfarlo graces the Bowery Ballroom stage tonight and The Bell House in Brooklyn tomorrow. Here’s the video for lead single “The Walls are Coming Down.“

Princeton @ Union Hall from Patrick Duffy on Vimeo.

Rock band Princeton, managed by Clive Davis Department alumnus Seth Kallen, received a positive review for their Sept. 9th Union Hall gig in the New York Times: reviewer Jon Carmanica called their upcoming album Cocoon of Love “harming and frisky, with touches of the Cure and Leonard Cohen and even some shoegaze pop. And onstage, the band was improbably tender, even a bit naïve, undercutting its lyrical hauteur at almost every turn.”

Full article is here.

Though 2008 Clive Davis Department alum Zach Berkman got voted off early this August from MTV’s reality competition show P. Diddy’s Starmaker, we look forward to bigger and better things from this talented singer-songwriter.

Zach’s updates since leaving the show, via the MTV blog site: “I released a brand new five-song EP called As Far As it Goes to go with the record I already had on iTunes. Watch for my new single, “Never Look Back,” featured on ABC Family’s Make It Or Break It. I’ve also been busy working on the production side of things, which is my second passion. This summer, I engineered and co-wrote the first two singles with Universal Republic recording artist Ron Pope, recorded the YouTube Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall.”

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