eMedia Music Corp. announces the release of Arobas Music’s Guitar Pro 5.1 CD-ROM - the new Windows / Macintosh hybrid version of the best-selling multi-track tablature editor software for guitar, banjo and bass. Besides writing scores, Guitar Pro 5.1 is a complete tool for beginner and accomplished guitarists alike to improve, compose, or accompany themselves.

Guitar Pro 5.1 is a complete workshop for guitarists at an affordable price. New advanced notation features add drum notation, vocal notation and tablature support for any stringed instrument with four to seven strings. You can create complete scores for a band in minutes. Guitar Pro 5.1 is also a complete solution for creating lead sheets, scores, or lesson sheets for students.

Guitar Pro 5.1 features the newest in playback technology including RSE-Realistic Sound Engine. RSE gives you real time playback of your scores with realistic sound samples taken from high quality guitars and real time effects such as wah-wah. Improved ASCII import/export and the newly enhanced speed trainer are also part of Guitar Pro 5.1.

Guitar Pro 5.1 is available now at computer and music retail stores nationwide with an estimated retail price of $59.95. The hybrid CD-ROM is compatible with Windows 98 SE/2000/XP and Macintosh OSX 10.3 or higher.

For more information, visit their web site at www.emediamusic.com.

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Alfred is pleased to present the album-matching folio for Neil Young’s latest CD, Living With War.

Written and recorded in three days, Living With War is Neil Young’s second album release in seven months. When announcing the release of the record, Young issued a statement on his website saying “…I think it is a metal version of Phil Ochs and Bob Dylan…Metal folk protest?”

This book provides authentic guitar TAB for all the songs on the record.

Titles are: After the Garden * Living with War * The Restless Consumer * Shock and Awe * Families * Flags of Freedom * Let’s Impeach the President * Lookin’ for a Leader * Roger and Out * America the Beautiful.

For more information, visit their web site at www.alfred.com.

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Alfred is pleased to release the authentic guitar TAB version of the album-matching folio for Hoobastank’s hit record, Every Man for Himself.

The latest release from pop-rock giants Hoobastank, Every Man for Himself has already reached the No. 12 spot on Billboard’s Top 200 chart (Billboard.com, 2006). This book provides authentic guitar TAB for all the songs on the record.

Titles are: The Rules * Born to Lead * Moving Forward * Inside of You * The First of Me * Good Enough * If I Were You * Without a Fight * Don’t Tell Me * Look Where We Are * Say the Same * If Only * More Than a Memory.

For more information, visit their web site at www.alfred.com.

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Alfred is pleased to release the authentic guitar TAB version of the album-matching folio for the Dixie Chicks’ Taking The Long Way.

Produced by Rick Rubin, Taking The Long Way has already reached the No. 1 spot on both the Billboard Top 200 and Hot Country Albums charts (2006), and produced the hit singles “Not Ready To Make Nice,” “Lullaby” and “Everybody Knows.” This book provides authentic guitar TAB for all the songs on the record.

Titles are: The Long Way Around * Easy Silence * Not Ready to Make Nice * Everybody Knows * Bitter End * Lullaby * Lubbock or Leave It * Silent House * Favorite Year * Voice Inside My Head * I Like It * Baby Hold On * So Hard * I Hope.

For more information, visit their web site at www.alfred.com.

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Alfred is pleased to release the album-matching folio for Lacuna Coil’s latest CD, Karmacode.

Italian gothic/metal band Lacuna Coil has steadily worked their way across Europe and the United States, sharing stages with Green Day, System Of A Down, and Incubus, as well as tours with Rob Zombie and Ozzfest. Their latest release, Karmacode, debuted at #28 and spent eight weeks on the Billboard Top 200 chart. The first single from the record, “Our Truth,” has already spent 16 weeks in the Top 50 at Active Rock Radio, 11 of which were in the Top 40.

This album-matching folio provides authentic guitar TAB for all the songs on the record. Titles are: Fragile * To the Edge * Our Truth * Within Me * Devoted * You Create * What I See * Fragments of Faith * Closer * In Visible Light * The Game * Without Fear * Enjoy the Silence.

For more information, visit their web site at www.alfred.com.

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Alfred is pleased to release the album-matching folio for Neil Young’s latest release Prairie Wind.

Prairie Wind was written and recorded in 2005, while Neil Young was being treated for a potentially fatal brain aneurysm. He recorded eight of the songs prior to his surgery for the aneurysm, and two following his surgery, as he recovered. Prairie Wind has been described as a very personal record, stylistically similar to Neil Young’s classic records Harvest and Harvest Moon.

Titles are: Falling Off the Face of the Earth * Far from Home * He Was the King * Here for You * It’s a Dream * No Wonder * The Painter * Prairie Wind * This Old Guitar * When God Made Me.

For more information, visit their web site at www.alfred.com.

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Alfred is pleased to release 2006 Rock Charts Guitar - The Hits, So Far, the latest addition to Alfred’s Rock Charts series of books. This collection provides authentic guitar TAB for 15 of the biggest Billboard-charting rock songs released during the first half of 2006.

It features some of the most famous rock artists in the world, including Santana, Sheryl Crow, Green Day, Nickelback and Staind. It also includes hits from new artists like Trapt, Seether and Lifehouse.

Titles are: Animals (Nickleback) * Falling (Staind) * Good Is Good (Sheryl Crow) * Guarded (Disturbed) * Holiday (Green Day) * I’m Feeling You (Santana featuring Michelle Branch) * Jesus of Suburbia (Green Day) * Photograph (Nickelback) * Remedy (Seether) * Right Here (Staind) * Savin’ Me (Nickelback) * Stand Up (Trapt) * Stricken (Disturbed) * Wake Me Up When September Ends (Green Day) * You and Me (Lifehouse).

For more information, visit their web site at www.alfred.com.

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Alfred is pleased to expand the Classic Album Edition series to include Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV.

Alfred’s Classic Album Editions series highlights the most important albums of our time. A true classic has lasting significance; it may establish a new style or direction, and often, a true classic album may help define an era.

Led Zeppelin IV is the landmark album from the band that defined heavy rock music. From the wickedly twisting “Black Dog” to the perfected guitar riff driving “Rock and Roll,” the ominous “When the Levee Breaks” to the Celtic-folk influences of “The Battle of Evermore” and finally to “Stairway to Heaven” — the most played track in radio history — Led Zeppelin IV is Led Zeppelin’s biggest selling album, selling over 16 million copies.

Titles are: Black Dog * Rock and Roll * The Battle of Evermore * Stairway to Heaven * Misty Mountain Hop * Four Sticks * Going to California * When the Levee Breaks.

For more information, visit their web site at www.alfred.com.

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