We are pleased to announce that the progressive hard rock band “Shatter Their Illusion” have just released their new music video “Fragile” to air on all national and local television stations plus on demand. The video tells the story of a depressed young man who has trouble with his relationship and takes his own life leaving his lover alone only to visit him one last time at his funeral. The video stars: Kelsey Kozak, Frank Manzella and Jeff Swan. “Fragile” was directed, edited and produced by Dan Manzella of Dig-It-Al Studios for Dark Star Records. Special thanks to SGL Entertainment and John Warden of Rive Video Promotion.

The Girls of “JEZEBETH” appeared live at this special instore appearance at Hot Topic in the Woodfield Mall, featuring: Bree Michaels, Madeline Maser, Katie Auerbach, Kelsey Kozak, Galina Emmerich and Baby D Frost. Door prizes, Autographs and More. Grand Prize: The Official Tarot Cards used in the Movie Jezebeth. Second Prize: The Official Jezebeth T-Shirt. Also, special guest appearence by Drake Mefestta of “Real Vampires” The History Channel. This was an amazing evening of Vampire Bliss that proves once again that there is no stopping the power of Jezebeth. The movie is Directed by Damien Dante with Executive Producers Jeffrey A Swanson and Lloyd Freeze. This promo clip was shot and edited by Brian Tedeschi with music provided by Supermercado. Special Thanks to everyone at the Hot Topic.

We are pleased to announce that the hard rock metal band Two Ton Anvil have just released their new music video “Corruption” to air on all national and local television stations plus on demand. The video has a movie like feel to it and a story line about corruption in politics where the lead character appears to be fighting corruption and tracking presumably guilty people down, but in the end it is him that is corrupt, covering his tracks, taking bribes, shaking people down, and having people murdered. Inspired by corrupt Illinois politics. The video stars: Paul Tietz, Jeff Russo, Daniel Keller, Kathryn Brenner, Lissy MacMillan, Baby D Frost, Cyndi Carroo, Lindy Tsetseranos, Ty Barton, Kim DeMumbrum, Mario and Paula Salazar & Paul Christon with special appearances by: Colleena Corrigan, Kelsey Kozak and Galina Emmerich. “Corruption” was directed, edited and produced by Mario Salazar of Genex Productions for Dark Star Records. Special thanks to SGL Entertainment and John Warden of Rive Video Promotion.

Dark Star Records is blazing right past many of the major labels with the future of e-commerce. It’s time to move beyond a single stand alone online store and bring your online store to where your fans are hanging out; Facebook, MySpace, Blogs, Websites. Don’t just post your new CD on your Facebook Wall and link your fans back to a typical online store. Post your new CD on your Facebook Wall, MySpace Page, Blog or official website and let your fans buy it right there without even leaving. Let your fans share your new CD as a Wall post with all their friends, while including the ability to buy your CD in every single one of those Wall posts. It is time to bring your commerce to the world of social. CommerceSocial is a new tool that is extremely easy to setup and lets your CD spread virally through the social networks. Here is how it works: Imagine that the next time you post a product on your Facebook Wall that instead of it just being a image that links off to your website where you need to get your fan through the entire conversion process to complete a purchase that now when they click on the product image a small window actually expands right inside Facebook with a mini shopping cart embedded,. This mini shopping cart allows the fan to instantly make a purchase right in the Facebook Wall… while they are still the most excited and interested in the product. Now what if your fans could become your sales force, they are your biggest supporters. There is a Share button right in the cart that allows the fan to further Share the product on their Facebook Wall. All of a sudden your Wall post is being spread across Facebook by all your fans, and every one of those Wall posts is an online store. A major shift is happening in online commerce and advertising, consumers in ALL social networks and communities are relying heavily on peer word-of-mouth recommendations for their purchases as they chat about brands and products – it’s happening every minute of every day. 90% of consumers online trust recommendations from people they know; 70% trust opinions of unknown users. 67% of shoppers spend more online after recommendations from their online community of friends. A product posted on a Facebook Wall or shared in a user’s blog is a recommendation of trust. CommerceSocial even has a full affiliate program built right into your store. If someone posts a product on their Wall and makes a sale you can choose to pay them a small finders fee. Even more incentive for your fans to start posting your products… they can make some money selling your products! I have been talking all about Facebook, but all of the same functionality works on MySpace, Blogs and Websites. You can post a complete working store wherever your fans are. Dark Star Records is very exited to be working directly with the CEO of CommerceSocial “Ariel Wada” and Michael Brandvold who came to us with this new technology. Michael Brandvold has worked with KISS, Britney Spears, Madonna, U2, Motley Crue, Rod Stewart, Fleetwood Mac, Universal Music Group, BMG/Sanctuary Records, Rhino Records and many more.

You can visit our new CommerceSocial store on Facebook at:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dark-Star-Records/165168220170322