Crème-Magazine.com, Rocka.Candy & Universal Music Group Present…The Listening Lounge Series

September 7, 2007, New York, NEW YORK—Crème Magazine.com, the premier website for the urban sophisticate market, together with Rocka.Candy.com, the upscale, media-savvy blog dedicated to highly-styled click fanatics, along with Universal Music Group, the foremost principal of the global music industry, introduce the Listening Lounge Series on Tuesday, September 11,th from 7pm to 9pm hosted at the designer fashion house of luxury shoes, tè casan, located on West Broadway in the heart of Soho.

Since 2004, Crème-Magazine.com has celebrated the lifestyle of tastemakers, fashionistas and
young professionals with common interests in art, fashion, entertainment and culture. Based off of the on-line listening party, created by Universal Music Group for Crème-Magazine.com readers, the Listening Lounge Series will feature a classy clique of New York’s finest fashion, music, and film innovators, celebrities, designer footwear connoisseurs, tastemakers, and trendoids. The exclusively invited 250 intimates will enjoy the “new & upcoming releases” from everyone’s favorite college drop-out, Kanye West and GGGG…G-Unit pack leader, 50 Cent!

“We are very excited that Crème-Magazine chose to step off-line to showcase the Listening Lounge Series and illustrate to our finest tastemakers how to indulge their lifestyle with the hottest Universal Music Group releases,” said Universal Music Group.

The confidently savoir-faire crowd will sip exceptionally smooth, fragrant, and seductively mesmerizing libations of Lichido Liquor while enjoying the sweet obsession of the passionately flavorful and decadently delectable SweetVirgo Desserts, a boutique dessert company that will entice you to fall in love with dessert all over again.

“We are exceptionally elated and pleased to offer our elite audience an interactive environment complete with three stories of exquisite taste that is te casan, new music from the Universal Music roster, as well as exclusive swag,” said Dominga Martin, Editor-In-Chief and Co-Founder of Crème Magazine.

Additional sponsors for the evening’s affaire de musique include, Trojan, the leaders in pleasure and evolving protection, Miss Jessies, the curly, kinky and wavy hair experts, and the debonair RSRV (pronounced Reserve) clothing collection from the fashionable architects at ENYCE. RSRV stands fierce, urbane, and alone as a young men's progressive and street wear brand that pushes the boundaries of fashion through forward design and detailing.

“As the premier online publication for urban art, fashion, entertainment and culture, we are truly thankful to our esteemed partners and sponsors whose benevolence help us provide the crème de la crème in quality and sophistication for the Listening Lounge Series,” said Gladymir Leveille, Publisher and Co-Founder of Crème Magazine.


20% of the proceeds from the Listening Lounge Series will go to Visual AIDS, an innovative and thought-provoking project that uses independent films on HIV/AIDS to generate awareness.

About CRÈME MAGAZINE:
Crème Magazine celebrates the lifestyle of tastemakers, fashionistas, and young professionals with common interests in art, fashion, entertainment and culture. We strive to provide our readers with an inside look at what defines a Crème de la Crème lifestyle: from etiquette and financial tips to the hottest parties and celebrity news; we are on the pulse to what's happening now while remaining the new voice of affluence. Current Crème-Magazine.com impressions: 350K per month and rising

About ROCKA.CANDY:
Rocka.Candy's audiences are upscale, media-savvy click fanatics interested in highly styled, relevant articles with a high level of cultural criticism. Rocka.Candy is also a winner of the Black Blog Awards 2005. Rocka.Candy is a spin-off from a personal website that was mildly popular, for a moment at the turn of the century. It's not really about anything in particular, but it is about anything classic. Current Rocka.Candy impressions: 100K per month

About UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP:
Universal Music Group (UMG) leads the music industry in global sales with an estimated worldwide market share in 2005 of 25.6%. Its global operations encompass the development, marketing, sales and distribution of recorded music through a network of subsidiaries, joint ventures and licensees in 77 countries, representing approximately 98% of the music market. UMG is the #1 company in countries, which together represent more than 50% of the global music market sales, including the U.S. and the U.K. UMG’s business also includes music publishing.

UMG’s strength and legacy of music flows from a diverse family of record labels which include: Barclay, Interscope Geffen A&M, Geffen Records, Island Def Jam Music Group, Machete Music, Mercury Records, Polydor Records, Universal Motown Records Group, Universal Music Classics Group (which includes Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, Philips and ECM), Universal Music Latino, Universal Music Group Nashville (which includes Lost Highway, MCA Nashville and Mercury Nashville), Universal Records South, and Verve Music Group.

UMG embraces a vast array of artists covering the full spectrum of music around the world and is a leader in both international and local repertoire. Artists signed to UMG throughout the world include: Akon, Erykah Badu, Beck, Black Eyed Peas, Jay-Z, Mary J. Blige, blink-182, Mariah Carey, Daddy Yankee, Elton John and more!

For more information on The Listening Lounge Series, contact The Buzz International