Playboy.com Unveils Lineup for New Video Series, Uncovered Presented By Southern Comfort

Playboy.com Unveils Lineup for New Video Series, Uncovered Presented By Southern Comfort

Famed Musicians - including Dinosaur Jr., Hoobastank and 3 Doors Down - Perform Exclusive Covers of Songs That Inspired Them in Monthly Video Series

CHICAGO, July 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Pop singers, indie musicians, and rock guitarists alike are revealing the music that moves them in Playboy.com's exclusive new video series, Uncovered presented by Southern Comfort. In the monthly series, artists talk about the songs that influenced them and perform exclusive acoustic covers of those songs in some of the country's most legendary music venues and bars.

The series launches today with a video of legendary band Dinosaur Jr. performing The Cure's "Just Like Heaven." In the first video of the series, Dinosaur Jr. band members J Mascis, Lou Barlow and Murph, who recently released their ninth album "Farm," describe their first meeting with the iconic band and talk about their admiration for them, exclaiming, "We're way into The Cure!" The launch video is now available at www.playboy.com/uncovered.

The Uncovered series will feature new videos, exclusively created for Playboy.com, on the second Monday of each month for 10 consecutive months. Featured musicians include well-known and emerging artists, such as: 3 Doors Down, Black Lips, The Cardigans, The Dears, Drive-By Truckers, Hoobastank, JET and Phosphorescent.

A list with the complete lineup will be available on Playboy.com on August 1, and will include the following exclusive covers:

3 Doors Down performing "Dead or Alive" by Jon Bon Jovi
A Camp (Nina Persson of The Cardigans) performing "Psycho" by Leon Payne

Murray Lightburn of The Dears performing "Doctor Blind" by Emily Haines of Metric

Dinosaur Jr. performing "Just Like Heaven" by The Cure

Patterson Hood of Drive-By Truckers performing "Range War" by Todd Rundgren

Uncovered is one of the latest features on the recently redesigned Playboy.com, which offers an array of original content, images, and video; animation; and interactive, customizable content.

Playboy is one of the most recognized and popular consumer brands in the world. Playboy Enterprises, Inc. is a media and lifestyle company that markets the brand through a wide range of media properties and licensing initiatives. The company publishes Playboy magazine in the United States and abroad and creates content for distribution via television networks, websites, mobile platforms and radio. Through licensing agreements, the Playboy brand appears on a wide range of consumer products in more than 150 countries as well as retail stores and entertainment venues.

Source: Playboy

CONTACT: Abi O'Donnell of Playboy, +1-312-373-2440,
aodonnell@playboy.com

Web Site: http://www.playboy.com/uncovered

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