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Smile Empty Soul Set Release

IAYM reports: Smile Empty Soul have set "Anxiety" as the title to their upcoming new album which will see a release through Lava on August 16th.[see full story for breaking heavy rock news]- Click Here for the Full Story

JEW Skip UK Fest

NME reports: JIMMY EAT WORLD have pulled out of this summer's CARLING WEEKEND: READING AND LEEDS FESTIVALS.

The band were due to appear on the Main Stage on the Saturday in Reading (August 27) and Sunday in Leeds (28). [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Vines Will Return

NME reports: THE VINES drummer HAMISH ROSSER has assured fans that, despite the recent turbulence, the band will make a third album.

The Australian rockers' future was thrown into doubt when Craig Nicholls cracked up onstage at Sydney's Annandale Hotel last year and was subsequently diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome.

But now Rosser, talking to Vines fansite dreamintheinsane.com, has revealed which way the band are heading: "Hang in there, we'll record another album for you," he said. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Incubus Pretender

The PRP reports: Incubus recently teamed up with Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders fame for a track titled "Neither Of Us Can See". The song is one of the three the band recorded for the upcoming movie "Stealth"[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

J.Lo TV

MTV reports: Jennifer Lopez may have scrapped plans to do a full tour, but she's going forward with at least one live concert, to be filmed for a special to air on NBC, the network announced Monday. [What happend to NBC trying to improve their ratings? see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

More Gwen

MTV reports: It seems the "Hollaback Girl" is getting ready to do just that � six months after its release, Gwen Stefani's planning a sequel to her solo album, Love, Angel, Music, Baby. She hopes to have it out by the holidays and thinks that deadline is doable since she has so many leftovers from her original recording sessions.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Britney TV Debuts

Yahoo Music reports: Britney Spears' new reality show, Britney And Kevin: Chaotic premieres on UPN with a one-hour episode titled "Can You Handle My Truth?" Tuesday (May 17). The series uses never-before-seen home video footage shot by Britney and her husband, Kevin Federline, beginning shortly after they met. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Les Paul Honored

AP reports: Electric guitar pioneer Les Paul was one of 14 people inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame this year.

Paul invented the solid body electric guitar in 1946, and his Gibson Guitar Corp. model is one of the best-selling instruments in the industry. The 89-year-old Wisconsin native is widely renowned for his recording techniques. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

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Run TV

AP reports: The Rev. Run is in the house. "Run's House," a reality show featuring the Rev. Run of Run DMC, his wife, Justine, and their five children, will premiere later this year on MTV, the network announced Monday.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Brazil Dates

The PRP reports: Brazil have announced some dates with 3 and The Reason, here's the schedule:

May 28th Chicago, IL - The Bottom Lounge
May 29th St. Louis, MO - Creepy Crawl
May 30th Kansas City, MO - El Torreon
[see full story for more dates]- Click Here for the Full Story

Clutch Gigs

The PRP reports: Clutch and High On Fire will be playing a number of "Sounds Of The Underground" off-dates together, here's the schedule:

June 27th Charleston, WV - The Sound Factory
July 11th Little Rock, AR - Juanita's Cantina Ballroom
[see full story for more dates]- Click Here for the Full Story

NOFX Bore Fans

Punkbands reports: NOFX have started an online journal: Due to the popularity of the war journal and the constant complaints about the website not having anything new (what 10 photos from 2001 ain't fresh enough for ya?) We are introducing the "Bore Journal". We promise where ever we go on tour, when ever we are wasting time and money in the studio, you will be there too. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Lunatic Fest

siN's metal news reports: Another 'Off-fest' date of sorts has sprung up, and there's an extra addition. This year's WNOR FM 99 "Lunatic Luau" will be held July 28 in Virginia Beach, VA at the Verizon Wireless Music Center. The bands set to appear are as follows: ROB ZOMBIE, MUDVAYNE, KILLSWITCH ENGAGE, THEORY OF A DEADMAN, SHADOWS FALL, AS I LAY DYING, MASTODON, SOILWORK[see full story for more breaking Off-fest news!]- Click Here for the Full Story

Trust Co Split?

siN's metal news reports: Yesterday, Sunday, at St. Louis' POINTFEST, it was reportedly announced that before TRUST COMPANY was set to take the stage that the band has broken up. No official statement, announcement, or confirmation has been released regarding this matter from the TRUST COMPANY camp.- Click Here for the Full Story

Oasis Actor?

Xfm reports: Reports are claiming that Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher is to make his big screen acting debut alongside Robert Carlyle in a new gangster film entitled �The Apprentice'.

The £14 million movie will star starring 'Trainspotting' and 'Full Monty' actor Robert Carlyle and will tell the real-life story of convicted Glaswegian gun-runner Paul Ferris. The film is inspired by his 2001 biography �The Ferris Conspiracy'. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Radiohead 06?

Xfm reports: News from the "unorganized" recording sessions for Radiohead's new album have indicated the band may well have a new album out sometime in February or March next year.

A new report on Radiohead fansite www.greenplastic.com confirms early reports that claimed that the band were working on the follow up to 2003's album �Hail To The Thief'. According to the site, Radiohead are working on fifteen songs at present with two of them described as "Already done and amazing." [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Get Budd

Noble PR reports: July 25, 2005 sees the highly anticipated Sanctuary Records/Castle Music album release of Get Budd, a deluxe 2-CD set that brings together music from one of Britain's greatest film composer's work for the very first time, featuring music from many of his classic soundtracks, including Get Carter.

Get Budd is filled with treasures from a great musician and composer who through his ground breaking work during the 70's was recognised as a leading UK talent. Roy Budd merged a unique blend of Jazz and orchestral music with 70's Funk and the rhythms of Indian and Latin percussion, combined with his extraordinary ability to play the piano, it was too much to be ignored![see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

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Ibiza Summer

press release reports: Manumission and The Barfly are two of the most credible and influential names in the industry when it comes to promoting new music and nurturing evolving musical trends. In a unique partnership, the worlds most infamous club and the foremost new live band promoters in the UK have announced their plans to rock Ibiza this summer with the launch of �Ibiza Rocks.'

From Friday 22nd July, the Manumission Music Box will welcome the hottest new rock bands from around the world, including Kaiser Chiefs and The Bravery, to play live and exclusive in Manumission's world class nightclub environment in the heart of Ibiza. Confirmed artists to date are as follows, with further headline artists to be announced shortly

Mon 4th July Babyshambles (Manumission opening party)
Fri 22nd July Zane Lowe presents Maximo Park (Ibiza Rocks opening)
Fri 5th Aug Manumission Birthday with Mylo live
Fri 2nd Sept Kaiser Chiefs
Fri 9th Sept The Bravery with Zane Lowe- Click Here for the Full Story

Summer Lawns Release

press release reports: New York City-based chamber pop rock quartet Summer Lawns will be releasing their debut full-length album, entitled "First We Waited�.Then It Started," on July 19th. The disc will be released jointly by S-MOD Records and Isadore Records with national distribution via Redeye. Formed June 2003, Summer Lawns has been gaining notoriety for their intelligent, cathartic, and haunting live performances in New York. They position intimate vocals and songwriting amid a grand backdrop of lush instrumentation, creating songs that are at once both shimmering and spare, as if Nick Drake sat down for drinks with Yo La Tengo in Low's palatial kitchen at 3 a.m. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Rufio/Fight Video Footage

Repossession Records reports: Footage from Rufio/The Fight @ the Glasshouse in Pomona last Sat!! Video footage and a montage of pics have been posted from the last night of the Rufio, Fight, Gatsby's American Dream, and Over It Tour stop in Pomona, CA at the Glasshouse. [click the full story link and] Check it in the media section under videos and click on The Fight @ The Glasshouse!- Click Here for the Full Story

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