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Arena Jaxx

Gigwise reports: Basment Jaxx have announced a massive arena tour of the UK and Ireland in support of their new album.

The dates begin in Glasgow on September 1 before they release the long player 'Crazy Itch Radio' on September 11.

Glasgow Hampden Park- September 1/2
Stadbally, Electric Picnic - 3
Leeds, Roundhay - 8/9
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Interpol Goes Major?

Billboard reports: New York rock act Interpol has parted ways with indie home Matador Records and will sign a new deal with Capitol, sources say.

Billboard.com understands that the group will hit the studio in the fall to begin recording its third album, which is tentatively due in mid-2007.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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YouTube To Go Legit?

Yahoo reports: YouTube Inc. said on Tuesday it is talking with record labels to post thousands of music videos online, aiming to move beyond being a site for sharing home videos to a provider of mainstream entertainment like Yahoo and others.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Sam Moore: Overnight Sensational

PR reports: Rhino Entertainment will release soul legend Sam Moore's new release, Sam Moore: Overnight Sensational on August 29, 2006.

The 12 tracks on Sam Moore: Overnight Sensational, feature the one and only "soul man" with support from over 20 of his superstar friends and fans including Jon Bon Jovi, Bekka Bramlett, Mariah Carey, Eric Clapton, Nikka Costa, Sheila E., Fantasia, Billy F. Gibbons, Vince Gill, Van Hunt, Billy Preston, Robert Randolph, Paul Rodgers, Bruce Springsteen, Sting, Travis Tritt, BeBe Winans, Steve Winwood, Wynonna, and Zucchero. The diverse album Sam Moore: Overnight Sensational also showcases Sam's love for country music on songs written by Garth Brooks and Conway Twitty. [listening party at the full story link] 
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Free New York Dolls

Blabbermouth reports: NEW YORK DOLLS will perform a free show this Friday, August 18 at the South Street Seaport, Pier 17 in New York City. The band will go on stage at 8:00 p.m.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Aiken's Different Kinds of Love

PR reports: The long wait for Clay Aiken fans is over. RCA Records will release the singer's third album, "A Thousand Different Ways" on September 19th. The project, Aiken's first outing since 2004, combines 10 cover versions of well-known songs from the '70s, '80s and '90s with four brand-new songs. 

For Aiken, the new album's title has multiple meanings. "This is an album of love songs," he explains, "but they are about all different kinds of love. Romantic love, Friendship, Unconditional love. There are a thousand different kinds of love; a thousand different ways to tell someone you love them. And, on top of that, since so many of these songs are covers, it's realistic to say that many of them have been or could be sung a thousand different ways." 

.."Aiken credits Chairman CEO BMG U.S., Clive Davis for coming up with the concept for the album� 'He is a man who not only knows music, but really has his finger on the pulse of what listeners want to hear.'" [Wow Jive pushing a cover album? Whodathunkit? And yeah the public has been clamoring for a new version of "Everything I Do (I Do It For You)". The good news is perhaps we'll see Clay in a mullet for the video of the Richard Marx cover.] 
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Little Steven DVD

PR reports: Little Steven - Live At Full House in stores October 31, 2006: During this wild concert from Dec. 1st, 1987 at Grosse Freiheit in Hamburg, Germany, Little Steven totally carried his audience away with songs like "Los Desaparecidos" and "No More Party's". Perhaps known best for his role as guitarist in Bruce Springsteen's E-Street Band, here he is accompanied by the Disciples of Soul, with whom he released a total of six albums in the 80s and 90s. Described as a mixture of rhythm & blues, soul and rock'n'roll, the music also decries, above all, social evils in the world. In addition to this sold-out concert, "Fullhouse" moderator Alan Bangs interviews Steven van Zandt about the ability of the artist to bring about positive change in the world.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Whitesnake Delay

Blabbermouth reports: According to Deep-Purple.net, the second batch of remastered WHITESNAKE albums that were scheduled for around July 2006 have been pushed back to Christmas time. Three more titles are being re-released: "Come An' Get It" from 1981, featuring Jon Lord and Ian Paice; "Live In The Heart Of The City", which comprises material from two London shows in 1978 and 1980 (the former was before Paice joined); and the "Saints An' Sinners" album, recorded in 1982[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Style Council DVD

PR reports: Style Council - Live At Full House DVD in stores October 31, 2006: In the 80s, Paul Weller belonged to the group of major whizz-kids in the European music scene - first with The Jam and then with the British group The Style Council. This performance by the latter was filmed and recorded in Hamburg, Germany in 1987. It features all of the hits including "Money Go Round" and "Shout to the Top". Here lyricist, singer and musician Paul Weller, together with keyboardist Mick Talbot, brilliantly present the funky soulful music style that made them famous. In addition to the concert, "Fullhouse" moderator Alan Bangs interviews Paul Weller on the originality of pop music.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Hem's Third

PR reports: Hailing from Brooklyn, NY but with songs imbued with imagery of traveling long, country roads, through small towns and open prairies. Hem's third studio album Funnel Cloud waltzes over alt-country and folk terrain with their nod to traditional folk storytelling and rootsy mixture of steel pedal, piano, mandolin and stand up bass (along the lines of Lucinda Williams, Cowboy Junkies and Patti Griffin).

Past tours with Elvis Costello, Beth Orton and Wilco have won the band an avid international audience and the band will be touring the US through Sept/Oct, with initial West Coast show info below and national tourdates soon to be announced. [cd in stores September 5, 2006, click the full story for a preview] 
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Pat Green's Cannonball

PR reports: Pat Green, whose Top 20 single "Feels Just Like It Should" was the highest Billboard country debut this year, will release his BNA Records debut album, Cannonball, on August 22. Leading up to the release, Green is touring select dates in Tampa, West Palm Beach, Atlanta and Nashville with The Dave Matthews Band giving him an opportunity to debut songs from the new album. Following the release of Cannonball, Green will launch a string of sold out headlining shows that will take him to his home state of Texas as well as Chicago, New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Washington DC. [dates and more at the full story link] - Click Here for the Full Story 

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Beatles Shea Stadium Anniversary

PR reports: As any good Beatles fan would know, August 23 marks the anniversary of the "fab four" performing at New York's Shea Stadium, when they made history while appearing for their last NYC concert. Usually reserved for baseball games, the ballpark hosted a phenomenon that night: the "mop tops from Liverpool" caused mass hysteria when tens of thousands of screaming devotees turned out to see their heroes in concert. 

Now it's 2006 and The Beatles are no more. But 1964:THE TRIBUTE have been given the honor of commemorating this momentous event by performing live at Shea Stadium on the exact same date.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Vains of Jenna US

PR reports: After thrilling crowds in Europe, Sweden's VAINS OF JENNA have set their sights on the U.S. with the release of their full-length debut album LIT UP / LET DOWN.

Due out October 24, LIT UP / LET DOWN marks the first release on skateboarding legend Bam Margera's new label Filthy Note (www.filthynote.com). Bam (also of MTV's Viva La Bam and Jackass fame) says he signed the band on the spot after seeing their bombastic live show: "This band is so good I had to start a label just to put their record out."[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Bayside Keepin Busy

PR reports: From Bayside- We're currently writing our new record right now in a warehouse in Babylon, NY. We're entering the studio on October 10th with producers Shep Goodman and Kenny Gioia (Mandy Moore, Leeanne Womack, LFO). We're going to record half the record in Rheinbeck, NY at the Clubhouse and half at General Studios in Queens, NY. The record, entitled "the Walking Wounded" will be out in February through Victory Records. 

On August 23rd, Bayside will be playing our 1000th show as a band. The show will be at the Crazy Donkey in Farmingdale, NY. Along with that show we'll be playing 4 other shows in the Northeast region. Support on all the shows will be Spitalfield, This is Hell and Valencia. [see full story for dates]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Vaeda Tour

PR reports: The New York City trio known as VAEDA has announced another set of U.S. tour dates to get fans ready for their debut album, STATE OF NATURE, which is due out August 22 on Playtyme Records, starting with a CD release party in Washington, DC at The Red & The Black that same day. 

Tue 8/22 Washington, DC The Red and The Black
Wed 8/23 Gaithersburg, MD Firestation 8
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The Black Keys EP

PR reports: The Black Keys will be releasing a three track EP entitled Your Touch - The E.P. that will be sold digitally only on iTunes starting this week. 

The tracks included are - 
1) Your Touch
2) Strange Desire
3) Thickfreakness (live in Australia)

Your Touch - The E.P. is a prelude to the full-length release of Magic Potion, which will be released on September 12th. [listen to the title track at the full story link]
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Kenny Olson Returns

PR reports: KENNY OLSON, better known to Kid Rock fans as the original guitarist for the Twisted Brown Trucker band, returns for one special night with his new band THE FLASK to open for Kid Rock on August 26 at Boyne Mountain in Michigan. Tickets are on sale now through Ticketmaster.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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