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Future Name Change

TuneLab reports: Future Leaders of the World have announced plans to drop their current band name and are turning to their fans to come up with a new one. The new band line-up consists of original vocalist Phil Taylor and new comers Thad Ables (bass) and Evanensence guitarist John LeCompt and drummer Rocky Gray.[see full story for more - we'd like to suggest the name "The Gay Ache'ns" ]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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E.Town Hell

antiMusic reports: You may have heard that E.Town Concrete have had enough. If you missed their farewell show, you can check them out one last time as they make a special appearance on this year's Sounds of the Underground tour on July 15th in Sayreville, NJ at Starland Ballroom (This Is Hell has also been added to the date). 

"It was really our fans who made the decision." explains E. Town vocalist Anthony Martini, "the rumor was posted on a message board somewhere and the next thing you know, the SOTU organizers were contacting me. We weren't even going to do it, but I'd gotten literally hundreds of emails begging us to play one more time. It was truly overwhelming." [full tour dates and info at the full story link]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Some Kind of Avail

punkbands reports: Production company Day By Day, most known for the movies "Teenagers From Uranus" and "Teenagers From Mars," has begun work on a documentary for Richmond, Virginia hardcore stalwarts Avail. Don't expect to see it anytime soon, but in the meantime, here's what Day By Day had to say on their myspace page: 

"We've started working on a Documentary for Avail. We did a few days with them on their most recent tour and will be heading out with them again in the near future. They have sweet library footage through the years. Its gonna start when Avail started and end at present....which will be a ways down the road. I can't tell you how excited we are. [see full story for more including some dates with Rancid]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Fearless Static

punkbands reports: Fearless Records has signed veteran rock band A Static Lullaby The band will be releasing their Fearless Records debut album on September 26, 2006! [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Dying Fetus Drummer

The Gauntlet reports: Dying Fetus have officially announced the addition of drummer Duane Timlin to their line-up. Here's a statement from the band:

"It's been a long year of searching, but we wanted to move forward in the certainty of having the right person for the group. Duane joins Mike Kimball, guitar, Sean Beasley, bass and vocals, and original member John Gallagher, guitar and vocals, to complete our 4-piece lineup[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Idlewild Side Projects

thetripwire reports: After making music together for over a decade, it should come as no big surprise that a few side projects are now in the works. Frontman Roddy Woomble has taken the plunge into solo material, with his first album due out in the UK on July 24. Titled My Secret Is My Silence, the record was produced by John McCuster, one of Scotland's foremost traditional musicians. [wait, the other members aren't sitting idly by either, see the full story for details about another solo project]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Ashley Parker Angel Rocks!

PR reports: Blackground/Universal Recording artist Ashley Parker Angel debuts at #5 on the Billboard Top 200 Chart selling over 70,000 copies of his solo debut Soundtrack Of Your Life in its first week, proving he can stand alone. Soundtrack shows that Ashley Parker Angel is all grown-up. Co-writing the entire album, notable tracks include "I'm Better" produced by Max Martin (Kelly Clarkson, Britney Spears) and the title track "Soundtrack To Your Life" produced by The Matrix (Avril Lavigne, Korn), which capture not only his edgy rock sound, passion and powerful writing abilities but his inner voice and self-determination as a solo artist.[edgy rock sound? Our very own Dolly took a listen to this album drew some surprising conclusions, you can check those out at the full story link.]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Sexy Peta Charlotte

antiMusic reports: Prince and Veronica Mars may be the sexiest vegetarians to adult PETA supporters but the kids have spoken and selected boybander Benji Madden of Good Charlotte and Luke Skywalker's mom--Natalie Portman--as the World's Sexiest Vegetarians. Peta2's youth edition conducted the online poll for the second year in a row with Maddan and Portman beating out Alyssa Milano and AFI's Davey Havok Andy Hurley of Fall Out Boy, Tim McIlrath of Rise Against, Chris Brandt of Halifax, My Chemical Romance's Frank Iero, Propagandhi's Todd Kowalski, and Sage Francis for the honors. 

Portman won the Peta honor in 2002. She gave up eating meat at the age of 8 and Madden thinks animals are people. If you just gotta read more, drop that burger and click the full story link. - Click Here for the Full Story 

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Furthest From The BBQ

PR reports: Furthest From The Star will be playing the Journey's Backyard BBQ in San Antonio on June 9th with Emanuel and Family Force 5, supporting their album This Waking Moment. This is their first major gig since replacing R Adam on drums. The Globe and Osiris Skate Team will be battling, as well as freestyle motocross demos. For more information, go to the full story link- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Camp Bisco V

PR reports: The Disco Biscuits have announced Camp Bisco V's artist lineup. Joining them on the bill will be The Roots, Thievery Corporation (DJ set), Brazilian Girls, The New Deal, RJD2, Perpetual Groove, The Juan McLean, Brothers Past, Lotus, Orchard Lounge, Elemental Harmonics, and more acts to be announced in mid-summer. 

Camp Bisco V will happen on August 25 and 26 at Hunter Mountain Ski Resort and Lodge in Hunter, New York (www.huntermtn.com). The festival will take place at the base of the world-class Catskill Mountains resort.[see full story for more- note to publicists: html formatted email may look pretty but it sucks for posting, so if you want coverage plain text is king!]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Peeping Conan

antiMusic reports: Mike Patton's new band Peeping Tom will make its world debut tonight's edition of Conan O'Brien Show (5/26) as the musical guest. Peeping Tom is Due to perform the single MOJO which features Dan The Automator and Razhel. Their album hits stores on May 30th but starting today (through the 29th) the entire album can be previewed on Myspace. Click that full story link to hear what Mike is up to now and tune in tonight to see it. - Click Here for the Full Story 

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DMB's Toss Em All Outta Office Tour

PR reports: Dave Matthews Band, O.A.R., and former members of Phish and the Grateful Dead are among the artists participating in the "Midterms Matter Tour," a multi-city voter registration campaign staged this summer by the non-profit, nonpartisan organization HeadCount. 

HeadCount registered nearly 50,000 voters in 2004, more than any all-volunteer group in the United States. This year, the organization aims to bring voter participation back to the forefront by reminding young people that "Midterms Matter," referring to the midterm elections in which one-third of the Senate and all seats in the House of Representatives are up for re-election.[see full story for dates, details and who will be playing. We can guess by who is taking part in this who they want you to vote for but antiMusic is truly non-partisan so we created that headline to send our clear message that ALL career politicians need to go! Right, left or center they all suck right now. So if your incumbent has a primary challenger vote for them if you want to stir things up. Otherwise, it will be the same old, same old no matter which "party" runs things. But if you need a rock band to motivate you to register to vote, please stay home. You are part of the problem! ]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Louisiana On My Mind

MVD reports: MVD and Video Service Corp. Presents are pleased to announce the home viewing release of Maroon/Zarico/Liberty Street Blue: Louisiana On My Mind for U.S. distribution on DVD. From the National Film Board of Canada comes this two disc set celebrating the music of New Orleans in three separate programs. 

The first installment, "Maroon: On the Trail of Creoles in North America", is an 85 minute documentary focused on Louisiana's Creole culture and the emergence of jazz. "Maroon" investigates what remains of this unique, mixed-race society, with roots in France, Africa, the Caribbean, Spain and America. Filmmaker Andre Gladu explores the Francophone presence in North America making this a vibrant travelogue that goes back into history in order to shed light on the present.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Tour Off Your Clothes Tour

PR reports: Why do so many people end up liberated from their clothes at Morningwood shows? The band probes this question as they headline a summer "Tour Off Your Clothes Tour," a reference to their strip-tastic anthem, "Take Off Your Clothes." 

The tour kicks off June 13th in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida with support from Rock Kills Kid, among others. While on the East Coast, the band will perform on "The Late Show with David Letterman" on June 21st. Then Morningwood will wrap up the tour on the West Coast in mid-July, but before jetting off to the U.K. and Japan they'll open for the Go-Go's at Los Angeles' Greek Theatre on July 14th.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Chris Daughtry Live

antiMusic reports: We got in a half a dozen press releases today about this. So it's gotta be important right? If you are one of the Americans that had better things to do than watch the American Idol finale (like watching your grass grow etc), the performance of "Mystery" with the band Live and Chris Daughtry (the man many felt was robbed of the American Idol title - he's lucky, look what Clive did to Bo!) is available online at the full story link. 

Live's latest album Songs From Black Mountain is available now digitally for download, and will hit stores in CD from on June 6th. If you just gotta see Live live they will begin a headline tour of Europe in June followed by a tour of the U.S. and Canada in July with dates to be announced shortly. As for Chris Daughtry's next move? We'll have to wait and see but his debut will more than likely blow any "official" Idol release away as long as the Idol people aren't part of it. - Click Here for the Full Story 

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Rock n Women: Benedictum

antiMusic reports: Benedictum is a relatively new band, although their members are veterans of the San Diego music scene. Their newly released debut record Uncreation is beginning to get a lot of attention. As well, they've just been tapped to open the Gods of Metal show in Italy this summer, a show headlined by Guns N' Roses and Alice in Chains. 

Uncreation is a powerful record with a strong set of 11 songs like "Two Steps to the Sun", "Wicca" and the title track. The music is accented by the extraordinary vocals of Veronica Freeman which are very Dio-esque. In fact, the band has two Sabbath covers on here. Morley spoke with Veronica about how the covers came about and a lot of other topics. It's a great interview and killer introduction to a new metal band that seems to be going places. Here is a little of what she had to say about the Sabbath covers:

antiMusic: How was the decision made to cover two Sabbath cuts? 

Veronica Freeman: It wasn't (laughs). I'm glad you asked that one. I was singing some Dio stuff obviously for a while and I already went into this whole recording process knowing we wanted "Heaven and Hell" to be one of the tracks on the actual album. And just before the recording process was up and we were out of money and out of time and all of that, the label wanted a bonus track. So we were going to do "Rainbow in the Dark" and we had a chance to work with Jimmy Bain so we thought we'll do something we all know. We only had a couple of days to do this and we had to do it in San Diego. So we'll throw something together real fast. Long story short, we get to San Diego and we do our thing and we had enough time to do one more song, so we did "Mob Rules". When we heard the play back of "Rainbow in the Dark", it just wasn't happening. It just laid there. And "Mob Rules" came out a lot better. It was always supposed to be on a limited version digipack and unbeknownst to us, the next thing you know the CD isactually the actual CD end result one is out and it has that on there so we weren't real pleased about that at first because I thought it was a little much to do too. We didn't want to do it that way. We thought it was cool as a bonus track but not as part of the actually album. So what's done is done. We can't take it back. But it was not our decision. [see the full story for the full interview]
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