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Vedder Surf |
thetripwire reports: Jack Johnson's record
label, Brushfire, is releasing the soundtrack for a film titled A Brokedown
Melody. The soundtrack seems to actually contain a few interesting tracks.
For starters, it includes an unreleased solo track by Eddie Vedder, titled
"Goodbye." Other artists featured range from The Beta Band and Kings Of
Convenience to Doug Martsch (Built To Spill)... and... Jack Johnson. You
haven't lived until you've heard Eddie Vedder rock out to a ukulele. I
guess he traded in his flannel for a Hawaiian shirt. [see full story to
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| Lollapalooza
2011 |
thetripwire reports: What does it take to
get things done in Chicago? Simple. Money and success... mostly money.
Prove that you can bring dollars into this beautiful city's bank account
and kaboom! Mayor Daley gives you the keys to the city. Especially if you're
bringing money to the city's Park System. Such is the case with Lollapalooza.
This year's event was so large, so great, and so incredibly successful
that the historic concert event has just inked a deal with the city to
keep its hold on Chicago's Grant Park through 2011.[see full story for
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| Vomitory
Recording |
Metal Blade reports: Vomitory will enter Leon
Music Studios outside Karlstad/Sweden on December 3rd to start recording
the new album. "This time we'll work with producer Rikard Löfgren,
who is the founder/owner of Leon Music. Rikard Löfgren is still a
pretty unfamiliar name within the death metal scene. He mostly works with
more commercial music but he is a great producer and has his roots in metal.
We know the guy since ages and we have great confidence in him. It's going
to feel strange to do a new Vomitory album not working with our side-kick
Henrik Larsson, but we feel it's time to try something new. Since Vomitory
isn't exactly an experimental band, we feel that working in a new studio
with a new producer is a good way of renewing the band. We have two weeks
for the recording and one week of mix and mastering." The album is planned
to be released by the end of April next year through Metal Blade Records.-
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| As
I Lay Dying Update |
Metal Blade reports: "In case you are wondering
why you haven't heard from us in the last month, we have been hard at work
writing songs for our next full-length album. So far the writing process
has been very enjoyable. We have four songs done and a couple other songs
that are still very rough. Starting on Halloween, we will take a break
from song writing to tour Europe. We're looking forward to it!" � Tim Lambesis
Tour w/ Bullet for My Emobland and Protest
the Hero
10/31 Paris, France Elysee Monmartre
11/02 Koln, Germany Palladium[see full
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| Stranger
Than Spoon |
Filter reports: The soundtrack for new movie
Stranger Than Fiction will be released on November 7th and features four
Spoon songs, including a brand new track written for the film, "The Book
I Write." The collection also features score pieces - co-composed by Britt
Daniel & Brian Reitzell - and songs from Maximo Park, M83 and The Jam.
The film itself stars Will Ferrell, Emma Thompson, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Dustin
Hoffman, & Queen Latifah and opens nationwide Friday, November 10.
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| Family
Values Tracks |
PR reports: Five years had passed, and we
decided it was time for the world to embrace Family Values again! This
past summer over 400,000 rabid rock fans crammed into some of the loudest
amphitheatres in the United States for the year's premier rock festival,
The Family Values Tour 2006. Once again, values concurred with the concert
industry. Fans were able to see the premier rock acts of our time for an
unheard of $10 lawn ticket. Headliners Korn, Deftones, Stone Sour, Flyleaf,
Dir en grey, 10 years, Deadsy and more joined each other on the same stage
for the first time. Now you can join our family. We will take you on-stage,
back-stage, behind the scenes and in the dressing room with never seen
before concert footage, interviews and out-takes all in digital 5.1 surround
sound. Bring our values into your home and right into your living room!
CD
1. Korn - Right Now
2. Korn - Coming Undone
3. Flyleaf - I'm So Sick
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| Plain
White Woodie |
PR reports: Last night at The Woodies, Plain
White T's won the "Breaking Woodie" Award. The "Breaking Woodie" is mtvU's
Best Emerging Artist Award. The band was up against The Arctic Monkeys,
Chamillionaire, Imogen Heap, and Lupe Fiasco.
The 2006 "mtvU Woodie Awards" will debut
on November 2nd at 8pm est. The show will premiere simultaneously on mtvU,
mtvU.com and mtvU Mobile, as well as Microsoft Windows XP Media Center
Edition PCs and Media Center Extenders including the Xbox 360. Timed to
the simulcast, the entire show will also premiere on demand at mtvU.com
- giving viewers the power to experience every moment in whatever order
they wish, "remix" it, save it to their setlist and e-mail it to their
friends. In addition, for the first time, a special half-hour version of
the "Woodies" will also air on MTV and MTV2, with the MTV premiere set
for November 4th at 10pm ET, and an encore performance on MTV2 scheduled
for November 5th at 11pm ET. - Click
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| Fans
Pick Otep Stops |
PR reports: Putting the power back into the
hands of devout fans, Eventful.com announces the first-ever user-generated
tour - letting the fans determine where OTEP (Capitol Records) will perform
by using the Eventful Demand feature! Launching today, fans from 18 cities
will compete against each other for the opportunity to have OTEP perform
in their hometown and the most rockin' bragging rights around.
Created and developed by Eventful.com,
hopeful tour cities can compete, click by click, with the unique Eventful
Demand feature available only at Eventful.com. Fans can cast their vote
by visiting Eventful.com, or adding the OTEP demand sticker to their MySpace
page, blog or website. Fans flock to Eventful.com to create a virtual sticker
for their favorite performers which includes the "Demand it!" button by
just copying and pasting the code into any modifiable website including
their MySpace pages allowing true fans to spread the word about their favorite
artists virally. So will it be Cleveland or Akron? St. Louis or Kansas
City? Only the fans know for sure! Between October 24 and October 30, 2006
the revolutionary concept involves fans from across the country duking
it out to see where OTEP - a heavy metal/rock band- will play. 18 cities
will compete, but only 6 cities will win a chance to see their favorite
artist give a live performance! This unprecedented idea opens the door
to packed shows of loyal fans who can honestly scream over blaring guitar
riffs, "I demanded Otep - and they came!"
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| D'Molls
Reunion |
PR reports: On behalf of Billy Dior (aka Billy
McCarthy), Desi Rexx, Lizzy Valentine, and SS Priest please join "D'Molls"
on Monday, January 22, 2007 as they open for glam-rock sensation, "Metal
Skool" at the Key Club in West Hollywood, 11pm sharp. This is the first
performance from D'Molls in over 16 years, and rumor has it, they still
like each other after a few rehearsals and promises not to be the last.
Also news is expected shortly for Billy
McCarthy's next book, "Beat Me 'til I'm Famous." Stay tuned....-
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| Clapton
& Cale |
PR reports: After years of admiring each others
musical masterworks and Clapton covers of Cale songs such as "After Midnight"
and "Cocaine," guitar greats J.J. Cale and Eric Clapton have teamed up
for the first time to create an original album together, The Road To Escondido.
The 14 track CD was produced and recorded by the duo in August 2005 in
California. The resulting music defies being labeled into any one category,
but instead finds influence across the spectrum of blues, rock, country
and folk. A hybrid sound that is unique musically, while still bearing
the signature styles of Cale and Clapton recognized by fans around the
world. The songs are warm and rich, with deep flowing rhythms, yet use
an economy of words to express much.
In a true collaboration, Cale and Clapton
jointly produced and recorded the album, each playing and singing on the
tracks. Cale wrote 11 of the songs, Clapton wrote "Three Little Girls,"
John Mayer wrote "Hard To Thrill" and the duo cover the blues classic "Sporting
Life Blues." J.J. Cale's touring band accompanies them on the album as
well as guest musicians including, Taj Mahal, John Mayer, Derek Trucks,
Doyle Bramhall II, Albert Lee, Nathan East, Willie Weeks and Steve Jordan.
Particularly special is the involvement of Billy Preston, who donated his
classic keyboard talents throughout the album. The album is dedicated to
Preston and Clapton's late friend Brian Roylance. The Road to Escondido
will be available November 7, 2006 . check out a listening party at the
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| Death
Songs For The Living |
PR reports: Gob Iron, a new collaboration
between Jay Farrar and Anders Parker, have launched with the release of
their first CD, Death Songs For The Living, in stores October 31st. "Some
classic recordings are premeditated, but in certain rare instances, when
an artist has something else entirely in mind, art barges through the studio
door and takes over, bending the artist to its will." That's the word on
the forthcoming album 'Death Songs For The Living' -- the debut from Gob
Iron, featuring Son Volt's Jay Farrar and Varnaline's Anders Parker out
October 31 on Transmit Sound/Legacy Recordings. This spontaneously created
but strikingly coherent album stands as a real-time landmark from these
two musical and spiritual kinsmen. Employing what Pete Seeger once dubbed
"the folk process," Farrar and Parker have re-imagined songs by the likes
of Stephen Foster, the Stanley Brothers, the Rev. JM Gates and others,
interpolating elements of other traditional pieces as well as writing new,
sometimes highly personal lyrics, so that the results sound both ancient
and immediate, bringing a new layer of authenticity to the material. It
was as if the very atmosphere of America was filling the lungs of the two
artists as they sang. [see full story link for a preview]-
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| Mastodon
TV |
PR reports: Mastodon have added the new video
for their single "Colony Of Birchmen" to Youtube. The track comes from
Mastodon's new album, Blood Mountain, in stores now. You can check out
the video at the full story link
Mastodon recently launched their official
Youtube channel, www.youtube.com/mastodonmusic, featuring music videos,
live performances and behind-the-scenes videos from the making of Blood
Mountain. Mastodon will be supporting Tool on their European tour beginning
November 3rd.
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| Trouble
Art/Tracks |
Escapi reports: New artwork for Trouble's
forthcoming album, Simple Mind Condition has been made available (see the
full story link). Simple Mind Condition, which is scheduled to be released
by Escapi Music on February 20th, 2007, will be the first studio album
Trouble has released since 1995's Plastic Green Head. While recently commenting
on the cover, guitar player and founding member Rick Wartell added, "It's
f**king eerie, true to life and death. There are many subtle clues regarding
the content of the CD."
SIMPLE MIND CONDITION TRACKLIST: 1. Goin'
Home * 2. Mindbender * 3. Seven * 4. Pictures Of Life * 5. After The Rain
* 6. Trouble Maker * 7. Arthur Brown's Whiskey Bar * 8. Simple Mind Condition
* 9. Ride In The Sky * 10. If I Only had A Reason * 11. The Beginning Of
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| 3
Faces of Danzig |
HER reports: Halloween is next week which
means the Holidays are just around the corner. If you're doing a Holiday
Gift Guide, please consider including the "3 Faces of Danzig," an ultra-cool,
limited edition, toy figure series that is the perfect Holiday gift for
the music fan who really does have everything.
Three fully-articulated figures make up
the collection that highlight different eras of Glenn Danzig's career -
"Misfits-version" Danzig which wears his classic skull-and-crossbones black
T-shirt from the Misfits' "Walk Among Us" album cover; "Samhain-version"
Danzig, covered in dripping blood ala the "Initium" LP cover, and "Danzig-version"
Danzig, which is shirtless and comes complete with the trademark Danzig
belt buckle and upside-down-cross medallion necklace as on the "Lucifuge"
album. The figures are made of soft vinyl, stand 10-inches tall and retail
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| Hammer
of the Honky-Tonk Gods |
PR reports: From his twanging tribute to the
Fender Telecaster guitar that he plays (and which he notes "was born at
the junction of form and function") to the soulful closing of Arthur Alexander's
"If It's Really Got To Be This Way," Bill Kirchen covers a wide swatch
of musical terrain on his forthcoming album, Hammer of the Honky-Tonk Gods,
slated for January 30 release in the U.S.
The album is his first for Proper American
Recordings, which also gave the world recent recordings by Dan Penn &
Spooner Oldham, the Hacienda Brothers, Bobby Purify and Andy Fairweather
Low. On the new album, Kirchen reunites with friends who have accompanied
him on recent albums. Nick Lowe, who refers to Kirchen as "a devastating
culmination of elegant and funky," signs on as bassist and backing vocalist.
Robert Trehern plays drums; Geraint Watkins and Austin DeLone man the keyboards.
Paul Riley and Kirchen co-produced. For this album, Kirchen decided to
put an accent on his songwriting, a talent that is sometimes overshadowed
by his dazzling instrumental virtuosity.- Click
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| Under
the Influence of Brothermandude |
PR reports: Just announced, BMD will be returning
across the pond, states side to join the Under the Influence of Giants
tour starting November 11th!
Early confirmed dates are:
11/11/06 Denver, CO The Marquis Theatre
11/13/06 Minneapolis, MN The Loft @ The
Barfly
11/15/06 Milwaukee, WI The Miramar Theatre
11/16/06 Chicago, IL The Abbey
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