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 Maiden
Plan St Paddy's Gig in India |
Blabbermouth reports: Following their phenomenally
successful new album and sold-out tour late last year of arenas around
the world, IRON MAIDEN are announcing a series of headline stadium and
festival appearances in March and June of this year.
Always keen to take metal to new places,
MAIDEN will for the first time ever play in India, on the spectacular grounds
of Bangalore's Palace on Saturday, March 17, marking the first time a major
metal band has ever played in the subcontinent.[see full story for more]-
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| Tool
Expand Tour |
SMN reports: TOOL have announced a few more
upcoming North American tour dates:
March 15 - Las Vegas, NV @ The Pearl
March 16 - Las Vegas, NV @ The Pearl
March 18 - Reno, NV @ Reno Events Center
March 20 - San Diego, CA @ Cox Arena
March 21 - Tucson, AZ @ TCC Arena
March 23 - Albuquerque, NM @ Tingley Coliseum
March 24 - El Paso, TX @ Don Haskins Center
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| Dark
Side of the Moon Tour |
SMN reports: Roger Waters will follow up his
fall North American tour performing "Dark Side of the Moon" in its entirety
with a spring run, kicking off May 18 in West Palm Beach, Fla. The PINK
FLOYD principal will be backed by a six-piece band, which includes his
son Harry on Hammond organ, and three vocalists.
Waters first tested the "Dark Side" concept
with a European tour last summer, then visited North America in the fall.
Sans Waters, PINK FLOYD performed "Dark Side of the Moon" in full for the
first time during its 1994 tour in support of "The Division Bell." With
Waters back in the fold, the band performed the "Dark Side" tracks "Breathe"
and "Money" as part of its four-song set at Live 8 in 2005.
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| Shotgun
To The Crinn Tour |
Lambgoat reports: Saint Paul, Minnesota metal
acts The Crinn and Said The Shotgun To The Head will be heading out together
for a few weeks this winter. Here are the dates:
2/16 Newton, IL @ Newton KC Hall
2/17 Burnside, KY @ The Skatepark
2/18 Johnson City, TN @ The Hideaway
2/19 Jacksonville, FL @ The Pit
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| Good
Enough For Grammys but Not For Karaoke Idol |
TMZ reports: Robyn Troup was good enough to
sing with Justin Timberlake on the Grammys on Sunday, but she was canned
from the Hollywood hopefuls on last night's "American Idol."
With her "Idol" rejection taped long before
she won the "My Grammy Moment" contest, Troup had a Jennifer Hudson moment
by landing a major break after getting the "Idol" ax. Now, it's either
a record deal for the 18-year-old Houston native -- or a trip to "The Surreal
Life." Good luck!- Click
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| From
Tonic to Low Stars |
PR reports: The Low Stars are 4 LA singer
songwriters that share a love for vocal harmonies originally inspired by
Crosby, Stills & Nash and the Eagles. The Low Stars in a nut shell
are 4 very talented guys who refused to give up on a particular style of
music that they all love. They love that singer songwriter genre with particular
interest in great vocals. All 4 guys are already very accomplished musicians
who came together to carry out this style of music as one group. The Low
Stars have an album coming out exclusively through Starbucks Today [February
15th] and Itunes.
The Low Stars features:
Jeff Russo from Tonic
Jude (Music feature on the City of Angels
soundtrack, TV"s Lost)
Chris Seefried (from Joe 90 and Gods Child)
Dave Gibbs from the Gigolo Aunts
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| New
Super Freaky Hit for Rick James |
PR reports: The fans of the late legendary
R&B/funk star Rick James have spoken! "Deeper Still," the first single
from an upcoming album of all new material that James was working on in
the years before his untimely death, went to #1 most added at Urban Adult
radio in its first week!
The grooving single will be included in
an as yet untitled album of all new James material, set for release this
spring. Both the single and the album will be released on the new independent
label Stone City Records.- Click
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| OK
Go Premiere |
Capitol reports: On the heels of their outlandishly
successful "treadmill" video for the hit single "Here It Goes Again" which
snagged a Grammy award (Best Short Form Music Video) after logging upwards
of 15 million online viewings, OK Go is back with another high-energy,
visually captivating and innovative video that exhorts fans to "Do What
You Want." To kick it off, viewers can tune in for the MTV multi-channel
premiere rollout of "Do What You Want" today, [February 15th] on MTV's
"TRL," MTV.com, and all day premieres on MTV Hits and mtvU. [see full story
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| Hippies
Reliving Past Glory |
PR reports: The Summer Of Love 40th Anniversary
Concert will take place on Sunday, September 2, 2007, in San Francisco's
Golden Gate Park between 10AM and 6PM. The concert will be a free event
celebrating both the music inspired by the 1967 Summer Of Love and the
consciousness raising efforts of the time. The organization securing the
permit, the non-profit Council of Light, includes members of the original
Family Dog, original Grateful Dead management, FM Radio programmers, media
members and many of the era's poster artists.
Former Family Dog partner and longtime
Chet Helms associate Boots Hughston is serving as coordinator. Former Grateful
Dead manager Rock Scully, along with former president of CTI Records and
manager for Jesse Colin Young, David Bean, are organizing bands, licenses
and sponsors*. The promoters intend to utilize the best in concert
production for the musicians involved, from sound, to stage, to travel
and lodging. While noted musicians from the era will be featured, organizers
welcome bands from the past four decades inspired by the San Francisco
music scene of the 60's. It is anticipated that there will be worldwide
media coverage with live broadcast and streaming possibilities. [*because
we know the summer of love was all about corporate sponsorships!]
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| Jesse
Malin Release Show |
PR reports: Jesse Malin has announced a couple
of shows including a hometown, NYC record release gig, March 19th at Bowery
Ballroom with The Pierces! Jesse Malin's new disc Glitter In The Gutter
comes out March 20th on Adeline/East West. Jesse's gone back to his Rock
'N Roll roots on Glitter as the whole record was recorded (and his live
shows will be played) with his new band, The Gem Spa Strays.
Every Monday up until release, Harp Magazine
is debuting a new track from Glitter on their website www.harpmagazine.com
- Check it out! This week they're streaming the first single, "Don't Let
Them Take You Down (Beautiful Day)."- Click
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| Alabama
Thunderpussy Tour |
PR reports: ALABAMA THUNDERPUSSY has announced
its first U.S. tour in support of their forthcoming album, Open Fire.
ALABAMA THUNDERPUSSY will kick off the
three week tour on March 8 in Raleigh, NC. This tour will include the band's
fifth SXSW performance at the annual Relapse Records SXSW Showcase in Austin,
TX on March 15 at Room 710. A complete listing of ALABAMA THUNDERPUSSY
tour dates can be found below, with more to be announced soon.
March 8 Raleigh, NC Volume 11 Tavern
March 9 Fayetteville, NC The Rock Shop[see
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| Pearl
Returns |
Cap Happy PR reports: PEARL'S BACK AT THE
FOUNDATION ROOM AFTER MONTHS ON HIATUS, ONLY THIS TIME SHE'S FULLY ELECTRIC!!
COME ON OUT AND CATCH PEARL ROCKING AT THE HOUSE OF BLUES WITH THE MEMBERS
OF MOTHER SUPERIOR, AND SCOTT IAN OF ANTHRAX. A NON STOP SET OF SLAMMIN'
ROCK 'N' ROLL!! THERE'S STILL NO COVER, STILL NO MINIMUM, AND ONCE AGAIN
NO EXCUSE! JUST PULL UP TO THE PODIUM IN THE BACK AND SAY YOUR THERE TO
SEE PEARL. COME CATCH PEARL WARM UP THE FOUNDATION, AND THEN CATCH HER
WHEN SHE SETS THE KEYCLUB ON FIRE!!! DON'T MISS IT! SEE YOU THERE!!!! February,
22 2007 10PM at THE FOUNDATION ROOM at the House of Blues on the Sunset
Strip 8430 Sunset Boulevard, West Hollywood, California 90069 Cost : FREE!!-
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| Jimmy
McIntosh Solo Debut |
PR reports: A working professional over the
past 25 years with an impressive list of credentials as a sideman, Las
Vegas-based guitarist Jimmy McIntosh finally steps out as a solo artist
in his own right on Orleans To London, his long overdue debut as a leader
on March 20, 2007.
A hard-grooving, swaggering collection
of N'awlins flavored funk, slamming rock and searing blues tunes, this
formidable collection features such heavyweights as Art, Cyril and Ivan
Neville of the Neville Brothers along with Nevilles drummer "Mean" Willie
Green, Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood and guitar hero "Hot Rod" (His
initials: J.B.), who makes an uncredited mystery guest appearance on three
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| Fall
Out Hit |
PR reports: Climaxing an intense pre-release
campaign, INFINITY ON HIGH, the long-awaited new album by multi-platinum,
two-time MTV VMA award-winning Island Records group Fall Out Boy, debuts
at #1 on the Billboard 200 album chart this week (issue dated Feb. 24th)
on first week combined sales of 259,674 units. The release is also the
#1 Digital Album, with digital sales of 27,939 units.-
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| Killing
Joke Boxsets |
PR reports: Two fantastic three CD boxsets
of unreleased KILLING JOKE material available April 9th from plastichead
for £12.99 each. Out Monday! Theses CD Box Sets contains the original
KILLING JOKE bootleg vinyl albums which were released in the early to mid
Eighties. They come from a time when you could casually stroll down London's
Portobello Road or Camden Market at the weekend; full of anticipation of
what new bootleg albums might be available that week. Remember this was
a time long before the power of the internet so you had no idea what was
going to be available. Great new live albums would suddenly appear, only
to disappear just as quickly. During this time there were seven KILLING
JOKE bootleg albums released. The three albums here have been carefully
reproduced & digitally re-mastered on CD and are now fully endorsed
by the band for the first time ever, they now sound better then they ever
have sounded before. In addition, as part of this box set release a special
bonus disc is included. [see full story for more]- Click
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| Manes
Set Release |
PR reports: The cover for the forthcoming
MANES album 'How the world came to an end', set for release via Candlelight
Records on the 16th of April, has now been revealed at the full story link.
The artwork is done by Trine Paulsen and Kim Sølve of Trineogkim.no,
who may be better known for their earlier work for bands like Ulver, When,
Arcturus, Darkthrone, Solefald and many more.
The tracklisting for 'How the world came
to an end' will be like this:
1. Deeprooted
2. Come to pass
3. I watch you fall
4. A cancer in our midst (plague one)
5. Last lights
6. Nobody wants the truth
7. My journal of the plague years (f***mensch
warmensch)
8. The cure-all
9. Transmigrant
10. Son of night brother of sleep-
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Massive Attack Collected
is just that: a collection of all their fan favorites, hits, singles, and
a DVD to boot. All in all, a great treat for completists and fans, and
anyone who loves soft, subtle, smooth electronic music dubbed "cool" by
most everyone.- Read
the full Massive Attack � Collected review
This is an amazing record that
is intriguing despite its simplicity. Euphoria is essentially one guy,
Ken Ramm of Toronto, Canada. This is both a guitar record and an electronica
record- Read
the full Euphoria - Precious Time review
Dead Voices on Air has been
crafting this sound of droning electric storms for 14 years now, and over
"Madagascar's" 50+ minutes that experience becomes very apparent. -
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the full Dead Voices On Air - From Labrador to Madagascar review
I'm going to go out on a limb
and admit that exactly a year from now I might have declared Novembers
Doom's The Novella Resevoir as one of the best albums (metal or otherwise)
of 2007. - Read
the full Novembers Doom - The Novella Resevoir review
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