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Macca Settles With Mills

Contact Music reports: [For those that care about such things] Sir Paul Mccartney will pay out $140 million to his estranged wife Heather Mills in their divorce settlement, according to media reports. 

The couple are currently in discussions to settle their divorce without a trial following their May 2006 split after just under four years of marriage. 

British newspaper Daily Mail reports the former Beatle will pay Mills a lump sum of $30 million (GBP15 million), then an annual payment of $7 million (GBP3.5 million) until their three-year-old daughter Beatrice reaches 18.- more on this story

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DC4 Give Diehards First Dibs on new CD

BW&BK reports: DC4, the Los Angeles-based hard rock band featuring former DIO guitarist Rowan Robertson alongside brothers Jeff Duncan (ARMORED SAINT, ODIN) on lead vocals and guitar, Shawn Duncan (ODIN) on drums and Matt Duncan on bass, have finalized the track list for their forthcoming album, Explode.

The band is shooting for a late August or early September release date and are currently considering several interested labels. However, the band will actually offer fans the first 1,000 copies of the album for purchase at their Myspace page.- tracklisting and some show info is here plus a link to samples

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Iron and Wine Mini US Tour

antiMusic reports: Iron and Wine have set up some East Coast dates in September to coincide with the release of their new album, The Shepards Dog, which hits stores on September 27 from Subpop. 

The tour comes in the middle of their UK tour, they'll get over here on September 27th for a gig in Boston, head over to Upper Darby, PS the next night before heading down to rock the nations capitol before concluding the run in New York City on the 30th.- grab the dates here

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Talking Lars and Ringo

PR reports: The latest episode of "Talking Metal" features an interview hosts Mark Strigl and John Ostronomy conducted Jaymz Lennfield, Grg Hammetson, Kliff McBurtney, and Ringo Larz of Beatallica. Topics include their new album, "Sgt. Hetfield's Motorbreath Pub Band," The Beatles, Metallica, Lars Ulrich, Dream Theatre, and Mike Portnoy. Additional podcast topics include Guns N' Roses, Overloaded, Verismo, and Comic-Con. The 40-minute podcast can be downloaded- at this location

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Minus The Bear, Plus the Extras

PR reports: Minus the Bear will release their 3rd full length Planet of Ice on Suicide Squeeze Records, August 21, 2007. The band has amassed a loyal following over the course of 3 full lengths, 4 EP's and a remix disc. Coupled with an already impressive tour history, impending world tour that kicks off this September, and an absolutely banging new album, the sky is the limit for Minus the Bear! 

As a sign of our appreciation to the fans, we have decided to include a very special bonus disc with the first pressing of retail copies for Planet of Ice. The disc will feature four tracks, comprised of two outtakes, an alternate version of "Ice Monster" and a remix of "Knights" by Rhymesayers wunderkind POS. 

There will be a series of in-store performances and listening parties set for week of release. - grab the party dates and the tracklisting

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As I Lay Dying Preview

PR reports: The members of AS I LAY DYING are readying the release of their upcoming opus, AN OCEAN BETWEEN US. This highly-anticipated follow up to 2005's successful Shadows Are Security will hit stores on August 21, 2007. 

The band has jumped on to the second half of the Vans Warped Tour this summer to preview their new material live for the fans. 

An MP3 for the first track being debuted off AN OCEAN BETWEEN US, "Within Destruction," will be available for streaming- right here

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Unearthed Bootlegs Wanted?

PR reports: Massachusetts metallers UNEARTH have issued the following update: "We are in the planning stages of an UNEARTH DVD. If anyone has any footage of you or anyone hanging out with us backstage, side-stage, in town, etc. please send us an email. 

We are trying to make a comprehensive DVD, and since we have a good amount of live footage, we'd like to have some of the more intimate clips of you hanging with us. Please send pictures too! We've set up an email account: [email protected]. 

Please send YouTube-type clips if that is possible. We would like to check them out and if we use them, reward you in some way with merch, tickets, etc."- no more to see here

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Cellador Ticket Presale

PR reports: The extreme power metal band from Omaha, NE Cellador has just been confirmed to head out on the road this January with Trail of Tears, Echoes of Eternity, and Unexpect. 

The tour goes on sale through an exclusive internet presale starting 7/18 through www.ENTERTHEVAULT.com and will run exclusive until Aug 10, when the tour goes on sale via normal ticketing outlets.- more on this story

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Chuck Ragan Plans Roxy Release Party

PR reports: Singer/songwriter Chuck Ragan is set to release his studio solo album Feast or Famine August 7 and celebrate with a night of music at the Sunset Strip landmark, The Roxy Theatre. Earlier this year, fans received a glimpse into his solo work with a stripped-down live solo effort, Los Feliz. On Feast or Famine, Ragan delivers a fully-realized and compelling collection of 12 exceptional new songs. 

Chuck Ragan has become a musical troubadour, writing stripped-down acoustic songs that retain the same passion evident in his punk rock career. Feast or Famine at its core is a folk record in the most traditional sense of the term. Produced by Ted Hutt (Bouncing Souls, Flogging Molly), the album showcases Ragan's remarkable musical talents and features guest appearances by many close friends including Matt Skiba, Jolie Holland, Jon Gaunt, Caitlin Barry and Nathan Maxwell. - show details

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Testament Go Nuclear

PR reports: On Wednesday, July 20th, live on stage, in front of 20,000 roaring fans at the infamous Earthshaker Festival in Rieden, Germany, heavy metal heroes Testament inked a recording deal with Heavy Metal Record Company Giants Nuclear Blast for worldwide distribution of BRAND NEW Testament music featuring the killer lineup of original members Eric Peterson, Chuck Billy, Alex Skolnick, Greg Christian with the addition of monster drummer Nick Barker(Dimmu Borgir, Cradle of Filth). 

"We are very happy that we are signed to one of the best metal labels in the world. It's a great feeling that we are in a house that will not crumble" says band vocalist Chuck Billy. 

"This is going to be our best record to date, and it will be the essence of what Testament is. Nuclear Blast is the perfect label for us. They eat, breathe and sleep, metal. I am excited also because a lot of my favorite bands are on Nuclear Blast, giving us the opportunity to be label-mates with them. Finally we are coming home!" stated Eric Peterson- see them on the road this summer, grab the dates here

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Don Preston Returns to the Road

PR reports: Keyboard legend Don Preston was quite possibly the first person to add synthesis to live rock performances, taking Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention into uncharted musical territories over several tours and albums. Today, four decades after having built "analog synthesizers" from scratch before most people had heard of such things, Preston is a living legend and a pioneer who now tweaks synthesizers on his Apple laptop. 

This summer Don Preston will set off on tour of Europe with his Akashic Ensemble, including a stop at the legendary, annual ZAPPANALE festival in Bad Doberan Germany. Having appeared there in the past with his Grande Mothers ensemble of fellow Zappa-alumni, Preston will bring his jazz-electronica-experimental trio to the stage in August of 2007. He will also make appearances in other European cities, including Vienna.- more on this story

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Van Hunt Turns on EP

PR reports: On August 7th, Blue Note Records will release Grammy-award winning recording artist Van Hunt's The Popular Machine. The digital EP will give fans a preview of Hunt's forthcoming self-produced, full-length album, Popular, which Blue Note will release on January 15, 2008. The four-track EP will include "turn my TV on" and "the lowest 1 of my desires" from the upcoming album plus acoustic versions of hit single "Character" and "Night is Young;" the latter two are from Hunt's 2006 album, On The Jungle Floor, which debuted at #1 on Billboard's Heatseekers chart.- more on this story

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Atreyu Set The Bull Free

PR reports: After the success of Atreyugame.com, Atreyu has now posted "Becoming the Bull" on their Myspace. "Becoming The Bull" is the first single off the new album, Lead Sails Paper Anchor, which hits stores on August 28th. The band kicked off the Family Values tour in St. Louis July 20th. For more information on the Family Values tour and to check out "Becoming The Bull" go to- www.myspace.com/atreyurock

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Foreign Born Rapture

PR reports: When we gunslingers urged you to step away from the computer and take note on these guitar driven, psychedelic shoe gazed, west coast indie-pop-rockers Foreign Born, it's quite apparent that the majority did just that� 

For not 2 months since they've signed to Dim Mak Records and a month away from the release of their debut album "On The Wing Now" the future is certainly a sunny one for these Californian songsmiths. From the weight of their impeccably produced debut album, already receiving rave reviews from the critics and garnering praised attention from bands such as Grizzly Bear and Snow Patrol. They've now been invited to join The Rapture on the road and have secured a track on the hit television series Entourage - It's clear this band is a special one with an album not to be ignored.- tour dates

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From Warrant to Underground Saint

PR reports: SleazeRoxx.com recently hooked up with ex-WARRANT frontman Jani Lane to discuss his plans to do a new solo record and his SAINTS OF THE UNDERGROUND project. 
The following is a brief excerpt from the interview: Sleaze Roxx: When can your fans expect the release of 'Jabberwocky'?

Saints Of The Underground Courtesy of Jani Lane Jani Lane: Those songs, I don't know because I haven't really even sat down with my label, which is Immortal (Immortal/Sidewinder is the label ran by the band Incubus). I haven't sat down and talked with them about it either. So, it is really a matter of releasing SAINTS OF THE UNDERGROUND, doing a healthy 'Get people to know the band' tour. We're not going to go out and blast everywhere that has electricity but we will probably go out for four weeks in the U.S., two weeks in Europe, and a week in Japan to let people know it is out there. Then we plan on, as soon as everybody's schedules allow, doing another S.O.T.U. record cause I write with Keri Kelli like that! (Snaps fingers) We write really well together. It has really been a juggling act right now. 

I have some other, kinda big exciting things coming up in the next year that I am planning on right now but it's a little too early to really get into but I'm gonna be doing some studio stuff that, I think, is pretty exciting, so we will see.- Read the full interview here

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