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Between Raising Hell And Amazing Grace

PR reports: Warner Bros. Records multi-platinum duo Big & Rich is set to put forth their third studio release, Between Raising Hell And Amazing Grace, June 5th. Their debut book, Big & Rich: All Access, will hit shelves the same day. The much-anticipated album is also highlighted by guest performances from John Legend, who lends vocals to the track "Eternity," as well as Wyclef Jean, who wrote and recorded a rap for "Please Man." Lil Jon also adds his own personal touch to the "Country Club" re-mix of "Loud," available as a bonus track at iTunes when you pre-order the deluxe version of Between Raising Hell and Amazing Grace.'

This weekend, Big & Rich's image will appear on no less than 500 million Pepsi cans, the design of which Big & Rich will unveil at the downtown Nashville Hard Rock Café next Thursday during CMA Music Fest. The duo will make several appearances at the upcoming festival to promote the CD and book release, including an autograph session at the Borders booth in the Nashville Convention Center and a signing and performance at the West End FYE store from 2:00-4:00pm Thursday, June 7th. On July 3rd, Big & Rich will also appear at an Evans City, PA Wal-Mart and a Florence, KY Meijer
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Race Track Rock

PR reports: On June 19th, Versailles Records will release 'RACE TRACK ROCK Vol. I/II/III', a millennium rock/metal band show-case featuring Cage, One Bad Son, Vainglory, American Heartbreak (featuring former members of Exodus and Jetboy), Richard Kendrick, Grayson/Manor, Bleed Your Faith (featuring Jason Witte of the new Tracy G project Goated), Freebleeder, Speed Freaks, Shattersphere, Joetown, Discolored Perception, Killer Six Gun, Heat Seeker, Skull Shifter, Scream Arena, Redline, Jason Frost, Laz, Battlebratt, Tattoo Frank of Premonition, Glyder, Crush 40, War Machine, A Breed Apart, WholeNotherIssue, Magistral, NemoJoe, Pownd, Strikeforce, Memorial, Teenage Rampage, SIC, Avian, the RadioVipers, American Dog (featuring former members of Salty Dog and Dangerous Toys), Unatural, Chapter 24, Misfits of NYC, Harpo Skank, Deflagration, J.D. Bradshaw, RHC, Soul Bleed, Veritas, Jeff John Touch, Factory Worker, M.I.C., and the Kings of Reality. The compilation also includes tracks featuring name players like Jake E. Lee (Ozzy Osbourne, Badlands), Jimmy Crespo (Aerosmith, Rough Cutt), Neil Turbin (Anthrax), and Jeff Scott Soto (Journey, Blue Murder) among others.- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Classic Napalm Death Live Album To Get US Release

PR reports: Long sought after as a collectors' import item, Napalm Death's 28-track live album, Punishment In Capitals, is finally being released for the first time in the United States by Armoury Records, (distributed stateside by Eagle Rock Entertainment) on June 12

Epitomizing the essence of what came to be known as "grindcore," Napalm Death was born in Birmingham, England in 1981. Running out of original members by the time its second album came out, the band at first consisted of a revolving door of thrash and hardcore luminaries, many who have gone on to form other such bands as Carcass, Godflesh, Cathedral and others. The current lineup, though, has been solvent since '91, sans Pintado, who passed away in 1996.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Unholy CD and Tour

PR reports: Blood of the Medusa, the full-length debut from Syracuse NY's Unholy, hits the streets today! Featuring members of seminal bands The Path of Resistance, Godbelow, Santa Sangre and Another Victim, Unholy plays hardcore influenced metal with no regard for the latest trends and fashions. There is no singing, no blastbeats, and no nonsensical lyrics. This is modern metal with plenty of acerbic vocals, meaty guitar riffs, double-bass and memorable guitar solos; the soundtrack to your summer apocalypse. 

Dates are underway on the Lambgoat First Post (No Care Ever) Tour. Featuring Year Of Desolation (Prosthetic Records), The Destro (Ironclad Recordings), Iscariot (567 Records), Apiary (Ironclad Recordings), and Unholy (Lambgoat Records). The trek is winding its way across the U.S. and back ending in New England in early-July. Please support Lambgoat and these bands by going to a show (take your grandmother and butcher as well).
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Erasure Set To Tour

PR reports: ERASURE released their album LIGHT AT THE END OF THE WORLD (Mute) on May 22 to high critical acclaim. Returning to the electronic roots that propelled them to sales of more than 20 million records through the past two decades, the iconic British duo of Andy Bell and Vince Clarke have marked their continuing relevance by ranking #2 on Billboard's Electronic Album chart and #1 on the Billboard Dance Music Singles chart with "I Could Fall In Love With You."

Meanwhile, Erasure have tapped New York City rocker Young Love (aka Dan Keyes) for the support slot of their "Light At The End Of The World" tour, which kicks off July 6 in Tampa, FL immediately following their co-headlining appearances on the True Color tour in June. Keyes will join the tour beginning with the July 21 Anaheim date.[see full story for more including dates]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Drake Bell Tour

PR reports: Drake Bell is headlining the summer's hottest tour, Nextfest beginning July 11!! Check out Drake on tour supporting his most recent release, It's Only Time, in stores now. 

Bringing a blast of youthful energy to this summer's tour schedule, Live Nation today announced dates for Nextfest, the hottest teen tour in recent memory. Headlined by superstars Aly & AJ, Corbin Bleu and Drake Bell, and joined by newcomer Bianca Ryan, Nextfest kicks off on July 11th at Phoenix, Arizona's Dodge Theatre and runs through September 1st, hitting 29 cities in all. Tickets for the Live Nation produced tour go on sale nationwide beginning on Saturday, June 2nd and are available at www.livenation.com. A full list of dates is below.

Sat Jul 07 Muskegon, MI Heritage Park
Wed Jul 11 Phoenix, AZ Dodge Theatre
Thu Jul 12 Los Angeles, CA Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
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Get The Gore on June 26th

PR reports: Born by the pale blue glow of "Hullabaloo," lullabied by the River Rouge Stamping Plant and honed to a shiv point by midnight B-movies, Detroit's Gore Gore Girls'come-hither sneer draws a sonic line (in thick, black eyeliner, babies) from the Girl Group ground zero of the Brill Building to the legendary punk Mecca of the Grande Ballroom. Get the Gore's innocent and insolent sound finds both the gum-snapping punk in the Ronettes and the sweet and dirty romance in the Stooges. It is brash, cute and killer. Be forewarned, though, anyone who writes the Gore Gore Girls off as only big hair, go-go boots and reform school allure misses the meat of the matter; slowwitted oglers are liable to get rudely muscled aside when the Girls hit the stage with their fully loaded Gretsch guitars, sweet harmonies and three-on-the-tree energy. Get The Gore is in fine record stores everywhere June 26th, and the band announces Detroit and Chicago record release parties, with US tour dates to follow.[see full story for more including details about the release parties]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Unkle's War Stories

PR reports: UNKLE return with their third album, WAR STORIES, a collection of desert songs due out in North America July 24 on James Lavelle's new Surrender All label, marketed and sold by Red Ink, a division of RED Distribution. Co-produced by UNKLE and Queens Of The Stone Age producer Chris Goss, War Stories marries UNKLE's trademark sound with traditional rock influences to stunning effect.

Like its critically acclaimed predecessors Psyence Fiction and Never, Never, Land, there are a host of guest vocalists that appear on this album including Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age), The Duke Spirit, 3D (Massive Attack), Autolux, Gavin Clark (Clayhill) and long time cohort Richard File. James Lavelle makes his vocal debut on this album, singing on "Hold My Hand" as well as dueting with Richard File on "Morning Rage." Rock icon Ian Astbury of The Cult lends his world-weary drawl to "Burn My Shadow," the first single to be taken from War Stories. Built on the pulsating, insistent beats for which UNKLE are known, it ebbs and flows between foreboding and abrasiveness.
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Mojave3 RIP, Drummer Gets Loose

PR reports: As it turns out, The Loose Salute is not an amazing Mojave3 side-project, but just an amazing project in itself. According to a statement by The Loose Salute founder and Mojave3 drummer Ian McCutcheon, "There are no plans what-so-ever to record another Mojave3 record." McCutcheon went on to assert that his main concern and only musical concern presently is The Loose Salute.

The Loose Salute is essentially a pop group, with both folk and country overtones that draws songwriting influences from the likes of The Byrds, The Beach Boys, The Mamas and The Papas, The Eagles and Leonard Cohen. 

Chicago's Graveface Records � home to releases by Black Moth Super Rainbow, The Octopus Project and The Appleseed Cast � will release The Loose Salute's debut album on June 12th, 2007. Tuned To Love was recorded with engineer Gareth Parton (The Beta Band, The Go Team, The Pipettes, Mojave3) and McCutcheon's school-yard buddy, producer Pritpal Soor. - Click Here for the Full Story 

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G-Unit Mixup

PR reports: In recent history the "Mixtape" has proved to be the number one way in producing "buzz" and street credibility for hip hop artists signed and unsigned alike. There is no question that it has done just that for, infamous G-Units own, Nyce Da Future. With two mixtapes already circulating, and an intense positive feedback from listeners, it's no surprise that this soon to be hip-hop superstar is releasing a third. 

The new Mixtape, due to be released for distribution on July 3rd, is titled "United We Stand/Divided We Fall" NBK (Natural Born Killers) volume3, and features artists such as Hot Rod, Mazaradi Fox, Mobb Deep, Affion Crockett (Wildin' Out), Shortdawg, and Natural Born Killers (NBK). Production on the Mixtape was done by Trackbangas, Shake Em Down, M.Rell, Trademark, NBB and many more.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Motor Tour America

PR reports: Motor Announce North American Tour 

6/14/07 Edmonton, Canada Starlite Room
6/15/07 Minneapolis, MN Loft Event Space
6/16/07 Detroit, MI Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit 
6/29/07 Brooklyn, NY Studio B (with Black Strobe)
6/30/07 Boston, MA Axis
7/1/07 Toronto, Canada The Guvernment

While electronic live acts have merged further into the anonymity of the DJ booth, MOTOR guzzle petrol, bellow toxic fumes and roar from the stage as all three band members wrestle with vocal duties and (alter) egos over their instruments. - Click Here for the Full Story 

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Saosin Post New Video

PR reports: Saosin have just released the video for their second single "You're Not Alone" off their self-titled album. Watch the video now!

The band is currently getting ready to tour with Linkin Park's Projekt Revolution this summer. Produced by Live Nation and partnered with Major League Baseball, "Halo 3" for Xbox 360, Monster Energy Drink, etnies, and Nowwhat.com, Projekt Revolution is a unique tour experience that merges a variety of music styles. Saosin will be joining Linkin Park, My Chemical Romance, Taking Back Sunday, HIM, Placebo and Julien-K on the Main Stage and Mindless Self Indulgence, The Bled, Styles of Beyond and Madina Lake on this highly anticipated tour. [see full story for the video]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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