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AFI Live CD

Punknews.org reports: AFI has announced plans to release a new live album. The record is titled I Heard a Voice: Live From Long Beach Arena and is due out November 13, 2007. Unsurprisingly, the disc consists of a set recorded Live at Long Beach Arena.

The 18-song set includes newer material like "Miss Murder" but also digs into the band's back catalogue with songs like "Total Immortal," "A Single Second" and "God Called in Sick Today."

Three songs from the album, plus their unreleased contribution to Guitar Hero III can be heard on their myspace page. Tracklisting is - here

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Little Steven A Go Go

PR reports: Little Steven Van Zandt has created a concert series for The Hawaiian Topic Zone in NYC's Times Square bringing artists from his record label Wicked Cool Records and other bands played on his syndicated show and SIRIUS channel live on stage.

Accompanied by his signature Garage Girls A Go-Go dancers directed by Maureen Van Zandt, the shows will bring a psychedelic dance party to the famed Time Square hot spot and the very first concerts at this venue.

Wed, November 14 - "British Brooklyn Mersey Beat Soul Explosion!" Featuring Locksley (Brooklyn), Jarvis Humby (from England), and Garage Girls A Go-Go - more shows and more info

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The Crowd Reissue

antiMusic reports: The CROWD's "Letter Bomb" is getting the Digipak reissue treatment from TKO records on January 22nd, 2008. Here is what they had to say about the CD: The year was 1978. The place was Huntington Beach, California. The band was The Crowd. And nothing would ever be the same again. The Crowd were in the vanguard of the Orange County beach punk explosion of the late 1970s.

They helped create and define a timeless sound which remains influential even today, over two decades later. One of the first and one of the best bands of their era, The Crowd are still going strong as the new millennium begins.

TKO is proud to release "Letter Bomb" (originally released by the now defunct Flipside Records in 1996). plus, The vinyl only EP, "Dig Yourself" (1995), has been added as bonus tracks to this CD. - more on this story

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Bowie in a Box

PR reports: As a special commemorative collection, the two-CD vinyl replica digipak international editions of David Bowie's five most recent studio albums � Outside, Earthling, 'hours�', Heathen, and Reality � have now been packaged together in a limited edition slipcase. The David Bowie Box Set will arrive in stores December 4th on ISO/Columbia, a division of Sony Bmg Music Entertain�Ment.

In the early 1990s, while still signed to EMI in Great Britain, David Bowie signed with Virgin Records in the U.S., at the peak of the label's success in the pop field (Janet Jackson, the Rolling Stones, Lenny Kravitz, Smashing Pumpkins, et alia). The three studio albums he subsequently recorded for Virgin � OUTSIDE (1995), EARTHLING (1997), and 'hours�' (1999) � were among the most adventurous and controversial he ever produced.

Two years later, Bowie negotiated a deal with Columbia Records for his own label, ISO, and went on to record his most recent studio albums under the new venture, HEATHEN (2002) and REALITY (2003). The deal also brought rights for OUTSIDE, EARTHLING, and 'hours�', and in 2004, they were issued by Sony International as two-CD sets, each containing a bonus disc of more than a dozen mixes, remixes, edits, special versions, alternate takes, outtakes, rarities and so on. - more details

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Rilo Kiley and Lupe Fiasco Woodies

PR reports: Adding to an already stellar assemblage of emerging and established acts dominating the college music scene, today mtvU, MTV's 24-hour college network, announced that two more acclaimed performers have joined the 2007 "mtvU Woodie Awards" bill: Rilo Kiley and Lupe Fiasco.

Perennial college favorites Rilo Kiley are riding high off their recent breakout release "Under the Blacklight," and Lupe Fiasco is mounting an attack on the college charts with his brand new, red hot single, "Superstar." These acts will take the stage tonight at New York's Roseland Ballroom along with Tokyo Police Club, The Academy Is� and Spank Rock to deliver knockout live performances to a crowd packed full of college students and their favorite emerging artists.

Now in their fourth year, the "mtvU Woodie Awards" are the only awards honoring the music college students live their lives to � and a launching pad where the stars of tomorrow are anointed by the prophets of new music. Presenters and attendees on hand for the seminal college music event will include Annie Lennox, Q-Tip, Gym Class Heroes, Peter and Bjorn, Talib Kweli, Tom Delonge and Dave Kennedy of Angels & Airwaves, Guster, EL-P, Say Anything, Boys Like Girls, Motion City Soundtrack, Cage, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Kidz in the Hall and other surprise guests. - mtvu

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Stevie Ray Vaughan DVD

PR reports: Stevie Ray Vaughan Pride in Joy video is finally coming to DVD. Here is the PR: In 2007, on the 25th anniversary of the debut of Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble at the Montreux Jazz Festival in July 1982 - four short months before they began recording their first album for Epic Records - the sky is still crying over the loss of one of the world's most renowned young guitarists, just eight summers later, in August 1990.

Seeing was believing - and this was one band who was fortunate to come of age at the dawn of the MTV era, when film and video production became almost as important as studio recording. During the course of the '80s, promotional video clips, live performance films, and so-called EPKs (electronic press kits) became a cornerstone of every artist's discography. In 1990, after five RIAA platinum and multi-platinum albums, SRV&DT's whirlwind success was celebrated with Pride And Joy, a VHS collection that gathered six promo video clips and two live numbers, spanning 1983 to 1989.

Nearly two decades later, that collection has been updated, upgraded (to new Stereo and 5.1 surround-sound mixes), and expanded to more than twice its original length. - more on this story

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Tupac Center Rededication

PR reports: In affirmation of the Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation's mission to promote hope and healing through the arts, the Peace Garden at the Tupac Amaru Shakur Center for the Performing Arts will be rededicated [This Saturday, Nov 10th]. Recent acts of vandalism have tarnished the Performing Arts Center's fa�ade, though the soul of the organization continues to shine as vibrant as ever.

The ceremony will begin with a drumline procession into the Peace Garden, moving directly into a performance from PAC's Kids, students of the Performing Arts Center's outreach program. Afeni Shakur will then lead guests and attendees through a prayer for peace and hope followed by the commemorative ribbon cutting. The affair culminates with the ceremonial release of butterflies to symbolize the growth and beauty of transformation. - more details

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Huey Video Trilogy

PR reports: Huey is releasing a web centric trilogy of music videos aimed at his fans who look primarily to the web for music and entertainment. The videos, which are available for viewing on all the major video sharing websites, reveal a different side of Huey that fans of his number one summer hit "Pop, Lock, & Drop It" may not know of.

Huey has been working with the mayor of his hometown, Kinloch, right outside St. Louis, to rebuild the community. Says Huey, "My neighborhood used to have a sense of community but now it's dead due to drugs and things getting too hot there so I'm investing my money to rebuild youth centers, libraries, schools, and stores." The destitution that plagues St. Louis is portrayed in one of the three new videos titled, "Nobody Loves the Hood."

The three videos are meant to be seen in a certain order as they reveal what a day in the life of Huey is like. First is the non-album track, "Adidas" which shows Huey visiting the "I Am St. Louis" store to pick up some fresh new Adidas gear. The next video is "Aye," which shows everyone in STL having a good time and celebrating life on a hot summer day. Next is the third and final video for another non-album track, "Nobody Loves the Hood." Explains Huey, "The videos show what a typical day is like where I call my boys up, we get some new Adidas clothes and then we're feelin' good so we party and holler "Aye," but then a gunshot rings out and the emotions kick in and we're reminded that we still got a lot of problems in the hood." The videos can be seen on - Huey's YouTube channel

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Stillborn Fest

PR reports: Stillborn Records is proud to announce the lineup and tour dates for their annual Stillborn Fest 2007. The 10-day tour will kick off on December 20 at Jaxx in Springfield, VA. This year's lineup includes headliner HATEBREED with support from Agnostic Front, God Forbid, Necro, At All Cost and Stillborn's newest signing, Thy Will Be Done.

These bands will play the main stage on all tour dates. Additional bands will play the main stage on select dates and will be announced shortly. Some Stillborn Fest shows will also feature a second stage. - more on this story

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Broken Bottles in Jan

antiMusic reports: TKO has set a January 22nd release date for a Digipak of Broken Bottles' "Hospital" as the band announce some international tour dates. Here is what the label has the say about the band:

Broken Bottles are sticking to the sound they're known for- a time warp straight back to the Posh Boy-era of Southern California Punk Rock. You'll be checking your calendar to make sure you're not back in 1982, recalling the more intense, moody days of punk rock where bands like TSOL, EARLY Social Distortion and Shattered Faith once reigned, when eyeliner was just as much part of the uniform as your combat boots. - more including tour dates

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Black Tide Xbox Contest

Total Assault reports: Ozzfest alums Black Tide will release their major label debut, Light From Above, on Interscope Records in February 2008. Before you can hear the record, you can catch the metal sound of Black Tide as the band heads out on tour with Avenged Sevenfold.

To celebrate the tour, Black Tide is giving you the opportunity to win an XBOX 360 Elite, Guitar Hero III, and a $100 Hot Topic Gift Card Five (5) runners-up will receive the Guitar Hero III soundtrack which includes the Guitar Hero III expansion pack. - Enter here

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.... Landmark Albums: Green Day - Dookie

We continue our look at Landmark Albums. Today Mike Rapin looks at Green Day's Dookie he calls "that breath of fresh air that you get after staying under water too long, that slap in the face you need to give to a person freaking out during an earthquake." - Read the full Landmark Albums: Green Day - Dookie review

.... Review: Barry Manilow - Greatest Songs of the Seventies

In September Manilow released the third album in his decade series with "The Greatest Songs of the Seventies". The album contains 12 cover tunes of number one hits spanning the decade from The Beatles to Christopher Cross. - Read the full Barry Manilow - Greatest Songs of the Seventies review

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