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Kid Rock Mini Tour

PR reports: The October 9th release of Rock N Roll Jesus will be heralded by a massive promotional blitz - including a series of intimate concerts, packing the arena-sized Kid Rock extravaganza into small venues that will give die-hard fans a chance to see the larger-than-life rocker up close. 

Tour Dates
10/6 Cincinnati, OH @ Taft Theater
10/9 New York City, NY @ Irving Plaza
10/13 Toronto, CAN @ Kool Haus
10/16 Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium
10/18 Miami, FL @ The Fillmore
10/20 Atlanta, GA @ The Tabernacle - that's all folks

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The Walkmen Tour

Filter reports: New York five piece, The Walkmen are set to embark on a handful of upcoming shows. Beginning with a single show in September, the band will then conclude with a couple of dates in October and November. 

The band are still working on the follow up to 2006's A Hundred Miles Off and the band plan to debut a good chunk of new material while on the road.

The Walkmen Tour Dates:
September
14 Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg

October
11 Toronto, Ontario - Lee's Palace
12 Ann Arbor, MI - University of Michigan- more dates

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Rudder Tour

PR reports: Rudder a NYC-based instrumental band comprised of Keith Carlock (Steely Dan, Sting) on drums, Henry Hey (musical director Rod Stewart) on keyboards, Chris Cheek (Charlie Haden, Bill Frisell) on saxophone, and Tim Lefebvre (SNL band, musical director Caroline Rhea Show) on bass have announced their tour plans in support of their recently released album.

The band was founded on deep musical relationships and friendships lasting over a decade, this quartet brings an aggressive, driving rock and jam vibe to a purely instrumental setting. Fans of Medeski, Martin & Wood, Galactic, The Bad Plus, Wayne Kranz, Metalwood, Morphine, and Radiohead are embracing this entirely instrumental collection of nine original songs of experimental alt/jazz. The CD is being reviewed by Bass Player, Relix, Modern Drummer, Signal To Noise, An Honest Tune, and more.

Rudder is uniting amidst their incredibly busy schedules for a string of performances in the Northeast and Midwest U.S. - dates

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Local Bands Create Soccer Anthems

PR reports: Have you heard Major League Soccer got a music makeover with new anthems created by up-and-coming bands? Each of the 13 MLS teams were paired with 13 hometown bands to write and record original songs from rock to punk to Latin genres that symbolized each team and its home city...Already, the LA Galaxy team song by Kinky has tons of fans pumped for the season.

The anthem songs are part of a new adidas soccer initiative called "MLS Represent" created to attract new fans to MLS soccer and encourage fan participation, camaraderie and rivalry around the 2007 season.

Soccer fans can listen to or download the anthems for free on the "MLS Represent" site and also customize the songs by creating music videos that blend a team anthem with MLS game footage and photography, which can be sent to friends or rivals or posted on their "Represent" profile. All that is- here

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Global Drum Project

Shout Factory reports: On October 2nd, Shout! Factory will be releasing the upcoming Mickey Hart/Zakir Hussain CD, Global Drum Project, the follow-up to the Grammy -winning Planet Drum fifteen years ago. Planet Drum has the rare distinction as the first-ever Grammy for Best World Music Album, having spent an unprecedented 26 weeks at #1 on the Billboard chart, still selling as a perennial favorite to this day.

This new collaboration provides a more tranced-out experience, full of elegant electronic programming and hypnotic tuned percussion making the Global Drum Project a distinct release occasionally reminiscent of the pioneering Byrne/Eno release, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. 

Masterfully produced by Hart and Hussain, the Global Drum Project has pulled together some of the world's finest drum talent: In addition to former Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart and Indian tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain, who is an international phenomenon in his own right, GDP includes Nigerian drum legend Babatunde Olatunji, Nigerian talking drum master Sikiru Adepoju, and Puerto Rico's master conguero Giovanni Hidalgo. Additional talent includes Taufiq Qureshi (brother to Zakir Hussain) on percussion & vocals, Niladari Kumar on sitar, Dilshad Khan on sarangi, and sampled vocals by the late, great Olatunji. The ensemble will again tour the U.S. this fall in support of the release.- more info

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Of The First Born Sun Ink Deal

PR reports: Year of The Sun Records is proud to announce the signing of Kitchener based Of The First Born Sun to their roster. The group will release their debut album in October of 2007 and will shoot a video for the single "You Can't 2-Step in a Wheelchair" shortly.

"We are very excited to be a part of the Year of the Sun family," says Of The First Born Sun's Jamie Schoch. "We are big fans of the bands on the label already, like Whats He Building In There, Dear Black Diary and Farewell to Freeway and have shared the stage with them on many occasions, which made our decision to sign with them even easier. Everyone in the band can't wait to get this album out to the public and we are happy to release it on Year of the Sun. It should be an excellent experience for all of us."

Of The First Born Sun have been creating waves in the hardcore and metal scenes- more on this story

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Straylight Run Advise You Not To Think

PR reports: Straylight Run have released a video for the song "Soon We'll Be Living In The Future," off of their sophomore album, The Needles The Space. The band will be on tour soon in support of the release , dates coming soon

Asked about "Soon We'll Be Living in the Future," John Nolan says: "I'm really happy with how that song turned out because I was finally able to put a finger on a feeling I have about living and dying. It's a frustrating and terrifying experience living with the full knowledge that at any point in any day you could die, and what would your life have meant? Everything you're doing � what does it actually mean in the context of your life as a whole? It's something I probably think about too much. It's not a good idea to be too thoughtful about such things."

Says John of Straylight Run's evolving sound, which he concedes is difficult to pigeonhole: "I love pop music; I love hearing a well-written pop song. And I like a lot of music that's experimental and weird. I'm always looking for ways to take a pop song and rearrange it into something interesting and fresh and original." Michelle remarks: "We're very lucky because our fans seem to be open to whatever we do. That gives us the freedom to explore any idea we have."- Stop thinking and watch here

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Scott Ian Takes Angus Worship To A New Level

PR reports: This Tuesday, September 18, the High Voltage Tattoo Parlor will open its doors to Scott Ian, main axe-man for the legendary thrash metal band Anthrax! The heavy metal veteran will be appearing on the next episode of TLC's "L.A. Ink," which airs at 10PM EST, and will no doubt rock Kat Von D and her crew harder than ever before.

In the ultimate heavy metal tribute, Ian will be inked up with a tattoo of another hard rock hero, AC/DC's Angus Young. 

Ian commented on his appearance on the show, saying: "Kat Von D is the best and her shop is called High Voltage, so who and where better to get a tattoo of Angus Young?!?!"- more on this story

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Scorpions Humanity Hour One Concept

antiMusic reports: Morley keeps his great interview series MorleyView rocking with a new interview with Scorpions' Rudolf Schenker. Morley and Rudolf spoke recently about the new Scorpions album and how it came about as well as the concept. Here is a small part of their conversation. Rudolf: We came in October to Los Angeles with lots of songs, new songs and stuff but then Desmond Child, he presented us with his concept, called Humanity Hour One. And then he brought his designer with him, who designed the album sleeve and the whole concept convinced us. We said amazing. That's great. That's something which is more mature. And he said you know guys I do the overview, I do the vocals, and here's James Michael who will do the guitars, the bass and drums. It was a good idea because to really have two parts doing this album is very good. Every part is controlling the other part. In this case, you don't go too far, you're staying very close to what we are looking for. And we started doing this album, we started working with writers like Marti Frederickson, good friend of ours and Eric Bazilian, and Jason Paige. And then James Michael, he wrote also. 

And we put the whole thing together, and an album which really, it's a bridge between older Scorpions and new Scorpions. The Scorpions of today. Because we don't want to sell the same car, with the same model, every year. We want to go forward and make the styling more up to date, especially in the days where you work with ProTools and you record digital, there are more possibilities than you can work and have fun.

I know when we did with Eye II Eye we went a little too far because it was our first album to work with digital, and for hard disk recording. But this time we said we want to do it in the right way. So in this case we really put something together where we built a bridge between the older style of Scorpions and the new one and we also tried to really balance the more, darker side and the more hopeful side of the songs on the album. In the end this whole album was just sounding like Scorpions and also the level of the songwriting and everything is high class. My favourite song is "Humanity," and it's important to us that also when we do this song, that when you have a concept album, call it concept album but in the old tradition, it's a concept album in the way of building something around human. Humanity Hour One, means human beings 10 thousand years on earth, what is done, what is happening and where we go. What is the situation that we have to go? And in this case we put a lot of stories together to give people a message, to give people some great songs. 
- Read the full MorleyView

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Matt White Wants To Play Your Livingroom

antiMusic reports: Matt White's new album Best Days will be out Tuesday September 18th and his label is letting one lucky fan host a private concert in their home. Here is part of the PR blurb about it: Take one listen to the music of Matt White and you're hooked. His songs are relatable�you'll think of the one who got your heart, the pains and pleasures of growing up and the remarkable journey in discovering just who the heck you are. 

Drawing inspiration from Elton John, Jeff Buckley, and Coldplay, (he's like Maroon 5 in one person), Matt White's self-titled debut marks the arrival of a gifted songwriter who draws from his own experience. Matt delivers a song with a smooth voice that will immediately put the listener at ease. 

Music is in Matt's DNA�his grandmother was among the first jazz orchestra leaders in the 1930s. He grew up in New Jersey and started taking piano lessons when he was three-years-old. Sure, he was a member of the swim and lacrosse teams throughout high school, but it was making music that made him happiest. Being the romantic he is, he followed a girl to the University of Wisconsin where he taught himself to play guitar since he "couldn't fit a piano" in his room. Ok enough of all of that, want him to play a show at your house? Then go- here

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Greg Cipes CD

antiMusic reports: Greg Cipes's band Cipes and The People will release their album Conscious Revolution this Fall. You may know Cipes already. According to a PR blurb, An accomplished actor on hit TV shows House, Ghost Whisperer, Without a Trace and Deadwood, a voiceover artist on Disney Channel's W.I.T.C.H. and Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! along with Cartoon Network's Teen Titans and a professional junior surfer, the Florida-born Cipes comes from a show business family. His grandparents both acted professionally and his father was a TV director who became successful in real estate, then traveled extensively with his family, often taking them to the Bahamas, where Cipes heard reggae music for the first time.

"I was divinely placed in a position to see how the music made those living in poverty feel so good," he says. "The culture and the warmth of the people always intrigued me." 

Citing reggae, hip-hop and rock as his main influences, the 27-year-old packed up his yellow Nissan Xterra and moved to Los Angeles to study directing at USC, but dropped out within weeks when he landed a pilot at Warner Bros. "Music has always been part of my life," he says, citing such disparate inspirations as Bob Marley, the Doors, Sublime and Miami bass rappers 2 Live Crew, whose battle for freedom of speech attracted a young Cipes as much as their music. "But it only started to take this form seven years ago."- Is it worth buying? Listen and decide for yourself. 

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Estefan Visiting Bronx Starbucks

PR reports: On Wednesday September 26th, Gloria Estefan will go to her fans in the Bronx for an in-store autograph signing at Starbucks in the Kingsbride Plaza (225th and Broadway, Bronx NY). She will be signing copies of her new Spanish language CD - 90 Millas - available on Burgundy Records/Sony BMG on September 18th.The autograph signing will last from 5:00pm - 6:00pm. 

An in-store in NYC's predominately Hispanic borough of The Bronx is a natural choice as 90 Millas pays tribute to Gloria's Latin heritage with a collection of newly recorded original Spanish language songs celebrating Cuban music and culture.- more on this story

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Skumlove Solidify Lineup

PR reports: Los Angeles based industrial metal band Skumlove has solidified their new line up. This time Skum Love searched locally for young "unknown" musicians to help further a more new and heavier sound. 

With Rattan(drums) & DB(bass) from Heroes of the F.E.D.E.R.A.T.I.O.N, Skitch on Guitar and Gina on Lead Guitar, the band is writing a full length album titled "Songs of Lust and Corrosion" to be released early 2008 on their own label Devils Union Records as well as a split E.P. with electro/industrial band Acetylene Haze covering songs by Prong, T-Rex, Ministry, Thrill Kill Kult and more to be released on Future Wax Records. 

They will also be flying out to select cities and countries to headline shows starting with Toronto Canada on November 9th and Montreal Canada on November 10th with a full U.S. tour in the spring.
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....Review: Black Francis - Bluefinger

Bluefinger is not a retread to familiar Pixies territory, but more a denser, full-bodied extension of Frank Black's Honeycomb and Fasterman/Raiderman albums. This time, he added a healthy dose of punk energy and some fantastically absurd and abstract lyrics. (4 stars) - Read the full Black Francis - Bluefinger review
 

....Review: Occidens - Glorification of the Antichrist

Glorification of the Antichrist is a driving rampage of furious cacophony and great instrumentation that grabs on and doesn't let go. Occidens is not a band to take lightly- Read the full Occidens - Glorification of the Antichrist review
 

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