The festival circuit has also opened their arms to the Illinois natives with stints on Lollapalooza, Bamboozle, and the Warped Tour, as well as Germany's Rock am See (with Nine Inch Nails headlining).

Running full steam since mid-June, the THRASHING LIKE A MANIAC tour has been feeding beasts every night with non-stop thrash from the 3 of the most exciting young bands the genre has to offer.

The band will perform a number of their hits, including "Amazed," a crossover selection that became the number one country song, which reached the top spot in pop music's Billboard Hot 100. The concert also be taped and edited into a one-hour television special that will be shown around the world July 4th on the Armed Forces Network.

The band plan to release a 5-track EP, Are We All Forgotten on July 8 and they will be on the road all Summer, with their upcoming run of dates also including a month on The Final Riot tour.

The 12-song strong album was recorded in Los Angeles last fall by venerable producer Butch Vig (Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Sonic Youth) and marks a dynamic sonic progression from their critically-embraced 2006 album debut, "Young For Eternity."

For over three decades, Richie has used his music to convey messages of brotherhood and personal freedom. With more than twenty-five albums released and a touring schedule that would kill many a younger man, he continues to view his calling as a higher one. As he told The Denver Post, "I really sing songs that move me. I'm not in show business; I'm in the communications business. That's what it's about for me".

Lead single "The Show" goes to radio on July 29th. In characteristic Lenka fashion, the song takes a dour premise - that life is a show, and sometimes a pretty bad one - and delivers it with such aplomb that one can't help but grin as it erupts into a bold, brassy closing refrain of "I want my money back!" "I decided I should just get all my friends to come in and be like the drunken tavern chorus," explains Lenka. "Australian folk singer Missy Higgins joined in on the bit."

"Circus Money" is officially released by Sonic360 in the UK and the rest of Europe on Monday 14th July 2008.

When Shannon McArdle left the Mendoza Line in 2007, she was also leaving behind a marriage to fellow member, Timothy Bracy. Along with a cast of contributors, the Mendoza Line recorded a remarkable body of work that wrestled with the intoxication of life and love on the edge of the new millennium. McArdle met Bracy in the late 1990s in Athens, Georgia and struck up a musical collaboration as well as romantic relationship. Along with an early incarnation of the Mendoza Line, the band made the move to New York City, establishing themselves as a rollicking, well-read rock band with a love for The Replacements, Bob Dylan, and the Velvet Underground.