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Maiden Full US Tour Announced

PR reports: From onstage Friday night (March 14th) at a packed Izod Center New Jersey, Iron Maiden vocalist Bruce Dickinson announced the second and final US leg of their eagerly anticipated "SOMEWHERE BACK IN TIME -- WORLD TOUR 08".

Tickets for Iron Maiden's current dates at the Los Angeles Forum and New Jersey's Izod Centre having sold out months in advance, the band are delighted to announce they are coming back for more major USA concerts this summer which will take them to a number of cities they have not played in many years along with a return to the New York area at PNC Bank Arts Center,NJ, on June 14th and Madison Square Gardens on 15th June.

Tickets for these shows will go on sale to the public soon as listed below. A special pre-sale will be made available exclusively to members of the Iron Maiden fan club. - dates

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Underwood Going To The Opry

AP reports: Carrie Underwood will become the newest member of the Grand Ole Opry after she was invited Saturday to join the long-running country music show.

Randy Travis extended the invitation as Underwood finished "I Told You So," a Travis song that Underwood recorded on her latest album.

Her official induction will be May 10. - more on this story

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Sword Enemy Talk

PR reports: The latest episode of the Talking Metal podcast includes an interview hosts Mark Strigl and John Ostronomy conducted Sworn Enemy members Lorenzo Antonucci, Jamin Hunt, Sid Caballero, and Jerad Buckwalter .

Interview topics include Tim Lambesis, Joey Z, David Brodsky, and Earth Crisis.

Additional podcast topics include Don Dokken, Mike Patton, Atreyu, Turtlehead, Obsession, Witchfinder, Smoke, Coffin Case, the Metal Nurse, and C.C. Banana. New photos as well as the episode can be downloaded at this - location

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August Burns Red Injury

Metal Underground reports: August Burns Red guitarist JB Brubaker is currently hobbled with foot injury that may be a fracture. Brubaker explains: "During Every Time I Die's last song at the House of Blues in Dallas, I went to do a 'sweet' stage dive but ended up jumping too far into the crowd, landing in the pit and coming down very hard on my right heel.

"I haven't been able to walk on it since and I've been hobbeling around on crutches for the time being. Unfortunately, my busted heel keeps me from running around and rocking out like I would like to when we play. I am getting x-rays on Monday and I will find out if it's officially fractured or not.
I wanted to thank everyone for putting up with me and my gimp foot for the past week and for having a good time during our set. - more on this story

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Decapitated DVD

PR reports: Metal Mind Productions is proud to announce release of the first ever DVD by Decapitated! The material entitled "Human's Dust" will be released on 9th June in Europe and 10th June in USA.

DVD will be available in two versions: as a standard DVD and as a very unique star metalpack DVD edition limited to 3000 copies! The main feature of the DVD consists of the band's gig in Krakow (October 2002), which was a part of their European tour along with Vader and Krisiun. Bonus materials include two live performances recorded during Ozzfest in Poland (May 2002) and Metalmania Festival(March 2004), a video clip "Winds of Creation" plus three interviews recorded at various locations: Krak�w, 2002 (Vitek and Vogg), Ozzfest in Katowice, 2002 (Vogg and Sauron), Metalmania in Katowice, 2004 (Sauron and Martin). Photo gallery, biography, discography, desktop images, weblinks. Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound. - more on this story

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Obituary US Tour

PR reports: Obituary have a busy year ahead of them with a string of festival appearances in Europe this summer. But it looks like US fans will get the first crack at the band this spring.

According to BW&BK the band plan to tour the US this spring. The initial dates have the trek kicking off on May 9th in Spartanburg and concluding on the 23rd in Tampa. But the BW&BK report says that more dates are expected soon.

The band is touring behind their 2007 release "Xecutioner's Return." Their Euro festival plans will kick off on May 30th in Belgrad, from there they'll be hitting stages across the continent until August. - more on this story

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X Factor Lewis Doing Oprah

PR reports: Leona Lewis, who has taken the world by storm with the No. 1 single on the European charts with the most played song on radio around the world, will be appearing live on The Oprah Winfrey Show this Monday, March 17th.

Her debut album SPIRIT is set for release in the US on April 8th. The U.S. album includes two new brand new songs from Akon and Madd Scientist and completely new versions and mixes of songs from the international release, featuring tracks by superstar collaborators Ryan Tedder, Dr. Luke, Ne-Yo, Max Martin, J.R. Rotem, Stargate, and more.

Lewis, a 22-year-old London native and winner of the hit TV show the X Factor, Simon Cowell's British talent show, has broken all-time sales records in the UK with SPIRIT entering the album chart at Number One and becoming Britain's fastest-selling debut ever. - more on this story

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Van Problems Sideline Scale The Summit Tour

Lambgoat reports: Scale The Summit has cancelled the remainder of their current tour. Here's a statement from guitarist Chris Letchford: "Due to unsolved van problems this late in the tour we have been forced to drop off our current tour with God Is An Astronaut.

"We would like to apologize to all of the clubs, promoters, our booking agency, and of course all of our fans that planned on coming to see us play. Its a bummer, being our first tour! We'll be touring again for sure. I think we are going to take this time to get the next album finished for Prosthetic Records.

It started on the way down from Kansas and got worse. We stopped in OK on our day off and the Machanic shop we went to had no time. We struggled to make it to SXSW and did, and played the hell out of it. - more on this story

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Friend of Scozz Benefit This Friday

PR reports: CHAVIS RECORDS and LANE PRODUCTIONS in association with THE FRIENDS OF SCOZZ FOUNDATION announce the charity event, A Benefit For Mary Beth. Scozz, the drummer for Asphalt Valentine, is currently facing some difficult challenges. His wife and love of his life, Mary Beth is very ill. Aside from the obvious emotional struggles they both are facing, the medical costs have simply become overbearing. All we can do for the emotional challenges is hope for a speedy recovery and keep them both in our thoughts and prayers.

The event is being held on March 21, 2008 at Shakers Nite Club in Cambridge, OH. Performing on this night will be Britny Fox, Asphalt Valentine, A Nervous Wreck, American Angel, The Dogs Divine plus a few additional friends.

Tickets are $5.00 in advance and $7.00 at the door. Advance ticket sales ends Friday 3/14/2008, only a few left! The night will be filled with great performances, plenty of food and drink, raffles and more. For those that cannot attend but still want to help can still do so. We are setting up a LIVE PAY PER VIEW WEBCAST of the event. The cost is still $5.00. - more info

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Agnostic Front Doing Europe

Metal Underground reports: Agnostic Front will travel to Europe next month for a four-week tour. Here are those European tour dates:

10/04 Dordrecht, Netherlands @ Biebelot
11/04 Plymouth, Great Britain @ White Rabbit
12/04 Bolton, Great Britain @ City Invasion @ Soundhouse
13/04 London, Great Britain @ City Invasion @ Islingtom Academy
15/04 Istanbul, Turkey @ Studio Live
16/04 Sofia, Bulgaria @ Black Box
17/04 Belgrad, Serbia @ SKC
18/04 Ljubljana, Slovenia @ Orto Festival
- more on this story

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Today is the Day To Quit

Blabbermouth reports: Drummer Derek Roddy (ex-HATE ETERNAL, NILE) has left TODAY IS THE DAY as a result of an apparent financial dispute with the group's mainman Steve Austin.

Derek has reportedly been replaced on the band's current tour by Mike Rosswog (CIRCLE OF DEAD CHILDREN, COMPLETE FAILURE).

TODAY IS THE DAY's eighth studio album, "Axis of Eden", was released last September on SuperNova Records, the label founded by Steve Austin. - more on this story

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If Stevie Wonder Were 21 and Blonde

PR reports: At first glance, Hilary McRae might not look like exactly how you would expect her to sound. But once the 21-year-old beauty belts her first note and starts stroking the keys, she proves that she stands apart from many of her contemporaries.

There is a timeless quality to Hilary McRae's voice that captures the essence of the smoky jazz clubs where many of her heroes made their mark. Her modern take on the soul informed rock that drives her songwriting will appeal to fans across every genre line.

The singer/songwriter/pianist just wowed a room of press and fans at her show at The Living Room in NYC. She'll continue on an East Coast tour while gearing up to release her debut album, Through These Walls, through Hear Music on 4/15.

3/16 Arlington, VA - Iota
3/18 New York, NY - The Living Room
3/19 Providence, RI - The Hi-Hat
3/21 New York, NY - Housing Works
3/22 New Haven, CT - Toad's Place
3/23 Boston, MA - The Paradise Lounge
3/25 Ridgewood, NJ - Blend Bar
3/26 New York, NY - The Living Room

- Listen to "Every Day (When Will You Be Mine)"

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Free Hanalei

PR reports: Hanalei, the solo moniker of Brian Moss, has a series of home recordings available for free download on his myspace page.

The material includes two songs that were supposed to be released on a split 7' that failed to come to fruition as well as a raw demo and a recently recorded Archers Of Loaf cover.

Moss's primary full band project, Olehole, will be releasing their debut 12'/CD in the U.S. on Underground Communique this Summer and in Europe via Go Kart Records in the Fall.
- Songs are here

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Forever The Sickest Kids on Alt Press Tour

PR reports: Forever The Sickest Kids are supporting the Alternative Press tour with All Time Low, The Rocket Summer, The Matches, and Sonny.

Their debut full length, Underdog Alma Mater is releasing on April 29th

See em at the following tour stops:

Tue/3-18 Tucson, AZ Rialto
Wed/3-19 Phoenix, AZ Marquee
Thu/3-20 Las Vegas, NV Jillians
Fri/3-21 San Diego, CA Soma - more on this story

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.... The Biz: Is The Springsteen Magic Gone?

What makes Bruce Springsteen one of the definitive live performers of all time is his ability to transform his material into larger than life epics that are a piece of a bigger story arc, it just ain't happening this time around. - Read the full Is The Springsteen Magic Gone? op/ed

.... Tiger! Tiger! - The Kind of Goodnight

Vocalist, guitarist and principle songwriter Aguero is undoubtedly the brooder of the off-kilter whose thematic clarity resides within the real life experiences that scarred her. And there's nothing worse then a woman scorned. (4 stars) - Read the full Tiger! Tiger! - The Kind of Goodnight review

.... Throne of Katarsis - An Eternal Dark Horizon

Throne of Katarsis proudly wears its black metal label like an egotistical jerk holding a trophy, yet there's something wrong with them doing so- mainly because they completely piss on everything the genre has ever stood for. - Read the full Throne of Katarsis - An Eternal Dark Horizon review

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