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PR reports: The latest special double episode of Talking Metal recorded at the St. James Pub in historic Maplewood, New Jersey features interviews hosts Mark Strigl and John Ostronomy conducted with Guns N' Roses/Sex Tapes multi-intrumentalist, Chris Pitman, and author/journalist, Martin Popoff. Popoff interview topics include his Ye Olde Metal book series, Bill Aucoin, Cactus, Cheetah Chrome, Dead Boys, Derringer, MC5, Piper, Rex, and Starz.
The Pitman interview topics include SexTapes, Lusk, Replicants, Zaum, Tool, Guns N' Roses, Axl Rose, "Chinese Democracy," and art. Additional podcast topics include Deep Purple, Wolf, Moonspell, and Angel. Photos as well as the 90-minute podcast can be downloaded at this
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PR reports: Roman Klun has recently completed his 3rd solo album entitled, "Kingsway," predominantly written in the French Quarters of New Orleans, with further shaping in Toronto, Paris, Austria, England, Ukraine, San Francisco, New York City and Woodstock, NY. This tour de force is now officially released to the public and fans await the highly anticipated venues. Roman Klun is an award winning producer, multi-platinum record engineer (Sarah McLachlan), 'Serious Ear's mix engineer, and nominated songwriter. Roman has been in the hot seat on many projects that became industry winners and nominations at the Grammy's, Juno's, Genie's, Gemini's, JPF's, and the Unity Awards and was recognized by the AES (Audio Engineering Society) for his work in 5.1 Surround Sound. By invitation, RK has juried industry producer/songwriter & engineering panels and recently the New York VIP Jury for the celebrated and world renowned painter/artist Mark Kostabi and his TV Show, "Title This."
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PR reports: After some very successful headlining shows, and performances at festivals such as "Keep it true" in Germany, Dutch metal cult band Martyr will be supporting Lizzy Borden at their upcoming European tour. Over 20 years after their last album "Darkness At Time's Edge" the new Martyr album will be released through Rusty Cage Records in the beginning of 2009.
Besides a re-mastered version of Martyr's debut album "For the universe", fans of eighties heavy metal will get the new 5-track album "Fear". Both albums will be wrapped in a double digipack called "Fear the universe".
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PR reports: Columbus, Ohio-based Two Cow Garage are celebrating the release of their fourth full-length, "Speaking In Cursive" (Suburban Home Records), and with the celebration comes some great news: for the first time in the band's history, they have made the Billboard charts, charting #143 on the Top New Artists chart."I am really excited to announce that Two Cow Garage's 'Speaking In Cursive' has charted on Billboard's Top New Artist Chart," says Suburban Home Records' president, Virgil Dickerson.
"Two Cow Garage charted at #143. This is the first time that one Suburban Home artist has charted on the Billboard Charts. Thanks to everyone that picked up a copy from us, from a mom and pop retailer, or from a digital retail destination. I guess what makes this even more incredible is that we don't currently have our releases in any big box retailers or even national chains, opting instead to work with Independent retailers and distributors."
Is it any good? Our very own Gary Schwind gave it 5 stars!
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Chipster reports: Back in the mid-late '90s, when everyone was declaring that 'metal was dead,' guitarist Jon Schaffer and his band, Iced Earth, refused to acknowledge the naysayers, and were one of the few metal bands of the era to proudly continue on their metal path. As a result, Iced Earth has built an enormous and dedicated following throughout the world, and this year, issued their tenth studio album overall, 'The Crucible of Man: Something Wicked Part II.' Spending the summer touring in support of the album alongside such metal legends as Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, and Kiss, Iced Earth is prepared to bring their show back to the U.S. in November, for a string of special shows."I am very much looking forward to the next leg of the North American 'Crucible'," says Schaffer. "We have been working pretty much non-stop since May, and there's no better way to end the year than with a healthy dose of METAL! Meeting the Minions [referring to Iced Earth's fan club, 'The Minions of the Wicked'] before and after the shows has been a great experience. I started this band as a vehicle for my songs, and the fans that truly 'get' Iced Earth - and the way of life that surrounds it - are the reason I am still out there. The energy between the band and the fans is something that is very dear to my heart."
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conqueroo reports: Gurf Morlix, who has worked as producer, guitarist and multi-instrumentalist for some of America's greatest artists, is getting set to release his own fifth album, Last Exit to Happyland on the Rootball Records label on February 17, 2009.
Tempting as it may be, don't just judge Morlix by the company he keeps, even if it does provide a fine starting point: Lucinda Williams, Warren Zevon, Patty Griffin, Michael Penn, Buddy Miller, Mary Gauthier, Tom Lauderdale, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Robert Earl Keen, Tom Russell, Jim Lauderdale and Slaid Cleaves, to name but a few. Instead, a listen to Last Exit to Happyland should demonstrate why his blue ribbon associations have led Morlix to a similar level of excellence as singer/songwriter and artist in his own right.
"If anybody is still looking for a candidate to replace Robbie Robertson of The Band, look no further," write Henry Cabot Beck in Amazon.com. "Morlix can write, sing, produce and play nearly every instrument and has a bottomless range of American musical idioms from which to draw."
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PR reports: After participating in this year's annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on the HESS "Bridge to the Future" float on Thursday November 27th and performing a concert at the Patchogue Theatre on Friday November 28th to release their limited edition holiday album "DEAR SANTA", you might think it would be time for Push Play and their team to rest and enjoy the holiday weekend, right? Wrong. "As part of their continuing Push Play for Purpose effort, Push Play will spend the Saturday of Thanksgiving Weekend giving out 1000 Push Play sweatshirts to the homeless in Manhattan.
"Breaking all barriers as the only unsigned band to continue making a difference day after day, they plan to walk the streets from dawn to dusk giving back whatever money made made thus far in merch sales and buying sweatshirts for the homeless with the proceeds." said co-manager Sue Baran.
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PR reports: Eternal Descent, the up-and-coming industrial/metal/goth band from London, UK, announced today that legendary producer Eddie Kramer, famed for his work with artists such as Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin and Kiss, will be overseeing production and engineering their second album.
Kramer explained, "I'm excited to be working with such great creative and energetic artists. Eternal Descent reminds me of "The Garden of Earthly Delights"; particularly the sinners panel! The project is indeed a challenging one as it encompasses all of the skills both myself and the artists have learned. We will need to be at the top of our game to make it a reality. The scope of this recording appeals right to the core of my production and engineering skills."
Rob Sutherland, the Eternal Descent second guitarist who worked with Kramer on a previous project remarked, "It's such an honour to be working with Eddie. His musical skill is of such a high level that it's just awesome to know that he will be guiding us through this behemoth of a recording".
As well as producing and mastering the album, Kramer will also be co-orchestrating the arrangement of orchestral parts, based on scores by Eternal Descent mastermind Llexi Leon.
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Listen to Two Cow Garage and you will realize what music sounds like when the artists actually feel what they sing and play. This is another excellent album from a great band. 5 Stars! (5 stars)
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antiMusic's globe trotting scribe Kevin Wierzbicki lets his ears escape the desert heat of Arizona for a listen to some cool international music. This month Kevin takes a listen to Made in Iceland, Juana Molina, David Newman and Eliane Elias
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