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Drive A Added To The Used Tour

PR reports: California's Drive A announces today they will be the opening act on the upcoming North American your featuring The Used and The Almost.

Fresh off of this summer's Gig Life Tour, featuring Set Your Goals and Four Year Strong, as well as a spring tour with Alkaline Trio, Drive A continue to tour in support of their critically acclaimed debut album, Loss Of Desire, which features their first single and video "Are You Blind."

In conjunction with the tour with The Used, Drive A will be releasing their second single, "Can't Sleep It Off." Best described as a musical raising of the black flag, "Can't Sleep It Off" is their middle-finger salute to those who try to stand in the way of others by telling them what they can and cannot do. An anthem for a frustrated generation waiting for their voices to be heard, the song has quickly become a crowd favorite and a participation point in the band's high energy live set. - more on this story

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Gwen Stacy Ink Solid Deal For New Album

PR reports: Gwen Stacy has announced they have signed with Solid State Records (Underoath, Norma Jean). The band will release their new full-length "A Dialogue" with the label on October 20th.

The track listing for the album is unveiled below. A video for the song "The First Words" is currently being shot by Jeremy Jackson.

The band's previous album The Life I Know (2008) was released on Ferret Music and debuted on the Billboard "Heatseekers" Chart. The band has toured nationally numerous times including stints with The Devil Wears Prada, Unearth, Scary Kids Scaring Kids, Drop Dead, Gorgeous, Poison The Well, Maylene And The Sons Of Disaster, 36 Crazy Fists and Haste The Day. A national headlining tour around the album's release will be announced shortly. - more on this story

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Gogol Bordello Announce Live CD/DVD Release

PR reports: Gypsy punk powerhouse Gogol Bordello will release the ultimate fan piece Live From Axis Mundi, a CD/DVD featuring all of the fan favorites live for the first time on DVD.

Live From Axis Mundi will also feature a CD of previously unreleased tracks including "Stivali E Colbacco" from the Super Taranta! sessions, the popularly requested "Troubled Friends" from the Gypsy Punk sessions, "Roumania," a demo of "60 Revolutions" and an instrumental version of "Immigrant Punk."

The CD also features six tracks from the band's BBC sessions, recorded on BBC-Radio 1's "In The Company Of (with Colin Murray)" in March 2008. Live From Axis Mundi will be available on SideOneDummy Records on October 6, 2009. - more on this story

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Sonic Syndicate Hire The Hollow Earth Theory Singer

PR reports: Swedish metallers Sonic Syndicate have tapped 23-year-old British singer Nathan James Biggs (formerly of The Hollow Earth Theory) as the replacement for Roland Johansson.

"People from all over the world sent in demos when we announced that we were looking for a new vocalist and we narrowed them down to about 20 that we found particularly interesting," guitarist Roger Sjunnesson told Hallands Nyheter. "We then auditioned more than a dozen candidates in Falkenberg [Sweden] and we went out and partied together."

He added, "Personal chemistry was absolutely the most important factor in our decision. You have to be able to spend time with one another." - more on this story

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Black Water Rising Are Bikers for Babies

PR reports: Hard rockers Black Water Rising are proud to announce that they are taking part in the "Bikers for Babies" benefit, alongside AJ Pero of Twisted Sister. They will be performing a live set after the ride featuring music from their self-titled debut album which is available now digitally at: I-Tunes Rhapsody.com, Napster.com, and Amazon.com.

Die-hard bikers and weekend warriors will ride together to raise funds to help every baby be born healthy. The March of Dimes is a nonprofit organization that works to improve the health of babies

Johnny Fattoruso of Black Water Rising said, "It is a cool thing to be asked to play alongside AJ Pero because Twisted Sister was one of my favorite bands growing up. Also because The March of Dimes organization hits pretty close to home with the band, this is a perfect opportunity for us to give back." - more on this story

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Rodrigo y Gabriela Add Dates

PR reports: ATO Records is excited to announce that Rodrigo y Gabriela have just added a number of October dates to their upcoming North American tour.

With the new album, 11:11, being released on September 8th, the tour begins in mid-September and now runs through most of October. The band will be performing in notable venues across the United States, including Denver's The Buell Theatre on Sept. 19th, LA's Orpheum Theatre on Sept. 25th and Chicago's Riviera Theater on Oct. 16th.

The upcoming tour is destined to be an energetic display of the guitar virtuosos' famed live show and will feature new songs as well as favorites from their self-titled debut album. - more on this story

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Good Old War For The Honorary Title

PR reports: Acoustic folk trio Good Old War launches yet another extensive US tour this week, this time with Brooklyn's lauded indie group, The Honorary Title.

While the busy band has spent much of the summer on tour (including dates with RX Bandits & Dredg), it has also reigned large on the radio. Their recent performance on the nationally syndicated Acoustic Cafe program marked a high point in dozens of live on-air visits for Good Old War.

eldom do band members rebound gracefully after their main musical effort falls apart, but Keith Goodwin (vocals/guitar) and Tim Arnold (drums/vocals), members of the once up-and-coming progressive rock band Days Away have managed to do just that, pulling a 180 with their sound to a great degree of success in their new acoustic folk project Good Old War. Rounding out the trio is Dan Schwartz (guitar/vocals) from the Americana tinged six-piece band, Unlikely Cowboy. - more on this story

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The Wooden Sky Hitting The Road With Elliott Brood

PR reports: Hot off of their Bedrooms and Backstreets Tour and the Canadian release of their second album If I Don't Come Home You'll Know I'm Gone, Toronto-based outfit The Wooden Sky is excited to be hitting the road with Elliott Brood (Six Shooter) for a string of nine US shows, starting in Seattle October 9th and finishing up at CMJ in NYC October 22nd.

Often compared to the likes of The National and old-school Counting Crows, The Wooden Sky's new 13-track LP brilliantly sweeps through countless rock and roll subgenres. It is sure to please even the harshest music critics with the deftness of Allman Brothers, the songwriting focus of Wilco, and the experimental sonic cacophony of the Flaming Lips.

This career-defining record was composed over months spent living, writing and recording between Toronto and Montreal. The list of people involved the creation of the record is expansive, including some of the band's oldest friends and newest acquaintances: Heather Kirby (Ohbijou), Debra Jean Creelman (ex-Mother Mother), Howard Billerman (ex-Arcade Fire), Edwin Huizinga (Mars Volta), Adam Kinner (Marathon), and Tyler Belluz. - more on this story

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Allen Thompson Releases New Album

PR reports: Singer-songwriter Allen Thompson announces the release of his third CD 26 Years on August 25, 2009. Born and raised in Virginia and recently transplanted to Nashville, Allen Thompson's 26 Years is a reflection in ten original songs.

Like many a fine songwriter before him, Thompson has lived a lifetime of experiences in his short time here. With family tragedy of Southern Gothic proportion, Thompson was exposed to addiction and mental illness from a young age, ultimately losing both his maternal grandfather and his mother to the diseases. The heartbreak and uncertainty that haunted him throughout his youth permeate the writing on this album. 26 Years is Thompson's coming of age. "Writing and recording these songs allowed me to come to terms with the end of my childhood and the beginning of the rest of my life," Allen explains in his liner notes.

Throughout his life Thompson recalls his most vivid memories through the music that he has attached to them. His grandfather would introduce him to his many of his musical influences, playing the records of Hank Williams, Merle Haggard, Bill Monroe, Patsy Cline, and Buck Owens for Allen and his brother. Time with his father was often tied to the music his dad would play for him on the cassette player in the car. "On that first visitation, my dad was so excited about this guy he had seen play just a few days before in Richmond, VA. The record was Steve Earle's Guitar Town, and it changed my life. It was full of songs that felt like they had been written about us: Being away from your children, divorce, trying to survive in the Trickle-down era in a small town." Thompson credits how Earle's songs touched his father as being the catalyst for wanting to do that same thing with his own life. - more on this story

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. Pearl Jam Live In Chicago Aug 23, 2009

Pearl Jam hit the windy city in all their glory Sunday night for what was originally supposed to be one of a handful of US appearances that has now evolved into a larger scope tour in support of their newest record Backspacer. - Read the full Pearl Jam Live In Chicago Aug 23, 2009 review

.... Daylight Dies - Lost to the Living

Hearing this album is like walking through a gallery of abandoned marble statues. Lovingly chiseled, such works no doubt invoke an air of stateliness and rich, ever-growing age. Static and majestic, the statues tower over the emptiness around their domain, ever commanding, ever dominant. - Read the full Daylight Dies - Lost to the Living review

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