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Second or Third Less Than Annual Presidents Day Weekend Pusafest

The Presidents of the United States of America had this bit of news for fans over the weekend: since everyone has so little going on for the next week or two, this seems like a good time to tell you a couple things.

thing #1, for SEATTLE people mostly: Holy crud we have just announced our Second or Third Less Than Annual Presidents Day Weekend PUSAFEST.

Seattle, Showbox at the Market, Fri-Sat February 12-13. Friday 21+, Saturday ALL AGES. 20 clams. These will be super fun shows for us, since we've been taking a little siesta after jet-scorching our little buns last year. - more on this story

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Music Game Sales Tank in 09

The music industry's hope that music based video games would help their bottom line after a stellar 2008, have hit a bit of a snag in 2009. Or rather, a huge snag with a 50% drop in sales.

Billboard via Reuters had this to say about the bubble burst: The music-game category raked in $1.4 billion in revenue last year, according to Wedbush Morgan Securities analyst Michael Pachter, driven largely by sales of "Rock Band 2" and "Guitar Hero World Tour."

By the time 2009 comes to a close, Pachter expects the category to make half that -- $700 million -- despite such high-profile releases this fall as "The Beatles: Rock Band," "Guitar Hero 5," "DJ Hero" and "Band Hero," not to mention "Guitar Hero: Van Halen," which is due Tuesday (December 22). - read a lot more here

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Never Shout Never, Joplin, The Cab, Hey Monday, Every Avenue and The Summer Set for the AP Tour

Emerging band Never Shout Never, the brainchild of 18-year-old singer-songwriter Christofer Drew, has been chosen to headline the 2010 AP Tour, which celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Cleveland-based magazine Alternative Press.

The line-up, which also features Joplin, The Cab, Hey Monday, Every Avenue and The Summer Set, has been handpicked by the AP staff. The tour kicks off on March 19th and criss-crosses the country through the end of April.

Never Shout Never has recently sold out all eight shows on its December tour, which begins on the 16th. The band is touring in support of their upcoming Butch Walker-produced release What Is Love?, which will be released by Loveway Records / Sire Records on January 26th, 2010. - more on this story

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2010 Terror Plans

Terror will kick off the New Year with a massive North American run, dubbed "The Mosh Lives II Tour" with Emmure, After The Burial, Miss May I and Thick As Blood. The trek kicks off on Jan. 22nd.

Vogel further states: "It's crazy to think that at this point TERROR has been around for about eight years. I guess after this year we have been around the world four times, recently adding Hawaii and Southeast Asia to the places we've played. The Atticus tour and the 10 For $10 tour were really wonderful, letting us clearly know that the U.S. is still solidly behind us.

"We are finishing up the year writing for our new LP Keepers Of The Faith. I guess we kind of are a real band at this point as we prepare for our fifth album. Emmure is taking us out again in January and then off to Europe with Madball, Death Before Dishonor and Cruel Hand. Life's good. The true believers remain." - more on this story

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Simple Minds on a Stick

Following Simple Minds recent 'Graffiti Soul' European tour, Concert Online is pleased to announce the release of the Simple Minds "Gold Edition" USB tour stick.

With 8GB of storage space, the "Gold Edition" USB stick will contain each of Simple Minds' UK and Irish concerts in their entirety, plus addition tracks recorded during soundchecks, and exclusive backstage video footage of the band at their recent concert in Basel, Switzerland.

The gold USB stick, which comes packaged in a stylish collector's box, will have a strictly limited print run of 222 copies, with a retail selling price of �99. - more on this story

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Rilo Kiley's Jason Boesel Announces Solo Album and Tour

Jason Boesel has confirmed his first solo U.S. tour in support of his debut album 'Hustler's Son'- out January 12 on Team Love Records.

Though he's known for his trenchant drumming work with indie heavyweights Rilo Kiley and Conor Oberst, this tour finds Boesel trading in sticks for guitar and taking lead as frontman. Folk-rock group Dawes will join him onstage as his back-up band on all the dates.

The tour kicks off February 5 in Boesel's home state - California - and will take him cross-country to New York City and back, supporting the co-bill of Dawes and Cory Chisel And the Wandering Sons. - more on this story

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Roman Candle Hitting The Road with Alejandro Escovedo

Today Roman Candle announced new January tour dates in support of Alejandro Escovedo. The tour will take the Nashville-by-way-of-Chapel Hill band throughout the southeast, beginning January 15th at The Orange Peel in Asheville, NC, and wrapping up January 23rd at Headliners in Louisville, KY.

Roman Candle's third album Oh Tall Tree in the Ear was released May 12th by Carnival Recording Company. Inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus and Tom Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll, the smart, lyrical album is a loose meditation on the connection between music and longing, full of hooks and impassioned vocals.

Oh Tall Tree... has been earning the band some of the best reviews of their young career, with USA Today declaring, "...These are simply witty, sturdily built and charming pop/rock tunes that owe their debt to Wilco, The Jayhawks, Ryan Adams, perhaps even My Morning Jacket. That's great company, and these songs should accompany you on summer road trips." Summer is over, but Roman Candle will continue to warm up and keep fans company on these winter dates... - more on this story

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(Hed)pe Crossing The Pond Next Year

(Hed)pe have announced the dates for their upcoming European tour.

The band will kick of their six-week tour on March 3rd, 2010 in Reading, UK and run through April 10th in St. Petersburg, Russia.

March 03 - Reading, UK @ Sub 89
March 05 - Cardiff, UK @ Millennium Music Hall
March 06 - Peterborough, UK @ Club Revolution

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Thousand Foot Krutch Year in Review

As this year comes to a close, Tooth & Nail Records celebrates an amazing year for Thousand Foot Krutch with the release of their fifth studio album, another Top 30 Active Rock single, national TV/Movie song placements, touring and more. To applaud this band on their amazing efforts throughout 2009, below is a year in review as well as a look ahead to 2010.

Winter 2009: Thousand Foot Krutch began the year with a performance at the ESPN Winter X Games 13 in Aspen/Snowmass, CO. as part of the "Best of the Beat" for Taco Bell�'s Feed the Beat program, which the band was voted as one of three winners in 2008. The games were held January 22-25, 2009 and aired live on ESPN and ABC and affiliates.

Spring 2009: Fans were giving a preview of what has been named as one of the best rock albums this year by many with the free download "Bring Me To Life" as part of the Taco Bell's Feed The Beat music program. TFK partnered with familiar face, Aaron Sprinkle, to produce the single, and mixer Randy Staub, to mix the single, which was available for a free download to fans preceding the Fall release. - more on this story

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Slipknot Premiere Snuff Film

Slipknot have once again defied expectation. While no strangers to radio success, Slipknot are climbing the charts again, but this time with an introspective track that challenges what some would expect from a hard rock radio song. This genre-bending new single, "Snuff," is currently Top 5 at Active Rock and Top 20 at Modern Rock and is climbing steadily.

When the time came to create a visual for "Snuff", once again the band did the unexpected. The band is set to unveil a short film, co-directed by Slipknot's own M. Shawn Crahan and renowned photographer/director P.R. Brown, to accompany the track. The film features frontman Corey Taylor as never seen before, interwoven in an intricate storyline. Taking the viewer on an emotional roller coaster ride, the piece is likely to generate more questions than answers.

"'Snuff' as a piece of art is a testament to the evolution of Slipknot," says Crahan. It's taken 10 years of uncompromising vision to finally be able to present portions of the bigger picture. Stay awake, because as always, it's still continuing." - more on this story

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VH1 Storytellers: John Mayer Announced

VH1 Storytellers: John Mayer, which premieres on VH1 on January 28th at 8:00 PM*. The seven-time Grammy Award-winning Mayer treated his fans to a rare and intimate performance, Thursday December 10th at Brooklyn's Steiner Studios.

This exclusive performance features a showcase of his new album "Battle Studies" and gives fans a unique opportunity to learn more about the inspiration behind his music.

With the announcement of "VH1 Storytellers: John Mayer," VH1 today has also launched its new Storytellers site at Storytellers.VH1.com. The site is a place where artists and fans can share personal stories behind the songs and artists that they feel connected to and have been inspired by. - more on this story

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. Top Albums of the Decade: Robert VerBruggen's Picks

To celebrate the end of the decade, some of our writers will be sharing their picks for their favorite albums of the past ten years. We continue today with Robert VerBruggen. Here is his list and his introduction on how he picked them! - Read the full Top Albums of the Decade: Robert VerBruggen's Picks review

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