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Reuters reports: A year after the Writers Guild of America ended a major strike, members of the WGA West had picket signs out in Los Angeles. Their target? The biggest show on television: Fox's "American Idol."By 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, at least 150 red-shirted guild members were marching and chanting in front of CBS Television's offices on Beverly Boulevard to protest working conditions in the reality and game-show sectors.
Carrying signs reading, "'Idol' gives back ... but not to its workers" and chanting, "Simon, Simon, you can't hide, we can see your greedy side!" the writers and their supporters were trying to pressure FremantleMedia North America, "Idol's" producer, to provide its writers and other workers with standard industry health care and pension benefits. [They actually pay people to write that crap? Are they writing Paula's idle brained lines?]
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PR reports: OK Go will preview songs from its upcoming album on a bi-coastal headlining tour launching March 6th in Philadelphia, with Irish indie band Oppenheimer and Longwave opening the East Coast dates, IO Echo and Jaguar Love opening the West Coast dates. OK Go has spent the winter holed up in an upstate New York barn-turned-studio with producer Dave Fridmann (Flaming Lips, MGMT, Sleater-Kinney), handcrafting what they describe as the "danciest, most anthemic, most heartbroken, and most honest songs" of their career. The band is chronicling the process with an offbeat series of videos at http://www.okgo.net.
The upcoming album, due out late summer on Capitol Records, follows up 2005's hit-filled Oh No, which rocketed the band to international fame with major shows on five continents and a series of low-budget homemade videos including "A Million Ways" and "Here It Goes Again" ("the treadmill video") that have been viewed hundreds of millions of times and set all sorts of records.
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PR reports: Orange County quintet Saosin have announced plans to headline the Hurley stage during the 2009 Vans Warped tour which kicks off in Pomona, CA on June 26th This will be the 4th year the band has played the festival, the first back in 2004 before they signed to Capitol Records or recorded their critically acclaimed 2006 self-titled debut album. California fans will have a chance to see Saosin live before Warped Tour when they play the Bamboozle Left festival on April 5th in Irvine, CA.
June will be a busy month for Saosin as they will also release their new studio album which Alternative Press magazine has already named one of the most anticipated albums of 2009.
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PR reports: Seattle-based Experience Hendrix, L.L.C. and Authentic Hendrix, LLC, owners of Jimi Hendrix music, trademarks and licensing rights, won a key legal victory in the trademark infringement case against Craig Dieffenbach and Electric Hendrix Spirits, LLC.
Experience Hendrix and Authentic Hendrix filed a lawsuit in 2007 charging that Dieffenbach and his companies had infringed on Jimi Hendrix trademarks in an unauthorized, tasteless promotion of "Hendrix Electric" brand of vodka. United States District Court Judge Zilly today entered a $3,200,000 judgment against Dieffenbach and his companies for their unlawful conduct.
The Court also permanently enjoined Mr. Dieffenbach and his companies from commercially using any Jimi Hendrix products and directed that all their distributors and licensees immediately pull the vodka and other infringing products from the market and cease all related advertising.
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Kayos reports: Jeff Beck, Asia, and Paul Rodgers are all titans of rock. On March 31, Eagle Rock Entertainment will release classic concerts by all three acts in the stunning Blu-Ray format. Each priced at $24.98, fans will be treated to amazing performances by these artists, with beautifully upgraded hi-def visuals and audio.
Celebrating their 25th Anniversary, all-star conglomerate Asia hit the road in 2006, re-uniting for the first time in over 20 years. Going worldwide with their tour in 2007, they played a very special set in Japan. Fantasia: Live In Tokyo (originally released on standard DVD in October 2007) is 18 tracks of celebration for a long and illustrious career. An interview with the entire band is also featured as a bonus.
Arguably one of the greatest Rock vocalists of all time, Paul Rodgers enjoyed success fronting Free, Bad Company, and currently Queen. In 2005, he joined Queen on their first full tour without Freddie Mercury, and has been fronting the band ever since. Having an impressive catalogue of material in his back pocket, he toured in the autumn of 2006. Live is Glasgow, originally released on standard DVD in May 2007, is a jam-backed array of Rodger's classic hits. Bonus features include an interview with Rodgers and his band, an interview with the fans, and a performance by Rodger's son, Steven, who was a supporting act on the tour.
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PR reports: Before Wacken, there was Dynamo. For 20 years, the Dynamo Open Air Festival -- originally held in 1986 to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Dynamo rock club in Eindhoven, Holland -- was one of metal's most important annual events, peaking in 1995 when 118,000 fans packed the grounds of an abandoned Dutch military airport to see four dozen acts play on three different stages over three June days.
In 1987, though, Dynamo was still in its infancy. For that matter, so was the performer who would leave the biggest mark on the event that year -- Bay Area thrashers Testament. After their debut album, "The Legacy," made instant waves worldwide, the group was invited to make their European debut at the second Dynamo festival. After a "warm-up" show at the 300-capacity Dynamo club the night before, Testament took the stage on a rainy June 8 and floored the 14,000 fans in attendance with an aggressive, fiery 45-minute set that showcased much of the material on "The Legacy." Five songs from their performance were captured on the EP "Live at Eindhoven," which was issued as a cassette and a 12" LP. However, the band's full set was never released officially -- until now.
Prosthetic Records is proud to announce the April 14 release of "Live at Eindhoven '87," which for the first time brings you Testament's complete 1987 Dynamo performance. A metal history lesson of the highest order, "Live at Eindhoven '87" sees the group's original lineup -- vocalist Chuck Billy, guitarists Alex Skolnick and Eric Peterson, bassist Greg Christian, and drummer Louie Clemente -- at their absolute hungriest.
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ABC reports: Survivor is currently hard at work at studios in Chicago and Los Angeles on a new studio album which they hope to release by the end of the year.
Singer Robin McAuley joined Survivor in 2006. Guitarist/founding member Frankie Sullivan knew he was the perfect person to front the band. "When we made the decision to replace Jimi Jamison," he explained, "I had no idea what we would do. Then it hit me--Robin McAuley! Is he available? How can he possibly be available?! Can I be lucky yet again in my career to work with such a talented singer? Well, the short answer, he was available, we gave him the songs of a set list we would perform, he came to the Windy City and blew our socks off! Robin is a pure pleasure to work with and he's such a great person. With Robin, what you see is what you get. And boy do you get it!"
McAuley continued: "I'm very excited at this opportunity to sing for Survivor. I can only hope the Survivor fans give me a fighting chance. Frankie and I have worked together in the past I am extremely excited to start writing with him again and playing with a great bunch of guys. This new Survivor promises to be full of energy, and with such a stable of awesome tunes to pick from, who knows what each show will bring. I'm ready!"
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PR reports: Brave Citizens continue to deliver their massive ambient pop-rock power to cities nationwide on the Revolutions Tour 2009, they have announced their return to Southern California for an appearance at Bamboozle Left on April 5. The two-day event�set for April 4 & 5 at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Irvine, California�will feature Brave Citizens alongside festival headliners Fall Out Boy, 50 Cent, Deftones, Taking Back Sunday, The Used, Thrice, The Get Up Kids and many others
Brave Citizens kicked off the Revolutions Tour on January 26 in Hollywood, California in support of the critically acclaimed debut EP Revolutions.
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MMP reports: Wolf Spider is one of the most acclaimed thrash metal bands in the entire history of the Polish scene. Throughout the years their breathtaking releases became legendary, and their status as Polish thrash metal heroes still remains unbroken. "Drifting in the Sullen Sea", their third offering, once and for all provide their worth. This exclusive reissue will bring you back to the glorious days of pure thrash metal madness. The record continues to exercise Wolf Spider's technical style. It 's a must-have for all thrash metal maniacs, expecting nothing more than prime thrash annihilation! If their debut album "Kingdom Of Paranoia" hit the mark for you then "Drifting In The Sullen Sea" is almost a required pick with more of the same. The album includes Freddy Mercury's track (Mustapha) in a new arrangement.
Metal Mind Productions will re-release "Drifting in the Sullen Sea" on the 2nd March in Europe and 10th March in USA (via MVD). New digipak edition includes 4 bonus tracks and is limited to 1000 copies. Digitally remastered using 24-Bit process on a golden disc.
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This documentary peels back the Clearasil and cherry-pop flavored lip gloss, to offer a just-this-side of voyeuristic (but in a good way) peek inside the machinations of female musical journeys into self-confidence and self-acceptance. (4 stars)
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We've been telling you all about REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA and the recent REPO! Road Tours. The third tour just wrapped up and REPO star and co-writer Terrance Zdunich (plays Grave Robber) gives us the lowdown! Here is today's entry from Phoenix.
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