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Thirty Seconds To Mars Via The UK

The unstoppable rise of Thirty Seconds To Mars continues with the confirmation that they will play their biggest UK tour to date in February 2010.

The tour heralds the band's ascension into British arenas and includes a major show at London's Wembley Arena.

Thirty Seconds To Mars previewed the December 7th release of their highly anticipated new album 'THIS IS WAR' with an intimate low-key show at London's Koko on November 16th. - dates

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Transfer On the Road In Support of Future Selves

Transfer just released their full-length album aptly titled, Future Selves and are on the road promoting it, including some dates next month with Stellastarr.

Earlier this year, the band secluded themselves in their studio for a month to write the record. Tucked away in the canyons in North San Diego among the influence of coyote howls and cricket bows, they created a collection of songs with poignant and chilling lyrics and sounds broad enough in range to deem undeniable.

While exhibiting all the grandeur of British rock, yet rooted in the gritty allure of the American west, TRANSFER beseeches personal discovery. You can either experience TRANSFER by being fully immersed within a good pair of headphones, or, preferably, get caught up in the intensity of their unusually captivating and dynamic live performance. With the impending release of their digital-only second full-length release, Future Selves, TRANSFER stands poised to win over unsuspecting listeners and to elicit praise for its remarkably savvy take on the art of rock music. - more on this story

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Last November Set New EP Release

Atlanta-based pop rock band Last November is set to release their brand new EP "tug o' war!" on January 26, 2010. The EP follows up the release of their first single and music video from the new record, "Julie," which premiered exclusively on iTunes and YouTube on November 10, 2009.

"tug o' war!" is currently in production at Southern Tracks Studios in Atlanta, and follows up the band's hit sophomore album "Over the Top or Under the Weather," which was released in the spring of 2008. The album featured the single "Seventeen at Three in the Morning" which was dubbed "the teen anthem of 2009" by numerous teen publications, while receiving radio airplay on over 200 radio stations across the nation, with numbers still growing daily.

Lead singer and guitarist Luke Pilgrim edited and directed the music video for "Julie" demonstrating not only his talent in music, but his talent in production as well. While on their summer 2009 tour, the band stumbled upon the little desert town of Ludlow, CA off the Historic Route 66 where on a spur of the moment, they decided to shoot the video. - more on this story

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Rock & Country Collide On Shurman's New Album

There's a powerful sweet spot at the juncture where rock'n'roll and country intersect, giving the music that results a double-whammy that can't be denied. The Austin, Texas-based band Shurman hits that bulls-eye dead on packing a powerful punch of rock crunch, soulful grooves and deeply-rooted country twang. The songs breathe the truth of real life experiences and emotions, and reside within the common themes that are a part of everyone's lives.

The foursome's new album Still Waiting for the Sunset (Sustain/Universal Republic Records) is now set for a January 26th release. For those who can't wait for the proper release, the album will be made available digitally beginning today and then on vinyl on December 12th.

Still Waiting for the Sunset is a smoking 12-song tour de force that blends the best of heartland rock with a deep grounding in the finest country traditions. It blasts off with the propulsive kick of the regular guy existentialism of "Is It True" and wraps up with the blistering twang and statement of musical purpose of "Three Chords." And in between one finds everything that a fan of real American music with a Southern accent holds dear: songs about life, love, people and places that speak to the human heart and soul with sincerity and conviction, and potent music that can lift the spirit as well as drown any sorrows. Or in short, it's the best elements of real rock'n'roll and true country united in a potent, persuasive and emotive set of songs, driven by the impassioned vocals of singer, songwriter and guitarist Aaron Beavers. - more on this story

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Tweak Bird Announce Post Tool Tour

Still riding high from their summer tour with Tool, the Los Angeles by-the-way of Carbondale, IL brotherly duo, Tweak Bird, are set to return to Europe and the UK next week for a 3 week tour that will make up for the tour dates that they were forced to postpone in order open for TOOL.

In conjunction with their Europe tour - which sees the band playing the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the United Kingdom - TWEAK BIRD, have released their first ever music video for the song The Bones.

Written, directed and animated by Nicholas Peterson, the The Bones music video is swirling and disturbing 2-D nightmare. here

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Rise Snag Legend

Rise Records is pleased to announce the signing of Detroit, Michigan's, Legend. Featuring former For The Fallen Dreams vocalist Chad Ruhlig, Legend is stomping out of the gate determined and ready to bring the heavy.

Vocalist Chad Ruhlig states, "We are extremely excited to announce our signing with Rise Records. Having done work with Craig Ericson and Rise before, we couldn't think of anybody else we would rather work with than Rise. We will be hitting the studio in January and this will hands down be the heaviest album of 2010. You can be sure of that."

The group will enter the studio in January 2010 under the complete mastery of Zeuss at Planet Z Studio in Hadley, Massachusetts. Their debut album is set to release in April of 2010. Keep an eye out for constant touring before then and check their MySpace often for new updates and new songs. - more on this story

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Sangre Degrado Debut

Rising like a phoenix from the ashes of their previous incarnation--Hell at Night--the boys of Sangre Degrado are unleashing an audible assault in the form of their first full length The Nerve Of That Ending, out today on Danagra Records.

The name may have changed, but the accolades laid at the feet of Hell at Night still apply to Sangre Degrado, "for what they do really ----ing well: synthesize a lifetime spent listening (I'm imagining here) to U2, and then to grunge, and then to the Pixies, and on to the White Stripes, Interpol and the Arcade Fire into a crude, raw cyst of noise and pop and screams thats more developed and different and worthy of praise than much of what the ironic-band-T-shirt-wearing community routinely churns out." (from The OC Weekly)

Sangre Degrado began when twin brothers Dan and Nart Chejoka sent demos of their first few songs as Hell at Night around to friends. One of those friends, former Lidsville frontman Greg Johnson, secretly added bass guitar and backing vocals to the tracks, and the resulting sound was so good that Johnson quickly became a full-fleged member. - more on this story

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Danny Kalb Gets Major Backing

Legendary guitarist Danny Kalb is seeing his most recent release I'm Gonna Live The Life I Sing About picked up for distribution by Sony Music's RED Distribution.

The album was released earlier this year by Sojourn and quickly garnered a mass of glowing press notices. I'm Gonna Live The Life I Sing About will now be available through variety of easily accessible outlets including Borders, Best Buy, J&R Music World, Barnes & Nobles and Amazon.com

Kalb says the new album "Is the record I always wanted to make" and marks his debut on Sojourn Records. I'm Gonna Live The Life I Sing About was produced by Mark Ambrosino and recorded at The Madhouse in Queens, NY featuring Kalb performing in both electric and acoustic trio settings. The bulk of these performances were captured in 2006 through 2007 but other tracks are gems that Kalb has been stockpiling since the late 1990's, plucked from relaxed periodic sessions with his various live line-ups. Kalb's playing throughout is dazzling, yet understated, no-nonsense yet deeply emotional -- the work of an undisputed Old Master. - You can even now get it at the antiMusic store

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Orphaned Land Announce Tracklisting

On February, 9th 2010 (January 25th in Europe) the wait is finally over! Israel's Orphaned Land will finally release their highly anticipated fourth studio opus The Never Ending Way of ORwarriOR.

Mixed by Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree, Opeth), who is also responsible for several keyboard parts on the new album, The Never Ending Way of ORwarriOR turns out to be a sophisticated concept album taking ORPHANED LAND's unique brand of exotic, heavy music to soaring new heights in terms of complexity and catchiness. It is an audible manifest that the time has come for Middle Eastern metal to take over!

Vocalist Kobi Farhi comments on the album's concept and the striking new promo photo as follows: "First of all, I wish to thank each and every one of you for all the comments you left for our new band photo. The comments were from Jews, Christians and Muslims as one, you all know that this unification is what we're all about - here is the tracklist for our new album, as you can see it's long and it's a three chapter story that is waiting for you. We salute you all!" - more on this story

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. SwampDaWamp - Rock This Country

SwampDaWamp is a band for the real working class man and true Americans. Theyre a band that likes to get down and party with the best of them but also a band that has morals and is patriotic to their country. (4 stars) - Read the full SwampDaWamp - Rock This Country review

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