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A Rocket To The Moon Debut Next Month

Atlantic Records reports: A Rocket To The Moon has announced the upcoming release of their debut album. "On Your Side" arrives in stores and at all online retailers on October 13th.

A Rocket To The Moon has slated a busy tour schedule to trumpet the album's release. First up will be a headlining run alongside The Summer Set, kicking off October 2nd at Hartford, Connecticut's Webster Underground (see attached itinerary). From there, they will join the "OP Presents: Boys Like Girls, Cobra Starship, The Maine, A Rocket To The Moon and VersaEmerge" tour. The dates begin October 14th at Buffalo's Rapids Theatre, and continue through a two-night-stand at Foxboro, Massachusetts' Showcase Live on November 27th and 28th.

"ON YOUR SIDE" follows last year's acclaimed Fueled By Ramen debut, "GREETINGS FROM�" The EP was highlighted by the singles "If Only They Knew" and "Dakota," the latter of which ARTTM performed live on MTV's TRL as part of a feature on America's best unsigned bands. - more on this story

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Nachtmystium, Marduk, Mantic Ritual, Merrimack and Black Anvil Plot U.S. Plague Tour

PR reports: Few bands today embrace their own individualism to ultimately craft something truly unique and genre defying regardless of its sales potential. Enter the Chicago-based Nachtmystium who embrace the true spirit of individuality and intolerance forming solely as an outlet to express the dark musical visions and summoning of those involved.

This vicious, uncompromising quartet, led by mastermind Blake Judd are currently working on material for Black Meddle Part II and will soon embark on the highly anticipated "U.S. Plague Tour" featuring the Swedish black metal legends Marduk along with Mantic Ritual, Merrimack and Black Anvil. The fall trek kicks off on Nov. 20th and runs through Dec. 16th

Judd further describes his excitement over this upcoming tour: "We're honored to announce our upcoming tour supporting Swedish black metal legends Marduk. It's an honor to be going out with this band we've all been listening to for years and to be getting back on the road after a rocky year between canceled tours and festivals due to injuries and other unfortunate circumstances. We're currently working on material for Black Meddle Part II (official title TBA) and will be doing a demoing pre-production session with Sanford Parker in October. The new material is reminiscent of Assassins with more of a rock and roll edge over all. Our love for post rock and industrial (ala Ministry, Killing Joke, etc) is even more present this time around. We're hoping to make a record that will continue to push extreme music into uncharted territories. Recording for the new record will begin in early January and we project to have the record out in March or April. We hope to see you all soon." - more on this story

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Crossbreed Album and Tour Coming

PR reports: Florida industrial metal act Crossbreed will release their new album "KE 101" on September 15th, 2009 through Driven Music Group, the independent label founded by former KORN guitarist Brian "Head" Welch. The band has scheduled a series of warm up dates in September before embarking on a full scale US tour later this year.

"You would figure after the collapse of Artemis Records, and replacing 4 of the 6 original members would have done this band, but we have so many more people to piss off before this show can be over," says frontman James Breed. "This album is the culmination of blood, sweat and tears for us and I know people have been waiting for a long time for us to release this album. We can't wait to hear people's reactions to the new material and hope to see everybody out at these upcoming shows we have coming up in Florida later in the month."

Now signed to Driven Music Group, Crossbreed is ready to take their brand of sonic destruction to new heights. The group's new album, "KE 101", takes the slamming amalgamation of techno pulses and trademark grinding guitars Crossbreed is known for and melds it with infectious songwriting. - more on this story

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High On Fire Begin Work On New Album

PR reports: High On Fire has commenced work on its long-awaited, fifth studio album and follow-up to 2007's Death is This Communion. The esteemed band just completed pre-production with producer Greg Fidelman (Metallica, Slayer) and has now entered The Pass Studios in Los Angeles with the goal of capturing "the ultimate High On Fire experience." The new High On Fire album is slated for an early-2010 release via E1 Music.

Universally recognized as one of the most potent acts in music today, High On Fire creates "bad-ass" modern metal that merges primal fury and aggression, skyscraping riff explosions and hesher bombast with a monolithic heaviness. Described as "a supersonic exercise in conquest by volume and sheer heaviness," High On Fire has burned the hard rock rulebook since its formation in 1998, forging a style and sound that is both unique and absolutely crushing. The group features vocalist and cult guitar hero Matt Pike, powerhouse drummer Des Kensel and bassist Jeff Matz. Pike, a founding member of the famed underground band Sleep and one of heavy music's most charismatic figures was named as one of Rolling Stone's "New Guitar Gods."

"Pre-production on the new record went great!" states High On Fire drummer Des Kensel. "It really gave us the chance to make some last minute adjustments before we started tracking. We've never been able to do that before and know this will make a huge difference overall. We can't believe the way everything has fallen into place for this record! Hopefully our fans will be excited as we are once they hear the new material." - more on this story

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The anti-Emo group Perfuma Set Debut

Sidecho reports: The '90s influenced band, Perfuma will be self-releasing their long awaited debut album "Save Yrself" on Sept. 15, which will be distributed through Sidecho Media, Inc.

"Save Yrself" is the follow-up to their 2005 highly acclaimed EP "Humans are Dangerous". The album is a refined and atypical take on modern rock that has gained them their enduring fan base and has grown them from New Jersey anonymous to media darlings.

Perfuma has toured the United States three times and have shared the stage with such names as Armor For Sleep, The Junior Varsity, TheSTART, and have even performed a full tour with Farwell. In addition to their touring,
Perfuma has played at two Bamboozle Festivals, the 2008 CMJ Festival, and the record release party for Sonic Youth's 2006 album "Rather Ripped". - more on this story

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Even More Red Eye for the Gwar Guy

PR reports: This just in from Slave Pit Headquarters! The world's first and only "Intergalactic Correspondent", the ever-affable Oderus Urungus, will make his sixth and most memorable appearance on Fox News "Red Eye", hosted by Greg Gutfeld.

His prior five appearances have went so well in fact that "Red Eye" has given Oderus the opportunity to have more airtime by being a member of the panel for an entire show.

Mr. Urungus had the following to say about this recent development: "The media juggernaut that is the mighty GWAR marches relentlessly forward! I, ODERUS URUNGUS, shall be appearing on FOX News Red Eye for the 6th freaking time, on Wednesday, Sep. 2nd! And what's even better--I shall be on the show for the entire hour-long episode, or until I eat the other guests, whatever comes first. And they say FOX is a conservative network...if it took a conservative network to get Oderus on TV then I say we need more conservative networks!" - more on this story

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Devendra Banhart Eyes Fall Release

Filter reports: Devendra Banhart exploded on the international music scene in 2002 quickly winning a coterie of devoted fans as well as an unusually hefty amount of critical kudos right from the outset. His latest release is What Will We Be, recorded in a sleepy Northern California town throughout the Spring of 2009 co-produced by Devendra and Paul Butler (from UK outfit Band Of Bees). The international media's acclaim and the size of his audience both at home and abroad earned by his debut Oh Me Oh My The Way The Day Goes By The Sun Is Setting Dogs Are Dreaming Lovesongs Of The Christmas Spirit was impressive to begin with and has increased dramatically with each subsequent release. What Will We Be is his label debut for Warner Brothers Records.

The basic recording line-up- with Banhart on vocals and guitar; Noah Georgeson (producer of Banhart's last two albums, Little Joy, Bert Jansch and Joanna Newsom) on guitar and backing vocals, Greg Rogove (Priestbird) on drums and backing vocals; Luckey Remington (The Pleased) on bass and vocals and Rodrigo Amarante (Los Hermanos, Little Joy) on guitar and backing vocals- also included all the musicians involved played a part in arranging the songs recorded.

What Will We Be has a sunny, breezy feel with performances that evoke warm, lazy afternoons spent with good friends. The album is dominated by powerfully melodic, mid-tempo numbers played with relaxed expertise. But there's also ambitious stylistic range displayed with the inclusion of evanescent ballads like "Meet Me At Lookout Point," the epic riff-rocker "Rats" sprightly R&B flavored groovers on "Baby," and the sultry Latin-flavored stunner "Brindo," the Roxy-inspired "16th & Valencia, Roxy Music" among other pleasant surprises. - more on this story

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Jack Savoretti Sets Digital Release

PR reports: The latest full-length album from British troubadour Jack Savoretti, Harder Than Easy, will be released digitally in the U.S. on September 15th via De Angelis Records.

Savoretti's music has been described as having a "raw, soulful, yearning edge" (Daily Telegraph) and Burn Magazine notes "Not since Simon & Garfunkel has a gifted songwriter captured the fragility of the human condition so eloquently."

At just 25 years old, Jack Savoretti is something special: strikingly handsome, his sinuous, emotive voice synthesizes with his fluid, inventive guitar playing such that you can hardly tell where one begins and the other ends. - more on this story

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Rock a Little, Feed a Lot

PR reports: Feeding America is pleased to announce that Grammy Award-winning artist Sheryl Crow, Grammy Award-winning artist Ben Harper, Benji and Joel Madden of Good Charlotte, and Grammy Award-winning artist Jonny Lang will all perform at the "Rock a Little, Feed a Lot" concert on Tuesday, September 29th at Club Nokia in Los Angeles, a special concert being held during Hunger Action Month (September) to help raise awareness and funds for the 35 million people who are at risk of hunger in America. Tickets for "Rock a Little, Feed a Lot" are on sale now at www.ticketmaster.com.

Celebs confirmed to be a part of the event include David Arquette, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, and others. Adam Shankman, producer and director of "Step Up," "Hairspray," "Bringing Down the House," and "17 Again" is directing the event. Proceeds of the concert will go to the Los Angeles Regional Foodbank and Feeding America.

"Rock a Little, Feed a Lot" is one of many initiatives in the works for Feeding America's Hunger Action Month and will benefit both Feeding America and its local member, the Los Angeles Regional Foodbank. Hunger Action Month, formed to help those in need, bloomed from a day of service into a month-long campaign as the economy has taken a turn for the worse and the demand for food assistance has increased. - more on this story

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. Pithy Reviews: John Mellencamp- Moby- 311- Saving Able- 9mm Solution- The Entrance Band

Zane takes a listen to recent releases by John Mellencamp, Moby, 311, Saving Able, 9mm Solution and The Entrance Band and gives us pithy reviews of each. - Read the full John Mellencamp- Moby- 311- Saving Able- 9mm Solution- The Entrance Band review

.... Axis Powers - Marching Towards Destruction

Although Axis Powers travels down a road much traveled beforehand, it is certainly a robust offering in its exclusive selfdom. I would recommend beholding Axis Powers' boisterous production without a second guess. - Read the full Axis Powers - Marching Towards Destruction review

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