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Records Update |
PR reports: Eyes of Ligeia have decided to
call it a day, in a statement from the band’s leader, Dante "After nine
years, the cycle is complete. Eyes of Ligeia has been laid to rest, having
accomplished all that was meant to be. No further information will be forthcoming."
Ash Pool’s Black Bondage in the North 7”ep
will finally be available in early April. We have finally received the
covers, and are expecting the vinyl’s by the end of next week at the latest.
Our sincerest apologies to those of you who have been waiting patiently,
and to those waiting not so patiently. Trust us in that, this ep will be
worth the wait.
In other Ash Pool news, their appearance
at this years No Fun Festival has been canceled; no further information
is available. Grab the "Whipped to Death" MP3 at the full story link. -
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| Sick
Puppies Join Justice and Mercy tour |
PR reports: Following their April 3 RMR /
Virgin Records debut release, Dressed Up As Life, Australian indie-rock
trio SICK PUPPIES will tour in support of Flyleaf on the second leg of
the Justice and Mercy tour.
SICK PUPPIES TOUR DATES: (with FlyLeaf,
Kill Hannah, and Resident Hero)
5/5 Dallas, TX Palladium Ballroom
5/6 Austin, TX Antone's
5/8 Little Rock, AR The Village
5/9 Oklahoma City, OK Diamond Ballroom
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| The
Rapture / Shiny Toy Guns Tour |
PR reports: Universal Motown Records' rock
icons The Rapture, will join label mates Shiny Toy Guns, who are currently
finishing up their third tour of the UK, on a 21 city, propulsive dance/funk
tour that kicks off in Hattiesburg, Mississippi on April 21, and ends up
in Burlington, Vermont on May 23. New York foursome The Rapture are also
winding down their European/Asian/Australian jaunt, showcasing their current
album Pieces Of The People We Love
The following are The Rapture/Shiny Toy
Guns Tour Dates kicking off in late April:
Apr 21, 10:00PM, Hattiesburg, Mississippi
- The Bottling Company
Apr 22, 3:00PM, Austin, Texas - The Backyard
Apr 24, 6:30PM, Tempe, Arizona - The Marquee
Theatre
Apr 25, 9:00PM, Tuscon, Arizona - Club
Congress
Apr 29, 6:00PM, Reno, Nevada - Club Underground
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| Broken
Teeth Tracks |
PR reports: Broken Teeth, the Austin Hard
Rock quintet featuring former Dangerous Toys/Watchtower vocalist Jason
McMaster, have set the tentative track listing for their upcoming LP release,
Electric, a collection of new and re-recorded tracks from their self-released
LP's Broken Teeth and Guilty Pleasures. The album is set to hit stores
in August via Corporate Punishment/Navarre. The track listing is as follows:
1. Hell For Sale
2. Electric
3. Blood On The Radio
4. Undertaker
5. She's Gonna Blow
6. El Diablo
7. Stick It In
8. Burns Like Love
9. Roll Over
10. Hangin’ By The Skin
11. Devil Money
12. Bonfire- Click
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| Flea's
Hullabaloo Benefit |
PR reports: An extraordinary evening of musical
entertainment to aid a musical cause will celebrate its third year when
the “Hullabaloo” benefit takes place Saturday, May 5, at The Music Box
at the Henry Fonda Theater (6126 Hollywood Blvd.). Created by Flea, bassist
of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Keith Barry, dean of the nonprofit Silverlake
Conservatory of Music (SCM), which they co-founded in 2001, “Hullabaloo”
raises funds for the SCM, including to provide scholarships to more than
100 low-income students whose families would otherwise be unable to afford
instruments and/or lessons as well as to expand the school’s summer camp
program. Tickets will go on sale Saturday, April 21st and will be available
only over the web at: www.silverlakeconservatory.com
Attendees at the festive event, which begins
at 6 p.m., will be treated to a night of entertainment from actor Woody
Harrelson and magician/musician Rob Zabrecky plus very special performances
by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam, Charlie Haden,
Ditty Bops, students and faculty of the SCM, and other special guests.
Hors d'oeuvre, a light buffet, and an open bar with spirits, wine, beer
and champagne will be served throughout the evening. There will also be
a silent auction and Zabrecky will conduct the live auction to raise funds
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| Sonic
Youth Sign up Wooden Wand |
PR reports: The legendary musicians and tastemakers
in Sonic Youth have professed their love for folkadelic troubadour Wooden
Wand, taking him on tour as their opening act in February and lending their
support in the making of his latest album, James & The Quiet.
Thurston Moore -- Sonic Youth's spry, eternally-teenaged
guitarist/vocalist -- recently signed Wooden Wand to his Ecstatic Peace
label (home of Be Your Own Pet), announcing a June 12th release date for
James & The Quiet. The album was produced by SY guitarist Lee Ranaldo
(who also plays some stringed things on the recording), and longtime SY
drummer Steve Shelley provides his signature rhythmic strut.
The label has posted “Delia”, the first
sample MP3 from the album at the full story link. - Click
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| Bowling
For Soup Tour |
PR reports: Jive Recording Artist Bowling
For Soup kick off their spring tour in Kansas City, MO on April 13th.
Tour dates and venues are as follows:
April 13 Kansas City, MO The Grand Emporium
April 14 Tulsa, OK Cain's Ballroom
April 15 Frisco, TX Edgefest 16 - Pizza
Hut Park
April 18 San Antonio, TX Jack's Patio
Bar
April 19 San Marcos, TX Lucy's
April 21 Memphis, TN Newby’s
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| Drowning
Pool USO |
PR reports: Drowning Pool, in collaboration
with the USO will launch a free download and Internet video campaign today,
featuring their new song “Soldiers.” Written for the troops after returning
from an overseas USO tour, “Soldiers” can be downloaded for free through
the USO’s MySpace page. In addition, the new Internet video, featuring
exclusive live footage of the band’s USO performances in Iraq and Kuwait,
can be viewed on Drowning Pool’s MySpace page.
“We are proud to be working with Drowning
Pool to make “Soldiers” available as a free download,” said USO president
and CEO, Edward A. Powell.
Since the band’s first USO tour in 2005,
Drowning Pool and the USO have worked closely in an effort to boost the
morale of thousands of service members stationed overseas. “The USO appreciates
Drowning Pool’s willingness to perform for American troops stationed far
from home, and for encouraging other groups to do the same,” said Powell.
“Last year the band entertained more than 12,000 troops in Germany, Kuwait
and Iraq, and we look forward to their next USO tour.” -
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| Graduate
Extend Tour Plans |
PR reports: The time is almost here! The Graduate
's debut album, Anhedonia, will be released next week on Icon Mes. To gear
up, the band has released a new set of tour dates through May and June
as well as an official e-card with audio streams and a glimpse into the
making of Anhedonia.
April
6 - Madison, WI - The Loft *
7 - Detroit, MI - Magic Stick *
9 - Des Moines, IA - House Of Bricks *
10 - Springfield, IL - Capitol City *
11 - Papillion, NE - The Rock *
12 - St. Louis, MO - Creepy Crawl *
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| Epitaph
for |
PR reports: Epitaph Records is thrilled to
announce the signing of Gallows, touted by Kerrang magazine as “the world’s
most exciting new band”. The legendary punk label will release the band’s
already completed and much acclaimed album Orchestra Of Wolves, with the
addition of three exclusive bonus tracks for North America, on July 10.
“Punk rock is back and its new name is Gallows,” says Epitaph president
Brett Gurewitz. “This is the band we’ve all been waiting for.”
Comprised of Frank Carter (vocals), Steph
Carter (guitar/vocals), Laurent Barnard (guitars/keys/vocals), Stuart Gili-Ross
(bass) and Lee Barratt (drums), Gallows hail from the gloomy streets of
Watford, UK where they formed in 2005. Inspired by early 80s hardcore bands
like Minor Threat and Black Flag, 90s Swedish hardcore such as Refused,
the metal riffs of Mastodon and the discordance of underground bands such
as Swing Kids, and JR Ewing, Gallows’ ultimate goal was to wrestle punk
back from the fashion police and re-invest it with the passion, brutality
and menace that characterized their British forebears.-
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| PlayRadioPlay
EP |
PR reports: Seventeen year-old Texan, Dan
Hunter is the ‘poptronica’ genius behind PlayRadioPlay (PRP), which has
already hit one million plays on MySpace and opened for Fall Out Boy all
in the space of a single year. The highly anticipated EP The Frequency
will available in stores April 24, 2007. And one short month later fans
can find him on tour with some of the biggest names in music on Warped
Tour.
PRP is often compared to Postal Service
and The Smashing Pumpkins, the songs are like the soundtrack to your dreams.
On the surface they’re like cupcakes - sweet, cute and just bursting with
pure happiness. But if you listen carefully to what this blissfully gentle
voice is singing on songs such as “Bound To Get Caught” and “Compliment
Each Other Like Colors”, you’ll discover a darker dimension to Dan’s music.
It’s this diverse combination of sound and subject that gives his music
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| Sea
Wolf is coming |
PR reports: Sea Wolf is the moniker of multi-instrumentalist
Alex Church, former member of Los Angeles indie-pop wonders Irving. His
brilliant 5-song EP, Get To The River Before It Runs Too Low, will be released
May 8th via Dangerbird Records, as he hits the road supporting labelmates
Silversun Pickups later this month. Get in early on this one, his songs
will win you over in a heartbeat, and his full-length is soon to follow.
[see full story for "You Are Wolf" MP3]
Sea Wolf Tour Dates:
April
12 Vancouver, BC - Richards On Richards
*
13 Seattle, WA - Neumos *
14 Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom *
16 San Francisco, CA - The Independent
*
26 Los Angeles, CA - ExPlx + [The Echo
downstairs]
May
01 Los Angeles, CA - Troubadour #
08 Rochester, NY - Water Street Music
Hall *
09 Toronto, ON - Lee's Palace *
10 Buffalo, NY - Town Ballroom *
13 Baltimore, MD - Recher Theatre *
14 Philadelphia, PA - Trocadero *
15 New York, NY - Webster Hall *
* = w/ Silversun Pickups
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| TFD
Coming |
PR reports: Following the (previous) demise
of Brutal Truth, drummer/vocalist/performance artist Richard Hoak seized
the opportunity to take grindcore music to its next and possibly final
logical extreme with the creation of Total f***ing Destruction. Bored sick
of the current state of punk rock ‘etiquette’ and label politics, TFD's
music is preformed for the sheer joy of musical annihilation! Nauseatingly
hyper blast beats are entangled with musical contortions inspired by a
fast and pissed attitude that has been sorely missing from the sterile
and stagnant state of so-called “extreme music.”
With grind on the mind and destruction
boiling in their veins, TFD has taken grind to a new place with an extremely
unique album that consists of three parts: Part 1 is a proper grinding,
metallic and perversely catchy batch of songs. Part 2 is an acoustic monster
all in itself, completely different from anything heard in grind today.
Part 3 is an enhanced cd that contains Live from Hazel’s, a legendary live
performance recorded in the bowels of Philadelphia. TFD's newest slab of
filthy Philly cannabis-core Zen and the Art of Total f***ing Destruction
is out in May with a carpet-bombing of live attacks lining up ahead of
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People may snicker at Bon Jovi
and not take them seriously, but their songs still resonate. Bon Jovi may
not be everyone's Beatles, but their material connects deeply with their
audience and this is why, when they choose to be, they are the liveliest,
most entertaining, energetic and fun live band on the planet.
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the full Bon Jovi: 52,612 Fans Can't Be Wrong review
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out Live photos from this show
Cutting like the steel of an
enemy's sword and just as unforgivingly cold, Bladesmith have forged quite
The Darkness on this wonderful debut. Five f***ing hails, and can't wait
for the rest! - Read
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Pizzasaurus Rex sounds like
a 3AM slice shop in a college town. This is hardly a great name for a band,
especially for a band that doesn’t play stupid 2-minute punk ditties. To
further muddle the message, P Rex compliments its stupid name with a great
album title. (2.5 stars)
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