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 Drowning
Pool Podcast |
PR reports: Drowning Pool has just launched
their podcast series on iTunes. The band will release a new episode to
the podcast every week up to the July 24th release of Full Circle. The
podcasts offer their fans a glimpse of never before seen footage of the
recording process, interviews, and their USO tour through Iraq and Kuwait.
Episode #1 features footage of the band during their stint on the USO tour
and the band in the studio writing the new album. Episode #2 tells the
story of the band’s origin and what life was like when the band got their
first record deal.
The podcast is free to download and when
you subscribe will automatically download into your iTunes. [see full story
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| Borderline
Insanity Warriors |
PR reports: Renown southern California hardcore
group The Warriors will headline the Borderline Insanity Tour of America
beginning June 8. It will serve as a preview to their debut CD release
on Victory Records, Genuine Sense Of Outrage. Providing support for The
Warriors will be First Blood, Too Pure to Die and Since the Flood.
The Warriors plan on staying on the road
well beyond the Borderline Insanity tour. Another U.S. tour with Evergreen
terrace is already in the planning stages. Until then, you can catch The
Warriors and their Borderline Insanity brethren at the following venues:
Borderline Insanity Tour
6/08 - Lancaster, CA @ Cedar Ceter
6/09 - Las Vegas, NV @ Leatherneck's
6/10 - Tucson, AZ @ The Rock
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| Silverstein
Tracks |
PR reports: Silverstein's new CD Arrivals
& Departures” will hit stores July 3rd. Here is the tracklisting:
1. Sound of the Sun
2. Bodies and Words
3. If You Could See Into My Soul
4. Worlds Apart
5. My Disaster
6. Still Dreaming
7. The Sand Will Turn To Glass
8. Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
9. Vanity and Greed
10. Love With Caution
11. True Romance
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| A
Day To Forget |
PR reports: Neil Westfall, guitarist for Victory
Records pop-mosh band, A Day To Remember, wishes Thursday, 5/3 had never
happened. The situation is still under investigation but Neil’s family
home burned down and the family has lost all their possessions. As the
band was preparing to leave for their tour later in the week, this occurred
and all Neil has is the clothes on his back. If fans and kind hearts want
to send him a message of cheer or make a donation to help out with his
lose, give him a shout at xneilx@tmail.com - Click
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| New
Orleans Benefit |
PR reports: New Orleans created American music.
Now a group of musicians including the Indigo Girls, OK GO’s Damian Kulash,
My Morning Jacket’s Jim James, San Francisco singer Matt Nathanson and
New Orleans’ legends Al “Carnival Time” Johnson and Bonearama will help
recreate the devastated city by playing a benefit concert to fund housing
for the city’s struggling musicians and artists.
It will be a loose and fun show with each
artist performing a few songs with many of them sitting in on each other's
songs. The full billing will be released closer to the concert, which will
take place at Tipitina's Uptown on Sunday, May 27. [see full story for
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| Eastern
Conference Champion Set Release |
PR reports: Eastern Conference Champions have
finally announced a release date for their much-anticipated debut full-length,
Ameritown - July 17, 2007. Having already gotten a taste for the Pennsylvania
trio with their 2006 The Southampton Collection EP and the recent Home
Away EP, fans can expect to hear the band's signature elements - distinctive
vocals, sinewy basslines and melodic hooks a-plenty all coming together
to create a diverse and captivating rock 'n' roll album – ooh yeah!
Catch ECC currently on tour with Black
Rebel Motorcycle Club and on Summer dates with Ozma
May
16 - Salt Lake City, UT - In The Venue
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17 - Englewood, CO - Gothic Theatre *
18 - Omaha, NE - Sokol Underground *
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| Grand
National Soph |
PR reports: Recall Records is pleased to announce
the highly anticipated release of Grand National’s sophomore album A Drink
And A Quick Decision. The album will be released in a unique fan-friendly
platform format with the digital version available on June 18th and a deluxe
CD version available on September 10th. The deluxe CD package will feature
bonus tracks and remixes not available on the digital release.
With A Drink And A Quick Decision, Grand
National (AKA Rupert Lyddon and Lawrence “La” Rudd) have actually improved
upon the masterpiece that was their debut release Kicking The National
Habit. The band’s debut release drew a cult following around the world
and received some of the most positive press imaginable for a new act.
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| Your
Mama Is A Hit |
PR reports: Last week, to celebrate the annual
Mother's Day holiday, Warner Music Group/Cordless Recordings' artist Kennedy
released "Your Mama," the first video from his upcoming debut album "Kennedy
For President." The video, an homage to all of the beautiful and alluring
mothers everywhere, is currently featured on the home page of YouTube and
has drawn over 500,000 plays in the span of 72 hours, good for #1 most
watched music video and #2 most watched overall video on the service. The
digital-only 2-track audio single "Your Mama" is released today and features
the title track and the b-side "Let's Get Def". "Let's Get Def" was featured
in "American Pie: The Naked Mile" and has been one of Kennedy's most requested
tracks by his online fans. The full length album, "Kennedy For President",
will be released later this summer and features 3 tracks produced by the
UK Garage veteran and DirtyPop impresario DJ Sticky. There are also tracks
produced by up-and-coming UK super-producers Count De Money. Earlier today
reporters were allowed to speak to Kennedy at a short press conference.
When Kennedy was asked "Who's loving your mama?", he simply replied, "I
am!" and then abruptly left the building.
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| Akercocke
Antichrist Censored |
PR reports: The forthcoming album from Akercocke,
abruptly titled ‘Antichrist’, has run into more controversy. The provocative
nature of the record has already led to problems in Ireland, where the
band will take part in a live discussion on the ‘Nolan Live’ show on BBC1
Northern Ireland next Wednesday at 10.45pm with members of the Irish Catholic
clergy.
Now the album has run into problems in
the US, where the pressing plant handling the production of the album,
Disc USA, has refused to handle the record due its ‘anti-Christian’ perspective.
Commenting on the decision, Akercocke frontman Jason Mendonca stated: "I
rather perturbed that in this day and age, the 21st Century, people are
so uptight. Whatever happened to freedom of speech and freedom of expression
in the alleged democracy of the USA? Censorship is always ugly no matter
how you view it. It smacks of fascism to me." [welcome to the 21st century
in the US where special interests on both sides would rather silence then
debate, just ask Imus]
Akercocke’s ‘Antichrist’ is currently set
for May 28 release in UK/Europe, with an American release due on July 17.-
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| Circus
Diablo Set Release, Tour |
PR reports: KOCH Records' first signing for
its new metal division is the Los Angeles based hard rock outfit, Circus
Diablo. The band features members past and present from The Cult, Fuel,
The Almighty and Camp Freddy. The self-titled debut album will be released
on July 3rd, 2007 and features the single, "Loaded."
Circus Diablo is Billy Morrison (vocals),
Billy Duffy (lead guitar), Ricky Warwick (guitar), and Brett Scallions
(bass), with Charles Ruggiero of Slunt beating the skins live, while Velvet
Revolver's Matt Sorum performed all the drum tracks on the album, courtesy
of RCA Records. The band hits the road this summer in support of their
debut album, with touring plans continuing through 2008. You can catch
Circus Diablo at Ozzfest,and at press time the band has confirmed a co-headlining
tour with Nick (Queens Of The Stone Age) Oliveri's Mondo Generator.[see
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| Stroke
9 Set June Release |
PR reports: Stroke 9, the band that made little
black backpacks infamous back in the day, are back with more of their brand
of sunny, slightly quirky, California rock music. Their new album, “Last
Of The International Playboys,” is due out on June 5th. The album cover
is decorated with drawings created by a friend of the band which pictures
the band members jaunty garb. The record follows on the heels of “Café
Cuts,” the acoustic collection the band released last year on Rock Ridge
Music.
Lead singer Luke Esterkyn is pleased that
the band is operating in the indie arena via Rock Ridge Music the past
few years and attributes the longevity of the band to “our ability to adapt
to a rapidly-changing business. We put out as much music as we can and
give away our old stuff on MySpace. It is a scenario that works well for
us.”[see full story for more]- Click
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| Kelly's
CD Cheesy Enough For Clive |
Contact Music reports: LATEST: KELLY CLARKSON
has dismissed reports her new album was panned by record executives, insisting
the rumours are unfounded. The singer was alleged to left label bosses
at RCA and Sony BMG unimpressed with her latest efforts on forthcoming
album My December - but the American Idol star laughed off the claims.[see
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| Dinosaur
Jr. Reunion Tour DVD |
PR reports: Dinosaur Jr. documents their epic
reunion tour, and the potent performances of those classic songs that first
established them as a monumental musical force, in their first ever DVD
release. Titled Dinosaur Jr.: Live In the Middle East (Image Entertainment
- May 29, 2007), this full length concert DVD was filmed largely at Boston’s
Middle East, as well as at New York’s legendary Irving Plaza and at other
shows along the band’s December 2005 tour.
With unfettered access to this famously
elusive band, fans can expect one-on-one interviews, behind the scenes
going-ons and a full set of performances of Dinosaur Jr. favorites, all
recorded along the band’s recent reunion tour. The DVD features performance
footage of 18 Dinosaur Jr. songs originally recorded on their classic first
albums: Dinosaur, You’re Living All Over Me and Bug. In addition, Dinosaur
Jr.: Live In the Middle East offers the band’s 2005 interview at the WXPN’s
renowned World Café studios, and interview appearances by Kim Gordon,
Thurston Moore, Mike Watt, Matt Dillon, and others. The DVD was directed
by Gold In Berlin, which is run by Mascis' brother in-law, German filmmaker
Phillip Virus.
Dinosaur Jr. is on tour now. The current
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| Twisted
Star Wars Encounter |
PR reports: In honor of the 30th anniversary
of the Star Wars saga, Twisted Sister guitarist Jay Jay French has been
interviewed by the mysterious Maul Stanley (a parody hybrid of Star Wars
character Darth Maul and Kiss guitarist Paul Stanley). As part of this
special week-long event, Maul Stanley has also interviewed members of Poison,
Cinderella and Quiet Riot regarding their own unique Star Wars experiences.
An excerpt from the Jay Jay French interview follow:
Maul Stanley: What are your memories of
the first time seeing a Star Wars movie? - Jay Jay French: I saw the first
Star Wars when it came out in 1977 and I saw The Empire Strikes Back in
1980. Then in 1983, I was in England with Twisted Sister when I happened
to spot an advertisement in the London Times. It was for a special one-time
showing of all three Star Wars movies, including the premiere of Return
of the Jedi. I don't think I told anybody else in the band about it but
since I had nothing else on the schedule for that night, I just headed
over to the theater. Miraculously enough, I was able to buy a ticket and
walk right in. Even more amazing, everybody in the audience was in costume!
It was like I'd walked into a big masquerade party or something. So there
I was, sitting in the theater surrounded by all these people dressed up
as Star Wars characters, trying to figure out what was going on. Then some
other people came out to address the audience, giving speeches and telling
us that it was a very special occasion, that we were going to be the first
to see the new Star Wars movie, that we were not going to believe our eyes
and so on and so forth.
It was then revealed to us that the Star
Wars actors were all in attendance that night! One by one they were introduced,
including David Prowse dressed as Darth Vader! He then took off his helmet
and said, "I am not James Earl Jones!" It was fantastic. Then to top everything
off, George Lucas himself made an appearance! It was all just absolutely
incredible. For something I'd heard about completely by accident, it turned
out to be an experience I will never, ever forget. That night I got to
be a part of something very special in Star Wars history.[see full story
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Adam caught up with Regina Spektor
as she gave a Performance and CD Signing for Begin to Hope at Borders Books
on State Street - Chicago, IL - May 14, 2007 - Check
out Live photos from this show
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