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Jimmy Eat World Finish New CD

punkbands reports: Jimmy Eat World have finished their new album: "I can't wait to show you guys what we have been doing for the last year. We have learned a lot making this album and hopefully, we will not take so long between records again." [no release date mentioned]- Click Here for the Full Story

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Talking Chaos

PR reports: "Talking Metal's" coverage of the 2007 edition of VH1's Rock Honors concludes with a Casey Chaos special. In this episode, hosts Mark Strigl and John Ostronomy caught up with Chaos at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, NV. Topics include Amen, Scum, Queens of the Stone Age, The Damned, Henry Rollins, Black Metal, and Anna Nicole Smith. The 30-minute podcast can be downloaded at the full story link.- Click Here for the Full Story

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Get Parsons in the Country Hall

PR reports: Gram Parsons was among the first, if not the first, musician to bridge the gap between country and rock, inspiring the country-rock, calling it Cosmic American Music, movement that influenced pivotal bands like The Band, The Byrds, and The Rolling Stones. Gram's music continues to have a global influence many musicians of today including: Norah Jones, Elvis Costello, Wilco, Neko Case, Son Volt, My Morning Jacket, Kings of Leon, The Thrills and Lucinda Williams (among countless others). An integral part of the first ever country-rock album, Sweetheart of the Rodeo by The Byrds, one cannot deny the influence he has had on country music. To deny his induction in the Country Hall of Fame would be to deny country-rock as a subgenre of country. This would cut out bands like Johnny Cash (1980), Willie Nelson (1998), and even "The King of Rock and Roll" himself, Elvis Presley (1998). The Hall of Fame states, "Country music changes daily, but it always remains, as Willie Nelson said, a place where "people tell their life stories." Gram definitely told his.

Gram Parsons is even mentioned on the Country Music Hall of Fame's website in the History of Country Music section. They should do the right thing and induct him. Now is your chance to get him the recognition he deserves! Go to the petition signature page below so that he can finally be acknowledged for his significant contribution to country music. His induction is long overdue, and YOU can make it a reality! Sign the petition at the full story link. At press time there were only 254 signers. - Click Here for the Full Story

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Boost Mobile RockCorps Rap Atlanta

PR reports: Boost Mobile RockCorps (BMRC), the national youth volunteerism movement that has motivated more than 19,000 young people to get involved and help their communities, today announced that recording artists Busta Rhymes, Young Jeezy, Rick Ross, Eve, Rich Boy, Lil Wayne and host Nick Cannon are to perform at this year's concert series with the second-annual BMRC concert in Atlanta. The concert will reward 3,000 hard-working local youth who have volunteered four hours of community service through BMRC to earn tickets to this ultra-exclusive event.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

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Decapitated Summer Tour Plans

PR reports: Join Decapitated as they hit the road with a dream lineup of the most extreme bands in the universe on the Summer Slaughter Tour which kicks off THIS Friday, June 1 in Clifton Park, NY.

Decapitated will also be headlining a few Summer Slaughter Tour off-dates, as well as a number of Mexican shows in mid-July.

Here is a full listing of dates: Summer Slaughter Tour with NECROPHAGIST, CEPHALIC CARNAGE, CATTLE DECAPITATION, THE FACELESS, AS BLOOD RUNS BLACK, ARSIS, ION DISSONANCE and BENEATH THE MASSACRE

Jun 1 2007 Northern Lights Clifton Park, New York
Jun 2 2007 Infest Asbury Park, New Jersey
Jun 3 2007 Jaxx Springfield, Virginia
Jun 4 2007 Ground Zero Spartanburg, South Carolina
Jun 5 2007 Headliners Louisville, Kentucky
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Double Live Asia

PR reports: Fantasia: Live In Tokyo by Asia will be released by Eagle Records on June 26 as a two-CD set chronicling a stunning concert of Progressive Rock from March ’07 in Tokyo by the original Asia lineup. This set, priced at $17.98, marks the very first time that drummer Carl Palmer (Emerson, Lake & Palmer), guitarist Steve Howe (Yes), bassist/vocalist John Wetton (King Crimson/Roxy Music/Uriah Heep/Wishbone Ash) and keyboardist Geoff Downes (The Buggles/Yes) have ever released a live album as Asia. It also marks the first time these four have reunited in over 20 years![see full story for tracklist]- Click Here for the Full Story

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The Klaxons Add Dates

PR reports: The Klaxons Announce New Us Tour Dates & Pitchdork Fest 2007

ROUND THREE
July 10 Los Angeles, CA @ El Rey Theatre
July 11 San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall
July 12 Seattle, WA @ Chop Suey
July 3 Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge
July 15 Chicago, IL @ The Pitchdork Music Festival
July 16 Minneapolis, MN @ The Varsity Theater
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Live Earth Tokyo

PR reports: Live Earth Founder and Producer Kevin Wall joined with Tatsu Kitagawa, the principal of Live Earth Japan office, at a press conference today to announce the artist lineup and ticketing information for Live Earth Japan. Wall announced that Japan is the only country hosting two events as part of the 24-hour, 7-continent Live Earth concert series to combat global warming. Makuhari Messe in Tokyo will host a daylong official Live Earth concert. A special broadcast event will be held at the To-ji Buddhist Temple in Kyoto later in the day.

Live Earth Tokyo will feature the following acts live on stage: AI, Ai Otsuka, Ayaka, Cocco, Genki Rockets, Kumi Koda, Rihanna, Linkin Park, Rize, And others to be announced at a later date.

The special Kyoto broadcast event will feature the following acts live on stage: Michael Nyman, Rip Slyme, Yellow Magic Orchestra, And others to be announced at a later date.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

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Madina Lake Tour Plans

PR reports: Trucking through the U.S. with blazing conviction, pop-rock faction Madina Lake is enjoying the success of their first headlining tour. Heading a lineup that includes like-minded melodic rock kinsman Emanuel, Madina Lake has established their place in the modern rock landscape. Having toured with acts such as The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Cute Is What We Aim For and Paramore, the band was ready to break out on their own. “Our headlining tour has been such a fantastic surprise so far, the first 3 shows have sold out,” bassist Matthew Leone reflects. “We have the opportunity to chew into the record a little deeper and we’ve discovered that our audience knows every word, even the more obscure songs.” The headlining tour will conclude June 22, after which the band will be playing the Day on the Meadow Festival on July 3rd in San Jose, California.

With no intentions of slowing down, Madina Lake will also be taking on a supporting slot on this year’s Projekt Revolution Tour. The Projekt Revolution Tour is the brainchild of Linkin Park, and will be launching its fourth year in existence. This year’s tour will feature main stage acts such as Linkin Park, My Chemical Romance, Taking Back Sunday, HIM, and Placebo. Madina Lake will be playing the Revolution Stage alongside diverse acts such as Mindless Self Indulgence, Saosin, The Bled and Styles of Beyond.[see full story for tour dates]- Click Here for the Full Story

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Burning Brides Line Up Free Shows in LA

PR reports: To celebrate the June 19 release of their new album "Hang Love," The Burning Brides will bring their scorching, post-grunge-groove-metal/rock to Los Angeles for a series of free shows every Monday night in June at The Echo. For this entire June residency, the Brides - Dimitri Coats (guitars, vocals), Melanie Coats (bass), Pete Beeman (drums) - will be joined onstage by Urge Overkill guitarist, Nash Kato. Showtime for all four Monday nights will be 9:00PM.

"Hang Love," Burning Brides' third album, was produced by Coats and is a raging slab of towering riffs and melodies, unrelentingly heavy rock that coexists with a keen sense of pop melody. Burning Brides released its first album in 2001, "Fall of the Plastic Empire," made for $5000 in a motorcycle garage in Philadelphia, and earned its fair of share of comparisons to Nirvana's "Bleach." [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

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Peel Tour

PR reports: Peel will set out in June on its first U.S. tour in support of its self-titled debut album. Drummer Alex Brown from the band Prom Night will be joining the band on drums for the tour. The record has had the press raving, and has been gaining the band comparisons to everyone from Pavement to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. While flattering, these comparisons have left the members of Peel scratching their heads.

With classically trained pianist Allison Moore managing multiple keyboards, country music fan Dakota Smith giving Peel its twang, and lefty-ruling-right-handed-guitarist Josh Permenter in the mix, the members of the group like to think they’ve set themselves apart.

Peel will make its way down south and back up the east coast, and will play three New York dates before returning back home to perform with The Liars and fellow Austin band The White Ghost Shivers. [see full story for dates]- Click Here for the Full Story

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LadybiRdS Enlists Gyn Class Heroes, The Get Up Kids and Say Anything Members

PR reports: What do Gym Class Heroes’ Tyler Pursel, Say Anything’s Max Bemis, and The Get Up Kids’ Matt Pryor have in common? Well, apart from playing in a handful of this nation’s finest pop bands, those performers, along with Justin Johnson from Philly area band The Danger O's and Neil Sabatino from Jersey-based band Fairmont, all play on LadybiRdS’ debut LP, Regional Community Theater.

The project --to put out a record of glitched up dance pop guested on by his friends-- was the brainchild of Pursel’s. Everyone was excited to be involved, the songs were laid out, but then something happened; the record, initially conceived as more of mix-and-match project, found a frontwoman in New Jersey-bred fireball Teeter Sperber, former lead singer of the little known yet sort of well-liked Ley Royal Scam.

LadybiRdS’ Regional Community Theater out September 4th, 2007 on Creep Records. Grab an mp3 at the full story link. - Click Here for the Full Story

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Los Lonely Boys Cover Lennon for Darfur

PR reports: "Texican" sibling trio Los Lonely Boys will contribute a cover of John Lennon's Number One single "Whatever Gets You Thru The Night" to the forthcoming CD Instant Karma: The Campaign to Save Darfur.

The track is currently available for purchase on iTunes and will be included on Instant Karma, which will be released on June 12th by Warner Bros. Records. Proceeds from the double CD — which features more than 20 iconic Lennon songs recorded by such best-selling artists as Green Day, R.E.M., U2 and Christina Aguilera — help support Amnesty International's campaign to focus attention and mobilize on the urgent catastrophe in Darfur, Sudan, and other human rights crises. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

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deSoL Set Release

PR reports: deSoL, the Asbury Park, NJ-based band that mixes rock hooks with Latin rhythms is set to release On My Way, an album of all new material sung in English and Spanish is set to hit retail on August 7th through saZon Records/Two22 Music with distribution through ADA. The album's first single "Sing It All Night" is scheduled to be serviced to Triple A radio next month.

Over the course of their six years together, deSoL has scored notable successes both on stage and on radio. Having toured extensively, deSoL has shared marquees with artists such as R.E.M., The Legendary Wailers, Los Lonely Boys, Blues Traveler, Particle and Widespread Panic, to name just a few. The band has become linked with the high profile festivals they've graced the stages of like Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, and Austin City Limits, and more. see full story for tracklist and some upcoming dates]- Click Here for the Full Story

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