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PR reports: Glenn Danzig will hit the road
beginning in late October for a handful of live concert dates on both the
East and West coasts. Joining Danzig on these dates will be bassist Steve
Zing (Samhain) and guitarist Todd Youth (Danzig, Murphy's Law); former
Misfits axe man Doyle Von Frankenstein and his new band Gorgeous Frankenstein,
will support on all dates.
Glenn and Doyle have been in the studio
recording Doyle's first solo album, "Gorgeous Frankenstein," which Danzig
produced and will release on October 16 on his label, evilive. According
to Glenn, he and Doyle recorded "eight blood-curdling tracks" that include
"Man or Monster," "Devilgirl," "Reverse of God," and "Made In Hell." The
two played all instruments on the album.
These Danzig dates are also in support
of "The Lost Tracks of Danzig," the two-CD set that was released May 29,
as well as Glenn's limited edition book "Drukija, Contessa of Blood," loosely
based on the legend of 17th century vampire, Countess Elizabeth Bathory,
and illustrated by long time collaborator Simon Bisley. -
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Filter reports: Hot on the heels of yesterday's
tour news that Man Man would be heading out for more dates with Modest
Mouse, the Modest Mouse camp has confirmed that the MM and MM road show
will be touring together into December, turning their Fall tour into a
far more substantial Fall/Winter tour. Man Man support on the December
dates is expected, but not confirmed.
Modest Mouse Tour Dates:
October
31 Spokane, WA - Big Easy Concert House
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November
01 Spokane, WA - Big Easy Concert House
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02 Calgary, Alberta - MacEwan Ballroom
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03 Edmonton, Alberta - Edmonton Events
Centre *
05 Regina, Saskatchewan - Conexus Arts
Centre *
06 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan - Odeon Event
Centre *
07 Winnipeg, Manitoba - Burton Cummings
Theater *
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PR reports: Who the hell are Bunnyranch? Well,
they aren't an easy group to pin down. This quartet hails from Coimbra
Portugal, fed with R&B, Soul and Gospel fiber and Stax carbs. A primitive,
coolness absolute, rock'n'roll mutant. But all that's virtually irrelevant
when you see them live.
Bunnyranch, live are a maximum burst of
adrenalin, capable of matching some of the best live acts stateside. The
synergy of the band live begins with Kalo, (ex-Tedio Boys) a frontman,
drummer and singer who just might be the captain of Holland's 1974 World
Cup soccer team. Furiously animated and seemingly possessed by the music.
Kalo makes for a performance that's nothing but riveting. He is accompanied
by guitarist André Ferrão, João Cardoso (organ, piano,
vocals) and Pedro Calhau on bass, adding excitement that makes a hammer
of experience.
In Portugal, Bunnyranch releases have been
highly acclaimed, the band has appeared at all the major festivals, and
toured Spain, England and France. Luna Dance is Bunnyranch's third release
licensed to America and Canada by Elevator Music. - more
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PR reports: New York City/Long Island rock
act DIRTY RIG once featuring frontman Kory Clarke (Warrior Soul) have decided
it was best to part ways as they couldn't see eye to eye on several important
band issues. DIRTY RIG just returned home after their second UK tour supporting
their Escapi Music (Ryko/Warner Brothers) release titled Rock Did It.
"We wish Kory all the best in the world
with his various projects. Kory is a champ and a lifer in the music scene.
He has spent nearly his first 50 years rocking out and we are sure he will
be rocking for another 50 years." states the band.
Since returning from their UK Tour, DIRTY
RIG have auditioned over 60 singers and they now feel they are back to
their fighting weight with the new addition of Tom Morrissey as their frontman.
"We are so f***ing excited to have Tom leading this band now. Tom can really
sing his balls off and he writes some killer melodies. Its a true blessing."
adds founding member and bassist Buckshot.- more
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PR reports: Pennsylvania hardcore heavyweights
The Minor Times are currently finalizing fall touring plans with Engineer.
Encompassing much of October, the two bands will hit the East Coast before
returning home. Continuing to support their latest record, 'Summer of Wolves,'
this marks the first major touring stint for the The Minor Times since
the album's release late in June.
In other news: "Relapse records is going
to be releasing a limited edition 7" with us and our friends Rosetta,"
the band says. "The record will feature two brand new tracks from us not
available anywhere else. If you're not familiar with Rosetta, head over
to their page [http://www.myspace.com/rosetta], those guys are incredible.
Needless to say, we're pretty floored to have a record coming out on Prosthetic
and a 7" on Relapse with a great band."- dates
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PR reports: Fresh off the heels of playing
the MTV VMA afterhours party in Las Vegas on September 9th, Paul van Dyk
has added the following dates to his "In Between" North American tour:
September 26 Warehouse Live Houston
September 27 Crystal Ballroom Portland
September 28 Seven San Francisco
September 29 Nocturnal Wonderland Los
Angeles
October 25 Glow @ Ibiza Washington DC
October 26 Roseland New York
October 27 The Park Denver-
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PR reports: Legendary country singer songwriter
and celebrated actor, Kris Kristofferson will tour the UK for the first
time in 4 years during March/April 2008. Hailed by many as an artist's
artist, the three-time Grammy Award winner has recorded 26 albums, including
three with Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings as part of The
Highwaymen.
His forthcoming UK tour will consist of
an intimate solo acoustic performance. His success as a songwriter brought
him to Hollywood, and catapulted Kristofferson into one of the biggest
actors of his generation. In 1977, he won a Golden Globe for Best Actor
in A Star Is Born and also starred in the films Alice Doesn't Live Here
Anymore and Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid. - dates
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PR reports: On October 23, 2007 Norwegian
break-through artist Thomas Dybdahl will re-release his critically acclaimed
new album Science via Recall Records. Thomas Dybdahl has garnered numerous
accolades throughout his homeland earning him a "Spellemann prisen" (Norwegian
Grammy) for Best Pop Artist along with an "Alarm" (Alternative Grammy)
award for Best Pop Album. And, he has just been nominated for the 2007
Spellemanpris in the category of Best Male Artist. The awards ceremony
takes place on January 27, 2007.
Now, after achieving critical acclaim and
platinum-selling status in his native Norway, Thomas Dybdahl is ready to
share his emotive voice and intricate portraits in song with the rest of
the world. At 27 years old, Dybdahl possesses a true strength and maturity
in his songwriting that defies categorization.
Thomas Dybdahl will perform alongside Grand
National and other Recall acts at "Recall Nights" @ Blender Theater NYC
on November 7. A North American tour is planned for the winter (dates to
be announced shortly.)- more
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PR reports: Tim Williams will usher in the
arrival of his Americana-laced indie pop gem, WHEN WORK IS DONE (Dovecote
Records), with a show day of release, October 2, at New York City's Cake
Shop.
The Brooklynite's folky tunes are currently
striking a chord with audiences up and down the East Coast while an intimate
tour with Geert Van Der Velde of The Black Atlantic [formerly of Shai Hulud]
is in the works for November. Williams will make a stop at indie rock pantheon
Daytrotter studios mid-tour to record a session October 10. -
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PR reports: Acclaimed Southern California-based
hard fusioneers Cosmosquad, featuring acclaimed guitarist Jeff Kollman
(GLENN HUGHES, UFO) and Canadian drummer Shane Gaalaas (B'Z, DIESEL MACHINE),
have announced an exclusive Sunday, September 30 Chicago club date at The
Note, 1565 N. Milwaukee Ave., located in the city's Wicker Park area. Tickets
are 7 dollars in advance and 10 dollars at the door.
COSMOSQUAD will kick off their 2007 fall
tour with a performance at the world-famous Baked Potato, followed by a
string of performance clinics in the Northern Illinois and Southern Wisconsin
area. - more
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Contact Music reports: The bosses of fast
food chain KFC have made JENNIFER LOPEZ and MARC ANTHONY a tasty offer
after the couple revealed fried chicken will be a tourbus treat when they
hit the road together in November (07).
In a TV interview with U.S. news show Access
Hollywood earlier this week (beg17Sep07), Anthony revealed KFC is the only
thing he eats after performing shows, explaining, "I can't eat anything
else." Lopez revealed that she's also a fan - but she can't eat the amount
her husband does: "I mean every single freakin' night with the Kentucky
Fried Chicken."
KFC President Gregg Dedrick saw the interview
and has written to the couple, inviting them to host after-show parties
at KFC restaurant locations. Dedrick writes, "We would like to offer you,
your entourage and a few VIP guests an all access pass to the KFC location
of your choice. [maybe they'll start offering tasteless buffaj.lo wings
and extra large thighs?] - more
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antiMusic reports: The response to last Friday's
mini rant about being approached to sell editorial content was overwhelming.
We received hundreds of emails about this with only three negative responses
and two of those from people that run sites that engage in this practice.
We'll get to that in a minute. There were just too many email to respond
to each one but know that we really appreciate every last one! We must
also tell you that the CEO of that company sent out an apology and retraction
the next day and called me personally to apologize. It may have just been
an honest mistake by someone new to business that didn't really understand
what he was asking editors to do. We'll take them at their word since,
unlike some companies, they do not have a history of this but we also told
them that we can not cover the releases mentioned in that email. Back to
the emails.
Jesus Schwartz writes: I've been a fan
of your website for seven or eight years, and one thing that's been consistent
has been the quality and integrity of your reviews. I've made purchases
of new music by bands I've never heard before solely on the strength of
your writer's opinion: Strapping Young Lad, the Dillinger Escape Plan,
and Hank 3 come to mind right away, all of which have either expanded my
tastes or simply added more choices to an already eclectic CD collection.
I appreciate your article in Friday's edition,
"We Are Not For Sale" because it re-enforces my opinion of your site: you
don't suck-up to anybody's preferred artists or whoever is the "next big
thing", you definitely take an outsider's stance at objectively seeing
a musician's merits for as they are, and not as part of some hype machine.
There are plenty of articles in your Day In Rock report that I simply pass
over because they're either generic PR from the labels or they don't involve
anybody I'm interested in, but I always read the ones that your site writes
no matter who the subject may be; I love it that you'll print the smart-assed
comments in an otherwise "duhh" piece, it's like the Best Week Ever Daily
Edition, if there was one...
Response: Thank you so much for your email.
It really is appreciated. Out of all of the emails that came in yours really
stood out because you hit on the exact reason why we starting this crazy
thing almost 10 years ago. The goal was to expose people to great music
that they might not hear about anywhere else and it's always gratifying
to hear from long time readers and fellow diehard music fans that tell
us we helped them find some new music they love. It really keeps us going
and focused on what is important and why it doesn't matter if we're not
getting rich and are even forced to sacrifice to stay with it. If we help
convert one person to a fan of an artist they may not have found without
us that makes it all worth while. We really are lucky to have the dedicated,
knowledgeable and passionate writers we do. I really can't say enough about
them. But we are equally lucky to have readers like you because you get
what we're trying to do and how we are a bit different than other publications
because at the base level we're just passionate music fans that like to
write about a subject we love. So thank you!
Now about the Day in Rock stuff, glad you
like the original stories and the humor. The sarcasm is just a natural
reaction to some of what goes on in rock and a reminder that even though
we all really really love music we really can't take it too seriously!
Plus some "artists" are walking punch lines that are just asking for it.
Now on the press releases, ideally there would be more hours in the day
to write 25-30 original news articles each day but it's just too much.
We average about half right now and that takes hours each day to research
and write and we include the press releases because they are things we
think some of the readers would be interested in. We include a pretty broad
range of stuff that way and I wouldn't be too quick to skip all of them,
because you'll find some great under appreciated music covered in those
as well. But once again thank you again for your email, it really is appreciated!
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Now the negative emails. The basic premise
of the emails we received from the two webmasters that engage in the ads
for reviews practice was that they have no choice, if they do not do this
they can not survive and our simple response is if you have to resort to
this, then you do not deserve to survive. Readers count on you for an honest
opinion and if you got into this simply as a way to make money without
a real passion for music, then your readers need to know that so they can
take that into account when deciding how much to trust your coverage. Like
I said last week, if we are forced offline ourselves because we take the
highroad then so be it. Earlier this week we asked our readers to boycott
Disney because they have begun censoring metal concerts at venues on their
properties. The next day I sent out an email to some of the PR companies
we work with to explain why we would not be covering any Disney related
releases while they continue this censorship. I included a few metal sites
in that email and asked them to join us in that boycott. Sadly, with the
exception of Talking Metal we heard nothing back from any of them and nothing
appeared on their sites but when looking at a couple of those sites we
may see the key to why they are not supporting the boycott, they currently
carry advertising for a Disney owned record company. Censorship of metal
seemed like a pretty important issue to us, so we took a stand even though
we cover many genres, not just metal, but apparently censorship is fine
with some metal site operators for whatever reasons. I'm not a crusader,
though these past couple weeks might seem otherwise, but I also can't turn
a blind eye to something I believe is wrong. Even if it costs me or the
site.
The other email questioned the difference
of our running multiple ads with the practice of trading coverage for ads.
There is a world of difference. We would love nothing other to run one
small ad like we were able to do before the dot.com bubble burst but we
rely on outside ad companies to sell our ads and unfortunately these ads
are sold at a pretty low rate. Due to the amount of readers we have that
means that we have to run dedicated servers to meet the demand. Those do
not come cheap and neither does the added bandwidth of serving a popular
site. Not to mention the cost of distributing 100 or so CDs a month to
writers around the world for review and other office expenses. You get
the idea, so advertising is needed to cover the costs of running the sites
and yes most months it doesn't even cover that but running advertising
is quite a bit different than trading advertising dollars for favorable
coverage. On the other hand, if you think we run a lot of ads, pick up
the leading rock magazine and count how many pages of ads you have to flip
through to get to their table of contents. It's pretty eye opening. Plus
you pay for that magazine on top of the ads!
Finally a lot asked how they could help
us out and many mentioned donations. If it comes to a point where we would
need to do that we'd probably do a antiThon with an auction etc but right
now the best thing you can do to help us stay online is not to send us
money but to keep reading and sending us your thoughts about our coverage,
whether it's a complaint or a request for more coverage of a certain artists
and ALSO tell your friends that are into music about us as well. That will
help us out far more than a donation can. So no need to send us money,
instead spend that money on a CD you discovered here that's the best payment
we can imagine.
Sorry for the length of this Mailbag but
there were a lot of issues brought up in the emails this week. If you missed
last week's mini rant and therefore don't know what in the hell this was
all about you can read that at the link following this post. Thanks everyone
and keep rockin! - Keavin Wiggins antiMusic Editor
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This week's Biz deals with the
veracious rebellion of Trent Reznor and his stand against the record industry
and just how revolutionary his integrity is in the cynical corrupt enterprise
that is the music business of the 21st century. His battle for truth has
begun.- Read
the full Trent Reznor: The Last Honest Rebel op/ed
While "An Ocean Between Us"
isn't a departure from their past sound, As I Lay Dying continues to hone
their musical craft and come closer to what could be described as a perfect
metal album. (5 stars)
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Read the full As I Lay Dying -
An Ocean Between Us review
Those who've never watched a
full David Lynch movie other than Wild at Heart because the rest are too
strange and nonsensical will similarly struggle with The Cape May, which
is surprising and wonderful. (4.5 stars)
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Read the full The Cape May - Glass
Mountain Roads review
Great Northern lean more toward
the musical styles of bands like Iceland's Sigur Ros or The Coast or Madrid
from Canada - more on the line of new age pop or ambient rock and have
the talent to be around for the long haul. -
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- Trading Twilight for Daylight review
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