The Submarines Surf The Road

The month of May also brings the opening of the anticipated documentary Surfwise, which was scored by John Dragonetti and also features the song "Modern Inventions" from The Submarines debut album Declare A New State!. Though he has scored music for award-winning TV series on HBO, Showtime, the Sundance Channel, NBC, E!, and numerous commercials for major brands, this marks Dragonetti's first feature film. The Submarines will make a special appearance at the Los Angeles premiere of the film on May 6. - grab the dates here dude

Talking Metal God

PR reports: The latest episode of "Talking Metal" contains the uncut interview host Mark Strigl conducted with The Metal God, Rob Halford, of Judas Priest, Halford, and Fight for Talking Metal on fuse.

Topics include Metal Mike Chlasciak, Bud Friendly, Fight, Nostradamus, 1983's US Festival, Black Metal, Jimmy Page, Judas Priest's discography, Lunar Mile, and Bumblefoot.

Additional podcast topics covered by John Ostronomy and Mark Strigl include HalfordMusic.com, the song "Heart Of The Lion," Speed Kills, a letter from a Talking Metal supporter, and GoDaddy.com. The podcast can be downloaded at this - location

Do You Have What It Takes To Book A Music Festival?

Gigwise reports: Have you ever read a music festival lineup announcement and scratched your head and exclaimed, "what were they thinking?" Like when Sharon put Crazy Town, Tommy Lee's Nine Centimeter Nails band and Adema on Ozzfest mainstage? You now may have the chance to have other people say that about you!

Gigwise has the 411: Music fans in Scotland are to be given the opportunity to stage their own events across the whole of the country. Tennent's Mutual will give fans access to £150,000 in order to book acts, as well as choose what locations and venues are used.

As organisers, they'll even be allowed to set an events ticket price, with all revenue being injected back into a central fund. - more on this story

Clay Walker Charity Classic Bands Against MS

PR reports: Country Music's nationally acclaimed, multi-platinum recording artist, Clay Walker is preparing for a hole-in-one at the inaugural "Clay Walker Charity Classic" golf tournament benefiting Band Against MS. The tournament will be held June 30th – July 2nd at the famed Pebble Beach Resorts in Pebble Beach, California.

The invitation only event will benefit Walker's public charity, Band Against MS (BAMS). Walker, who was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) in 1996, founded BAMS in 2003 to create awareness and fund research programs for those living with the debilitating disease. Multiple Sclerosis, a disease that affects the central nervous system, plagues 2.5 million people worldwide. All proceeds and contributions received through the auction being held at the Monday evening GALA event will go to BAMS for MS research and outreach. - more on this story

Support The Futureheads

PR reports: The Futureheads are happy to announce that the stupidly good Operator Please will be main support to them on most of their upcoming UK Tour, with Make Model as main support act in Aberdeen and Nottingham.

Each night of the tour will also feature a third band on the bill in the shape of either Thomas Tantrum, Baddies or Uncle Monty.

Don't forget the full length, "This Is Not The World" is due out May 27th on Nul Recordings! Recorded over three weeks in Spain last summer, legendary producer Youth (Primal Scream, The Verve). - dates

Britney Ordered To Payup

TMZ reports: The commissioner in the Britney Spears conservatorship case has just ordered that a sh*tload of fees be paid to various lawyers in the case and Brit, of course, will foot the bill.

The Commish has ordered that court-appointed lawyer Sam Ingham can get $10,000 a week through July 31. What the hell is wrong with hiring Jacoby and Meyers?

But that's just the beginning. Andrew Wallet, a co-conservator, just got the green light for $100,000. And the Luce Forward law firm will get $175,000, and that's just for their work through March 31. - more on this story

Get French Kicked

PR reports: French Kicks have announced additional U.S. dates to support their latest release, Swimming, the band's second album on Vagrant Records. The new record was released exclusively through iTunes on April 1st and will be available in stores on May 20th.

With Swimming, French Kicks have delivered their finest album to date. Produced and mixed entirely by the band, the album features some of the quartet's most melodic recordings to date with standout tracks "Abandon", "Said So What" and "Over The World". It is an album that demands your attention by revealing new sounds, notes and harmonies with each listen. - more PR on the CD and the tour dates

Crash The Last Goodnight's Van

antiMusic reports: Have time to kill? Play games with The Last Goodnight. Their PR sent over the following: It's time to test your virtual driving skills in the band's new video game "The Last Goodnight and The Poison Kiss".

TLG need you to drive the tour van, pick Kurtis and boys up, find their instruments, and make it to the venue in time for the show!!

Collect apples for bonus points, but watch out for snakes! Enter in your high score and challenge your friends, and post the game on your Myspace and Facebook pages and more. - add your own joke about playing with yourself here and click here to play the game

Dengue Fever Get Festive

PR reports: Los Angeles' based band Dengue Fever have confirmed an extensive European & U.S. Summer tour of some of the biggest festivals on the planet beginning in May and running through August.

Dengue Fever will be making their debuts performances in U.K (5/27 @ Borderline), The Netherlands (5/30 @ Tong Tong Festival), Norway (6/27 @ Hove), Czech Republic (6/28 @ Respect Music Festival), Denmark (7/3 @ Roskilde) & Sweden (8/8 @ Way Out West).

Since the release of Venus On Earth, Dengue Fever has toured the East Coast of the U.S. & Canada, Midwest,and Western United States, routinely selling out venues including Mercury Lounge, Southpaw, Empty Bottle, Black Cat, Hi Dive, Viper Room, La Salla Rosa, Sneaky Dee's, the Wonder Ballroom and Neumos. The band has evolved from performing primarily Cambodian cover tunes from the 1960s on their eponymous first album in 2003 to writing all original material as well as singing significantly more songs in English on Venus On Earth. - dates

The Details Canadian Tour Details

PR reports: The Details will be taking their latest Parliament Of Trees release "Draw A Distance. Draw A Border." out on the road visiting Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Saskatchewan, British Columbia, and Alberta this spring.

"Draw A Distance. Draw A Border" continues to get love throughout Canada and the US... dates below:

April 25 Thunder Bay, Ontario The Apollo
April 26 Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario Loplops
April 27 Toronto, Ontario The Boat-Acoustic Show
April 28 Toronto, Ontario The Boat
April 29 Ottawa, Ontario The Babylon
April 30 Quebec City, Quebec Dagobert - more dates

Andrew Bird Fixated on Earth Day

PR reports: On Tuesday, April 22 at 7pm PST/10pm EST, catch multi-instrumentalist and lyricist, Andrew Bird, and indie folk singer-songwriter, Jose Gonzalez, on Current's special Earth Day themed "Fix Extended Play."

Caballero also catches up with Reverb founders Adam Gardner, frontman of the acoustic-pop band Guster, and his wife Lauren Sullivan, who discuss how they help artists like Bird and Gonzalez create earth-friendly events and tours.

"The Fix Extended Play" will also debut a new La Blogotheque "Take Away Show" featuring folk singer/songwriter, Emily Jane White, plus many more eco-friendly surprises. As always, tune-in to check out the weekly "fix" of new album releases, the network's top user-generated music pods and breaking music news. - If you don't wish to purchase viewing credits, then check out "Fix Extended Play"

Slaughter Reissued As Metalmind Seeks Fact Checker

antiMusic reports: Before we get to the latest news from Metalmind about a couple of Slaughter reissues, we must state for the readers sake that the label obviously does not have a fact checker. Today you'll see it when they proclaim that the death/thrash metal band Slaughter came after the hairmetal band of the same name. The hairmetal band formed in 1988 after Mark and Dana split the Vinnie Vincent Invasion. This was two years after this other Slaughter released their debut album.

And last week Metalmind tried to tell us that the 13th or 14th repackaging of the Enuff Z'nuff "live in the studio" album was really from a reunion concert in 2007. We didn't bother posting it. The inaccuracies in the bio were even worse and contained more BS then a Motley Crue press release. Sadly, a lot of metal sites did run with the inaccurate story. Hopefully, one day the band will put out one of the far superior board recordings that are floating around as bootlegs and retire this bogus "live album" for good. With all that said, here is what Metalmind had to say about these Slaughter reissues:

Metal Mind Productions presents new digipak edition of two Slaughter's album: "Strappado" - the debut album from 1986 featuring an extremely brutal combination of death and trash metal, spiced with some punk and hardcore influences and "Not Dead Yet/Paranormal" - the compilation album from 2001. New digipak edition is limited to 2000 copies. Digitally remastered using 24-Bit process on golden disc. Both titles will be available on 5th May 2008 in Europe and 8th July 2008 in USA (via MVD). - more on this story

Trever Keith To Come Face to Face With Fans

PR reports: Trever Keith (Face to Face frontman) is launching a solo tour today, in support of his new self-released solo debut Melancholics Anonymous. With Melancholics Anonymous, Trever Keith channels the melody & energy that galvanized his previous band, the pioneering SoCal melodic punk outfit face to face, into 11 brand new songs of remarkable depth, maturity and scope.

From the ominous electronic textures of "Incommunicado" to the plaintive acoustic guitar that cradles the title track, Melancholics Anonymous makes a clean & irrevocable break with Trever's musical past. The album fully embraces his long-standing early 80s UK indie-rock & electronica influences, yet retains the signature heavy, modern sound and Keith's unmistakable vocals & epic melodies.

Having recently reunited face to face for a handful of performances, on April 18, Trever Keith takes his solo career on the road with limited edition, signed CDs in tow. - dates and mp3

Static Revenger Goes Sci-Fi

PR reports: Check out the awesome SCI-FI inspired video for "Satellite" from Static Revenger presents "Love Song Surprise"

Video pays homage to classic sci-fi films including "2001 - A Space Odyssey," "Tron," "Contact," "Barbarella: Queen of the Galaxy" and "Star Wars"

The video was conceived and directed by Dennis White, who is currently making quite a name for himself in the film business. White recently took a year off from music production to produce and direct two independent documentary films as part of SCION'S "Easy 10 film maker series." One of the films, Castellers, won 'honorable mention' at the Very Short Movie Film Festival in Los Angels, as well as "Best Use of Music in a Documentary" by the Park City Film Music Festival,, which runs concurrent to Sundance. Castellers takes place in the Catalan region of Spain, and documents the centuries-old tradition of competitive human castle building. - Watch the video here

Hypocrisy Revisited

PR reports: Metal Mind Productions will re-release "Penetralia", Hypocrisy's stunning debut album, on 12th May 2008 in Europe and 8th July 2008 in USA (via MVD). New digipak edition, limited to numerated 2000 copies includes 2 bonus tracks! Digitally remastered using 24-Bit process on golden disc.

This modern metal phenomenon lead by musical mastermind and "Godfather of Gothenburg" - Peter Tägtgren is well-known to all death metal maniacs worldwide, gaining huge acclaim and respect with each of its releases. "Penetralia", Hypocrisy's stunning debut album, takes us back to the band's beginnings, when Tägtgren was still fascinated with old-school American death metal…

The album was originally released on October 5th, 1992 and immediately gained a handful of positive comments from both fans and critics. - more on this story

. Ascension of the Watchers - Numinosum

Ascension of the Watchers is the brainchild of Burton C. Bell of Fear Factory and Numinosum represents a significant change of style for an artist who's known primarily for cranking out aggressive music. (3 stars) - Read the full Ascension of the Watchers - Numinosum review

. Sarah Borges and the Broken Singles - Diamonds in the Dark

According to the bio on her website Sarah Borges makes music because she has no choice. All I can say is that as listeners, we are lucky that is the case. Sarah has a voice that is reminiscent of Natalie from Dixie Chicks minus some of the twang. (4.5 stars) - Read the full Sarah Borges and the Broken Singles - Diamonds in the Dark review

. 10 Years of antiMusic: Dolly's Ode To Ten

We're looking back at 10 years of antiMusic. The anniversary inspired Dolly to take a break from writing her Al Gore book so she could pen her very special ode to the number 10. You'll be amazed at how important the number actually is. Enjoy! - Read the full Dolly's Ode To Ten review

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