Adam Lambert and Kris Allen Want To Record Together

"It could happen," Lambert told E!'s Marc Malkin Friday during his exclusive sitdown with him and Allen. "Maybe we'll write a song on the road." Allen smiled, "We have to figure it out, but yeah, we should do it." [RCA/Simon F let Idol's write songs?]
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Paul McCartney's Fenway Shows Get New MGMT

Sony reports: Brooklyn based alternative/pop/rock ensemble MGMT are set to directly support Sir Paul McCartney for two special shows at Boston's Fenway Park on August 5th and 6th. News of McCartney's admiration for MGMT broke in early June.

Tickets for this special show go on sale to the public beginning Monday June 29, 2009 at 10a.m. EST at www.livenation.com, at the Orpheum Theatre Box Office or by calling (800) 514-3849. Tickets are not available for purchase at Fenway Park.

MGMT are also set to headline a sold-out show in Brooklyn's Prospect Park on Wednesday July 1. The band will also perform at the All Points West Music and Arts Festival at Liberty State Park in New Jersey on Sunday August 2. - more on this story

Misguided Aggression Now On the Scene

Year of the Sun reports: Misguided Aggression has been added to the SCENE Music Festival on June 28th in downtown St. Catherines, Ontario. Misguided Aggression joins an impressive line-up that includes performances by Every Time I Die, Cancer Bats, Arise and Ruin, Farewell To Freeway, Odium and Starring Janet Leigh.

The group is touring in support of their recently released new album "Hatchala", which was released earlier this year through Year of the Sun Records.

Misguided Aggression's "Hatchala" was recorded at Icehouse Studios by producer Thomas Ireland and mixes bone crushing brutality with head-banging grooves to create the soundtrack to a drunken bar brawl between Lamb of God, Pantera and Meshuggah. Sputnik Music hailed the album as, "One of the neatest records of extreme metal from an upcoming band I've heard in quite a while." - more on this story

Jackie DeShannon Being Reissued

conqueroo reports: The multi-talented, Grammy-winning Jackie DeShannon is best known for writing and recording hits like "Put a Little Love in Your Heart" as well as interpreting Jack Nitzsche and Sonny Bono's "Needles and Pins" (long before the Searchers and the Ramones) and Burt Bacharach & Hal David's "What the World Needs Now Is Love." She co-penned and originally recorded "Bette Davis Eyes," and her songs – written with the likes of Randy Newman, Jimmy Page and John Bettis – have been covered by The Byrds, Marianne Faithful, Cher, The Temptations, Brenda Lee, The Carpenters, Al Green, Tracey Ullman, Annie Lenox and Steve Forbert. She began recording as a young teen in the late '50s and continues into the present. Four of her most defining albums from the 1960s-70s — Jackie DeShannon, Me About You, To Be Free and New Arrangement — will be reissued on Collectors' Choice Music on August 25. (Me About You and To Be Free will be released together on one CD.)

By July 1963, Jackie DeShannon had been singing and recording singles for roughly seven years, building a reputation as a versatile singer and songwriter. A few months prior, she had hit the Billboard singles chart for the first time as a performer with a rendering of the country standard "Faded Love." Within a year she would find herself touring with the Beatles while releasing a pair of signature hits, Nitzsche and Bono's "Needles and Pins" and her own "When You Walk in a Room." However, in the summer of '63, Liberty Records boldly released DeShannon's self-titled debut album, which contained folk standards from the best songwriters of the day. "Folk music has always been in my repertoire," says DeShannon, who was born in Illinois and raised in Kentucky and Chicago. "My grandmother played guitar and sang English folk songs to me as I was growing up. The acoustic finger-picking style is very close to home."

The result of this influence was DeShannon's debut album, her first of more than 30 long-players. Included were early interpretations of Bob Dylan's "Walkin' Down the Line," "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" and "Blowin' in the Wind"; Bobby Darin's "Jailer Bring Me Water," Eric Von Schmidt's adaptation of Rev. Gary Davis' "Baby Let Me Follow You Down," Peter Yarrow's "Puff (The Magic Dragon)," Pete Seeger's "If I Had a Hammer" and DeShannon's adaptation of "Oh Sweet Chariot" (otherwise known as "Swing Low"). The album arranger was Phil Spector protégé Jack Nitzsche, its producer Dick Glasser, of whom DeShannon says, "Both had eclectic taste in music. The studio musicians could play any style. So our tracks covered a lot of musical ground. I think the album was ahead of it time." - more on this story

Sara Wasserman Announces Tour Dates

PR reports: Sara Wasserman will be performing at a number of select dates next months in support of Solid Ground, her debut album, a project seven years in the making, released 10 days ago by That Other Label, a division of Pacific Coast Jazz.

The singer/songwriter will join RatDog, the band fronted by Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead at four of the band's upcoming east coast tour stops. These include an appearance on July 11 at Atlantic City's Mark G. Etess Arena, followed by two dates at The Casino Ballrooom in Hampton Beach, NH on July 23 and 24. Wasserman will also be featured with RatDog at The Gathering of the Vibes Festival in Bridgeport, CT on July 25 on a bill that includes Levon Helm, Guster and others.

Apart from her dates with RatDog, Wasserman has set two special club appearances late in the month. She will be performing in her native Bay Area at Yoshi's/San Francisco on Tuesday, July 28, joined by special guests New Orleans piano legend Henry Butler and her father, Rob Wasserman, the renowned bassist. Two days later she, together with Butler and her father, will alight in New York, her current place of residence, where she'll be featured at Joe's Pub on Friday, July 31. - more on this story

Fireworks and Journey Cover Band for Branson July 4th

PR reports: Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness… America's independence will be celebrated across the country and Branson is no exception, especially at Branson Landing—Branson's premiere shopping and dining entertainment destination located in Historic Downtown Branson on Lake Taneycomo.

Everyone is invited to "Light Up" their Independence Day weekend celebration on Friday evening, July 3rd with a fantastic outdoor concert extravaganza, featuring "A Tribute to Journey" starring the ever-talented and unforgettable band, Chain-Reaction. Back by popular demand, Chain-Reaction takes the stage at 8PM and promises to delight audiences of all ages as their famous melodies take listeners on a spectacular journey back to the '80s with performances of timeless Journey hits like "Separate Ways," "Don't Stop Believin'," "Faithfully," "Open Arms" and so many more.

"After the concert, the night skies will 'Light Up' with an extraordinary fireworks event produced and presented by Gateway Fireworks Displays of St. Louis," stated Tammy Scholten, Director of Marketing. "We're very proud that Branson Landing's Liberty Light Up fireworks display has been named a 'Top Pick of the American Pyrotechnic Association' this year, with nine others from around the United States. - more on this story

Ingrid Michaelson Releasing New Album This Summer

OSR music reports: Indie singer/songwriter Ingrid Michaelson will release her [overused cliche removed] new album, "Everybody," on August 25th on her own Cabin 24 Records.

While her fall tour schedule will be announced soon, dates have been confirmed for September 16th in New York, October 7th in Los Angeles and October 26th in Chicago.

With a warm, relatable sound that has captured the hearts of countless fans, Michaelson's compelling story as an unsigned artist first achieved national attention with multiple song placements on the hit television series Grey's Anatomy. The show's producers became so enamored of her music that they chose Michaelson's "Keep Breathing" to air during the final six minutes of the 2007 season finale, resulting in massive and immediate mainstream exposure. - more on this story

Victor Little CD Release Party

PR reports: Victor Little, one of the Bay Area's most lauded musical residents, is proud to announce his CD Release Party at Yoshi's San Francisco, Monday, June 29th, at 8 p.m.

Victor, whose bona fides include over 20-years as the consummate 'first call bassist' laying down the low-end foundation for legends Patti Austin, Billy Preston, Joyce Cooling,and Booker T. Jones, takes flight with his unprecedented debut tour de force CD, Inner Portrait, on - what will surely be - an unforgettable musical evening.

Victor joined forces with a litany of legendary Bay Area musical talent to create Inner Portrait, including iconic Santana, Steely Dan, and Parliament/Funkadelic drummer Dennis Chambers, Grammy-Award winning drummer of The Mars Volta, Thomas Pridgen, and the mega-talented keyboardist Ruslan Sirota of the Stanley Clarke Band. - more on this story

Stormental Release New Video

Submitted News reports: Brazilian metallers Stormental launched a video clip for "In Front of You", the first single of their forthcoming CD/DVD, which shall be released between September and October.

The album is a soundtrack made for "Perception of the Other" show, created in a partnership with Siedler Cia. de Dança de Florianópolis (Siedler dance company), mixing heavy metal and contemporary music, which won Funarte's Klaus Vianna award.

According to the band, "'Perception of the Other' is based in human perceptions and 'In Front of You' is about searching distance places, which, sometimes, are just in front of you."

The video clip, directed by Antonio Rossa, can be watched - here

. First Look: Hoodless

antiMusic had the chance to catch-up with the band and pick the brain of Twon, lead singer and ring leader. While some of the answers have that David Lynch, Cohen Brothers cryptic nature, (girls seemingly a huge influence) they are entertaining to say the least. - Read the full First Look: Hoodless review

. Figure of Six - Aion

As a sledgehammer to the sternum, Figure of Six's Aion can potentially cause self-inflicted chest wounds if experienced in long durations, and listeners at the highest risk include those whom simply hate talentless garbage such as this myopic garbage. - Read the full Figure of Six - Aion review

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