Clash Star Opens Rock Library

Rarities include rare David Bowie tapes and hand-written poems by Allen Ginsberg. Jones says: "Since the millennium I've been on a mission. The world didn't end so I thought it was time to share [the collection] with others. On one level it's a way of finding out if all this stuff from the 20th century means anything in the new century." - more on this story

Miles Davis DVD Set For Release

Kayos reports: It's 1987, and Miles Davis, trumpet in hand, takes the stage in Munich. With another fresh Grammy under his belt (one of eight accumulated throughout his career), he positively captivated the German crowd. That's What Happened: Live in Germany 1987 is the thrilling new DVD to capture this special night, and Eagle Rock Entertainment is proud to deliver this visual masterpiece on April 28.

Ninety-minutes of unmatched musical prowess, That's What Happened showcases the master of innovation and improvisation taking music to magnificent new heights as only he can. Breaking into the wild medley of "One Phone Call / Street Scenes / That's What Happened," traversing a kaleidoscopic array of notes, Davis challenges his ensemble to match his expertise with their respective solos.

The DVD showcases works from his Grammy Award-winning Tutu album, as well as Davis' unique interpretations of Michael Jackson's "Human Nature" and Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time." A 30-minute interview with Davis, and a special feature called "Miles and his Art" are included as bonus material on That's What Happened. - more on this story

New Unearth Video Might Rule or It Might Suck

PR reports: Unearth is teaming up with Artificial Army to shoot a video for their song "Grave of Opportunity" from their latest album The March on Thursday March 19th.

The video is set for release during their North American tour with Testament and Lazarus A.D. which kicks off in Seattle on May 2nd.

Vocalist Trevor Phipps comments, "This video will be a lot different than any of our other videos. We are looking to mix things up and not just make the same old boring ass videos most everyone else makes. It might rule and it might suck. My money is on ruling." - more on this story

Poets & Pornstars Resurface as Run Devil Run

PR reports: Former members of the Los Angeles-based Rock band Poets & Pornstars are back with a new name, Run Devil Run (RDR), a new front man, Jeremy Aric.

Their new album titled "5 by 5" is scheduled for release this Friday, March 20th! As part of Poets & Pornstars the band toured nationally, selling out House of Blues venues across the country and opening up for acts such as Guns & Roses, Muse,and Bon Jovi in front of audiences as large as 15,000-plus.

To commemorate their awesome return and new album, they will be performing LIVE at The Roxy in West Hollywood. Also on the bill that night are Silent Treatment and Attic of Love. - more on this story

Fans Animate Willie Nelson

PR reports: GoAnimate.com, the online platform that enables everyone to create their own customizable animations, today announced that it has entered into a strategic partnership with Legacy Recordings (a Sony Music Entertainment's catalog division) to provide Willie Nelson fans the ability to create their own animated Willie adventures.

This functionality is launched in tandem with today's release of Willie Nelson's album, Naked Willie, and enables users to include tracks from the new album – as well as Willie classics -- in their animations. GoAnimate.com also launched its new slideshow offering today, enabling users to upload their own photos into an automatically generated animated slideshow featuring cartoon Willie and his music.

Naked Willie, which is available at all physical and digital retail outlets today, is a 17-track collection of songs recorded by Willie Nelson between 1966-1970. In this collection, Willie and his longtime sidekick, harmonica player Mickey Raphael, set out to "un-produce" a series of tracks to retrieve the original sound and get back to their unmasked essence – to hear them naked. As a result, Naked Willie lays bare Willie's original vision of these songs for the first time. In honor of Willie achieving his creative vision, GoAnimate.com is now enabling everyone to express their own Willie-inspired creativity with Willie Nelson characters, scenes and music. - more on this story

Metal Band Goes From Anger To Serenity

PR reports: The Dutch Melodic Metal band Edge Of Anger has confirmed today that they will continue under the name Edge Of Serenity.

Frontman Wietze Halma about this decision : " We experienced lately more and more problems, as more bands used the name Edge Of Anger, and this resulted in all kind of confusions.

As a band, we felt that this was a good moment to do something about this, as we are just joined by 2 new band members ( Jaco Dekker and Noud Smeets ) and about to release our debut-album this Spring via our new label Romulus X Records. So, it was "now, or never ". We are proud of our new name EDGE OF SERENITY and cannot wait to reveal more details about our upcoming debut album "The Chaos Theory" and start touring !" - more

The Defibulators Bringing NYC Roots To The Masses

PR reports: The Defibulators will release their debut album, Corn Money, on May 5, 2009 on City Salvage Records.

Emerging from the thriving roots scene in New York City, this seven-piece band wields an arsenal of instruments (upright bass, banjo, fiddle, backhills harp, Telecaster, and junkyard percussion) with relentless energy and virtuosity.

A national tour including SXSW is slated for March 2009. AM NEW YORK described the band as "One of the most engaging live acts on the NYC roots scene." - more on this story

George Jones, Clint Black, Lee Greenwood, Aaron Tippin Free Jam

PR reports: The first-ever Jones Jam is scheduled for Saturday, March 21st at the National Peanut Festival Fairgrounds.

The concert will feature performances from George Jones, Clint Black, Lee Greenwood, Aaron Tippin and many more. The festival will help support the official groundbreaking of Country Crossing in Dothan, AL and to build awareness for the megaplex.

The mini-festival was organized by Ronnie Gilley to assert the caliber of entertainment who will regularly appear at Country Crossing which will be an unprecedented, master-planned resort and entertainment facility located in Dothan. - more on this story

The Whispertown 2000 Tour

PR reports: Acony Records is proud to announce that The Whispertown 2000 have confirmed dates throughout the spring in support of Maria Taylor. The tour will kick off in Gainesville, FL, on April 4th, and come to a close on May 3rd in Los Angeles, CA.

Prior to these dates, the band will also be performing at several SXSW showcases and parties in Austin, TX, and will headline a few dates on their own.

This tour will be in support of the band's debut release, Swim, which hit stores late last year. This record was the first release off of Gillian Welch and David Rawling's label, Acony Records. - more on this story

Metal Blade Ravage

MBR reports: Metal Blade Records is pleased to announce the addition of Boston Massachusetts metalers Ravage to its roster. The heavy metal band Ravage began as the idea of two young brothers from Boston Massachusetts, whom fans would come to know as Al Ravage and Eli Joe, who wished to form a band that could bring bombastic heavy metal back to prominence and crush the insipid alterna-grunge music craze of the mid-90's.

Though the barely-highschool aged rockers had mighty ambitions when they played their first gig in 1996, they quickly learned that Rome was not built in a day, and Ravage had to work on honing their sound and forging their way through the local underground metal scene. Now in their early 20's Ravage is ready to show the metal world what they're made of with their Metal Blade debut The End of Tomorrow, which will drop in the late summer of 2009 and features cover art by none other than Ed Repka (MEGADETH, DEATH, AUSTRIAN DEATH MACHINE).

"Everyone in the band is thrilled to have the opportunity to have our music released by a record company that is not only one of the greatest heavy metal record labels ever, but also a label that is currently home to many of our favorite bands (such as LIZZY BORDEN, CANNIBAL CORPSE, KING DIAMOND, AMON AMARTH etc). Metal Blade has released some of the classic metal albums of all time and Ravage welcomes the opportunity to make our own mark on the scene. Only Brian and Metal Blade had the guts to put this deal together with a band that has never bowed to trends or used gimmickry to fit in, a band that has always forged ahead toward fresh musical ground in the face of those who wanted us to become some sort of goofy retro-act or clone of whatever was hip. So on behalf of the band, I'd like to thank all the fans in the local scene, national scene and abroad who have stuck by us thus far, the promoters who've dared book us, the small labels who dared release our early work, those in the press who dared stand up to the feeble-minded trendmakers, the [few] DJ's who've played us, and all the great bands we've played with. This is just another step on a long road as we continue our mission to put out some quality, no-bullshit, heavy metal music that real metalheads can be proud of. Keep headbangin' with us and RAVAGE IN PEACE!!!" commented singer Al RAVAGE - more on this story

. From the Basement: Radiohead, White Stripes, Eels, Beck, Sonic Youth and more

From the Basement is more than a collection of videos and songs. It is a deeply personal experience leaving the listener with the feeling of having been treated to a private show from Radiohead, White Stripes, Eels, Beck, Sonic Youth and more (5 stars) - Read the full From the Basement: Radiohead, White Stripes, Eels, Beck, Sonic Youth and more review

. Kenneth Ishak - Silver Lightning From A Black Sky

Now that the term singer-songwriter brings up the image of Jason Mraz in many a listeners mind, its great to hear an indie solo musician who hasnt ever swiped anything from John Mayor. Or: its great to hear one thats actually good. - Read the full Kenneth Ishak - Silver Lightning From A Black Sky review

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