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Tawn Mastrey's sister, Cara Mastrey, will be launching a new book during this week's Happenin' at the Aqua Lounge in Beverly Hills. The Happenin will of course feature live music sets, this week from members of Wallflowers, Filter and more. Grab all the details here -

The Black Crowes Farewell Tour?

In late summer, The Black Crowes will kick off their "Say Goodnight to the Bad Guys" 2010 Tour which will feature three hour performance sets in most markets. The tour will begin on August 13 in Milwaukee and is presently scheduled to conclude with the band's annual multi-night stand at the Fillmore in San Francisco on December 19, 2010.

The shows are being billed as "Acoustic Hor D'oeuvres followed by an Electric Reception With The Black Crowes," and will consist of a full hour and a half acoustic set followed by a full hour and a half electric set, except where noted below *.

In celebration of the 20th year anniversary of their 1990 debut multi platinum release "Shake Your Money Maker," The Black Crowes will release their first ever double album of all acoustic material on August 3, 2010. - more including dates

Creed Announces New Tour With Tix For Only 10 or 20 Bucks

Creed announces "The 20-10 Tour," to stand up against rising concert costs with tickets specially priced at $20 and $10.

The first 2,010 reserved seats are $20 all-in, meaning fans pay a flat rate with no added service charges. The remaining seats will be priced at either $20 or $10, plus applicable ticketing fees.

"The 20-10 Tour" kicks off on July 28th in Washington D.C. at Jiffy Lube Live, and continues nationally through September 4th at Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in Houston, but fans can get an early taste when Creed appears on NBC's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Friday, April 23rd.
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Them Crooked Vultures Tap Alberta Cross For Spring Tour

Alberta Cross will tour with Them Crooked Vultures this May. The dates come on the heels of a tour with Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and follow the band's opening slot for Ben Harper.

Alberta Cross took shape when Sweden-born guitarist/vocalist Petter Ericson Stakee and bassist Terry Wolfers, a Brit himself, began jamming together in London's east end.

Their forthcoming album, Broken Side of Time, is born of the struggles and setbacks the band faced along the way. The album serves as Alberta Cross' official introduction to the U.S. As Stakee explains, "It's kind of a desperation album, a darker album; it's definitely angrier. We've been in a crazy place during the whole album and you can hear that." - more on this story

Deftones Frontman Loves The Real Milli Vanilli

(Rock Radio) Deftones frontman Chino Moreno says he's a big fan of Milli Vanilli – and he'd love the people who really worked on the infamous album to release another record.

Asked by Ohio's WEBN FM whether he'd prefer to tour with Vanilli or New Kids on the Block, he says: "I love Milli Vanilli. A lot of people think I'm joking but I love that record.

"I always think, wow, wouldn't it be neat if they made another record? Because the guys who really recorded it are still around." - But his answer to the tour question might surprise you, but his reason won't.

Guns N' Roses Guitarist Releases iPhone App

Guns N' Roses guitar player Dj Ashba has teamed up with Curious Brain, the developer of the TouchChords family of guitar apps with over 3M downloads worldwide, to create the "ASHBA Tuner" iPhone application.

The revolutionary guitar and bass tuner application for both novice and expert players is available today exclusively for the iPhone and iPod touch.

"I decided to create a professional guitar tuner app because I wanted to design a tuner that not only would be useful to guitar and bass players, but to professional guitar and bass techs as well. I teamed up with Curious Brain to help me create what I feel is the ultimate professional guitar/bass tuner application out there," says Dj of the ASHBA Tuner. - more on this story

Bon Jovi Announces Special Edition Reissues

On May 11, Bon Jovi will rerelease their classic studio albums as Special Editions. Each of the band's first 10 albums--Bon Jovi, 7800° Fahrenheit, Slippery When Wet, New Jersey, Keep The Faith, These Days, Crush, Bounce, Have A Nice Day and Lost Highway– will feature the original studio album tracks plus era-specific live recordings included as bonus tracks.

The bonus live tracks include songs taken from sound checks and concerts held in venues from all over the world, ranging from 500 seat theatres to massive football stadiums. Many of the live versions are extended, including "Get Ready" (Bon Jovi), "In and Out Of Love" (7800° Fahrenheit), "Blood on Blood" (New Jersey), "Keep The Faith" (Keep The Faith), and a duet featuring Jennifer Nettles of Sugarland performing "Who Says You Can't Go Home" (Have A Nice Day) with the band.

This "Special Edition" collection will feature new packaging. Each CD will feature new artwork, including images from each period, and new liner notes documenting the band's success through each stage of their twenty-five year career. Exclusive soft-pack versions will also contain reproductions of laminated tour credentials. - more on this story

Classic Big Audio Dynamite Album Expanded For 25th Anniversary

Originally released in 1985, This Is Big Audio Dynamite is a groundbreaking and highly influential album which perfectly blends New York beats, Jamaican bass lines, ear-bending cinematic samples, and British guitar rock. Before the Rap meets Rock cultural paradigm, before the meshing of musical genres became the norm - there was Big Audio Dynamite, led by ex-Clash guitarist/vocalist Mick Jones. This landmark album now includes a second disc of 12 bonus tracks comprising rare U.S. and U.K. 12-inch remixes, edits, dub versions, outtakes, and B-sides - five of them previously unreleased. In Stores Tuesday April 27th

"Born from the ashes of the Clash," is how Don Letts puts it, referring to the cosmic implosion in 1983, after seven glorious years, of the original lineup of 'the only band that really mattered.' Parting ways with the band for 'ideological differences' (as rock lore has always noted), free agent Mick Jones was free to set the stage for the arrival two years later of Big Audio Dynamite.

That arrival (October 1985) came in the form of This Is Big Audio Dynamite, a monumental and influential album of British post-punk rock revisionism 'clashing' head-on with hip-hop beatboxes (pre-Beastie Boys and Fatboy Slim and Run-DMC's hip-hop-rock fusion projects), dancefloor grooves, the Vocoder (precursor of T-Pain's Auto-tune), and eye-opening, ear-bending cinematic samples gathered up from spaghetti westerns, Nic Roeg films and more. - more on this story

Gogol Bordello Streaming New Album Online

tream Gogol Bordello's Trans-Continental Hustle in full over at MySpace now! Due out on American Recordings on April 27th, Trans-Continental Hustle is perhaps the most ambitious undertaking in the group's already remarkable decade-long career and is the result of an inspired, year-long collaboration with famed producer Rick Rubin.

The band is gearing up to launch an international mini-festival called "the Casa Gogol Tour" with North American dates starting April 18 goin through May 1.

Gogol Bordello will headline the "Casa Gogol" mini-festival with sets by Slavic-punk-band DeVotchKa, East Village punk troubadour Jesse Malin and St. Mark's Social as well as electro-anarchists Tres Leches Afterparty Sound Crew. - more on this story

Silversun Pickups Hitting The Road With Against Me!

Silversun Pickups are fresh off a hugely successful arena tour supporting Muse, and they will now head out on a headlining tour with Against Me! and Henry Clay People opening.

This first leg of dates starts in Orlando, FL, on June 15th and ends in Milwaukee, WI, on July 4th. More dates will be added soon, find the first batch - here

Infectious Grooves/Cyco Miko To Unleash Funk It Up & Punk It Up

Suicidal Records is proud to announce the release of Infectious Grooves/Cyco Miko's Funk It Up & Punk It Up: Live In France '95, on June 15th, before the new Infectious Grooves record hits stores later this year.

Recorded live in Lyon, France in 1995 by soundman Tom Abraham straight from the board with zero sound alterations, this never-before-released double live gem features original INFECTIOUS GROOVES members Mike Muir (Suicidal Tendencies), Robert Trujillo (now with Metallica), Dean Pleasants (Suicidal Tendencies), Brooks Wackerman (Bad Religion) and Dave Nassie (former No Use For A Name; current Bleeding Through).

The tour wound its way through Europe, with all the members pulling double duty playing Infectious Grooves and Cyco Mike sets each night. - more on this story

Norma Jean's New Album Coming in July

Norma Jean fifth album Meridional which will be released July 13th on Razor & Tie. Meridional revisits the abrasive and chaotic roots of classic Norma Jean while offering fans a dark experimental side - the band stretching out on moody, slow-burn jams. It is an album that finds the band comfortable in its legacy but progressive and bold in its creativity.

Meridional was recorded in February 2010 at Glow in the Dark Studios in Atlanta with producer Jeremy Griffith. The band recorded eleven official tracks for the record as well as a few extra bonus tracks and B-sides.

Vocalist Cory Brandan described Meridional, "It's a heavy record, multifaceted with epic sounding, experimental songs, some fast, chaotic songs, and some melodic, commanding interludes. Any track we didn't think had reached its utmost sonic prowess was given a second look, revised to be as powerful as possible." - more on this story

Minus The Bear Streaming New Album Online

Minus The Bear are now streaming their forthcoming record, OMNI, in its entirety on KCRW.COM. Listen to it here

OMNI drops May 4th courtesy of Dangerbird Records. The guys kicked off their latest US tour last night in their home state of Washington.

April
19 Spokane, WA - Knitting Factory
20 Billings, MT - The Rainyard
22 Omaha, NE - Slowdown
23 Bonner Springs, KS - Sandstone Amphitheatre
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At The Gates Release 3 Disc DVD Set

The Flames Of The End, the new 3-disc DVD set from Swedish melodic death metal pioneers At The Gates, is out now in North America.

The Flames Of The End celebrates At The Gates' massively influential career and successful reunion tour with three in-depth and definitive DVDs. Housed in a deluxe six-panel DVD digipak with a 40-page color booklet, The Flames Of The End includes the following indispensable DVDs:

Disc 1: 'Under a Serpent Sun - The Story of At The Gates' - a brand new documentary with a running time of over 2 hours, chronicling the band's whole career with interviews and footage, filmed and directed by At The Gates guitarist Anders Bjorler. Decibel Magazine says that the documentary "is absolutely mandatory viewing for anyone remotely keen on Swedish death metal." - more on this story

Dark Tranquillity Announce Tour With Threat Signal and Mutiny Within

Dark Tranquillity will return to North America on May 11th as they prepare for a massive North American headlining tour with Threat Signal and Mutiny Within supporting.

This promises to be the longest, career-spanning Dark Tranquillity set list yet, so diehard fans will not want to miss out. Mikael Stanne (vocals) further describes his excitement over the headlining tour: "Oh Yes! As promised we are coming back to the States for a proper headlining run. We've been rehearsing like crazy to put together a set that will blow you away. It's been hard but we feel we have a good collection of songs that represents every aspect of the band and will please fans of both new and old material. Also, the mad genius Niklas (guitars) is hard at work creating amazing artwork and animation that will look incredible and add a new dimension to the show.

"This is without a doubt the biggest production we´ve done in the States. We cannot wait to bring you the full DARK TRANQUILLITY experience. We are also really happy to bring some really awesome bands with us this time around. Threat Signal and Mutiny Within are bands we've had our eyes on for quite a while and they will make sure you all will have one hell of a metal night. Cheers and see you all very soon." - more on this story

Dew-Scented Post New Track Online

German thrashers Dew-Scented have premiered a track from their upcoming album, "Invocation," on Myspace. The track is entitled, "Arise From Decay."

"Invocation" will be released May 25th in North America via Prosthetic Records, May 21st in Germany and May 24th in the rest of Europe via Metal Blade Records. "Arise From Decay" is also featured on the CD sampler included with this month's Rock Hard Magazine, in Germany.

Vocalist Leif comments about the new song: "We are happy to finally be able to debut a new song for all of you to hear! 'Arise From Decay' is the new album's opening track (after the instrumental intro piece 'Downfall') and a really good representation of not only what the album is all about, but also of what DEW-SCENTED sound like in 2010. 'Arise From Decay' combines many of the band's 'trademark' elements into a straight forward and pretty vicious song. This song was actually one of the first fully finalized tracks when we started writing the 'Invocation' album with the band's new line-up and we have already been playing it live for a while now with great response. Enjoy!" - Check it out here

Solid Gold Add Dates

Solid Gold has been busy hitting the road in support of their recently released Synchronize EP and has now announced an additional set of tour dates on the West Coast for the end of April/early May!

Kicking off with a support date with Jamie Lidell at the Troubador on April 29th and wrapping up on May 7th with a date in Denver at the Larimer Lounge, the band will be bringing their live show to several new cities for the first time as a band.

In addition, Solid Gold played a benefit show Monday night (April 19th) in their hometown of Minneapolis at 7th St Entry to raise money to replace their gear that was stolen during their Midwest/Northeast tour just a couple of weeks ago. - more on this story

Jose Gonzalez Fronted Rock Band Junip Announces Album and Tour

Junip has periodically gathered together and recorded when schedules permitted, but this is the first time the members will focus exclusively on the band. An EP and full-length will be released in 2010 with Mute in the US and Canada, City Slang in Europe, Shock in Australia and Ultra-Vybe in Japan. Global touring will commence this spring. A short American tour has been confirmed to start on June 8th in Brooklyn, NY, ending in Seattle on June 19th. The touring band will add two members.

Says Gonzálezabout the band: "We are really happy to have had the time to write and record these songs and now are excited to have the opportunity to play them live."

Junip is now offering a first listen to their new music with a free download of the song "Rope and Summit" at http://www.Junip.net. Their sound can be familiar to those who have listened to González's critically acclaimed records, but added to the mix on top of his nylon stringed guitar and distinctive voice are organs, synths and drums. The songs are often dynamic, melodic and shadowy. - more on this story

Whitechapel Deliver The Darkest Day of Man

Whitechapel have just released the new track The Darkest Day of Man, off of the band's 3rd full-length release (second for Metal Blade), A New Era of Corruption due out June 8th.

"The first single we have released from the new album A New Era of Corruption is titled 'The Darkest Day of Man'. We played it live during our overseas touring at the beginning of this year in Australia and the UK and were getting a great response from the crowd for it. I feel this song perfectly demonstrates how we have progressed as a band musically and in our song writing, but have not stepped away from our signature Whitechapel sound," comments guitarist and founding member Alex Wade.

Artwork for A New Era of Corruption was handled by Brent Elliot White who has also worked with bands such as Job for a Cowboy and Carnifex. A New Era of Corruption features guest vocals from Vincent of The Acacia Strain ('Murder Sermon') and Chino from the Deftones ('Reprogrammed to Hate'), and features 11 new tracks with a bonus track available to those purchasing the album through iTunes or on vinyl. - more on this story

Neuraxis Tap Chris Donaldson To Produce Their New Album

Neuraxis have confirmed producer Chris Donaldson (Cryptopsy, The Last Felony, The Agonist) to record and mix their new album. Neuraxis will enter Wildsound Studio on June 3rd to begin the recording for a fall release through Prosthetic Records. The as of yet untitled album is the follow-up to 2008's "The Thin Line Between," and will be their sixth album, overall.

Vocalist Alex Leblanc comments: "Chris is an excellent producer. He's been a friend of mine for years, played in some bands with him and already worked with him in the studio on some other projects. He's also the most easy going guy around. Working with him is going to be a blast for sure.

We are almost done with the writing process for the new album; maybe one or two more songs to go. It's going to be a powerful album. Dark, vicious, catchy, technical, melodic; everything you can expect from a Neuraxis album with some unexpected twists. We have two more shows this weekend, then we will rehearse the new songs for a month, putting the final touches and get ready to shred in the studio. It's going to be a blast...We can't wait to play the new songs on the road for you guys." - more on this story

Rosie Flores Breaks Her Arm and Asks Fans For Help

Rockabilly Filly, Rosie Flores breaks arm, is uninsured, needs your help! Late last week, just as she was about to kick off a slate of tour dates with Jon Langford, Rosie took a nasty spill and broke her arm - her humerus, to be specific. It's a nasty break, and the doctors think she might need surgery, though we're not sure yet - and this is going to lay her up until at least her East Coast tour dates in late May. Poor Rosie!

Even worse is the fact that, like many other musicians, Rosie doesn't have any health insurance. She also was relying on this upcoming tour to pay the bills for awhile, and now she's just laid up, and struggling.

So, if you can help Rosie with a few bucks, go to the more link below. She truly is one of the grandest ladies on the scene today, and deserves nothing but good thoughts, and all of our help. So, chip in, please, and tell your friends! - more on this story

Rock Scribe Goes Sci-Fi

Rock critic Andrew Ian Dodge turns his pen to science fiction with the release of his new novel "And Glory". Here is the info: The year is 2034. Power lies in Europe with the bureaucrats in Brussels and London is the centre for the Western Provinces. The Supremo Manipulator of this conglomerate of nations is Pius. With no religious connections and a diminishing hold on power the Union is sustained by nepotism, violence and musical chairs of political appointees. The disintegration of the Union is imminent.

With a touch of humor, a satirical political edge and a flowing writing style, characters you come to know well take the reader through a techno-thriller deep into the 21st century. We see the ambivalence of revolutionaries, who never intend serious action, faced with orders to destroy and kill. Europe will never be the same again …

Andrew Ian Dodge is a 40 something writer, consultant and rocker. Andrew is also a renown music critic and goes under the alias Marty Dodge. Married to English actress Kim Benson since 2007. A regular contributor to Pajamas Media, Dodge is busy working on several writing projects including a new novel and lyrics for his band. He recently overcame colon cancer. - more on this story

Singled Out: Kottonmouth Kings' Mad Respect

Welcome to Singled Out! where we ask artists to tell us the inside story of their latest single. The Kottonmouth Kings return with their brand new album "Long Live the Kings " which hits stores today. To celebrate two members of the group have picked their favorite songs from the effort and will tell us a little bit about each one. Today we hear from Daddy X who tells us about the song "Mad Respect":

I chose the track "Mad Respect" off of Long Live the Kings. It was one of the last tracks we recorded for the album. We had started working on the track before we left for Hawaii and my production partner Mike Kumagai put the finishing touches on the track and emailed it to us while we were there. We played our shows and stayed for a couple of extra days. We went to Hana in Maui which is the most amazing spot on the planet and played the track over and over while driving an old road to get there.

We have always felt that KMK never gets the respect or recognition we deserve from critics or the media, so we kinda wrote the song from being disrespected and misunderstood. "We gotta whole lotta whole lotta whole lotta nothing to offer. We gotta whole lotta whole lotta whole lotta nothing to give. We got a ounce of love and a pound of conversation. We gotta axe to grind until we find respect". That was the hook and then we just dug into the verses with passion. Dirtball spit some of the most intense rhyme patterns ever recorded! Overall I love the track's attack and energy!!

We'll be back on Thursday with another song story from KmK. But for now, hearing is believing. Now that you know the story behind the song, listen for yourself and learn more about the album - right here!