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Former WARRANT Singer, JAMES BROWN's Longtime Companion Jam With KOTTAK In Hollywood

Sunday night (January 14) at the Cat Club in Hollywood, California, KOTTAK — the band featuring James Kottak (SCORPIONS),Rev Jones (MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP) and Athena (Tommy Lee's siter) — invited several friends up on stage to jam while celebrating Rev's birthday. First up was former WARRANT singe...

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KILLSWITCH ENGAGE Recruits Ex-SOILWORK Guitarist For Remainder Of European Tour

KILLSWITCH ENGAGE was forced to postpone the London, Bristol and Paris shows of their current European tour this past weekend due to guitarist Adam Dutkiewicz sustaining a serious back injury. The band has since issued the following update: "OK, here's the deal. Adam and Howard [Jones, vocals] were...

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MSG Bassist: MICHAEL SCHENKER 'Cares About No One, Not Even Himself'

Pivotal Rage recently conducted an interview with MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP/KOTTAK bassist Rev Jones. An excerpt from the chat follows: Pivotal Rage: You guys [MSG] had scheduled a North America tour for the fall of 2006. I was very disappointed that the tour didn't happen. What really went down? I kno...

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TOOL: Japanese Dates Announced

TOOL will play the following dates in Japan during February: Feb. 08 - Osaka, JPN @ Zepp Feb. 09 - Tokyo, JPN @ Zepp Feb. 10 - Tokyo, JPN @ Zepp Feb. 12 - Kawasaki, JPN @ Blitz Feb. 14 - Nagoya, JPN @ Diamond Hall TOOL finished up last year's touring schedule with a ...

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MASTODON: Play The 'Blood Mountain' Game

Atlanta progressive metallers MASTODON have just released the "Blood Mountain" game, where you can collect diamonds to get pieces of a key to gain entrance to "Blood Mountain." Get your old-school video game jones on by clicking here. Keep an eye out for the special cheat codes that you can enter in...

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Former KYUSS Frontman Names Solo Project; DANKO JONES To Contribute

Vocalist John Garcia (KYUSS, UNIDA, HERMANO) has set GARCIA VS. GARCIA as the name of his upcoming solo project. The singer is currently in the studio writing and recording material for GARCIA VS. GARCIA's debut album, which is tentatively due on September 4, 2008. One of the songs that are set to a...

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I Am Jim Jones

A lot of relentless pummel, pinches of dissonance, and elements of Swedecore, and none of its sounds like anything more than a noisy, semi-technical metalcore band. No, it doesn't suck; it doesn't soar either. "I am Jim Jones" from Virginia's CASSIUS sounds like a lot of the tougher metalcore bands...

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SCORPIONS Drummer, TOMMY LEE's Sister Schedule KOTTAK Dates

KOTTAK (formerly KRUNK),the band featuring singer/songwriter/guitarist Jimmy Ratchitt, (a.k.a. former KINGDOM COME and current SCORPIONS drummer James Kottak),his wife Athena (sister of MÖTLEY CRÜE's Tommy Lee) on drums, and Rev Jones (MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP) on bass, has lined up the following da...

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W.A.S.P., LIZZY BORDEN, SCORPIONS Members To Take Part In 'NAMM Jam'

Marten Andersson (bass; GEORGE LYNCH, LIZZY BORDEN, STARWOOD),Andy Freeman (vocals; GEORGE LYNCH),Joey Scott (drums; LIZZY BORDEN, STARWOOD),Patrick Johansson (drums; YNGWIE MALMSTEEN, W.A.S.P.),James Kottak (drums; SCORPIONS),Rev Jones (bass; MSG, BLACK SYMPHONY),Rick Plester (guitar; BLACK S...

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SOULFLY Bassist: 'We Live A Lifestyle That Many People Can Only Dream About'

SOULFLY bassist Bobby Burns has issued the following update: "Wow, what a fuckin' year 2006 has been! One great big rollercoaster ride of happy times as well as sad ones. We've been around the world many times this past year and we live a lifestyle that many people can only dream about but every hou...

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Former LED ZEPPELIN Bassist Checks In

Former LED ZEPPELIN bassist John Paul Jones has posted the following message on his official web site: "In March I produced an album for UNCLE EARL, an old-time string band. I had the best time ever with this record; the girls are great musicians and brilliant fun to work with. We started pre-produc...

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FU MANCHU Announces First Leg Of 'We Must Obey' Tour

On February 28, California rock powerhouse FU MANCHU will commence their first North American tour in nearly two years, a six-week headlining trek. This will kick off the world tour in support of their new album "We Must Obey" (street date: February 20),praised by Decibel magazine as the band's "be...

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TOOL Gearing Up For BIG DAY OUT

Launch Radio Networks reports: TOOL just finished up this year's touring schedule with a two-month run through Europe, and the band's first stops in 2007 are Australia and New Zealand. The quartet is headlining the annual Big Day Out festival down under, and TOOL drummer Danny Carey told Launch he's...

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CAMP FREDDY To Be Joined By JERRY CANTRELL, CHESTER BENNINGTON For New Year's Eve Gig

CAMP FREDDY — the Los Angeles-based "jam" group featuring guitarists Dave Navarro (ex-JANE'S ADDICTION, RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS) and Billy Morrison (ex-THE CULT bassist, current CIRCUS DIABLO vocalist) alongside VELVET REVOLVER members Matt Sorum (drums) and Scott Weiland (vocals) — will perform a New...

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SABBAT Plays Warm-up Show For CRADLE OF FILTH Tour: Photos, Review Available

U.K. thrashers SABBAT played a reunion show at Rock City in Nottingham last night (Saturday, Dec. 16) as a warm-up for their support slot on the CRADLE OF FILTH U.K. tour. The group's setlist was as follows: 01. A Cautionary Tale 02. Hosanna In Excelsis 03. The Clerical Conspiracy 04. Behind The Cro...