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LENNON To Support AEROSMITH And MÖTLEY CRÜE On Fall Tour

Tennessee singer-songwriter LENNON (a.k.a Lennon Murphy) has been confirmed as the opening act for AEROSMITH and MÖTLEY CRÜE on the upcoming "The Route of All Evil" tour, which is set to kick off in early September. LENNON will be on the road to support the September 19 release of her new album, "Da...

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EVANESCENCE: U.S. Tour Dates Announced

EVANESCENCE has lined up 17 theater gigs that will constitute the first leg of its world tour, according to MTV.com. The initial North American run will kick off in Toronto on October 5 — two days after the group's new album, "The Open Door", lands in stores — with dates scheduled through October .....

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AC/DC: 'Classic Album Under Review: Back In Black' DVD Due In October

MVD Entertainment Group has set an October 31, 2006 release date for the AC/DC "Classic Album Under Review: Back In Black" DVD. According to a posting on the MVD web site, "this DVD documentary is the ultimate review and critical analysis of AC/DC's most influential and successful album. With the en...

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Late AC/DC Frontman BON SCOTT: Man Of Letters

Patrick Donovan of Australia's The Age has issued the following report: For the past 30 years, Bon Scott's private letters and personal photos were hidden away in the Oakleigh flat of his ex-wife, Irene Thornton. But from this week they will be shared among all Australian AC/DC fans, with the new ow...

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Former DIO Guitarist ROWAN ROBERSTON Joins DC4

Los Angeles-based hard rock band DC4 has announced the addition of Rowan Robertson to a lineup that also includes brothers Jeff Duncan (ARMORED SAINT, ODIN) on lead vocals and guitar, Shawn Duncan (ODIN) on drums and Matt Duncan on bass. Rowan is best known for nailing down the lead guitar spot with...

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ALICE IN CHAINS To Kick Off North American Tour In September

ALICE IN CHAINS will embark on a North American-wide tour starting on September 22 in Las Vegas. The tour will hit over three dozen cities including San Francisco, Austin, Toronto and New York. Hard-rock band HURT will be supporting ALICE on the tour. These performances follow ALICE IN CHAINS' succe...

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LED ZEPPELIN, AC/DC And METALLICA Are Among Top-Selling Artists Of All Time

LED ZEPPELIN, AC/DC, GUNS N' ROSES and METALLICA have released some of the top-selling albums in the United States of all time, according to the figures released by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Here is a list of the all-time top selling albums (number in perenthesis indicate...

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Girls Got Rhythm

In contemplating the value of what seems like an ever-increasing number of tribute albums, the same questions pop into my head. Who buys them, on what basis should the albums be rated, and what separates a good one from a bad one? There are those that argue that a note-for-note recreation of the ori...

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CAMP FREDDY Joined By SLASH, WARREN DEMARTINI In Hollywood: Report Available

Slash (VELVET REVOLVER, ex-GUNS N' ROSES),Warren DeMartini (RATT) and Billy Duffy (THE CULT) are among the musicians that performed with CAMP FREDDY last night (Saturday, August 5) at a private event being held at the House of Blues in West Hollywood, California. Other guests at the concert include...

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MEGADETH's DAVE MUSTAINE Bemoans Potential Loss Of TOWER RECORDS

Charles Duhigg and Geoff Boucher of the Los Angeles Times report that at least three major music companies cut off CD shipments to Tower Records on Thursday after record executives said that the iconic music retailer had stopped paying its bills. Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group Corp. and E...

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IGNITE: New Tour Dates Announced

West Coast conscious hardcore champions IGNITE have announced two fall tours. The band will first join Richmond, VA's politico hardcore machine STRIKE ANYWHERE across the East Coast in early September, including co-headlining dates. They will also do a Canadian run with legendary surf punks PENNYWIS...

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Born In Hell

From THE DARKNESS to ANDREW W.K. to MANITOBA'S WILD KINGDOM and all the way back to SPINAL TAP, the question has been raised — how deliberately flat-out corny and ironic can a band be and still rock? Swaggering U.K. cock-rockers VIKING SKULL (yeah, I know, I thought it was gonna be power metal too)...

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AC/DC Drummer's Flirty Deeds

Josie McNaught of Stuff.co.nz has issued the following report: A big motor launch, plenty of booze, some fags, and a spot of afternoon delight. It's the sort of behaviour you'd expect from an aging rocker — and Phil Rudd, drummer with Australian rock icons AC/DC, is living up to the reputation. In,...

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IRON MAIDEN Book Author Says 'Braindead' BLABBERMOUTH.NET Detractors 'Mean Nothing'

Paul Stenning, author of GUNS N' ROSES "The Band That Time Forgot" and AC/DC "Two Sides to Every Glory", who is going to be publishing a 130,000-word biography on IRON MAIDEN, entitled "30 Years of the Beast - The Complete Biography 1976-2006" (cover),has issued another update via his official MySp...

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IRON MAIDEN Book Author Slams BLABBERMOUTH.NET 'Idiots With Limited Brain Cells'

Paul Stenning, author of GUNS N' ROSES "The Band That Time Forgot" and AC/DC "Two Sides to Every Glory", who is going to be publishing a 130,000-word biography on IRON MAIDEN, entitled "30 Years of the Beast - The Complete Biography 1976-2006" (cover),has slammed the BLABBERMOUTH.NET detractors who...