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TIGERTAILZ To Take Part In Video Shoot In Memory Of Bassist

BBC News reports: Loving couples are being asked to pucker up for a pop video in Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom to support a new charity in memory of a bassist who died of pancreatic cancer. Justin Time was set up in honor of Justin Smith, 42, who as Pepsi Tate played in glam ...
July 16, 2008
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THERAPY? Announces Producer For New Album

Long-running Irish rock band THERAPY? has tapped Andy Gill to produce and mix the group's forthcoming 12th album, tentatively due in early 2009 via Demolition Records. Gill is a founding member and guitarist for the English rock group GANG OF FOUR, considered among the most influential post-punk ban...
July 14, 2008
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CAINA Completes Work On New Album

Eclectic UK phenomenon CAINA, comprised of mastermind Andrew Curtis-Brignell, has completed work on its new full-length LP for Profound Lore Records. Entitled "Temporary Antennae", the new album sees Curtis-Brignell stretch his musical oeuvre to new unheard levels culminating in a maturity which pre...
July 14, 2008
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AMORAL Parts Ways With Singer, Seeks Replacement

Finnish metallers AMORAL have issued the following update: "We are sad to inform you that Niko [Kalliojärvi, vocals] is leaving AMORAL. A while ago he sat us down and told us that he's having serious motivation problems and feels like it's time to do other things. We were in shock, as none of us saw...
July 14, 2008
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Report: AC/DC Musical 'In The Pipeline'

According to the weekly UK-based celebrity and pop music newsletter Popbitch, a musical featuring the hits of AC/DC "may be in the pipeline." If the report is to be believed, the Australian band's songs will be combined with the Mark Wahlberg movie "Rock Star" for a theater production. Other groups...
July 11, 2008
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PEARL JAM Members Prep For GREEN RIVER Reunion

The Pulse of Radio reports that PEARL JAM bassist Jeff Ament and guitarist Stone Gossard are prepping for this weekend's reunion performance with GREEN RIVER, the Seattle-based band in which both musicians got their start. The group, which also features members of MUDHONEY and was one of the earlies...
July 10, 2008
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LAMB OF GOD's 'Walk With Me In Hell' Debuts At No. 2 On 'Top Music Videos' Chart

LAMB OF GOD's new double disc DVD, "Walk With Me In Hell", sold more than 13,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 2 on Billboard's Top Music Videos chart. The DVD shipped gold (25,000) in its first week and the heavy metal icons were a ...
July 10, 2008
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MICHAEL KISKE Talks About New PLACE VENDOME Album

PLACE VENDOME, the project featuring former HELLOWEEN singer Michael Kiske alongside PINK CREAM 69's Dennis Ward, is hard at work on its second album at Ward's studio in Karlsdorf, Germany. Ward's PINK CREAM 69 bandmate Kosta Zafiriou and Gunther Werno of VANDEN PLAS also appear on drums and keyboar...
July 9, 2008
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Wasteland Discotheque

Why isn't this Danish band huge in North American, getting tons of attention, and selling out tours? I'll be the first to admit that I'm guilty as hell in not paying any attention to RAUNCHY over the years, but not because I'd heard the music and found it distasteful; for whatever reason I just neve...
July 7, 2008
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Amanethes

It's been a long, slow slide for TIAMAT, from primitive death metal to highbrow avant-garde psychedelia to drippy Eurotrash pop swagger. After five years of silence, the band that asked us to "vote for love" and seemed doomed to end its life narcissistically sniffing SISTERS OF MERCY's long-discarde...
July 7, 2008
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THE GITS Documentary To Premier This Friday

According to The Seattle Times, "The Gits", a lively and engaging documentary about one of the more noteworthy rock outfits to emerge from Seattle in the early '90s, will premier Friday at Northwest Film Forum. The release coincides with the 15th anniversary of what many think of first when remember...
July 2, 2008
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BLACK LIGHT BURNS' WES BORLAND Issues Apology And Explanation To European Fans

"Cruel Melody", the 2007 debut album from BLACK LIGHT BURNS, the new band led by former LIMP BIZKIT guitarist Wes Borland, received its long-awaited European release on June 20 via Edel. Wes has since issued the following update regarding the release: "Dear Europe, it seems we just keep blowing it w...
June 30, 2008
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Former MEGADETH Guitarist MARTY FRIEDMAN Featured In Three-Way 'KISS Debate'

On the third installment of the "Shockwaves Skull Sessions" podcast, host Bob Nalbandian is joined once again by head of A&R at Roadrunner Records, Monte Conner, and new third-party guest and guitarist extraordinaire, Marty Friedman (ex-MEGADETH). The three discuss the extensive career of the re...
June 24, 2008
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SLASH Featured In New VASCO ROSSI Video

VELVET REVOLVER/ex-GUNS N' ROSES guitarist Slash is featured in the new video "Gioca Con Me" (Play With Me) from Italian pop-rock songwriter/superstar Vasco Rossi. Watch the clip below. (Note: Slash appears around the 2:05 mark.) Slash played all the guitar parts in the track, which appears on Rossi...
June 22, 2008
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TAROT's 'Undead Indeed' Tops Finnish Music DVD Chart

"Undead Indeed", the new DVD from TAROT the Finnish group led by NIGHTWISH/ex-SINERGY bassist Marco Hietala has topped the Music DVD chart in the band's home country in its first week of release. TAROT released the two-DVD and two-CD versions of "Undead Indeed" in Finland on June 11. "Undead Indeed"...
June 21, 2008