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TAPROOT: New Song Available For Download

A brand-new TAPROOT track, entitled "Facepeeler", has been made available for download in MP3 format at this location. "Facepeeler" comes off the group's upcoming CD, "Blue-Sky Research", due on August 16 via Velvet Hammer/Atlantic. The follow-up to 2002's "Welcome", "Blue-Sky Research" was produced...

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JUDAS PRIEST Bassist: 'We Are Spinal Tap'

JUDAS PRIEST bassist Ian Hill recently spoke to Stuff.co.nz about the group's "colorful" past. Several excerpts from the interview follow: On the group's early days: "Basically, we all loved FREE, HENDRIX and CREAM, and so we just made everything harder and faster and created metal. Not only did we...

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SCOTT WEILAND: Video/Audio Footage Of 'Carson Daly' Performance Posted Online

VELVET REVOLVER fan site Velvet-Revolver.com is currently hosting a video and audio file of VR frontman Scott Weiland performing a new song for NBC-TV's "Last Call With Carson Daly". The song, "The Man I Didn't Know", which was performed last week in front of an in-studio audience at the Hollywood P...

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VELVET REVOLVER Drummer: No Time To Look Back

Chris Jordan of the Asbury Park Press recently conducted an interview with VELVET REVOLVER drummer Matt Sorum. Several excerpts follow: On the band's live show: Matt Sorum: "We're only on our first album and we're already doing much larger venues than I expected we should be doing. Once people see t...

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BRUCE DICKINSON Track To Be Featured On OZZFEST 2005 CD Sampler

According to a post at MaidenFans.com, a song from IRON MAIDEN singer Bruce Dickinson's upcoming solo album, "Tyranny of Souls", will be featured on the official CD sampler that will be released as part of the marketing campaign to advertise this year's Ozzfest festival. No further information is cu...

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RAUNCHY To Support MESHUGGAH In Denmark

Danish modern metallers RAUNCHY will be support MESHUGGAH at Lille VEGA in Copenhagen, Denmark on Sunday, May 22. RAUNCHY are currently demoing material for their third album, tentatively due in early 2006 via an as-yet-undetermined label. The CD, which is scheduled to be recorded in July, will incl...

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VELVET REVOLVER, MASTODON Confirmed For Denmark's ROSKILDE FESTIVAL

VELVET REVOLVER and MASTODON have been confirmed for the 2005 edition of the Roskilde Festival, set to take place June 30-July 3 in Roskilde, Denmark. Also scheduled to perform at the festival are BLACK SABBATH, AUDIOSLAVE, THE HAUNTED, ISIS, ENSLAVED, SUNN O))),MERCENARY and D.A.D. The Roskilde Fe...

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WICKED WISDOM Confirmed For OZZFEST's Second Stage

According to Ozzfest.com, WICKED WISDOM — the five-piece band featuring actress Jada Pinkett Smith (wife of Will Smith) — has been confirmed as the final "mystery act" on the second stage of this year's Ozzfest. The band, which includes "Pocket" on guitar, "Rio" on bass, Cameron Graves on keys, Satn...

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MACHINE HEAD: Atlanta Show Taking Place On Originally Announced Date

Contrary to a posting on the band's official web site, the MACHINE HEAD show in Atlanta will still take place on its originally announced date of Sunday, June 22. Greg Green, a promoter at Masquerade, Inc., told BLABBERMOUTH.NET, "The Tampa date of Tuesday, June 24 was moved back a day to Monday, Ju...

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NEW YORK DOLLS, RUNAWAYS, DEAD BOYS Members To Guest On FRANKENSTEIN 3000 Covers CD

East Coast hard rockers FRANKENSTEIN 3000 are getting a little help from their friends on a covers CD to be released this summer on Main Man Records. Inspired by their recent collaboration with NEW YORK DOLLS frontman David Johansen on the DOLLS classic "Babylon", FRANKENSTEIN 3000 decided to record...

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SHADOWS FALL Schedule 'Rockline' Appearance

SHADOWS FALL will be the featured guests on the nationally syndicated radio show "Rockline" airing Monday, June 27. The live show begins at 8:30 p.m. PT / 11:30 p.m. ET, and fans are encouraged to call in with questions during the program at (800) 344-ROCK (7625). To find a station near you, check o...

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SCOTT WEILAND Comments On 'Last Call With Carson Daly' Appearance

Last week, Scott Weiland surprised the in-studio audience at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles with an exclusive performance of a new song for NBC-TV's "Last Call With Carson Daly" on a day off from the VELVET REVOLVER arena tour. Instead of playing a tune in the genre of VELVET REVOLVER or STO...

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VELVET REVOLVER Frontman Hits Back At 'Dishonest' Journalists

VELVET REVOLVER frontman Scott Weiland has issued the following statement: "Lately I have felt an increasing need to set the record straight since false information and gross distortions continue to get proliferated through the media in many forms by dishonest and disingenuous writers/journalists wh...

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VELVET REVOLVER DVD To Feature Live, Backstage Footage

VELVET REVOLVER drummer Matt Sorum recently spoke to Launch Radio Networks about the group's upcoming DVD, which is tentatively due late summer. "We're working on it right now," he said. "We're cutting it up. Shot that down in Houston early on, and we did a lot of footage backstage and stuff, so it...

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SCOTT WEILAND Throws Prom Party For Wife

ABC ePrep is reporting that VELVET REVOLVER frontman Scott Weiland threw a "Pretty In Pink" prom theme party for his wife Mary's 30th birthday Wednesday night. Guests at the shindig, which took place at L.A.'s Sportsman Lodge, included Anthony Kiedis, Tony Kanal, Steve Jones, Billy Morrison, Michael...