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TOOL, PEARL JAM To Top Next Week's BILLBOARD Album Chart

Hits Daily Double is reporting that TOOL's "10,000 Days" looks poised to sell in the 600,000 range after a tremendous first-day start, according to retailers around the country. This is roughly in line with the first-week performance of the band's last album, "Lateralus", which shifted 555,000 copie...

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TOOL Ends Five-Year Drought With '10,000 Days'

Launch Radio Networks has issued the following report: Today (Tuesday, May 2) is a big day for TOOL as the band releases its first album in five years, called "10,000 Days", and begins a North American tour in Seattle, Washington. The group's first opportunity to play some new material live came thi...

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VAN HALEN Bassist Joins SAMMY HAGAR For Surprise Pre-Tour Shows

VAN HALEN bassist Michael Anthony's official web site has been updated with the following message: "Michael hopped a plane to Cabo San Lucas uannounced earlier this week to join Sammy Hagar at the Cabo Wabo for a couple of pre-tour shows! "On Thursday, April 27th, Mike, Sammy and the Cabo Wabo house...

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CRIMSON GLORY Frontman's New Solo Album: Pre-Order Details Revealed

CRIMSON GLORY frontman Midnight will be accepting pre-orders for his new concept album, "M2 - Decending into Madness" (D.I.M). 112 copies of this concept album will be unique from any and all others, after which that master will be destroyed. In order to preserve his vision for this album, these 112...

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STRAPPING YOUNG LAD Drummer HOGLAN: The Genius That Is DEVIN TOWNSEND

STRAPPING YOUNG LAD drummer Gene Hoglan has posted the following report from the recording sessions for their new album, "The New Black", due in July via Century Media Records: "After those last few punishing rehearsals, where, I swear to god, I broke something (My back? My cloaca? My ass?),we pack...

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VELVET REVOLVER Members Jam With Country Music Band BIG & RICH

According to The Tennessean, VELVET REVOLVER members Scott Weiland (vocals) and Duff McKagan (bass) showed up Tuesday (April 25) at 12th & Porter in Nashville, Tennessee for the regular weekly jam session for MuzikMafia, the music fraternity that helped launch BIG & RICH and GRETCHEN WILSON....

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PEARL JAM To Play 'Secret' Show In New York City

Tower Records and J Records have teamed up to present a special PEARL JAM show on Friday, May 5 at an as-yet-undisclosed location in New York City. Be one of the first on line to purchase PEARL JAM at midnight at the Tower store in Manhattan on 4th and Broadway on Monday, May 1 and ...

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IAN GILLAN Says 'Smoke On The Water' Was The Natural Choice For All-Star Jam

Launch Radio Networks reports: On his new album called "Gillan's Inn", DEEP PURPLE singer Ian Gillan got a bunch of friends to play on the tracks, and a bunch of them also took turns on the PURPLE classic "Smoke On The Water". Gillan told Launch that of all the songs from his 40-year career, "Smoke"...

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SLAYER Confirmed For U.K.'s READING And LEEDS Festivals

Thrash metal kings SLAYER are among the latest names to be added to the bill for the Carling Weekend: Reading and Leeds festivals, set to take place August 25-27 at Reading's Richfield Avenue and Leeds' Bramham Park in the United Kingdom. Also confirmed for the summer event are AUDIOSLAVE, PEARL JAM...

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EDDIE VEDDER Says New PEARL JAM Gets Political

Launch Radio Networks reports: PEARL JAM frontman Eddie Vedder says in the new issue of Newsweek that the group's new album tackles politics and the Bush administration head on. Vedder explained, "It's just not the time to be cryptic. I mean, our tax dollars for this (Iraq) war are being funneled th...

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METALLICA 'Karaoke' Video Posted Online

METALLICA hosted the winners of the "Some Kind Of Monster" DVD release "Golden Ticket" contest at their headquarters in San Rafael, California on Friday, April 21. The winners came from all over: Oregon, Virginia, Colorado, Iowa, Wisconsin, and even Germany. The day started with the six winners and...

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DREAM THEATER: New Official 'Bootlegs' Available For Order

Ytsejam Records (web site) is now accepting pre-orders for the latest installment of the DREAM THEATER "official bootlegs", which include: "Awake Demos", "Dark Side of the Moon" CD (DREAM THEATER's entire performance of the legendary PINK FLOYD album recorded live at the Hammersmith Apollo in London...

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BLIND GUARDIAN's last album, "A Night At the Opera", was the sonic equivalent of a brownie sundae. One the size of a large mixing bowl. A couple bites were awesome, but the whole thing was just too rich, too huge, too filling… just too everything. Stomachaches and the need for a restorative nap ofte...

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Pitch Black Progress

You know, if you're gonna embrace a style of music, why half-ass it? Once you've gone the "clean vocals" route, Internet trolls are going to call you names anyway, so why not make those clean vocals as utterly smooth and slick as possible? Hell, add some of those over-emoting end-of-the-song ooh's a...

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PEARL JAM: European Tour Announced

PEARL JAM have announced the details of their European tour. The band's first visit to Europe in six years will kick off on August 23 in Dublin, Ireland and run through September 25 in Vienna, Austria. The dates are as follows: Aug. 23 - Dublin, IRE @ The Point Aug. 25 - Leeds, UK @ ...