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VINNIE PAUL, KERRY KING, SCOTT IAN To Perform At LITTLE KIDS ROCK Benefit Concert

Little Kids Rock (LKR),an innovative non-profit music education program that provides free instruments and rock 'n' roll lessons to public schools, celebrated March's "Music in Our Schools" month by announcing today that it will be the sole beneficiary of the Six-String Masterpieces memorial tribut...

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DOGPOUND: 'III' Pushed Back To September

Due to "contractual reasons with a Japanese licensing deal," the release date of the third album from Swedish hard rockers DOGPOUND, "III" (Lion Music),has been pushed back to September from the previously announced March 21. The follow-up to 2005's "A Night in the Gutter" was mixed by Peter Tägtgr...

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KILLSWITCH ENGAGE Confirmed For Entire VANS WARPED TOUR

Massachusetts metallers KILLSWITCH ENGAGE have been confirmed for the entire Vans Warped Tour, which is scheduled to kick off June 29 in Pomona, California. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: A STATIC LULLABY (Jul. 24 - Aug. 25) THE ACTUAL (Aug. 10 - Aug. 25) AGENT ORANGE (Aug. 23 - Aug....

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BLINDSIDE Announces European Tour Dates With AFI, LINKIN PARK

Sweden's BLINDSIDE has issued the following update: "First off we'd like to announce that BLINDSIDE is currently in the studio recording new music and will have this material out within a not-too-distant future. We will have all the details for you in the next newsletter. "Now what better way of cel...

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BLACK STONE CHERRY: New Performance Footage Available

UGO, one of the web's top entertainment hubs for music, movies and gaming, is hosting exclusive video footage of BLACK STONE CHERRY performing two of their hits, "Lonely Train" and "Hell and High Water" live, acoustic, and stripped down. Click here and you'll also get to watch the band's much-acclai...

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CLUTCH Issues Statement About New Album Artwork

CLUTCH has posted the following message regarding its latest album, "From Beale Street to Oblivion", which came out on March 27 through DRT Entertainment: "A word about the artwork for 'From Beale Street to Oblivion'. Nick Lakiotes designed the artwork for 'From Beale Street to Oblivion'. He spent a...

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BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE Is Going For U.S. Gold

Scott Iwasaki of the Deseret Morning News recently conducted an interview with BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE frontman Matthew Tuck. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow: On their reason for getting the band together: "We played together since we were boys and through our teens, and now we're adults....

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HARDCORE SUPERSTAR To Record 'Bastards' Single In April

Swedish sleaze rockers HARDCORE SUPERSTAR will enter the studio in April to record their new single, "Bastards (Fade Away)" . A release date will be announced soon. HARDCORE SUPERSTAR recently posted a demo version of a new song, entitled "Sophisticated Ladies", on their MySpace page. The track come...

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Reunited SMASHING PUMPKINS To Make Live Debut In Paris

The reunited SMASHING PUMPKINS will play their first show on May 22 at the Grand Rex in Paris, France. Tickets go on sale April 11. The SMASHING PUMPKINS have added a new and slightly odd wrinkle to the release plans for the band's comeback album, "Zeitgeist", which is due to arrive on July 7. The ....

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DOWN: New Orleans Headlining Show Announced

DOWN — the acclaimed New Orleans band featuring CORROSION OF CONFORMITY guitarist/vocalist Pepper Keenan, drummer Jimmy Bower (EYEHATEGOD, SUPERJOINT RITUAL guitarist),bassist Rex Brown (ex-PANTERA),guitarist Kirk Windstein (CROWBAR),and vocalist Philip Anselmo (SUPERJOINT RITUAL, ex-PANTERA) — h...

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POISON, RATT, VINCE NEIL Set For ROCKLAHOMA Three-Day Summer Festival

POISON, RATT (featuring original lead singer Stephen Pearcy),VINCE NEIL and Y&T are among the acts that are expected to appear at Rocklahoma, a three-day outdoor '80s hard rock festival, set to take place July 13-15, in Pryor, OK at the Pryor Festival Grounds. The following is a partial list of...

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From Beale Street to Oblivion

Blame it on a steady diet of old blues and classic rock records, or on their friendship with jammy blues-rockers FIVE HORSE JOHNSON, but don't say you didn't see it coming. CLUTCH, the band who once came off like an off-kilter hardcore or noise-rock band, is now officially drenched in funky groove,...

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SKINLAB: 'Face Of Aggression Tour' Lineup Revealed

Bassist/vocalist Steev Esquivel of reactivated San Francisco Bay Area metallers SKINLAB has issued the following update: "Things have been going strong in the SKINLAB camp. We've been rehearsing a sick 15-song set that is sounding heavy as hell. We're all looking forward to getting back on the road...

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HANOI ROCKS Confirmed For Finland's SIMEROCK Festival

Finnish rock 'n' roll legends HANOI ROCKS have been confirmed for the Simerock festival, set to take place July 6-8 in Rovaniemi, Finland. The group's schedule is shaping up as follows: April 20 - Helsinki, Finland - Virgin Oil Co. May 18 - Porvoo, Finland - Runebar May 19 - Lahti, Finland - Isojano...

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IRON MAIDEN Manager's Diary From India Posted Online

IRON MAIDEN's official web site has been updated with a tour diary entry from the group's manager, Rod Smallwood, covering the group's recent gig in Bangalore, India. An excerpt follows: "Flight to Bangalore on Thursday [March] 15th took about nine and a half hours. Usually l just read and cat nap o...