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SMASHING PUMPKINS Planning Live Return On European Festival Circuit

The reactivated SMASHING PUMPKINS likely will return to the stage for the first time since their final December 2000 concert "at some European festivals this summer," according to a post on the band's MySpace page. Meanwhile, the PUMPKINS continue plugging away at their reunion album. "We are four s...

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SMASHING PUMPKINS: New Demos Leaked?

According to MTV.com, four supposed SMASHING PUMPKINS demo tracks have been making the rounds on numerous file-sharing web sites — but the authenticity of the tunes remains to be seen. The songs — "Collapsing Cities", "The Restless Word", "Siam Mais" and "In the Eyes Beholding" — were leaked as "The...

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ABIGAIL WILLIAMS Seeks Keyboard Player

Phoenix-based extreme metal band ABIGAIL WILLIAMS is in need of a keyboard player for its upcoming U.S. tour with DARK FUNERAL and ENSLAVED. Submissions will be taken via email at [email protected]. The band will provide all applicants with keyboard tablature once they've accepted your ini...

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Suck Out the Poison

The first thing that strikes you about HE IS LEGEND is the unexpected sound of Schuyler Croom's melodic vocals — a little hoarse, kinda bluesy, he doesn't sound a damn thing like you'd expect a modern metal singer to. (Nerdy-critic reference #1: he bears an uncanny resemblance to the guy from ATOMIC...

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SMASHING PUMPKINS Drummer Checks In From Studio

According to MTV.com, SMASHING PUMPKINS drummer Jimmy Chamberlin has updated fans of the reunited rockers on the progress of the band's comeback album in a post on the PUMPKINS' MySpace page. "We are moving along nicely in the studio," the drummer wrote. "[Mainman Billy Corgan] pulled off a magnific...

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HOPESFALL Begins Recording New Abum

HOPESFALL has just entered Vudu Studios in Long Island, NY with producer Mike Watts (AS CITIES BURN, AS TALL AS LIONS) to begin recording the follow-up to 2004's "A-Types". The band revealed that they have been working on new material for close to a year and fans should expect a further progression...

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SMASHING PUMPKINS' BILLY CORGAN Unveils New Tunes During Solo Set

MJI Interactive reports that SMASHING PUMPKINS frontman Billy Corgan played four new songs that could end up on the band's forthcoming reunion album during an intimate club show Tuesday (Nov. 7) in Los Angeles. Pete Townshend of legendary rock group THE WHO also was on the gig's bill, and reportedly...

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ABIGAIL WILLIAMS Debut EP Release Date Set

Candlelight Records has set a January 23 North American release date for ABIGAIL WILLIAMS' "Legend". The limited-edition five-song EP is the territory's formal introduction to the Phoenix-based extreme metal band and coincides with the band's first national American tour; the band participating on C...

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CRUCIFIST Announces Dates With CELTIC FROST, HIRAX

Rochester, New York-based "'70s black metal" band CRUCIFIST — which features in its ranks bassist Dan Lilker (NUCLEAR ASSAULT, BRUTAL TRUTH, THE RAVENOUS) as well as Mike Waske (drums ORODRUIN),John Gallo (guitar ORODRUIN, BLIZARO) and Ron Blackwell (vocals) — has lined up the following live dates:...

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LED ZEPPELIN Rocks The Cradle (Gently)

According to TheCelebrityCafe.com, Baby Rock Records has set an October 31 release date for "Lullaby Renditions of Led Zeppelin", a collection of some of LED ZEPPELIN's biggest classics made into mellow lullabies for the kiddies. Baby Rock Records' "Rockabye Baby!" series of albums that transform th...

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SMASHING PUMPKINS Break Silence On New Album

Launch Radio Networks reports: The SMASHING PUMPKINS have broken the silence surrounding the band's first new album since its break-up in 2000. Drummer Jimmy Chamberlin — or least someone with the initials "JC" writing under the heading "Jimmy's Love Letters" — has posted two messages to the band's...

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ALICE IN CHAINS Teaming With MySpace To Help Sudan

ALICE IN CHAINS is among more than 20 bands set to perform Oct. 21 in different cities across North America as part of MySpace.com's Rock for Darfur initiative to help the battle-torn region of Sudan. AIC will take the stage in Winston-Salem, N.C., and a portion of profits from the gig will benefit...

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THE HAUNTED Frontman: 'What Is So Impressive With The Concept Of Power Anyway?'

THE HAUNTED frontman Peter Dolving has posted the following message on his MySpace page: "So I'm doing the Dortmund. "Here for interviews for a couple of days, talking to the phone all day with people I don't really know. I actually started writing a blog yesterday and I was really getting into this...

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METALLICA Rocks 'The Simpsons': Watch Episode Online

Check out METALLICA rocking the back of a pickup truck for the September 10 season premiere of "The Simpsons" at www.thesimpsons.com. The four members of METALLICA recorded their voices for the program in September 2005. METALLICA joins a long list of artists who have been featured on the show, incl...

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METALLICA, TOOL, NIRVANA Rocking Babies To Sleep

The Associated Press reports: If you know nothing about METALLICA, "Enter Sandman" does sound like it could be the title of a lullaby. A company called Baby Rock Records has created lullaby versions of songs by METALLICA, COLDPLAY and RADIOHEAD. Executive producer Valerie Aiello said her company did...