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Transplants Nix Fest Gigs

NME reports: THE TRANSPLANTS have been forced to cancel their appearance at this year’s CARLING WEEKEND: READING AND LEEDS FESTIVALS.

The band were set to play the at the Reading site on August 27 before heading to Leeds the following day (28), but have been forced to pull out due to illness.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Bad Book

punkbands reports: Former Bad Religion drummer John Albert has written a book entitled Wrecking Crew: The Really Bad News Griffith Park Pirates, which illustrates a lifestyle of punk rock, drug addiction, life on the road, and baseball. For those of you who think baseball isn't punk rock, you suck. [guess if you can Avril punk then a megamoney sport is too. see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Slipknot Escape Plan

siN's metal news reports: THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN will be replacing AS I LAY DYING on the following dates of SLIPKNOT's upcoming tour with UNEARTH:

October 14 - Cincinnati, OH @ U.S. Bank Arena
October 15 - Grand Rapids, MI @ DeltaPlex
October 16 - Cleveland, OH @ House of Blues
October 18 - Chicago, IL @ Congress Theatre- Click Here for the Full Story

If Hope Dies Hiring

siN's metal news reports: IF HOPE DIES also has a lineup change to announce with longtime friend Brian Ward joining the band with the departure of guitarist Tim Seib. Everyone will have the chance to welcome Brian into the band later this month when the boys go out on a West Coast tour with 3 INCHES OF BLOOD and DIECAST.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Radiohead Free Agents

green plastic reports: Radiohead.com has been updated with a "Dead Air Space" blog/journal that Thom has been posting in. Among his sometimes hard to understand sentences is this nugget of info about Radiohead's current record label status:

"we have no record conntract. as such. any offers?..what we would like is th e old EMI back again, the nice genteel arms manufacturers who treated music a nice side project who werent to bothered about the shareholders. ah well not much chance of that....."

He also mentions that the band will be heading to the studio on Thursday. [thanks to DJ for sending this in… read more at the full story link)
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Staind No 1

press release reports: CHAPTER V (Flip/Atlantic) enters the BILLBOARD 200 album chart at #1 next week, marking the third consecutive #1 album entry for the multi-platinum Massachusetts-based band STAIND. CHAPTER V--the band's fifth album-sold 185,000 copies in its first week of release and follows 2003's critically acclaimed 14 shades of grey and 2001's quintuple platinum BREAK THE CYCLE, both of which entered at #1.

STAIND--singer AARON LEWIS, guitarist MIKE MUSHOK, bassist JOHNNY APRIL and drummer JON WYSOCKI--have been performing songs from CHAPTER V all summer long on their tour with Three Doors Down, which concludes September 10.
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Crisis Tribute Dimebag

antiMusic reports: Our very own Morley Seaver kicked off his Morleyview series with an interview with Crisis frontwoman Karyn Crisis. In the interview Karyn revealed that the next album may include a Dimebag tribute. An excerpt of the interview is below.

antiMusic: Have any ideas emerged for the next record?

Karyn Crisis: "We've had a couple of jams. One jam we started before we hit the road. It's a really cool, powerful, brooding kind of jam. The other one kind of came out unexpectedly. When we were on tour we played Alrosa Villa which we've played many, many times before and that's where the whole Dimebag tragedy happened. So going there, everybody felt a lot of trepidation about being on that stage again, just because it was such a heavy moment. It was a real tragedy and it just felt really strange. We all went to just give our energies and good vibes upward, towards that whole situation. We were all feeling a little depressed about it and the guys set up to do soundcheck and I actually stayed at the hotel to work on something to say that evening. We were all disconnected and the guys said they felt OK until they stepped on to the stage to do the soundcheck and then a dark mood fell on everyone. So they just started jamming and somehow they jammed for an hour and a really amazing jam piece came out of it. So that's the second piece that we'll be working on and pretty soon we'll start jamming and writing the next record and that's pretty much all we're going to do until the EXODUS tour and then afterwards until the next year….we're going to write and record."

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Game Factory

Chipster reports: Calvin Records, an imprint of Liquid 8, has announced that it has aligned itself with the much-anticipated "Rainbow Six" video game to include two songs by the label's leading artist Fear Factory.

Available on both X-Box and PS2 on September 6, 2005, "Rainbow Six" will feature the band's hit song Lockdown as well as a re-recorded version of the game's theme song.

In addition to Rainbow Six, Fear Factory is also working on a remix of Demanufacture for the upcoming PSP game "Infected" which is slated for an October 31 release.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Do You Like Green Day?

Total Assault reports: Green Day is up for an MTV Viewer's Choice Award. You can vote one of two ways- "Normal" or "Turbo". Follow the links below to help Green Day secure a victory and tune into MTV Video Music Awards on August 28th to see the results.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Give Blood!

Gigante reports: Give Blood is the debut record from UK madcaps, Brakes (out on Rough Trade Records on September 13th, 2005). Consisting of one part British Sea Power (Eamon Hamilton), two parts Electric Soft Parade (Tom White and Alex White), and one part Tenderfoot (Marc Beatty), Brakes is a heroic endeavor, alive with a vigorous musical heartbeat. Give Blood is born of robust comradery and just enough magnetic tape to capture the incredible interplay between these four lads.

However you look at it, Give Blood always seems to have something new to offer. Take the strident gallantry of "All Nite Disco," Give Blood's first single, and let it jangle across your conscious. Or follow the Sea and Cake-esque warmth of "You're So Pretty." It's the heart of the music that makes this diverse collection of songs sound so coherent. Recorded live to tape in just five days, Give Blood gives it all.
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Wanna Play with Anthrax?

gorgeous pr reports: BandMerch, the first "artist-driven" merchandising company, has teamed up with thrash metal forebearers Anthrax to offer the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for one lucky fan to play on stage with the band in New York on their forthcoming tour! The grand prize for BandMerch's "Anthrax Demo Song" contest also includes the chance to have an original demo song critiqued by the rap-metal pioneers, a Washburn Scott Ian Signature Guitar worth $1,499, and an exclusive endorsement deal with Washburn guitars. [see full story for more]
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Franz

Epic reports: MTV2 will premiere the new Franz Ferdinand video for their first single "Do You Want To" off their upcoming album "You Could Have It So Much Better" via their "MTV2 Unleashed" program on Tuesday 8/23. The video will play every hour that day. Tuesday, August 23rd will also be the day that MTV, MTV2 and MTVU carry the Online Premiere of the video for "Do You Want To." All of this leads up to an Exclusive Full Album Listening Party with My Space beginning September 27 and culminating with the Album's release on October 4, 2005.- Click Here for the Full Story

More Ben Folds

Epic reports: Epic Records recording artist Ben Folds will release his iTunes Originals in early September. Available only for download at the iTunes Music Store, Folds recorded 15 songs from his extensive catalogue of music exclusively for iTunes. In addition to the performances, an in-depth interview with Ben, revealing the stories behind the songs is included. To launch this iTunes Originals release, Folds will make a special stop at the Apple Store Soho to play a free set for fans on September 6th.

This fall will also see the release of a live DVD featuring Folds with the Western Australia Symphony Orchestra in front of sell-out crowds at Kings Park in Perth, Australia. Recorded during a two-night-stand in March of 2005, Folds, his piano and the 83 piece symphony delivers nearly 90 minutes of music to his fans in a way never heard or seen before.

Folds will also play a series of college dates this October as he gets ready to announce more headlining dates with support act and Epic Records label mates The Fray. [see full story for dates]- Click Here for the Full Story

Directors Label Returns

Palm Pictures reports: THE DIRECTORS LABEL returns in September with four new definitive collections from some of the world's most talented and innovative filmmakers.

The Work of Directors ANTON CORBIJN, JONATHAN GLAZER, MARK ROMANEK & STÉPHANE SEDNAOUI will all be individually released on DVD September 13th, 2005. A boxed set edition containing the four individual titles will also be released simultaneously. All four of these directors have carved their own identity into the realms of popular culture, with their unique styles and approaches to the many different aspects of media, from photography to feature films, documentaries, innovative commercial advertising, and of course the music video. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

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