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Nevermore Fused

Blabbermouth reports: Seattle's NEVERMORE will be the featured guest Tuesday night (August 30) on Fuse's "Metal Asylum", rerun on Saturday, September 3. The interview was recorded on the band's recent stop in New York City.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Dimebag Tribute

BW&BK reports: Former DAMAGEPLAN frontman Pat Lachman paid tribute to 'Dimebag' Darrell Abbott at last Thursday's Dallas, TX Ozzfest by dedicating two guest appearances to his fallen friend and bandmate.

Lachman performed the song '99' with THE HAUNTED and later 'Inspiration On Demand' with SHADOWS FALL.

After becoming friends on last year's Devastation Across The Nation tour, both bands invited Lachman to join them on stage in Damageplan's hometown.[see full story for more and a link to photos]- Click Here for the Full Story

Rhapsody Live CD

BW&BK reports: In November, 2005 Italian film score metal icons Rhapsody are poised to release their first live album ever!

The recordings will be based on performances made during leg one of MANOWAR's Demons, Dragons and Warriors World Tour, where Rhapsody appeared as the special guests in spring 2005. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

iTunes Vs Labels

Audio Aggression reports: Despite the success of Apple's iTunes Music Store, pressure from record labels may force Apple to change not only their business model, but also their pricing structure. The New York Times is reporting that Sony BMG and Warner Music Group (WMG) aren't happy with the one-price setup that iTunes currently has. The labels are proposing a pricing structure that will price songs by their popularity. The newer, more popular, songs could sell for as much as $1.49, while older, less popular, songs will continue to sell for 99 cents each. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

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Coldplay 06

NME reports: COLDPLAY could release a new album as early as next year, it’s been claimed.

Speaking in the US, the band’s manager Dave Holmes said that the band will tour North America again in February 2006, and there may be an album too.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Himsa Delay

The PRP reports: Himsa's upcoming new album "Hail Horror" has been bumped back to a February release through Prosthetic.[see full story for more metal news]- Click Here for the Full Story

Big D and the Kids Table

Punkbands reports: Big D and the Kids Table have announced some new tour dates, including dates with Anti-Flag, The Pietasters, and Dropkick Murphys. The band has also announced plans for their 9th annual Halloween show. Dates are listed below:

8.31.05 Bloomfield Ave Cafe: Montclair, NJ
9.01.05 Mr. Smalls Theatre: Millvale, PA w/Anti-Flag, Casualties and more
9.10.05 Palladium: Worcester: MA -Skatefest[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Mallcore Single

siN's metal news reports: The first music from the ROADRUNNER UNITED: THE ALL-STAR SESSIONS, featuring 57 artists, 45 bands, and 19 tracks, will be going online this coming Friday, September 2nd. The song is titled 'The Dagger' [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Opeth Dates

siN's metal news reports: The first dates for OPETH's upcoming headlining tour have been released:

October 10 - West Hollywood, CA @ House of Blues
October 24 - Lawrence, KS @ The Bottleneck
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Steve Winwood Tour

Press Release reports: On November 1st, Epic Records will re-issue Winwood's solo album About Time as a deluxe Dual Disc. Included in this Dual Disc release are 3 limited edition live tracks on the audio side and a live concert performance from Winwood on the video side.

In support of this extraordinary DVD release as well as the About Time deluxe Dual Disc re-issue, Steve Winwood will hit the road for select U.S. tour dates starting in New York City on September 20th. While in NYC, Winwood will be stopping by NBC's Weekend Today for an outdoor performance on September 17th as well as performing on Late Night with Conan O'Brien on September 21. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Do You Want Franz?

Press Release reports: You Could Have It So Much Better proves that it's not bragging if you can back it up. After ushering in a new British Invasion and altering the landscape of modern rock radio, Franz Ferdinand have returned and are doing it all over again. Domino Records will release the follow-up to the Glaswegian quartet's three time Grammy-nominated, Platinum debut on October 4, 2005. A few weeks later, on October 22, Franz Ferdinand will be the musical guest on Saturday Night Live.

"Do You Want To," the first single from You Could Have It So Much Better, is already making waves. A week before the song was officially released, radio stations in every major U.S. market added it to their playlists. The video and "Making of the Video" for "Do You Want To" premiered last week on MTV2. "Do You Want To" is already on iTunes Top Ten two weeks after its online release, the song will also be featured on the September 15 episode of The O.C.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Rock Star: The Album

Press Release reports: Epic Records and Mark Burnett Productions have teamed for the release of ROCK STAR: A NIGHT AT THE MAYAN THEATRE, a compilation album featuring performances from much-buzzed-about reality series Rock Star: INXS. The ambitious show is executive-produced by Burnett.

ROCK STAR: A NIGHT AT THE MAYAN THEATRE is the first release from a partnership between Epic Records and the newly formed Burnett Records. The deal includes a "first look" agreement giving Epic the option to jointly release future albums. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Lamb Into Gold

Press Release reports: After dedicating a full year to their new album "Ashes of the Wake," Lamb of God have achieved true success in the industry. In the past year, LOG have made an impact on two major summer tours (Sounds of the Underground 2005, Ozzfest 2004.) They have played over 150 dates including dates with Slipknot. Gracing the covers of Outburn, Revolver, Metal Maniacs, and more , Lamb of God have undeniably taken over the music scene.

LOG's DVD "Killadelphia" has officially sold over 50,000 DVDs to make it Gold! Here's what the band have to say: Randall Blythe band vocalist states, "I woulda never thought ten years ago that our antics would be seen by so many people. I hope the DVD is made out of real gold so I can hock it and buy a new lawn mower."
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ETID NY

Press Release reports: Due to scheduling conflicts Every Time I Die must cancel their October 10th show at The Downtown appearance in Farmingdale NY .

Have no fear!!! ETID can be seen on their "Good Music For Bad People" Tour with support High On Fire this September 9 th at Irving Plaza in New York City !!!- Click Here for the Full Story

Serpent Rise Again

Press Release reports: During the winter of 1993, it was formed a band which would turn into a legend of Brazilian underground, Serpent Rise. After some years on hold the serpent is back and finally with an official website. The band intends to start the recordings of the new album in the end of the year. The new album will mix elements from doom metal with death and black metal. Nowadays, Serpent Rise is the oldest active Brazilian doom metal band.- Click Here for the Full Story

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The Scam Really Does Work

antiMusic reports: Some were a bit shocked last week when Hilary Duff landed at No. 1 on the U.S. album sales chart with a greatest hits collection. Especially when you consider that Ms Duff has only released two albums previous to this.

After a couple of "tongue in cheek" stories yesterday about new compilations from Blink-182 and Savage Garden (another one that only released two albums) we received several angry emails informing us of many things (aside from the senders' lack of taste). According to several Savage Garden fans the compilation will include "a couple" of new tracks (that were not recorded by the group but for a solo album by one of the members, which may or may not appear on said members solo album plotted for release shortly after this groundbreaking "hits" collection.)

These emails aside from providing comic relief and informing us that we are jealous (of what, we do not know) did unlock the heart of the greatest hits scam and why labels get away with it. Almost every person that wrote in informed us that they planned to purchase these greatest hits albums. So you can see why the labels do it, they already own the rights to most of the songs, they toss in a few throwaways from previous recording sessions that we not good enough to make it on the studio albums, a bad cover tune or two or cuts from a "forthcoming" album and get the fans to pay full price to buy the music all over again. When you think about it, it is genius. So antiMusic salutes the record companies for this brilliant way of separating the fans from their money, which we believe was first perfected by KISS. We do leave you with this: first) we did research and despite some rumors we learned that Blink-182 and Savage Garden are in fact two separate groups. Second) fans that fall for this scam do not like to have the point that it is a scam pointed out to them. Third) we tried this repackaging scam with this article and if you are reading it, it was successful. Stay tuned for news on the Lindsay Lohan, Kelly Osbourne and Ashlee Simpson greatest hits cds! They must be on the horizon, so get your wallets ready!
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