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Viva La Bam Tour

PRP reports: As previously reported, Open Hand, Fight Paris and Disengage will soon be embarking on the "Viva La Bam" tour. The trek will kick off in Austin, TX on August 04th and run through the east coast up until September 11th. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Chimaira Dates

PRP reports: Chimaira have filled out the gaps in their upcoming tour with Six Feet Under, All That Remains and 3 Inches Of Blood, here's the final additions to the schedule:
August 12th Cincinnati, OH - Bogarts
August 14th Towson, MD - Recher Theatre
August 15th Charleston, WV - The Sound Factory[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

New CDs Next Week

Day in Rock reports: Here are some of the CDs hitting stores next week.

Accept (Accept, I'm a Rebel, Breaker, Restless and Wild)

Aimee Mann Forgotten Arm [Japan Bonus Track]

David Bowie Collection

Frank Black Honeycomb

Iggy Pop Million in Prizes: The Anthology

Nine Inch Nails With Teeth [Australia Bonus Track]

Soilent Green Confrontation

Thousand Foot Krutch Art of Breaking

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Solo Tonic

antiMusic reports: Tonic frontman Emerson Hart has gone solo. What follows is an update from his brand new website.

Emerson has been hard at work in the studio in Nashville and New Orleans finishing his first solo record. Recorded with producer Mike Napolitano (Joseph Arthur, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Twilight Singers, World Leader Pretend), the album includes many of the songs Emerson has featured in recent live acoustic sets. Release date and tour plans will be announced at a later date. Stay tuned![see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Gorillaz Premier

CornerStone reports: On Sunday, July 17th, the Gorillaz website will be premiering the new video for "DARE." Tune in to see Shaun Ryder's enlarged head. - Click Here for the Full Story

Anti-Flag Update

punkbands reports: Anti-Flag are gearing up to head into the studio around the middle of August to record their sell... *cough, cough* major label debut. They are also planing on a few tour dates in the month to come. The band have been personally invited by Green Day to play some shows with them in Canada next month, and around that tour are a few other dates with The Casualties and Big D & the Kids Table, and a stop at Hellfest. [see full story for dates]- Click Here for the Full Story

Punk's Not Dead

punkbands reports: Punk’s Not Dead is a new independent documentary film featuring The Division of Laura Lee, The Business & The (International) Noise Conspiracy [Rancid, Bad Religion, NOFX, Exploited, Social Distortion, Dead Kennedys and more] in a who’s who of faces and music from the punk world from 1976 to the present. It may be the biggest film ever made about punk, set to be released on the 30th anniversary of the movement.

Punk's Not Dead is currently in post-production with an expected finish date of summer 2005. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

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New York Dolls Deal

siN's metal news reports: Roadrunner Records is proud to announce the signing of seminal punk rock artists the NEW YORK DOLLS. Since rising to the heights of the lower east side glam/punk scene, the NEW YORK DOLLS have become synonymous with low-fi, down and dirty, rock music. The band Rolling Stone Magazine credits with “the sound and snarl of jubilant outlaw spirit,” will soon record an album of fresh, original material due out on Roadrunner in the Spring of 2006. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Shinedown Soph

siN's metal news reports: SHINEDOWN have been chugging away in the studio. We can report that the band is slated to release their followup to "Leave A Whisper" through Atlantic Records this September. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Warped Fuse

Universal Buzz reports: "FuseTV, the all-music, viewer driven television network is teaming up with Energizer® to power up Warped Tour fans this summer. Once a week until August 12, 2005, Fuse will pick 9 lucky fans to win an Apple® model iPodTM Shuffle filled with music from over a dozen bands on the Warped Tour. They’ll also throw in a JBL On Tour Stereo Speaker System filled with Energizer® e2® Titanium Technology® batteries.

There will also be a grand prize drawing at the end of the summer for a trip to see The Starting Line in the fall.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Songs For Charity

press release reports: The Songwriters Showcases of America has begun a new program called Songs For Charity to help raise funds for non profit organizations. The first song being used for the campaign during the month of July is called "Celebrating Independence" to help raise funds for Wounded Warriors Hospital Fund in honor of Independence Day.

Wounded Warriors is a non profit organization that operates in Iraq and financially assist service men and women who are hospitalized from injuries that occurred in the line of duty. The song "Celebrating Independence" is being promoted around the world by email, websites, radio and at many community festivities to help raise money for the cause. As part of the campaign you can listen and download the song for free by going to the SSA's website at www.ssa.cc. SSA's President, Phil Weidner hopes that through the Songs For Charity program many Americans can show their support for US military personnel and can make a donation to Wounded Warriors.

The donations that are collected goes directly to aid military personnel who have been hospitalized in the line of duty.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

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Traffic DVD

press release reports: When sixties rock heroes Steve Winwood and Jim Capaldi re-formed Traffic in 1994 for more than 75 unforgettable performances, a camera crew was right by their side, shadowing the group on its historic tour of the U.S. Eleven years later, that footage—shot on the tour bus, in the dressing room, and on the stage—has been combined to form the band's first ever live DVD: The Last Great Traffic Jam.

To be released on September 20th on Epic Records, The Last Great Traffic Jam follows band founders Winwood, Capaldi, and their four-piece backing band on Traffic's first tour of the U.S. in two decades.[see full story for more including tracks]- Click Here for the Full Story

Cash Box

Commotion PR reports: Columbia/Legacy, a division of SONY BMG Music Entertainment, releases ‘must have’ box sets by American music titans Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash on August 2, 2005. The deluxe version of the Cash box arrives August 16th.

Each set continues Legacy’s meticulous, critically-acclaimed tradition of combining state-of-the-art re-mastering techniques and significant previously-unreleased tracks with first-class packaging including informative booklets with rare, vintage and archive photos, best-available studio credits, and extensive liner notes.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

American Minor Debut

press release reports: American Minor's debut album comes as a complete surprise, sounding like a missive from an alternate, more perfect universe where Television opened for Bad Company and the Gun Club toured with Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers. Produced by Christopher Thorn & Brad Smith (founding members of Blind Melon) and mixed by Rob Schnapf (Elliott Smith, Beck, Foo Fighters, The Vines), American Minor’s eleven songs display a natural confidence and ease that spring from a lifetime of shared experiences growing up in Huntingon, West Virginia. At a time when too much technology and too many stylists have paralyzed rock & roll with a synthetic sheen, American Minor breaks through the plastic with eleven timeless songs that capture an American sound that’s equal parts Skynyrd and the Pixies.

American Minor’s upcoming self titled debut CD will be in stores August 16th but you can hear a sample now by clicking the full story link.
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