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Flogging Molly Tour

Punkbands reports: Flogging Molly are hitting the road in the US and Canada again starting on July 31 in Buffalo for Edgefest. They'll be out for 2 weeks and you can find them from the Northeast to the Midwest.

July 28, 2005 - OC Fair - Pacific Amphitheater -Costa Mesa, CA
July 29 2005 - SD Street Scene - Qualcomm Stadium- San Diego, CA
July 31, 2005 - Edgefest - The Pier - Buffalo, NY
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Metalfest Delay

siN's metal news reports: This year's Milwaukee Metalfest XIX, which was scheduled for July 29th and 30th at the Modjeska Theatre in Milwuakee, WI, has been postponed until December 2nd and 3rd of 2005. NECROPHAGIA, MACABRE, MALEVOLENT CREATION, ORIGIN among others were scheduled to play. No reason was given was given for the postponement. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Fireball Ministry Ink Deal

siN's metal news reports: Rock saviors FIREBALL MINISTRY, recently dubbed the “#1 metal band you need to know now” by Guitar World, have officially joined the roster of Liquor and Poker Music. The L.A.-based rock label will release the group’s new album, Their Rock Is Not Our Rock, on Oct. 18. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Beecher Tracks

siN's metal news reports: Tracklisting for BEECHER's "This Elegy, His Autopsy", out on Earache Records on October 19th, has been released. It is as follows:

1. It's Good Weather For Black Leather
2. Function! Function!
3. The Womaniser And The Alcoholic
4. Knight The Arsonist
5. Not Guilty
6. ...And On The Day That He Became A Human Plumb Line
7. Psycho Galvanic Skin Response
8. Man The Trans
9. Brown Eyes (No Name)
10. The Biting Cold [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Rock of Ages

MTV reports: Tenacious D's Kyle Gass will star in a Broadway musical in the works based on the power ballads of the '80s. Songs from Bon Jovi, Journey, REO Speedwagon and more will be included in the production, titled "Rock of Ages" and currently being shopped to theaters in New York and Las Vegas.[see full story for more music news]- Click Here for the Full Story

Simpson Scam

AP reports: Authorities have accused an East Rutherford woman of amassing more than $12,000 in free merchandise by claiming she was an assistant of celebrity Jessica Simpson.

Courtney Handel, 23, was arrested Friday and charged with theft by deception. By Sunday, she had been released from the Bergen County Jail after posting bail.

Police say Handel sent e-mails and faxes to companies in which she posed as Simpson assistant CaCee Cobb. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Euro White Stripes

Gigwise reports: Jack and Meg will begin the short tour in Paris on October 16 and will take in Barcelona, Bologna and Vienna as well. More dates are expected to be added.

The dates are:
Paris, Le Zenith – October 16
Barcelona, Razzmatazz – 19
Bologna, Paladozza – 21
Vienna, Gasometer - 22
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Sly Tribute

Gigwise reports: A host of Rn’B, Pop and Hip Hop stars have teamed together to record a tribute album to the legendary Sly & the Family Stone.

Janet Jackson, Moby, The Roots, Maroon 5, Outkast’s Big Boi and Blacked Eyed Peas’ Will I Am have all recorded songs for the album ‘Different Strokes by Different Folks’ which is set for release this September.

The record will also see Joss Stone, Van Hunt and John Legend team up for a version of ‘Family Affair’ reports Billboard. [see full story for more including tracks]- Click Here for the Full Story

Free dB's

conqueroo reports: The dB's are offering a preview of the band’s forthcoming recording in the form of a free download of a new 2005 studio recording. "World to Cry" is a Peter Holsapple composition, recorded January 2005 at Water Music in Hoboken and mixed by Chris Stamey at Modern Recording in Chapel Hill and is available for download at http://www.thedbsonline.net .

The dB's are also pleased to announce their return to live performance. The mini-tour consists of two nights at Maxwell's in Hoboken, where The dB's first played in 1978, and two shows in Chicago. Expect to hear new songs mixed in with your faves. These no-guest-list shows are guaranteed to sell out fast.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Brad Vs Satchel

Vandenberg Comm reports: The Establishment Store proudly announces the release of Brad Vs Satchel, the long-awaited and much anticipated compilation CD from two of Seattle's most loved and highly regarded bands - Brad and Satchel.

The release features six tracks of previously unreleased material from Brad's critically acclaimed 2002 release, Welcome To Discovery Park, as well as five tracks from a 1997 Satchel recording session. Culled from hours of previously unavailable material, this compilation is sure to delight the legion of fans that recognize the musical elegance of two of Seattle's finest bands.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Boys Night Out Release

Adrenaline PR reports: Highly anticipated new Ferret Records Release TRAINWRECK streets July 26TH. Check them out on the Smart Punk Stage on The Vans Warped Tour all summer long.

Boys Night Out at Warped Tour:
7/26 - NY - BUFFALO - DARIEN LAKES PAC
7/28 - QC - QUEBEC - COLISEE PEPSI PARKING LOT
7/30 - ON - BARRIE - MOLSON PARK
7/31 - MI - DETROIT - PONTIAC SILVERDOME
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Hidden In Plain View Net 1 Mil

Drive-Thru reports: As New Jersey rockers HIDDEN IN PLAIN VIEW prepare to hit the road for their month-long headlining tour, the band has reached a significant career milestone: over one million plays on PureVolume.com!

In the past, record sales were the sole barometer of an artist's impact, but in today's music environment, there is a multitude of ways to gauge who is actually listening. PureVolume, a music-hosting website that allows musicians, signed and unsigned to expose their music, tracks the number of daily and overall plays artists receive. Only 16 artists have the distinction of a million plays on the site that features over 152,000 rising artists. HIDDEN IN PLAIN VIEW will join The Starting Line, Fall Out Boy, Underoath, and label mates HelloGoodbye with over one million plays and counting![see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Early November / I Am The Avalanche Split

Drive-Thru Records reports: Drive-Thru Records will release a split CD from label heavy-weights THE EARLY NOVEMBER and newly signed I AM THE AVALANCHE on July 26, 2005.

Track listing:
The Early November
1. Outside (Demo)
2. Ever So Sweet (Live from Philly)

I Am The Avalanche
3. New Disaster
4. I Took A Beating (Acoustic)
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Cancer Assault

KOI Records reports: Matt Beck, current guitarist for Spitfire, former Mae guitarist, is putting together a non-profit DIY punk/hardcore compilation to raise cancer awareness. The compilation, entitled, "Friend In Need Benefit Compilation Vol. I" will benefit several foundations that provide mammograms for women who could not otherwise afford them. The record will be released on KOI Records later this year.

Issued as a double LP colored vinyl, the compilation will be a limited to only 1000 copies. Each copy will have a hand-made cover and be hand-numbered.

Bands featured on the Comp are: Norma Jean, Spitfire, Underoath, Body Electric, Bleed The Sun, Cattle Decapitation, Everything Falls Together, Avail, Cassius, Winter Solstice, From A Second Story Window, Horse The Band, Dead Poetic, As Cities Burn, Handshake Murders, Savage Brewtality, The Minor Times, The Jefferson Plane Crash, Cursed, Curl Up And Die, Jud Jud, Mika Bomb, Dead Thoughts Memory.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

50 Cent Vs 50 Cent

DIME Media reports: In a setback for rapper Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson in his lawsuit against the producers of The Infamous Times - Volume I: The Original 50 Cent, on July 20, 2005, a federal court in Los Angeles denied his motion for an injunction against further distribution of the critically acclaimed and double-platinum selling DVD and refused his request that he be given an accounting of the DVD's sales to date.

Jackson alleged that the use of the words "50 Cent" in the DVD's title infringed on his trademark. However, the court held that it was likely that Czar Entertainment would prevail in its defense that the use of "50 Cent" in the title was legitimate under federal trademark law. The court also found that it was unlikely that consumers would believe that the rapper had produced the DVD or was otherwise responsible for its distribution. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Beautiful Creatures Release

Chipster reports: The universe loves pure rock 'n' roll bands and will open its arms to welcome the long-awaited Beautiful Creatures album Deuce on August 23, 2005. This is the band's first release for Spitfire Records, an imprint of Eagle Rock Entertainment.

Deuce is a full-blooded hard rock/heavy metal album full of in-your-face attitude and punchy, blast-furnace songs. The first single from Deuce will be "Anyone.” The album also includes "Thanks," "Freedom," "Unforgiven," "Save Me," "Empty," "Never," "Super Fly," "Straight To Hell," "The Unknown," "Ton Of Lead," "Brand New Day" and "I Won't Be The One."[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Shake, Rattle & Roll

Noble PR reports: Sanctuary TV are delighted to announce the August 22, 2005 double CD release of Shake, Rattle & Roll - an album that brings together all the excitement and cool of early Elvis, Gene Vincent, Little Richard, and Eddie Cochran!

With 15 #1 singles, the album embodies the original roots of 1950's rock'n'roll music, a time that revolutionised the music, created youth culture and changed society for ever. This deluxe 2-CD archive set contains 50 classic rock 'n' roll hits making it an essential purchase for fans both new and old. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

Rock Radio Death

Trent McMartin reports: Throughout his short and turbulent life music critic and author Lester Bangs would repeatedly denounce the state of rock and roll, regularly criticizing it and on many occasions declaring it dead. Bangs' prophecies about rock's premature death were always greatly exaggerated since rock still remains and will endure for generations to come but none can question the overall decline of rock radio's ratings in North America.

As reported by Steve Knopper in a June 24th, Rolling Stone article; five rock radio stations in major U.S. cities switched formats in recent months after ratings dropped for six consecutive years. This does come at an odd time since, as explained by Knopper in his article, rock albums have dominated the charts the past few months. Artists such as Coldplay, Green Day, Audioslave, System of a Down, Bruce Springsteen, Nine Inch Nails, the Dave Matthews Band, and Rob Thomas have all experienced success on the billboard charts this past spring and summer.

But this success is fleeting since rock radio station ratings are still in decline.[see full story for more][see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

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