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Terrorizer Return

The PRP reports: Terrorizer have reunited with half their original line-up and signed a deal with Century Media. The band will be recording a new album for the label this month[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

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God's Sworn Enemy

The PRP reports: God Forbid and Sworn Enemy look to be planning a run together following their mutual tour with Anthrax this month, dates announced so far include:
January 28th Calgary, AB - The Warehouse
January 29th Edmonton, AB - The Starlite Room
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Timberlake Enlists Rubin

MTV reports: Justin Timberlake is back with a broader sound, a new songwriting technique and a legendary producer at his side. Rick Rubin is on board for the follow-up to Justified, which Timberlake plans to release this summer.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

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Casualties DVD

punkbands reports: SideOneDummy has announced plans to release a new DVD from The Casualties on March 10th. The band will also enter the studio on January 7th to begin work on their next album.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

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Roth Flop?

Rockdirt reports: Media pundit Jeff Jarvis writes at his BuzzMachine blog: "David Lee Roth’s show the second day was just as simultaneously mind-boggling and mind-numbing as the first. Time for the death pool: How long will this thing last? I say three months[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

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Lacuna Coil April

siN's metal news reports: Century Media Records has set an April 4th world-wide release date for LACUNA COIL's upcoming new album ''Karmacode." The album's lead track, "Our Truth," will receive its worldwide debut on the Underworld: Evolution soundtrack on January 10th. A video has also been shot for the song.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

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Motley Denial

The Gauntlet reports: Susan Whitall of The Detroit News has issued the following report: It could be a scene from the movie "Spinal Tap": Veteran rocker calls the cops after a concert, complaining that two fans pulled him off the stage.

But the two fans, Karen Ann Sklar, 30, of Birmingham and Christine Bajaj, 32, of Sterling Heights, told Auburn Hills police they saw Mars reaching out to them, and thought he was trying to pull them onstage, maybe to go backstage.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

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Maiden MS Auction Success

The Gauntlet reports: As previously reported on The Gauntlet, Iron Maiden held an ebay auction to benefit the Clive Burr MS fund. Iron Maiden's official website posted the following results:

"The Special Charity Ebay Auction of Dave's signed Guitar, signed T Shirts and Tour Programmes has raised a grand total of £8044 which is fantastic.

Winners of the auctions were from all around the world. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

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Scott Stapp To Wed

BWR reports: Scott Stapp and Jaclyn Nesheiwat have announced their wedding date for February 10, 2006, in Florida. Stapp is the Grammy award-winning singer/songwriter and founder of Creed, currently supporting his solo debut The Great Divide, and Nesheiwat is Miss NY USA 2004 and Director of Public Affairs for the Scott Stapp Foundation (a charitable foundation that supports children and seeks to promote healthy parent-child relationships); both are Florida natives.

Jaclyn and Scott met at the Muscular Dystrophy Association Annual Gala in New York last January. Stapp released his first solo effort, the platinum-certified The Great Divide on November 22, 2005 and has plans to tour in Spring 2006.- Click Here for the Full Story

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Stroke 9's Cafe Cuts

Impress Media reports: On Tuesday, February 7, 2006, Stroke 9 will release Cafe Cuts, a new album on Rock Ridge Music. This Bay Area-based group has revisited some of their most popular tunes in an acoustic setting for this recording. The disc also includes one new song.

Cafe Cuts showcases Stroke 9’s endearing blend of pop and indie rock stripped down to reveal the stories and feelings woven into each song. The group’s tunes offer expressive reflections on relationships, especially on “Washin’ & Wonderin,’” “Vacuum Bag,” and “Tear Me In Two.” Other songs featured on Cafe Cuts include “Make It Last,” “Just Can’t Wait, and “Do It Again,” as well as a new version of “Little Black Back Pack,” the band's #1 smash hit from their debut CD Nasty Little Thoughts.- Click Here for the Full Story

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Fireball Ministry Premiere

Black & White PR reports: The network premiere of Fireball Ministry’s new video for “Sundown” – previously delayed by technical difficulties – will take place this Saturday, Jan. 7 on MTV2’s Headbangers Ball. The first single off new album Their Rock Is Not Our Rock, “Sundown” was recently performed live on NBC’s “Last Call With Carson Daly.”

In other Fireball news, the band – who wrapped up a string of dates with Clutch on New Year’s Eve – will perform alongside Metal Skool, the self-described “best imitators of the best music in the history of music, ‘80s metal,” this Monday, Jan. 9 at Hollywood’s Key Club. They will then play a sold-out Anaheim gig alongside Disturbed and Bloodsimple on Jan. 22. Expect additional touring announcements soon.- Click Here for the Full Story

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Family Force 5 has arrived

Cornerstone reports: A phoenix rising from the ashes of the Dirty South, Family Force 5 creates a lethal mix of punk, rock, funk and mind-altering grooves that's guaranteed ghetto music straight from the heart cut with a healthy dose of fried grits.

Formed 2 years ago in Atlanta, Family Force 5 re-define Rock from the South, combining OutKast with Rage Against the Machine and beastie Boys with the White Stripes. Imagine Rick James fronting the MC5 or Ronnie Van Zant as lead singer for the Gap Band. No other band mixes new wave guitars with the nasty groove that can only come after a lifetime diet of fried chicken and collard greens. [see full story for the video to the first single from their debut album (due out sometime early this year on Maverick)]- Click Here for the Full Story

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Motorola iRadio Adds Warner Music Group

Press Release reports: Today, Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) announced that Warner Music Group Corp. (NYSE: WMG) will provide music performed by its world-renowned artists to expand the music selection available on the award-winning Motorola iRadio(R) service.

Through the iRadio service, including exclusive WMG artist and genre channels, iRadio listeners will enjoy and discover music from the company's expansive catalog of emerging acts, popular favorites and established legends.[see full story for A LOT more details]- Click Here for the Full Story

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High on Fire Tour

Relapse reports: HIGH ON FIRE are getting ready to kick off their ‘Blessed Black Wings Tour 2006’ on January 18th in San Francisco, CA at 12 Galaxies. The tour will include special guest THE BRONX, BIG BUSINESS, and labelmates BURIED INSIDE.

The Decibel Magazine, HxC.com, Burning Angel, and Jakprints-sponsored tour is the band’s first North American headlining tour in almost a year. HIGH ON FIRE spent most of 2005 touring as part of the The Sounds of The Underground Tour with LAMB OF GOD, supporting EVERY TIME I DIE, MASTODON and making several European festival appearances at Fury Fest, Roadburn, and an appearance at All Tomorrows Party on invitation from curators THE MARS VOLTA.[see full story for dates]- Click Here for the Full Story

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Riverboat Gamblers Tour

Press Release reports: Riverboat Gamblers will be playing a handful of shows in the Southwest this month. The Gamblers just finished recording their 4th as yet untitled LP for new label Volcom Entertainment, the new album will be released in April.

1/17/2006 Emo's - Austin, TX
1/18/2006 House of Rock n'Roll - El Paso, TX
1/19/2006 Plush - Tucson, AZ
1/20/2006 Jillian's - Las Vegas, NV w/Swinging Utters and The Briefs
1/27 & 28 Alex's Bar - Long Beach, CA (Alex’s Bar 6th Year Anniversay Weekend)
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Birth Of Americana

conqueroo reports: HackTone Records and Shout! Factory announce the CD release of Heartworn Highways, the whiskey-warm companion album to the cult documentary of the same name. Recorded in 1975-76 in Nashville and Austin, Heartworn Highways captures the birth of an alt-country movement light-years from the spit-polished Music Row. Armed with little more than a camera and microphone (and maybe a case of Jack), the filmmakers captured lightning in a bottle, spotlighting a particular band of brothers - Steve Earle, Townes Van Zandt, Rodney Crowell, John Hiatt, Guy Clark and perennial outsider David Allan Coe - at the dawn of their careers. They also captured inspired performances from relative unknowns Gamble Rogers and Larry Jon Wilson that will instantly convert listeners into adoring fans. What they walked away with is a document of the fierce, raw talent burning at the core of some of the greatest singer-songwriters of our time. The CD, produced with the direct involvement of the movie's original producer, Graham Leader (In the Bedroom, etc.) and editor, Phillip Schopper, features 20 audio performances recorded for the film, as well as key dialogue excerpts. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

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Editorial: Why I think the WM3 are Innocent: Statistics, Stepdads & Serial Killers

By JoFo: My reading habits last winter managed to creep my kids out, which is an especially impressive feat, given the fact that teenage boys comprise at least some of said kids. Books on serial killers, "perfect" crimes, gruesome murders & their solutions occupied my attention for a few months, for no particular reason. As I read these books, I couldn't help but to think of the West Memphis Three & their unfair trial & unjust conviction. Although none of the books pertained to this case specifically, I managed to glean some understanding on the case from the writings of experts on investigating murders & crime scenes. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story

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Crimes Against Music: Six Pence None the Wiser

Day in Rock reports: Welcome to a new feature to the Day in Rock. Every Friday we will highlight a new "crime again music". You may ask what is a crime against music, simply put it is when a classic song is misused (primarily in TV ads to sell crap). This is a heinous crime on many levels. For one there is usually such a disconnect between the original meaning of the song and the crap product being sold that it defied logic. There are a dozen more reasons but we think you can figure them out on your own. In a perfect world we would punish those responsible by locking them in a dark room and subject them to a 24/7 rotation of songs by Kelly Osbourne, Yoko Ono and Courtney Love but since that would probably violate international torture laws, we have decided to call out the companies responsible for their crimes.

We start off with an oldie but a goodie that had previously been highlighted by one of our columnists. The disconnect in this one is pretty funny but also very sad and it has the honor of being a double crime against music. We are talking of course about Six Pence None the Richer's cover of The La's classic "There She Goes". The cover version in itself is humorous because here we have a "Christian" band covering a song supposedly about heroin use. To compound this and why it is the example we use to kick off this series is that this cover was used in advertisements for birth control pills. Yes a Christian band singing a song about heroin that was used to sell birth control pills. You can see how this qualifies as a crime against music and overall good taste! It's just plain wrong on so many levels. The only thing worse would be a tampon company using Pearl Jam's "Even Flow" in an ad. (We better not give them ideas, but we hope Eddie and company would never let their music be degraded at such a level.) We must stop these crimes against music! So join us each week as we call out another company for their crimes.
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