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P.O.D. dates

TuneLab reports: P.O.D. has announced dates for their "The Warriors Tour 2: Guilty By Association" tour with Pillar, The Chariot and Maylene and the Sons of Disaster. The tour will hit these cities:

April 20th in Philadelphia, PA @ Trocadero
April 21st in Clifton Park, NY @ Northern Lights
April 22nd in Boston, MA @ Axis[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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SOAD Souls

The PRP reports: System Of A Down will be hosting and headlining their 4th annual "Souls" benefit concert at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, CA on April 23rd.
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Dashboard Confessional

punkbands reports: Dashboard Confessional's new album is slated for a June 13th release via Vagrant. - Click Here for the Full Story 

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Soul Trains

MTV reports: Mariah Carey and John Legend were the big winners at the 20th annual Soul Train Music Awards Saturday, each taking two prizes. Carey scored a best album award for The Emancipation of Mimi and best single honors for "We Belong Together," while Legend took the best male album prize for Get Lifted and best male single trophy for "Ordinary People."[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Yanni Arrested

AP reports: The pianist Yanni was arrested at his Manalapan home after a domestic dispute with his girlfriend, authorities said. 

Yanni, whose legal name is John Yanni Christopher, was arrested early Friday and faces a domestic battery charge, according to a police report.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Texas Rock Fest

Press Release reports: The seventh annual Heart of Texas Quadruple Bypass (HOTQB) Music Festival, also called the �Texas Rock Fest', has a record number of 280 artists/bands performing at this year's event, which benefits local Austin musician Luann "Lulu" Williams. Returning to downtown Austin on March 15-18, 2006, this year's HOTQB expands into seven venues, including the outdoor Rockstar Energy Drink stage on Trinity between 6th and 7th Streets. 

The HOTQB music festival features a wide variety of musical genres, hosting the best in indie singer songwriters, pop, rock, alternative, punk, funk, metal, and country bands. Sets not to miss include talented new songsters like Austin's Cheryl Bliss and Montreal storyteller Courtney Wing. Or pump your fist in the air on Wednesday night at Spill on Sixth with Austin's reigning metal bands. Featuring Meyvn, voted Best Austin Group of 2005 in The Edge Magazine's Reader's Poll Awards and Powderburn, voted Best Metal Band for the past three year's by the Austin Chronicle and voted Best Austin Metal Band of 2005 by The Edge, as they throw down for a Dimebag Darrell Tribute.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Paul Anka Rocks Live

Noble PR reports: May 1st, 2006 is a red-letter day for all fans of Paul Anka, as he plays his only UK concert of 2006 at London's Royal Albert Hall, performing songs from 2005's critically acclaimed Rock Swings album. Anka will also be performing hits from his vast back catalogue, including the classics Diana and Puppy Love. 

The Rock Swings album brings his unique renditions some of the greatest rock songs ever, with big band, crooner-style interpretations of songs by Nirvana, Van Halen, the Cure and Oasis to name but a few[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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AOL Previews

Day in Rock reports: It's that time of the week again. Time to tell you which new albums you can check out this week at AOL Music. At the top of the list this week is David Gilmore's new one. Yup you can hear the whole thing online. Wait, wanna know why you should skip the latest by Juvenile? Go listen and find out. AOL also has the biggest surprise of the year from the Little Willies, go hear NorahJones like you never heard her before. And don't miss new ones from Stereolab, Glen Tipton, Hotel Lights, The Czars, Mogwai and over 20 more new CDs. Plus they have some new interviews with James Blunt and Matisyahu. We know you don't want to leave the Day in Rock but when you're done head on over to the full story link to hear what's new this week. The price is right!- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Let the Good Times Roll... Again

Day in Rock reports: As previously reported, one of the biggest bands of the 80s are ready to "shake it up" again. The pr people have been trying to keep it secret about which group will "Let the Good Times Roll"... Again and "You Might Think" you know who it is. But if you don't and it's "drive"'n you crazy, it will all become official on March 14th when the group will hold a special press conference and performance at the Hollywood House of Blues to announce their return. Bored with today's stars? This might be "just what you needed!" A teaser video can be found at the full story link courtesy of the good folks at Noble PR. - Click Here for the Full Story 

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Underoath in June

MSO reports: Underoath have announced they'll release their new album June 20 on Tooth and Nail/Solid State Records. 

Co-produced by Matt Goldman (Copeland, Cartel) and Killswitch Engage guitarist Adam Dutkiewicz, the Florida-based sextet are in Los Angeles mixing the as-yet-untitled album with Chris Lord Alge (Green Day, Rob Zombie). "This is the record we've been striving to write for the past five years, and I never thought I'd see the day when it actually happened," explains MCTAGUE. "I can't wait for everyone to hear what we've been creating for the past few months, but in the end, if everyone hated it, we'd still think it's probably the best record we may ever be a part of."[see full story for more including tour news and dates]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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The Trews are coming

Red reports: Having conquered their native country of Canada with two Gold albums and six "Top 10" singles (including two #1 singles at rock radio), The TREWS are ready to take on the U.S. with the April 18th release of Den of Thieves through Red Strategic Marketing (RSM)/Sony BMG. 

Since the release of their 2003 debut, House of Ill Fame, The TREWS have become one of Canada's most recognized rock bands. They are excited to break in to the U.S. market and have a return performance at this year's SXSW Music Festival to kick off their album release. 

3/15/06 Austin, TX - MoMo's (SXSW) [see full story for more Us dates]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Dresden Dolls Return

Roadrunner reports: On April 18th, The Dresden Dolls will release Yes, Virginia, the follow-up to their critically acclaimed, self-titled, debut album. The Dresden Dolls will perform a special SXSW show on Thursday, March 16th at Stubb's at 11:00pm. Additionally, the band will perform at this year's Bonnaroo festival taking place in Manchester, TN on June 16-18th.

The album, produced by Sean Slade and Paul Q. Kolderie (Radiohead, The Pixies, Hole, etc.) satisfies all the tall promises the critics have hurled at this band since they first started writing about them in 2002. "Provocative would be an understatement, carnal is more like it" said the Boston Globe, while The New York Times wrote: "Sometimes brutal, sometimes comic, always riveting."[see full story for more - trivia of the day, do you know where that album title came from?]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Corinne a Hit

Capitol reports: Today Corinne Bailey Rae's self-titled debut album came in at #1 on the U.K. album chart. The strong first-week sales suggest that the public is every bit as enchanted by the singer-songwriter as the U.K. press. "Leeds native Corinne Bailey Rae is a new UK soul singer who, for once, won't be hemmed in by the genre's limitations....by year end, she will be everybody's soul siren of choice, and rightly so," said Q Magazine in its four-star review of the album.

Capitol Records will introduce Corinne Bailey Rae to U.S. audiences via the three-song, digital only EP Like A Star, available beginning tomorrow, and upcoming shows at New York's Mercury Lounge (March 13th), Los Angeles' Hotel Café (March 15th) and at SXSW in Austin (March 16th). "A sublime folk-soul fusion from one of the best voices we've heard in a long time," said Music Week of the EP. It features three songs from Bailey Rae's forthcoming debut album, which is due out June 6th in the States. The EP's title track, "Like A Star," was recently featured in its entirety on "Grey's Anatomy" and the video was just added by VH1 Soul's "Sub Soul," the channel's show for new music. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Who the F**k is Mike Skinner?

addVice reports: Remember that picture that said, "Who the F**k is Mike Skinner"? Well here it is. On The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living, the Streets offer perhaps the most action-packed thirty-seven minutes in the history of pop, rap or rock and roll, hurtling the listener on a voyage to the heart of celebrity darkness. The album starts and ends with a drug and alcohol inspired panic attack.Mike Skinner, battle-hardened by the last two years of trial by tabloid, has decided that attack is the best form of defense. "Me writing the scandals on my own album has got to be better than someone else getting it wrong in the papers. If you just put all the worst things that happened out there, all they can do is repeat what you've said." The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living is the amazingly true story of a now very famous boy named Mike and the madness of celebrity's fast lane. Featuring star turns by violence, sex, alcohol, gambling, bad behavior, regret and way, way too much prang.

When the record is released on April 25, Mike will revel all. Get the first clue to the madness that is the world according to Skinner with the video to lead track "When You Wasn't Famous" up now at the Streets MySpace page and let the games begin.- Click Here for the Full Story 

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2 Sides of Ben Harper

Machine Shop reports: Ben Harper is set to release his seventh studio album on March 21st entitled Both Sides of the Gun. It's the first time this talented singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist has ever gone with the double-disc format. At the end of his recording process, he realized that he had chosen nine harder songs and nine ballad-based songs for the album, which conveniently summed up the structure of the album and its eventual title.

This master stylist has taken sole production credit although in normal Ben Harper style, he bounced between recording on his own, with other musicians, and with his long-time partners, the Innocent Criminals. The album raises the bar to new heights for Ben Harper with his newfound sense of "absolute fearlessness- just diving into a song and ripping it wide open, with a lot of one-take vocals and guitar solos that are nasty, loose, raw, immediate." [see full story to check out the first video]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Jacko Recorders Guilty

TMZ reports: TMZ was in Federal court today as Jeffrey Borer and Arvel "Jett" Reeves pled guilty Monday afternoon to conspiracy for illegally taping Michael Jackson as he flew from Las Vegas to Santa Barbara in 2003. 

Jackson, who flew on a Gulfstream jet with his attorney, Mark Geragos, was arrested when he landed in Santa Barbara and taken to the Santa Barbara Sheriff's Department where he was booked on charges of child molestation. Jackson was acquitted of those charges last year.

Borer was the owner of XtraJet, a charter jet company that operated the Gulfstream and Reeves owned the company that serviced the XtraJet fleet. The pair installed a videotape (with audio) and intercepted private conversations between Garagos and Jackson.- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Rocco DeLuca and The Burden

Press Release reports: Ironworks Music, the brand new independent record label owned by Kiefer Sutherland and Jude Cole, will be sending it's first accomplishment into the world from Rocco DeLuca and The Burden on March 21st. The debut album entitled, I Trust You To Kill Me will be a first for both the label and the Long Beach, California band.

In 2004, Sutherland and Cole were introduced to Rocco DeLuca by a friend who saw him perform at The Gypsy Lounge in Orange County where he held a two-year residency. The bar was known more for its local biker crowd than a breeding ground for talented musicians. [Actually the Gypsy is THE place to hear the best up and coming OC and LBC musicians perform -ed]Yet Rocco used the nonchalant stage as a writing and rehearsal space to continue honing his unique craft on the DOBRO® steel guitar and to experiment with his impressively wide vocal range. DeLuca had grown up surrounded by music; first with his father being the touring guitarist for Bo Diddley and then with his friends immersed in the punk scene. As a result, Rocco's sound naturally emerged as a soulful combination of blues and rock with honest, vulnerable lyrics backed with an unsurpassed inner strength. [read more at the full story link including tracklisting. Def check out Rocco he does rock!] 
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