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Plastic Idols
Contact Music reports: Former RONETTES singer RONNIE SPECTOR has slammed the current generation of popstars as simply manufactured acts with no real talent or originality. The BE MY BABY star mourns the lack of individuality contemporary bands display, arguing The Ronettes focused on music over choreography and glitz in their 1960s heyday. Spector fumes, "I look around me and I don't see any rock 'n' roll at the moment. Instead it's all choreography and stylists and wigs and stuff. It's like they're afraid to let the music breathe.[Amen! see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Elvis Landmark
AP reports: The home of the King of Rock 'n' Roll joined the homes of presidents past and present in becoming a National Historic Landmark Monday.[No 'throne' exhibit jokes out of respect to the king. see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Gorillaz TV
Gigwise reports: The Gorillaz are reportedly planning to star in their own TV cartoon series.

Damon Albarn and his other monkey friends are hoping that the show will be an alternative animated series for the more discerning cartoon enthusiast.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Chili Sparks
Noble PR reports: The incomparable Sparks will headline the main "Open Air Stage" on Saturday August 5th at the Big Chill Festival. So Big Chillers can look forward to an unrivalled performance from the Californian brothers. Incredibly this will be Sparks' first outdoor festival - "Playing a festival will be a new experience for us but it is one we are looking forward to. It will be great to put on our show in this outdoor location and for an audience who may not have seen us play before." said Russell Mael [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Def Journey
ABC PR reports: Def Leppard and Journey--along with VH1 Classic and Live Nation--are pairing up for one of the most rockin' tours to hit the U.S. this summer with both bands heading out together starting June 23 in Camden, NJ and concluding August 31 in Seattle, WA. [see full story for more including confirmed dates]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Get Down Again with KC & the Sunshine Band
conqueroo reports: KC & the Sunshine Band, who exploded from the Miami R&B scene into international disco and pop stardom with a string of chart-top hits like "Get Down Tonight" and "That's The Way (I Like It)," will find a new CD home for their first four albums at Collectors Choice Music. 

On April 25, Collectors Choice will release the albums KC & the Sunshine Band, Sounds of Sunshine, Part 3 and Who Do Ya Love. The fully annotated volumes contain quotes from Harry Wayne "KC" Casey.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Vandals to Rock Afghanistan
Fanscape reports: Orange County punk rock legends the Vandals will once again take their act to the theater of war next month as they head to Southern Asia to play for the armed forces troops deployed in Afghanistan as part of Operation Enduring Freedom.

The Vandals, who first made the trek to the region Christmas 2004/2005 playing for troops in forward operating bases in Iraq and Kuwait, will play 4 to 6 shows in the Afghan region during their 10 day trip beginning April 5, 2006 on a tour arranged by military entertainment contractors AKA Productions. 

Singer Dave Quackenbush said, "The most frequently asked question we get when we tell people we are going to Iraq or Afghanistan is, 'are you going to play for the troops?' The insurgents aren't really interested in us, truthfully. And the only musical activity permitted by the Taliban is the singing of certain types of religious songs, and Taliban chants. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Junkie Xl
Cornerstone reports: Junkie Xl a dance music artist known around the world with deep rock roots ? This might seem to be a slightly unbelievable, but upon closer look its easy to see. Junkie Xl began his career by releasing two Lp's on the 'Play it Again Sam ' label (Front 242). Around this time Junkie Xl took on remix projects with metal giants like Sepultura, Soulfly and Fear Factory. Xl continued his rock dance ways with releases like 1997's 'Saturday night Teenage Kicks' which featured hits such as "Billy Club." Today is set to drop April 18 and fans of Xl previous album and remix work or those new to Xl will really be pleasesed with this latest offering .[see full story for a preview]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Amp'd Fall Out
Fanscape reports: Amp'd Mobile, the first mobile entertainment company created to bring next-gen broadband wireless services to youth, is the official sponsor of the Black Clouds and Underdogs Tour featuring Fall Out Boy, The All-American Rejects, Hawthorne Heights, From First To Last, The Hush Sound and October Fall. The tour kicked off March 17 in Boston and finishes up May 15 in Fall Out Boy's hometown of Chicago, IL. As part of the sponsorship, Amp'd will supply exclusive content from the tour including three live MobileCasts to Amp'd handsets, featuring the full concert performance free of charge to Amp'd Mobile customers. (The first MobileCast aired on March 19 from Tweeter at the Waterfront in Camden, NJ).

To promote the tour, Amp'd Mobile is giving away the ultimate rock star prize pack which includes a Fall Out Boy signed guitar and drumhead, an Amp'd Mobile phone with service & accessories and CDs from the artists on the tour! Runners-up will receive a Fall Out Boy prize pack including CDs, T-shirts, drum sticks and signed merchandise. [see full story to enter]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Dankomania
Razor & Tie reports: Mark your calendars because this Sunday Danko Jones "Baby Hates Me" will be featured on WWE's Wrestlemania 22! Tune in Sunday, April 2nd at 7 pm EST / 4 pm PT (available on Pay Per View) to catch "Baby Hates Me" during the opening credits of one of WWE's biggest events on the year.

Keep an eye out for Danko Jones to be featured on www.WWE.com. And check out their Myspace page at www.myspace.com/dankojones to hear streams of "Baby Hates Me" and "First Date." - Click Here for the Full Story 

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Taste the Vines
Day in Rock reports: Vines fans that want a taste of the new album "Vision Valley" are in luck, they band just launched a new online sampler that contains some streams from the new CD as well as the band's previous two albums. Vision Valley hits stores on April 4th but go get your taste of the new Vines at the full story link. - Click Here for the Full Story 

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Adrian Belew's Side Three
Sanctuary reports: Sanctuary Records has announced an April 18th release date for Side Three, the much-anticipated conclusion to Adrian Belew's trilogy of concept albums. Written, performed and produced by Belew, the album features 12 new songs including such stand-out tracks as "Troubles," "Beat Box Car" and "Truth Is". 

Belew released Side One, a power- trio driven album featuring Primus' Les Claypool and Danny Carey, in January of 2005. After receiving a Grammy® Nomination for the single "Beat Box Guitar," Belew followed the release up later that same year with Side Two, a more electronica-inspired album that took many of his fans and critics by surprise. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Failed Lynch Mob Reunion
Sleaze Roxx reports: In an exclusive interview with Sleaze Roxx, Lynch Mob vocalist Oni Logan explains why George Lynch turned down a recent offer to reunite the band.

Oni says, "...You see here in Europe I was surprised to see how many people dug the Lynch Mob, and I'm not excluding the States cause I know you're out there, but I think the promoters especially here in Europe genuinely still believe in Rock 'n' Roll. That's why these festivals have such a great turn out. I've been to a few and there were always people I ran into with one question. Why don't you get the Lynch Mob over here for some dates? So I thought why not bring up the idea. So Anthony had the task of putting it out there, but the reply that we got from George's camp was that he was putting together some super-group and that he was not interested. End of story." 

The entire interview can be read at the full story link- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Stone Sour Diversify Even More
Day in Rock reports: In his latest MorleyView, Morley caught up with Stone Sour's Josh Rand while the band is in the studio recording their new album. Josh tells Morley a bit about the new CD and the direction it is taking in the following excerpt. 

antiMUSIC: So bring us up to date on how the record is going. 

Josh Rand: Right now we're in Los Angeles doing the follow-up, obviously. We've brought in Nick Raskulinecz to help produce this and help steer the ship. We've wrapped up drums and are working on guitar now. We're going to track 18 songs. Probably only 12-13 will be on the record. That's yet to be decided. They're very diverse. If you like the first record, and certainly mainly people comment on the diversity of that one�.this one will be far and beyond that one. There's some really heavy stuff. There's some really melodic stuff and a new direction we've yet to go until now. It's going to be cool. I'm really excited about it. [Click the full story link to read the full MorleyView!]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Mailbag: Claymates Vs Ozzfest & DiR
Day in Rock reports: Say what you may about Clay Aiken fans but they are passionate about their favorite karaoke contest runner-up. Fans that got the Ozzfest joke are a bit upset with us for posting a clarification for those clueless ones that thought it was legit and yes some did (a dozen or so emailed us to find out where we heard this and one of the zillion Clay fan boards had a serious discussion on why this made sense because Clay is trying to do new things). But in respect to those Claymates with a sense of humor, yes we do realize that only a few thought that posting was serious but it was funny enough for us to post about and clarify for the clueless ones. In that same spirit, here are portions of some of the many hatemail responses we received from Claymates: "Of course this joke of yours was reported on Aiken's message boards, just like any article that mentiones him would be. And if you actually read what was said there, instead of relying on third-hand reports, you would see that no one took it seriously. Even though Ozzfest could use a performer who sings in tune instead of screaming or mumbling the songs like most of their acts do. And it would have sold a lot more tickets, too." Another Claymate wrote "those dirtbags only wish they could have a real star at ozzFest." Our favorite was this ironic hatemail "those metal fags would be lucky to have Clay play there stupid concert". Now who wouldn't buy a ticket to see the crowd reaction to a Clay Aiken set at Ozzfest! Hell that would be Pay-Per-View material. Sharon don't disappoint us, set it up! Of course, this would only work at the first show. As for the Claymates, keep the hate coming! We're having a blast.- Click Here for the Full Story 

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