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Maiden Plan St Paddy's Gig in India
Blabbermouth reports: Following their phenomenally successful new album and sold-out tour late last year of arenas around the world, IRON MAIDEN are announcing a series of headline stadium and festival appearances in March and June of this year.

Always keen to take metal to new places, MAIDEN will for the first time ever play in India, on the spectacular grounds of Bangalore's Palace on Saturday, March 17, marking the first time a major metal band has ever played in the subcontinent.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Tool Expand Tour
SMN reports: TOOL have announced a few more upcoming North American tour dates:

March 15 - Las Vegas, NV @ The Pearl
March 16 - Las Vegas, NV @ The Pearl
March 18 - Reno, NV @ Reno Events Center
March 20 - San Diego, CA @ Cox Arena
March 21 - Tucson, AZ @ TCC Arena
March 23 - Albuquerque, NM @ Tingley Coliseum
March 24 - El Paso, TX @ Don Haskins Center
[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Dark Side of the Moon Tour
SMN reports: Roger Waters will follow up his fall North American tour performing "Dark Side of the Moon" in its entirety with a spring run, kicking off May 18 in West Palm Beach, Fla. The PINK FLOYD principal will be backed by a six-piece band, which includes his son Harry on Hammond organ, and three vocalists.

Waters first tested the "Dark Side" concept with a European tour last summer, then visited North America in the fall. Sans Waters, PINK FLOYD performed "Dark Side of the Moon" in full for the first time during its 1994 tour in support of "The Division Bell." With Waters back in the fold, the band performed the "Dark Side" tracks "Breathe" and "Money" as part of its four-song set at Live 8 in 2005.
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Shotgun To The Crinn Tour
Lambgoat reports: Saint Paul, Minnesota metal acts The Crinn and Said The Shotgun To The Head will be heading out together for a few weeks this winter. Here are the dates:

2/16 Newton, IL @ Newton KC Hall
2/17 Burnside, KY @ The Skatepark
2/18 Johnson City, TN @ The Hideaway
2/19 Jacksonville, FL @ The Pit
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Good Enough For Grammys but Not For Karaoke Idol
TMZ reports: Robyn Troup was good enough to sing with Justin Timberlake on the Grammys on Sunday, but she was canned from the Hollywood hopefuls on last night's "American Idol."

With her "Idol" rejection taped long before she won the "My Grammy Moment" contest, Troup had a Jennifer Hudson moment by landing a major break after getting the "Idol" ax. Now, it's either a record deal for the 18-year-old Houston native -- or a trip to "The Surreal Life." Good luck!- Click Here for the Full Story 

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From Tonic to Low Stars
PR reports: The Low Stars are 4 LA singer songwriters that share a love for vocal harmonies originally inspired by Crosby, Stills & Nash and the Eagles. The Low Stars in a nut shell are 4 very talented guys who refused to give up on a particular style of music that they all love. They love that singer songwriter genre with particular interest in great vocals. All 4 guys are already very accomplished musicians who came together to carry out this style of music as one group. The Low Stars have an album coming out exclusively through Starbucks Today [February 15th] and Itunes.

The Low Stars features:
Jeff Russo from Tonic
Jude (Music feature on the City of Angels soundtrack, TV"s Lost)
Chris Seefried (from Joe 90 and Gods Child)
Dave Gibbs from the Gigolo Aunts 
[grab a preview at the full story link]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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New Super Freaky Hit for Rick James
PR reports: The fans of the late legendary R&B/funk star Rick James have spoken! "Deeper Still," the first single from an upcoming album of all new material that James was working on in the years before his untimely death, went to #1 most added at Urban Adult radio in its first week! 

The grooving single will be included in an as yet untitled album of all new James material, set for release this spring. Both the single and the album will be released on the new independent label Stone City Records.- Click Here for the Full Story 

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OK Go Premiere
Capitol reports: On the heels of their outlandishly successful "treadmill" video for the hit single "Here It Goes Again" which snagged a Grammy award (Best Short Form Music Video) after logging upwards of 15 million online viewings, OK Go is back with another high-energy, visually captivating and innovative video that exhorts fans to "Do What You Want." To kick it off, viewers can tune in for the MTV multi-channel premiere rollout of "Do What You Want" today, [February 15th] on MTV's "TRL," MTV.com, and all day premieres on MTV Hits and mtvU. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Hippies Reliving Past Glory
PR reports: The Summer Of Love 40th Anniversary Concert will take place on Sunday, September 2, 2007, in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park between 10AM and 6PM. The concert will be a free event celebrating both the music inspired by the 1967 Summer Of Love and the consciousness raising efforts of the time. The organization securing the permit, the non-profit Council of Light, includes members of the original Family Dog, original Grateful Dead management, FM Radio programmers, media members and many of the era's poster artists. 

Former Family Dog partner and longtime Chet Helms associate Boots Hughston is serving as coordinator. Former Grateful Dead manager Rock Scully, along with former president of CTI Records and manager for Jesse Colin Young, David Bean, are organizing bands, licenses and sponsors*. The promoters intend to utilize the best in concert production for the musicians involved, from sound, to stage, to travel and lodging. While noted musicians from the era will be featured, organizers welcome bands from the past four decades inspired by the San Francisco music scene of the 60's. It is anticipated that there will be worldwide media coverage with live broadcast and streaming possibilities. [*because we know the summer of love was all about corporate sponsorships!]
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Jesse Malin Release Show
PR reports: Jesse Malin has announced a couple of shows including a hometown, NYC record release gig, March 19th at Bowery Ballroom with The Pierces! Jesse Malin's new disc Glitter In The Gutter comes out March 20th on Adeline/East West. Jesse's gone back to his Rock 'N Roll roots on Glitter as the whole record was recorded (and his live shows will be played) with his new band, The Gem Spa Strays. 

Every Monday up until release, Harp Magazine is debuting a new track from Glitter on their website www.harpmagazine.com - Check it out! This week they're streaming the first single, "Don't Let Them Take You Down (Beautiful Day)."- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Alabama Thunderpussy Tour
PR reports: ALABAMA THUNDERPUSSY has announced its first U.S. tour in support of their forthcoming album, Open Fire. 

ALABAMA THUNDERPUSSY will kick off the three week tour on March 8 in Raleigh, NC. This tour will include the band's fifth SXSW performance at the annual Relapse Records SXSW Showcase in Austin, TX on March 15 at Room 710. A complete listing of ALABAMA THUNDERPUSSY tour dates can be found below, with more to be announced soon.

March 8 Raleigh, NC Volume 11 Tavern
March 9 Fayetteville, NC The Rock Shop[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Pearl Returns
Cap Happy PR reports: PEARL'S BACK AT THE FOUNDATION ROOM AFTER MONTHS ON HIATUS, ONLY THIS TIME SHE'S FULLY ELECTRIC!! COME ON OUT AND CATCH PEARL ROCKING AT THE HOUSE OF BLUES WITH THE MEMBERS OF MOTHER SUPERIOR, AND SCOTT IAN OF ANTHRAX. A NON STOP SET OF SLAMMIN' ROCK 'N' ROLL!! THERE'S STILL NO COVER, STILL NO MINIMUM, AND ONCE AGAIN NO EXCUSE! JUST PULL UP TO THE PODIUM IN THE BACK AND SAY YOUR THERE TO SEE PEARL. COME CATCH PEARL WARM UP THE FOUNDATION, AND THEN CATCH HER WHEN SHE SETS THE KEYCLUB ON FIRE!!! DON'T MISS IT! SEE YOU THERE!!!! February, 22 2007 10PM at THE FOUNDATION ROOM at the House of Blues on the Sunset Strip 8430 Sunset Boulevard, West Hollywood, California 90069 Cost : FREE!!- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Jimmy McIntosh Solo Debut
PR reports: A working professional over the past 25 years with an impressive list of credentials as a sideman, Las Vegas-based guitarist Jimmy McIntosh finally steps out as a solo artist in his own right on Orleans To London, his long overdue debut as a leader on March 20, 2007. 

A hard-grooving, swaggering collection of N'awlins flavored funk, slamming rock and searing blues tunes, this formidable collection features such heavyweights as Art, Cyril and Ivan Neville of the Neville Brothers along with Nevilles drummer "Mean" Willie Green, Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood and guitar hero "Hot Rod" (His initials: J.B.), who makes an uncredited mystery guest appearance on three tracks.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Fall Out Hit
PR reports: Climaxing an intense pre-release campaign, INFINITY ON HIGH, the long-awaited new album by multi-platinum, two-time MTV VMA award-winning Island Records group Fall Out Boy, debuts at #1 on the Billboard 200 album chart this week (issue dated Feb. 24th) on first week combined sales of 259,674 units. The release is also the #1 Digital Album, with digital sales of 27,939 units.- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Killing Joke Boxsets
PR reports: Two fantastic three CD boxsets of unreleased KILLING JOKE material available April 9th from plastichead for £12.99 each. Out Monday! Theses CD Box Sets contains the original KILLING JOKE bootleg vinyl albums which were released in the early to mid Eighties. They come from a time when you could casually stroll down London's Portobello Road or Camden Market at the weekend; full of anticipation of what new bootleg albums might be available that week. Remember this was a time long before the power of the internet so you had no idea what was going to be available. Great new live albums would suddenly appear, only to disappear just as quickly. During this time there were seven KILLING JOKE bootleg albums released. The three albums here have been carefully reproduced & digitally re-mastered on CD and are now fully endorsed by the band for the first time ever, they now sound better then they ever have sounded before. In addition, as part of this box set release a special bonus disc is included. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Manes Set Release
PR reports: The cover for the forthcoming MANES album 'How the world came to an end', set for release via Candlelight Records on the 16th of April, has now been revealed at the full story link. The artwork is done by Trine Paulsen and Kim Sølve of Trineogkim.no, who may be better known for their earlier work for bands like Ulver, When, Arcturus, Darkthrone, Solefald and many more. 

The tracklisting for 'How the world came to an end' will be like this:
1. Deeprooted
2. Come to pass
3. I watch you fall
4. A cancer in our midst (plague one)
5. Last lights
6. Nobody wants the truth
7. My journal of the plague years (f***mensch warmensch)
8. The cure-all 
9. Transmigrant 
10. Son of night brother of sleep- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Today's Reviews
....Massive Attack � Collected
Massive Attack Collected is just that: a collection of all their fan favorites, hits, singles, and a DVD to boot. All in all, a great treat for completists and fans, and anyone who loves soft, subtle, smooth electronic music dubbed "cool" by most everyone.- Read the full Massive Attack � Collected review
 
....Euphoria - Precious Time
This is an amazing record that is intriguing despite its simplicity. Euphoria is essentially one guy, Ken Ramm of Toronto, Canada. This is both a guitar record and an electronica record- Read the full Euphoria - Precious Time review
 
....Dead Voices On Air - From Labrador to Madagascar
Dead Voices on Air has been crafting this sound of droning electric storms for 14 years now, and over "Madagascar's" 50+ minutes that experience becomes very apparent. - Read the full Dead Voices On Air - From Labrador to Madagascar review
 
....Novembers Doom - The Novella Resevoir
I'm going to go out on a limb and admit that exactly a year from now I might have declared Novembers Doom's The Novella Resevoir as one of the best albums (metal or otherwise) of 2007. - Read the full Novembers Doom - The Novella Resevoir review
 
 
 

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