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Relive Bonnaroo's Greatest Sets
PR reports: The Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival has launched a new website, www.LiveBonnaroo.com, touting exclusive downloads of live recordings from the past three years of Bonnaroo festivals. Highlights from 2006, 2005 and 2004 including sets by The Black Keys, Steel Train, Rusted Root, Calexico, My Morning Jacket and many others have been archived with new content being added almost daily. The high quality, multi-track audio recordings have been mastered and remixed and are available in both MP3 and FLAC formats. Performances are available for purchase with custom printable booklets, tray inlays, and labels. 

Recent additions to www.livebonnaroo.com include Buddy Guy's first Bonnaroo performance in 2006 featuring classic covers of Cream's "Strange Brew" and blues staple "Hoochie Coochie Man."[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Young Dubliners Celebrate St. Patty's in LA
PR reports: Lovers of Celtic-Rock can ring in the holiday on St. Patty's Eve, March 16th, with fan favorite YOUNG DUBLINERS. After a multi-city tour leading up to the big night, they'll make a stop at Key Club this Friday! 

Supporting their new record, "With All Due Respect � The Irish Sessions", The Young Dubliners are conquering new territory they describe as a labor of love. Although better known for their brand of hard-hitting original Celtic-Rock, this album is centered around reinterpreting the work of other contemporary Irish songwriters. Singer, Keith Roberts, says of the fans overwhelming demand for an album of Irish covers, "They asked for it, so we gave it to them! And had a lot of fun along the way!" Come see for yourselves, only this Friday at Key Club.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Kings of Leon Tour
PR reports: RCA Records is proud to announce that Kings of Leon have confirmed the first leg of a nationwide US tour. The tour is in support of the new record, "Because Of The Times," to be released on April 3rd. Bookended by appearances at the Coachella and Bonnaroo festivals, the tour will start at Coachella and heads to Seattle on May 2. After the June 14 date in Columbus, OH, the tour finishes at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival. More touring is to follow during the summer and into the fall and winter of 2007. 

On March 26, one week before release date, Kings of Leon return to the "Late Show with David Letterman" to perform the single "On Call." One month later, on April 27, just before the Coachella performance, the band will return to the "Tonight Show with Jay Leno."[see full story for dates]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Breaking Benjamin Release Breath
PR reports: Breaking Benjamin is back with their second single "Breath" from their latest album Phobia. "Breath" once again returns Breaking Benjamin to the top of the Rock Radio charts following up on the successes of "Diary of Jane" and "So Cold". With Phobia selling in excess of 500,000 copies the band has proved they are here to stay. If you have not had a chance to check out "Breath" now is your chance. Listen to the new song at the full story link.- Click Here for the Full Story 

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TVT Ink The Polyphonic Spree
PR reports: Dallas symphonic rock group THE POLYPHONIC SPREE have signed with TVT RECORDS for the release of their third full-length album, THE FRAGILE ARMY. The new album's title was given to the group by director/filmmaker/artist Mike Mills, whose 2005 film Thumbsucker was scored by the Spree's Tim DeLaughter. THE FRAGILE ARMY reveals a collection of sonic blasts filtered thru The Polyphonic Spree's trademark sound: an unorthodox blend of brass, strings, choir and auxiliary rock elements. The album explores a search for the zeal in life, by way of loss and frustration, confusion and clarity. Ultimately, the Spree discover the power of love and the collective of hope in songs such as "Running Away," "Light To Follow" and "Overblow Your Nest." The album will be in stores in June 2007 (exact release date TBA). [see full story for tracklist]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Metal And Porn
PR reports: Powerful heavy metal music and skin-slappin' hardcore sex collide in Radium, a revolutionary adult-oriented music series from the world-bending mind of Matt Zane. In this new line, available exclusively from Pleasure Productions, Zane realizes a dream of combining metal's sexual energy with porno's lustful sensuality all in a single series. "Metal has a huge fan base around the world, and I know from touring the world and speaking with all the fans that about 99% love porn," says Zane, an acclaimed adult director and world-renowned front man for the metal band Society 1. 

Sharing Zane's passion for music and sex, Pleasure Productions' Tera Wray will host the unique series. Zane hand-picked newcomer Wray after witnessing her energy and appeal while shooting her for his "Tattooed & Tight" series. For the series' first episode, Tera will visit California Metal Fest 2007, at the Galaxy Theatre in Santa Ana, CA, and will interview the band "With Passion" before introducing their new music video. She will also get a drum lesson from Society 1 drummer, Berzerk Kirk. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Unauthorized Linkin Park and More
PR reports: Locomotive Records is readying a plethora of pulsating heavy metal music to get spring started in the right way. The new quartet of releases starts April 3 when metal fans worldwide will get to taste Incoming Destiny by Spellbound and Breaking The Rabbit, an unauthorized documentary on Linkin Park. [see full story for more details on each]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Static-X Destroyer
PR reports: With only three weeks till the release of Static-X's album on April 3rd, the band wants to give their fans another taste of Cannibal. "Destroyer" is the second track off of the new album with the raw heavy sound that Wayne Static wanted to bring this time. "I focused on stripping away the excess as much as possible to write short, simple, catchy songs," Static says. This back-to-basics style for Cannibal has a lot to do with Wayne taking over most of the producer duties. Static teamed with producer/engineer John Travis (Kid Rock, Buckcherry) to help create the new sound. "I had a vision for this record, which is why I wanted to produce it myself," Static says.

Check out the new track from Static-X and look for the new album, Cannibal, in stores on April 3rd. [see full story for a listen]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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the bird and the bee Join Lily Allen Tour
PR reports: the bird and the bee, the L.A. duo made up of singer Inara George and keyboardist/producer Greg Kurstin, have announced that they will be the opening act for British singer Lily Allen on 22 upcoming concert dates throughout the United States, and Canada

March 16 Engine Room Houston TX 
March 17 House of Blues New Orleans LA 
March 19 The Loft Atlanta GA 
March 20 Culture Room Fort Lauderdale FL 
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We Are I EP
PR reports: What was the last band that managed to successfully merge classic rock's multi-layered sound with prog metal sonic exploration? Few have been so bold - but Boston's We Are I are no average band. "Everybody in the band is a really great player," explains guitarist Rich Chamberland. "It's really diverse. Jay Staples (singer) is a freak - he's very melodic, his voice has a Freddie Mercury-like quality to it. Keenan Wakem (bass) is amazing - his stage show is killer. New blood, Ralph Arsenault (drummer) has kicked the band up an extra notch."

On the heels of their first release, 'Off the Hook,' the quartet has just unleashed a self-titled EP produced by Anthony J. Resta, who has worked with the likes of Collective Soul, Megadeth, Perry Farrell, and Elton John. "Listen to our music, it's heavy but melodic, everybody sings. This is a four-part-harmony band. What you hear is what you get. We don't 'kind of pull it off.' I like to think of us as a 'hybrid band,' not alternative. We fuse together a lot of influences. When you listen to the music, you've got Jay delivering rapid fire lyrics, with the band playing three over four time, so it's like Tool but a little crazier - controlled chaos hybrid rock."[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Evil Dead The Musical
PR reports: From the moment the cast launches into "What the F�k Was That," "Blew That B--- Away," and the Rocky Horror "Time Warp" homage "Do the Necronomicon," it's frighteningly clear that Evil Dead The Musical ups the ante from the standard Broadway theater fare. Peppered with enough four-letter words to make a grown man blush and bursting with more farce than a Monty Python skit, the original cast recording to Evil Dead The Musical will be released on April 24th(Time Life).[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Gutterfly Set Release
PR reports: Straight outta Portland, Lifesavas stay ahead of the game with a new album entitled Gutterfly, a concept-driven ensemble of tracks that are both densely rich in production and stylistically beautiful. Gutterfly, the follow-up to the duo's debut release Spirit in Stone, will hit stores April 24, 2007 on Quannum Projects.

Gutterfly was inspired by a blaxploitation film project that was conceived and only partially completed by Brooklyn native Baraka Feldman in the early 80's (who later moved to Portland and shared his ideas with the Lifesavas), in addition to blaxploitation films from the 70's, in particular Coonskin and the Zatoichi series of Japanese cult films. Gutterfly is a movie concept brought to life in the way Lifesavas do art best; through poetic lyricism and powerhouse beats. Lifesavas created characters - a trio of ghetto superheroes for the 00's - Bumpy Johnson (VURSATYL), Sleepy Floyd (JUMBO) and Jimmy Slimwater (DJ Rev SHINES) - through which they were able to leap into subjects they'd yet to cover in their music.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Lou Reed's Berlin Shows
PR reports: Tickets will go on sale this week for Lou Reed's European premiere of the entirety of Lou Reed's 1973 landmark album 'Berlin'. These rare European concerts will see Reed performing with a 30-piece ensemble including his band, a string and horn section, and a children's choir. The European concerts start in Brussels on June 18th, and include Holland, France, Germany, Britain and Italy. 

Lou Reed will perform two UK concerts at the London Hammersmith Apollo on Saturday June 30th and Sunday July 1st. Tickets for the London concerts will go on sale at 9am on Friday March 16th.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Clouds Announce U.S. Tour Debut
PR reports: Boston's balls-out, whisky-con-Jager-fueled heavy hitters, CLOUDS, announce their first ever U.S. Tour (taking along LA's politically charged, technical-spazz-punks, AUTONYM) in support of the band's debut full-length, "Legendary Demo," out February 6th on Hydra Head!

 Apr 11 2007 Mountain Bar Los Angeles, California
Apr 12 2007 Scolari's Office San Diego, California
Apr 13 2007 The Phix Phoenix, Arizona
Apr 15 2007 Emo's Austin, Texas
Apr 16 2007 the Vortex Beaumont, Texas
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Carla Thomas Stax Reissue
PR reports: Carla Thomas became famous thanks to several great singles on Stax Records: "Gee Whiz," "B-A-B-Y," "Let Me Be Good To You" and a duet with Otis Redding, "Tramp." In 1969, she recorded The Queen Alone, produced by Stax co-founder and president Jim Stewart, in which the Queen of Memphis Soul proved that she was keenly aware of the uptown soul music being produced in the industrial north. The album produced two hits � "Something Good (is Going to Happen to You)," penned by the hot team of Isaac Hayes and David Porter, which notched No. 29 on Billboard's R&B singles chart, and "I'll Always Have Faith in You," written by Eddie Floyd with Stax's then-promotion man Al Bell, which reached No. 11.

The classic soul album will be reissued on the reactivated Stax Records through Concord Music Group on March 20 as part of the label's yearlong series of 50th Anniversary events. The remastered reissue contains four previously unreleased tracks, plus liner notes by Stax historian Rob Bowman, author of the award-winning Soulsville U.S.A.: The Story of Stax Records.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Today's Reviews
....The Snake The Cross The Crown - Cotton Teeth
Brothers Franklin and William Sammons continue the catchy, jangly guitar and pop-friendly piano jaunts in Cotton Teeth, an album oozing with Radar Brothers-like folk jams and heart-felt lyrics that lazily slip off Sammons' tongue with a touch of twang. (4 stars) - Read the full The Snake The Cross The Crown - Cotton Teeth review
 
....Mezzanine Owls - Slingshot Echoes
Slingshot Echoes is the best unsigned release since Clap Your Hands�, but once this is released on a label (which would only make sense unless the band is intentionally anti-establishment), there is no reason for it not to take off like Turn on the Bright Lights. (5 stars) - Read the full Mezzanine Owls - Slingshot Echoes review
 
....Malevolent Creation � Stillborn
There is no such thing as a band that can constantly create masterpiece after masterpiece without a bad release. No matter how strong a band starts out, they'll eventually run out of ideas and make something not up to par with their other releases.- Read the full Malevolent Creation � Stillborn review
 
....Road Trip: NASCAR and Guitars: Charlotte Rocks!
One second you're up the track's high bank, the next second you're swooping down low for that left hand curve. Yes, I have done it. I've shed my civilian clothes and donned a racing suit.- Read the full NASCAR and Guitars: Charlotte Rocks! Road Trip article
 
 
 

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