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PR reports: Back on the front-line where he
belongs after a six year break with Red Gone Wild - Thee Album, chronic
Def Jam Recordings core artist Redman will return to the stage for a 17-city
headlining tour of the Midwest and West Coast.
The 3-week trip opens September 17th in
Ann Arbor at the Blind Pig, and concludes at Cane's in San Diego on October
10th.
RED GONE WILD - THEE ALBUM (released March
27th) features productions by Timbaland, Scott Storch, Eminem, and Rockwilder;
and special appearances by Red's cousin Method Man (of the Wu-Tang Clan),
Erick Sermon and Keith Murray (with whom Redman performs in the group Def
Squad), Snoop Dogg, Nate Dogg, and Biz Markie.- more
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PR reports: Ministry front man Al Jourgensen
has been confirmed to score, music supervise and create the soundtrack
for the upcoming horror feature film "Wicked Lake," according to the film's
executive producers Carl Morano and John Carchietta of Fever Dreams, the
feature's production company.
"Wicked Lake," which Jourgensen described
as "Faster Pussycat Kill Kill gone very, very bad," is the sordid supernatural
tale of a group of four co-ed girls on a weekend getaway tailed by two
clans of deranged male predatory perverts. Jourgensen is also set to perform
a small role in the film as a perverted art professor. "Not exactly a stretch
for me," states Jourgensen.
Tentatively scheduled for a Spring 2008
release, "Wicked Lake" is directed by Jourgensen's good friend, filmmaker
Zach Passero.- more
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PR reports: Los Angeles punk rock icons Lee
Ving and Keith Morris will be featured in Lighthouse Entertainment's upcoming
teen comedy, Endless Bummer, currently in production. Circle Jerks lead
vocalist Morris (formerly of Black Flag) and Ving, who is perhaps best
known as the frontman for the infamous early punk band Fear, will be featured
in cameo roles.
Ving has multiple acting credits under
his belt, including film and television appearances in Clue, Flashdance,
and Who's the Boss. Morris has appeared in small roles in films including
Sid and Nancy and Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your
Juice in the Hood. Morris and Ving join Joan Jett on the roster of rock
veterans appearing in the production.- more
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PR reports: Maps is coming to the US for his
first ever US shows. Beginning with a headline appearance at KEXP's "John
In The Morning" benefit on 9/22, Maps'll end the mini-tour six days later
by putting the double-whammy on NYC.
He's playing back-to-back shows at the
Mercury Lounge (9/28) and Brooklyn's Luna Lounge (9/29) and stopping by
SF and LA in between.
Maps is UK native James Chapman and he
made a little album called "We Can Create" in his bedroom using a 16-track
recorder (no pro tools ya'll). Mute released it in the US 6/19/07.-
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PR reports: John Mellencamp previewed a couple
new tracks during his Farm Aid set. His publicist was nice enough to give
us a heads up about the new tracks and some additional info on the performance.
Here it is! The first song in his set of eight was "Troubled Land," one
of 18 new songs he just recorded with T Bone Burnett co-producing in Bloomington,
IN and Los Angeles. There was another new one that's part of those sessions:
"If I Die Sudden," third in the Farm Aid set, with Derek Trucks sitting
in.
Full set list: Troubled Land - Rain On
The Scarecrow - If I Die Sudden (with Derek Trucks) - Paper In Fire - Our
Country (solo acoustic) - To Washington (solo acoustic) - Small Town -
Pink Houses (with Susan Tedeschi).- more
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PR reports: On October 14 the hotly anticipated
Warner Brothers Records film Runnin' Down A Dream: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
will have its first public screening. Directed by cinema legend Peter Bogdanovich
(The Last Picture Show), Runnin' Down A Dream has been selected to close
the 2007 New York Film Festival.
Runnin' Down A Dream tells a great American
story, that of a band that came from the middle of nowhere to win the hearts
of millions. The film focuses not only on the Heartbreakers' inspiring
ride to the top but the story of what they did when they got there, as
artists, as a band, as people. Bogdanovich's film explores many of the
underlying reasons for the band's unparalleled capacity not only to endure
but to thrive. Gritty, exuberant, infectious: Runnin' Down A Dream tells
the Heartbreakers' story as never before. The New York Film Festival screening
will take place at the legendary Walter Reade Theater on October 14. Beginning
October 15, Runnin' Down A Dream will be screened at select theaters nationwide.
A list of cities and participating theaters will be announced shortly.-
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PR reports: In support of his brand-new solo
album Bluefinger which is released tomorrow, September 11 (Cooking Vinyl),
BLACK FRANCIS, formerly known as Frank Black, formerly lead singer of the
iconic Pixies, will do a very special 14-concert west coast run beginning
on Monday, October 1 with two nights in Portland, OR at the Fir Lounge.
The tour will also include multiple nights in Los Angeles, Vancouver and
San Francisco. Black Francis will be joined on this trek by the talented
group of musicians who recorded Bluefinger - Violet Clark/vocals, Dan Schmid/bass,
and Jason Carter/drums, and of course Black Francis on guitar, harmonica
and vocals.
Imbued by the spirit of the late eccentric
Dutch painter/musician Herman Brood, Frank Black donned his decades-old
moniker of Black Francis and recorded eleven songs - ten by Black Francis,
one a Brood cover - for Bluefinger. "I privately went back to the old stage
name, if that even makes any sense, almost as a joke," explains Black Francis.
"I couldn't get the Pixies back into a studio, but I would transform into
my alter ego of yesteryear." - dates
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PR reports: Taiwanese extreme metalists ChthoniC
-- fresh from a tour of duty with Ozzfest and currently in the midst of
their first-ever North American headline shows, which precede a brief tour
with Cradle of Filth -- have confirmed their first batch of fall European
tour dates.
All concerts in continental Europe will
see ChthoniC play alongside Finnish "heroic folk metal" warriors Ensiferum
(Spinefarm Records). Additional performances -- including the band's first-ever
U.K. tour -- will be announced shortly.- more
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PR reports: LA-based Russian rapper Ivan Ives
has announced an east coast tour in support of the release of his newest
album Iconoclast. The tour will kick off following a CD release party in
Ives' home base of Los Angeles on September 14th.
Iconoclast is a particularly important
album for Ives personally, as it gave him the chance to work with other
hip hop luminaries that he has been a long-time fan of including Cappadonna
of Wu-Tang Clan, Vast Aire and 2MEX.
Ives comments, "Working with all the artists
featured on Iconoclast was a trip, because they are all emcees that I have
been listening to for a long time -- to actually be able to work with them
was an honor."- dates
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PR reports: Meet the biggest band to come
out of Germany in 20 years, Tokio Hotel. With over 6 million albums sold
in Europe, four number one singles, two number one albums and countless
certified gold and platinum records, the guys from Tokio Hotel are set
to conquer North America.
With Scream, their US debut, ready for
release, listeners will get a chance to hear how Tokio Hotel's melodic
brand of rock easily navigates between headbanging guitars and power-packed
anthems to mid-tempo pop tracks, and softer, more introspective ballads.
From rock anthem "Scream" to rock ballad "Monsoon", Scream has something
for everyone.
To tide fans over until Scream arrives
in the U.S., Tokio Hotel will release a 2 song EP of anthemic rock tracks
"Scream" and "Ready Set Go." The $0.99 EP hits Hot Topic shelves exclusively
September 11th.- eCard
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PR reports: EOTO is proud to announce the
tourdates of their upcoming national fall tour. Michael Travis (String
Cheese Incident) and Jason Hann (String Cheese Incident; Isaac Hayes; Loreena
McKennitt) will be bringing their high energy, dance-rock duo to venues
nationwide in September and October.
Fresh off of the summer dates which included
many high profile festival appearances and club dates interspersed between
String Cheese Incident's farewell tour, Jason and Michael are turning right
around and hitting the ground running with a string of 35+ dates.
The House/Breakbeat/Trip-Hop style of EOTO
is also currently available on the debut album Elephants Only Talk Occasionally.
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PR reports: The Echo Project, a three day
eco-responsible music and arts festival coming this October 12-14 to Atlanta,
Georgia, has added even more artists to its eclectic performer lineup.
New artists include: Spoon, Rabbit in The Moon, GZA and Slick Rick with
Fire Department, Medeski, Martin & Wood, Butch Walker, Bassnectar,
Snowden, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Dubconscious, Scissors for Lefty, Little
Birdy, God Is An Astronaut, RAQ, and Benzos.
The Echo Project will be held on 350 acres
of scenic Chattahoochee river front property on a privately owned 1250
acre farm just south of metropolitan Atlanta. The festival has a mission
to revolutionize how music and arts events affect our environment through
eco-friendly event production by ways of carbon emissions, power consumption
and creation, alternative energy sources, waste management, and recycling
initiatives. Along with Sustainable Waves and Rivers Alive, The Echo Project
is also launching a major Chattahoochee river clean up prior to the festival.-
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PR reports: Los Angeles based Onesidezero
have been added to KROQ's LA Invasion featuring Smashing Pumpkins, Foo
Fighters, Velvet Revolver, Kid Rock and Chris Cornell at the Home Depot
Center in Los Angeles on September 15th, 2007.
Onesidezero will headline the Bud Light
sponsored second stage, which starts at 11am and admission is free. "We're
honored that KROQ would consider adding our band to such a huge festival,"
says Onesidezero guitarist Levon Sultanian. "KROQ has been one of the biggest
supporters of our new self-titled album and we cannot thank them enough
for all their support. We've had such a great reaction to our new album
from the fans and we cannot wait to get out on the road and share it with
everyone in early 2008."- more
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