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 Danzig
Road Plans |
Glenn and Doyle have been in the studio recording Doyle's first solo album, "Gorgeous Frankenstein," which Danzig produced and will release on October 16 on his label, evilive. According to Glenn, he and Doyle recorded "eight blood-curdling tracks" that include "Man or Monster," "Devilgirl," "Reverse of God," and "Made In Hell." The two played all instruments on the album.
These Danzig dates are also in support of "The Lost Tracks of Danzig," the two-CD set that was released May 29, as well as Glenn's limited edition book "Drukija, Contessa of Blood," loosely based on the legend of 17th century vampire, Countess Elizabeth Bathory, and illustrated by long time collaborator Simon Bisley. - more on this story
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| Modest
Mouse Expand Tour Plans |
Modest Mouse Tour Dates:
October
31 Spokane, WA - Big Easy Concert House
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November
01 Spokane, WA - Big Easy Concert House
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02 Calgary, Alberta - MacEwan Ballroom
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03 Edmonton, Alberta - Edmonton Events
Centre *
05 Regina, Saskatchewan - Conexus Arts
Centre *
06 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan - Odeon Event
Centre *
07 Winnipeg, Manitoba - Burton Cummings
Theater *
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| Who
the hell are Bunnyranch? |
Bunnyranch, live are a maximum burst of adrenalin, capable of matching some of the best live acts stateside. The synergy of the band live begins with Kalo, (ex-Tedio Boys) a frontman, drummer and singer who just might be the captain of Holland's 1974 World Cup soccer team. Furiously animated and seemingly possessed by the music. Kalo makes for a performance that's nothing but riveting. He is accompanied by guitarist André Ferrão, João Cardoso (organ, piano, vocals) and Pedro Calhau on bass, adding excitement that makes a hammer of experience.
In Portugal, Bunnyranch releases have been highly acclaimed, the band has appeared at all the major festivals, and toured Spain, England and France. Luna Dance is Bunnyranch's third release licensed to America and Canada by Elevator Music. - more including tour dates
| Dirty
Rig Switch Singers |
"We wish Kory all the best in the world with his various projects. Kory is a champ and a lifer in the music scene. He has spent nearly his first 50 years rocking out and we are sure he will be rocking for another 50 years." states the band.
Since returning from their UK Tour, DIRTY RIG have auditioned over 60 singers and they now feel they are back to their fighting weight with the new addition of Tom Morrissey as their frontman. "We are so f***ing excited to have Tom leading this band now. Tom can really sing his balls off and he writes some killer melodies. Its a true blessing." adds founding member and bassist Buckshot.- more on this story
| The
Minor Times Tour |
In other news: "Relapse records is going to be releasing a limited edition 7" with us and our friends Rosetta," the band says. "The record will feature two brand new tracks from us not available anywhere else. If you're not familiar with Rosetta, head over to their page [http://www.myspace.com/rosetta], those guys are incredible. Needless to say, we're pretty floored to have a record coming out on Prosthetic and a 7" on Relapse with a great band."- dates
| Paul
van Dyk Adds Dates |
September 26 Warehouse Live Houston
September 27 Crystal Ballroom Portland
September 28 Seven San Francisco
September 29 Nocturnal Wonderland Los
Angeles
October 25 Glow @ Ibiza Washington DC
October 26 Roseland New York
October 27 The Park Denver-
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| Kris
Kristofferson Sets UK Unplugged Tour |
His forthcoming UK tour will consist of an intimate solo acoustic performance. His success as a songwriter brought him to Hollywood, and catapulted Kristofferson into one of the biggest actors of his generation. In 1977, he won a Golden Globe for Best Actor in A Star Is Born and also starred in the films Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore and Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid. - dates
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| Thomas
Dybdahl Sets Global Release |
Now, after achieving critical acclaim and platinum-selling status in his native Norway, Thomas Dybdahl is ready to share his emotive voice and intricate portraits in song with the rest of the world. At 27 years old, Dybdahl possesses a true strength and maturity in his songwriting that defies categorization.
Thomas Dybdahl will perform alongside Grand National and other Recall acts at "Recall Nights" @ Blender Theater NYC on November 7. A North American tour is planned for the winter (dates to be announced shortly.)- more on this story
| Tim
Williams Tour and Release Party |
The Brooklynite's folky tunes are currently striking a chord with audiences up and down the East Coast while an intimate tour with Geert Van Der Velde of The Black Atlantic [formerly of Shai Hulud] is in the works for November. Williams will make a stop at indie rock pantheon Daytrotter studios mid-tour to record a session October 10. - more on this story
| Cosmosquad
Hitting the Road |
COSMOSQUAD will kick off their 2007 fall tour with a performance at the world-famous Baked Potato, followed by a string of performance clinics in the Northern Illinois and Southern Wisconsin area. - more on this story
| Kentucky
Fried Cheese |
In a TV interview with U.S. news show Access Hollywood earlier this week (beg17Sep07), Anthony revealed KFC is the only thing he eats after performing shows, explaining, "I can't eat anything else." Lopez revealed that she's also a fan - but she can't eat the amount her husband does: "I mean every single freakin' night with the Kentucky Fried Chicken."
KFC President Gregg Dedrick saw the interview and has written to the couple, inviting them to host after-show parties at KFC restaurant locations. Dedrick writes, "We would like to offer you, your entourage and a few VIP guests an all access pass to the KFC location of your choice. [maybe they'll start offering tasteless buffaj.lo wings and extra large thighs?] - more on this story
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| Mailbag:
We Are Not For Sale And You Can't Be Bought! |
Jesus Schwartz writes: I've been a fan of your website for seven or eight years, and one thing that's been consistent has been the quality and integrity of your reviews. I've made purchases of new music by bands I've never heard before solely on the strength of your writer's opinion: Strapping Young Lad, the Dillinger Escape Plan, and Hank 3 come to mind right away, all of which have either expanded my tastes or simply added more choices to an already eclectic CD collection.
I appreciate your article in Friday's edition, "We Are Not For Sale" because it re-enforces my opinion of your site: you don't suck-up to anybody's preferred artists or whoever is the "next big thing", you definitely take an outsider's stance at objectively seeing a musician's merits for as they are, and not as part of some hype machine. There are plenty of articles in your Day In Rock report that I simply pass over because they're either generic PR from the labels or they don't involve anybody I'm interested in, but I always read the ones that your site writes no matter who the subject may be; I love it that you'll print the smart-assed comments in an otherwise "duhh" piece, it's like the Best Week Ever Daily Edition, if there was one...
Response: Thank you so much for your email. It really is appreciated. Out of all of the emails that came in yours really stood out because you hit on the exact reason why we starting this crazy thing almost 10 years ago. The goal was to expose people to great music that they might not hear about anywhere else and it's always gratifying to hear from long time readers and fellow diehard music fans that tell us we helped them find some new music they love. It really keeps us going and focused on what is important and why it doesn't matter if we're not getting rich and are even forced to sacrifice to stay with it. If we help convert one person to a fan of an artist they may not have found without us that makes it all worth while. We really are lucky to have the dedicated, knowledgeable and passionate writers we do. I really can't say enough about them. But we are equally lucky to have readers like you because you get what we're trying to do and how we are a bit different than other publications because at the base level we're just passionate music fans that like to write about a subject we love. So thank you!
Now about the Day in Rock stuff, glad you like the original stories and the humor. The sarcasm is just a natural reaction to some of what goes on in rock and a reminder that even though we all really really love music we really can't take it too seriously! Plus some "artists" are walking punch lines that are just asking for it. Now on the press releases, ideally there would be more hours in the day to write 25-30 original news articles each day but it's just too much. We average about half right now and that takes hours each day to research and write and we include the press releases because they are things we think some of the readers would be interested in. We include a pretty broad range of stuff that way and I wouldn't be too quick to skip all of them, because you'll find some great under appreciated music covered in those as well. But once again thank you again for your email, it really is appreciated!
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Now the negative emails. The basic premise
of the emails we received from the two webmasters that engage in the ads
for reviews practice was that they have no choice, if they do not do this
they can not survive and our simple response is if you have to resort to
this, then you do not deserve to survive. Readers count on you for an honest
opinion and if you got into this simply as a way to make money without
a real passion for music, then your readers need to know that so they can
take that into account when deciding how much to trust your coverage. Like
I said last week, if we are forced offline ourselves because we take the
highroad then so be it. Earlier this week we asked our readers to boycott
Disney because they have begun censoring metal concerts at venues on their
properties. The next day I sent out an email to some of the PR companies
we work with to explain why we would not be covering any Disney related
releases while they continue this censorship. I included a few metal sites
in that email and asked them to join us in that boycott. Sadly, with the
exception of Talking Metal we heard nothing back from any of them and nothing
appeared on their sites but when looking at a couple of those sites we
may see the key to why they are not supporting the boycott, they currently
carry advertising for a Disney owned record company. Censorship of metal
seemed like a pretty important issue to us, so we took a stand even though
we cover many genres, not just metal, but apparently censorship is fine
with some metal site operators for whatever reasons. I'm not a crusader,
though these past couple weeks might seem otherwise, but I also can't turn
a blind eye to something I believe is wrong. Even if it costs me or the
site.
The other email questioned the difference of our running multiple ads with the practice of trading coverage for ads. There is a world of difference. We would love nothing other to run one small ad like we were able to do before the dot.com bubble burst but we rely on outside ad companies to sell our ads and unfortunately these ads are sold at a pretty low rate. Due to the amount of readers we have that means that we have to run dedicated servers to meet the demand. Those do not come cheap and neither does the added bandwidth of serving a popular site. Not to mention the cost of distributing 100 or so CDs a month to writers around the world for review and other office expenses. You get the idea, so advertising is needed to cover the costs of running the sites and yes most months it doesn't even cover that but running advertising is quite a bit different than trading advertising dollars for favorable coverage. On the other hand, if you think we run a lot of ads, pick up the leading rock magazine and count how many pages of ads you have to flip through to get to their table of contents. It's pretty eye opening. Plus you pay for that magazine on top of the ads!
Finally a lot asked how they could help us out and many mentioned donations. If it comes to a point where we would need to do that we'd probably do a antiThon with an auction etc but right now the best thing you can do to help us stay online is not to send us money but to keep reading and sending us your thoughts about our coverage, whether it's a complaint or a request for more coverage of a certain artists and ALSO tell your friends that are into music about us as well. That will help us out far more than a donation can. So no need to send us money, instead spend that money on a CD you discovered here that's the best payment we can imagine.
Sorry for the length of this Mailbag but
there were a lot of issues brought up in the emails this week. If you missed
last week's mini rant and therefore don't know what in the hell this was
all about you can read that at the link following this post. Thanks everyone
and keep rockin! - Keavin Wiggins antiMusic Editor
- We
Are Not For Sale
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