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Fear of the Devil Down Under
Day in Rock reports: Australian will be invaded this September by the likes of Fear Factory and Devildriver. 

Let's get to the dates: 
09/15 - Brisbane, AUS - The Tivoli
09/16 - Sydney, AUS - Big Top Luna Park
09/17 - Melbourne, AUS - The Palace
09/19 - Perth, AUS - Metropolis Fremantle- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Y&T Right To Return
KNAC reports: Ron Keel of Ironhorse, Keel, Steeler fame, will be opening up for Y&T on July 20th at the Chicago City Limits in Schaumburg, Illinois. 

the compelte Y&T tour schedule is as follows:

7/14 - Ord, Nebraska at Comstock Rock Festival 
7/15 - Walker, MN at Moondance Jam 
[see full story for more- Looks like it's time for Ron's annual comeback. ]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Euro AFI
punkbands reports: AFI will be touring in Europe in October. The confirmed dates are listed below. 
10/04/06 -- Berlin, GER - So 36
10/06/06 -- Munich, GER - Backstage
10/07/06 -- Cologne, GER - Live Music Hall
10/09/06 -- London, UK - Brixton Academy
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Cellador Tour Some More
SMN reports: Omaha, NE based power metallers CELLADOR have lined up the following upcoming tour dates:

July 17 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Burts
July 18 - Missoula, MT @ The Loft
July 19 - Seattle, WA @ Studio Seven
July 20 - Portland, OR @ The New Paris Theatre
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Giganrumor
SMN reports: Internet rumors, citing a supposed feature in the latest issue of Bass Guitar Magazine as a source, are currently pointing at Gigantour 2006 featuring MEGADETH, ANTHRAX, NORMA JEAN, OPETH, ARCH ENEMY, SEVENDUST, and BODY COUNT. The official lineup is expected to be announced shortly[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Sabrine Duenser RIP
SMN reports: Sabrine Duenser, vocalist for the female-fronted goth metal band ELIS, died yesterday after suffering from a cerebral haemorrhage Friday during the band's practice. Duenser was born June 27, 1977 and joined the Liechtenstein-based band, then known as ERBEN DER SCHOFUNG, in 2001. [see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Ra Live Releases
Gauntlet reports: Ra is close to inking a deal to release a new live album which will also include 2 or 3 new tracks in addition to 10 live tracks recorded at The Machine Shop in Flint, MI in March 2006. The disc will likely be sold together with a live DVD that the band plans to release in October.[see full story for more]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Sufjan Touring
thetripwire reports: Indie rock hottie Sufjan Stevens has just announced a string of tour dates in September and October. Sufjan is bringing with him a string ensemble and a brass section for this trek in an effort to present familiar songs from Seven Swans, Michigan and Illinois in a new, symphonic context (that what it says in the press release at least). He'll also be performing five or six new songs along the way. 

Providing support for the entire tour will be My Brightest Diamond (a.k.a. singer/songwriter Shara Worden). MBD's debut album, Bring Me The Workhourse, will be released on August 22 via Asthmatic Kitty. [see full story for dates]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Summer All Ours
Stella Brown reports: Dying to see Ours perform live? Brood not, as Ours keeps announcing shows, albeit scattered in date, venue, and timing. I caught the band in Boston back in April, when they opened for Dredg's post-Taste-of-Chaos tour. Ours played a seven-song set that was just a tease- but bursting with power, emotion, and kicked out by a tight new band line-up. Ours followed that successful pairing with their own headliner summer tour, giving fans longer sets that showcased several of the latest compositions from Jimmy Gnecco's substantial catalogue of unreleased songs. 

Rumors abound about the release of the third album, over four years in the making. What tracks will be on it? When will it be in stores? What is it titled? But why hurry pushing out a product when Jimmy is so obviously enjoying the creative process? Jimmy has treated his fans to two new songs, "Get Up," and "Willing" and noted that the former will be on the anticipated third release. The latter should be given serious consideration for release as a single. [see full story for dates]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Year Of Desolation
PR reports: Indiana's Year Of Desolation will hit the studio with Jamie King (Between The Buried And Me, Through The Eyes of the Dead) this weekend to begin tracking for the band's second album, the self-titled Prosthetic Records debut due in early 2007. Immediately upon completion of recording, Year of Desolation will hit the road, playing a few regional shows before headlining the "Cultivating The Masses Tour 2006" alongside Cerberus and Forever In Terror

7/29 Indianapolis, IN - American Legion Post 64 (Crossroads of Evolution Fest)
7/30 Louisville, KY - Headliner's (with Forever in Terror, Antikythera)
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Esoteric Are Coming
PR reports: Featuring current and former members of Coalesce, Reggie And The Full Effect, Theta, and Today Is The Day, THE ESOTERIC recently finished recording the band's second effort for Prosthetic Records, Subverter, and are hitting the road to preview new material alongside songs from the last album, which garnered critical acclaim, leading to Alternative Press labeling the band as one of "100 Bands You Need To Know In 2005." Currently gearing up for a jaunt alongside At All Cost and Versus The Mirror, THE ESOTERIC will then hit the road with Mouth of the Architect throughout August and September, more dates will be announced shortly.

(with At All Cost, Versus The Mirror)
7/11 Selingsgrove, PA - The Firehouse Café
7/12 Buffalo, NY - Xtreme Wheels
7/13 Philadelphia, PA - Boiler Room
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Sounds of the Underground Underway 
PR reports: The World's Most Explosive Underground Metal Fest, Sounds of the Underground, Launched July 8. For the next five weeks, the intense, ultra-aggressive METAL AND HARDCORE tour will criss-cross North America exposing the masses to some of the best bands playing today. The extravaganza will be headlined by As I Lay Dying, and will feature nine other showstoppers: In Flames, Trivium, Cannibal Corpse, GWAR, Terror, Black Dahlia Murder, Behemoth, The Chariot and Through The Eyes of the Dead. 

Select shows will also feature the following hellraisers: Converge, Evergreen Terrace, Horse The Band, Killswitch Engage, Machine Head, E. Town Concrete, Shadows Fall, VOD, Job For a Cowboy, It Dies Today, Still Remains, Above This Fire, Ringworm, This is Hell, Municipal Waste, Dog Fashion Disco, The Last Starfighter, Killamora, A Heartfelt Tragedy, Sworn to Secrecy and Foreverendeavor.[see full story for dates]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Dismember'n The US
PR reports: Candlelight Records confirms the first string of US performances by Sweden's Dismember in over five years. Set to kick off September 29 the dates will visit East and Midwest cities before concluding on October 14 in Montreal.

Along with labelmates Entombed (new album expected Fall 2006) Dismember have been widely credited with the creation of the Scandinavian Death Metal sound. Nearly two decades into a respected career, the band still is as fresh and vital today. The God That Never Was, the band's latest record available in stores nationwide now, showcases a finely-ground assault that commands attention.[see full story for dates]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Gov't Mule Mighty CD
antiMusic reports: The new Gov't Mule record, "High and Mighty," will be released by ATO Records on August 22nd. Streams of the first single, "Mr. High and Mighty," have been provided so you can check it out right now. All you gotta do is click that handy dandy full story link to get high on the track� don't be an ass, click on over... all puns intended. - Click Here for the Full Story 

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Fear Before The Tracks of Flames
PR reports: Fear Before The March of Flames' new album, The Always Open Mouth, hits stores on September 19th through Equal Vision Records.

The tracklist for the album is: 1 - Absolute Future * 2 - Drowning The Old Hag * 3 - Mouth * 4 - Taking Cassandra to the End of the World Party * 5 - Ten Seconds in Los Angeles * 6 - The Waiting Makes Me Curious * 7 - High as a Horse * 8 - Dog Sized Bird * 9 - Complete and Utter Confusion... * 10 - ... As a Result of Signals Being Crossed * 11 - My (F**king) Deer Hunter * 12 - Lycanthropy * 13 - A Brief Tutorial In Bachanalia * 14 - A Gift For Fiction * 15 - Absolute Past * [see full story for a preview]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Jessica Freak Simpson
PR reports: On Monday, July 10th, Yahoo! Music will host the premiere of Jessica Simpson's fans-only video for her latest single, "A Public Affair." As part of the music site's "Get Your Freak On" program, the video features entrants from Yahoo! Music's user-generated competition, in which fans were asked to submit a tape of themselves grooving to Simpson's new song. Inspired by a night out on the town with her girlfriends, the catchy tune is scheduled to appear on the multi-platinum recording artist's fourth studio album, A Public Affair, which will be released later this summer.[see full story for that]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Kaki King Felt Red
PR reports: Kaki King has never been one for convention. Her third album, ...Until We Felt Red, is certainly no exception. Over the last few years, she has enjoyed well-earned status as the zeit-girl of instrumental acoustic guitar; a gifted young ingénue closing rank on the canonized heroes of the genre. Now, with ...Until We Felt Red, she bests herself and defies expectation again-ditching her acoustic for an electric, lap steel and perhaps, the most unexpected instrument of all: her own voice.

Having recently been emancipated from a recording contract with Epic Records, King made ...Until We Felt Red on her own terms (and dime), dropping off a near-finished master on the desk of her surprised (and elated) management team/label, Velour. King's return to her original, indie-label home feels like a good thing for all. "Kaki is one of those artists where the best thing you can do, from an A&R perspective, is to just let her go off and make some brilliant art," says manager Jeff Krasno, adding, "not that she would let it happen any other way."[see full story for tour dates]- Click Here for the Full Story 

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Bananiversary
PR reports: Hard though it may be to believe, it's been 5 full years since rock & roll comic C.C. Banana was set loose upon an unsuspecting scene. On the fateful afternoon of July 6, 2001 an ordinary man gave way to become an extraordinary fruit. Donning a tattered old banana costume and inexplicably choosing to lampoon Poison guitarist C.C. DeVille, the newly christened C.C. Banana would soon make fast friends with the hard rock elite. This July, C.C. Banana commemorates 5 years of rock & roll irreverence with the appropriately named Bananiversary Celebration, a 5-star salute to the fabulous fruit. Throughout the month-long event, C.C. will issue a series of new interviews with some of his favorite hard rock heroes, the identities of whom are being withheld until publication. Additionally, the official C.C. Banana website has been updated with dozens of new and archived features, including interviews with the members of Cinderella, Ratt, Quiet Riot, FireHouse, Warrant, L.A. Guns, W.A.S.P. and Metal Church. To further commemorate this personal milestone, C.C. Banana has arranged a string of live, radio and podcast appearances, details of which can be found in his weblog. Additional information about C.C. Banana and the Bananiversary Celebration is available at CCBanana.com.- Click Here for the Full Story 

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