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 Bono
In The Red |
FMQB reports: Advertising Age is reporting
that Bono's highly-publicized RED campaign of merchandise is not reaping
the rewards it was expected to. The line of products, with proceeds going
to global charities, has only brought in $18 million worldwide thus far.
However, approximately $100 million has been spent on marketing. [is this
Bono's way of showing us how 3rd world countries run their budgets and
go into debt? See full story for more]- Click
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| Eclectic
Covers |
PR reports: Next Tuesday, March 13, Santa
Monica, CA public radio station KCRW and Starbucks Entertainment will co-release
Sounds Eclectic: The Covers Project exclusively at select Starbucks locations
in Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, San Diego, Austin, Boston
and Washington, D.C. as well as online at www.starbucks.com/hearmusic.
This unique CD features cover songs performed live in the studio by various
artists including R.E.M., Rufus Wainwright, K.D. Lang, Paul Weller, Damien
Rice and The Flaming Lips during the acclaimed Morning Becomes Eclectic
program hosted by Nic Harcourt. [see full story for full tracklisting some
eclectic stuff on there for sure including Robert Plant covering himself]-
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| Robert
Plant Remastered and Expanded |
PR reports: Rhino Entertainment will release
all nine of Robert Plant's solo albums in expanded and re-mastered forms
starting on March 20th. Pictures At Eleven, Shaken N Stirred, Manic Nirvana,
Fate of Nations and Mighty Rearranger will be released on Tuesday, March
20th. The Principle of Moments, The Honeydrippers, Now & Zen and Dreamland
will be released on Tuesday, April 3rd. [check out a listening party at
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| Crock
List |
PR reports: The Crock Hall of Fame has issues
their "definitely 200" CDs of all time. The irony is that Rolling Stone
is bitching about the list and how it differs from their worthless list
from four years ago and somehow see themselves as separate from the Crock
Hall although they were both founded by the same wiener� oops it's pronounced
Yon Winner not Jan Weiner.. sorry, don't want to upset a rich hippy. Love
it when they bash themselves (and keep an eye out for another pat ourselves
on the back special edition soon according to Idolator.) Anyway, back to
the crock list. The top 10 isn't too bad with a couple of exceptions. (we
know Carole King inspired far more artists than Black Sabbath who didn't
even make the top 50 and just barely beat Kid Rock!) Maybe their top 10
is a little pandering and predictable just like the crock hall, but consider
the source. Here is their Top 10 see the full story for the rest of the
list for a good laugh and to see where their heads are at.
1 Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club
Band 1967 Rock
2 Pink Floyd Dark Side Of The Moon 1973
Rock
3 Michael Jackson Thriller 1982 Pop
4 Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin Iv 1971 Rock
5 U2 Joshua Tree 1987 Rock
6 Rolling Stones Exile On Main Street
1972 Rock
7 Carole King Tapestry 1971 Adult Contemporary
8 Bob Dylan Highway '61 Revisited 1965
Rock
9 Beach Boys Pet Sounds 1966 Rock
10 Nirvana Nevermind 1996
[see full story for more but there is
no way Santana's Supernatural deserves such high marks and was more definitive
than Back In Black and The Wall. And what in the hell is Shania Twain doing
so high on the list even above Fleetwood Mac's Rumours and Pink Floyd's
The Wall? They smoke crack at the crock hall? Aren't lists fun?]
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| The
Dead See on Pluto |
PR reports: Pluto Records welcomes experimental
metal veterans THE DEAD SEE to their roster. Consisting of Mark Key (guitar/vocals),
Josh Paul (drums), Marcos Morales (bass), and Neil Barrett (guitar/vocals),
this West Texas-based band brings sludgy riffs with down-tuned deliverance
which bring to mind such bands as Neurosis, Isis, and Mastodon. The band's
Pluto debut will arrive on May 22nd, in the form of their new full length
album "Through The Veil".
Listen to two new songs from the album
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| Michael
Weston King Tour |
PR reports: Freeform American Roots (FAR)
report #90 announces that Michael's new CD, A New Kind Of Loneliness, has
entered the FAR charts at #13!Don't miss him on these North American dates�
3/11/07 Vancouver The Media Club
3/13/07 Edmonton City TV / Breakfast Television
show
3/13/07 Edmonton The Druid (780) 454-9928
3/14/07 Edmonton O'Byrne's
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| Lily
Allen Maps More US Dates |
PR reports: Lily Allen just wrapped up MTV's
first-ever "Discover and Download" tour, but the spirited U.K. artist is
already plotting her return to the States. She'll kick off a headlining
tour in Houston, TX on March 16th after a pair of appearances at SXSW.
Allen, who will be the guest on the acclaimed public radio showcase World
Cafe®, on March 16th, is confirmed to perform at KCRW's "A Sounds Eclectic
Evening" in Los Angeles on April 14th, at Coachella in Indio, CA on April
29th and at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, TN on
June 15th.
Allen will follow her recent tour de force
performance on "Saturday Night Live" with appearances on the "Today Show"
(April 13th) and "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" (April 16th).[see full
story for dates]- Click
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| Ike
Reilly To Assassinate Ireland |
PR reports: Ike Reilly, the leader of the
Chicago-based band The Ike Reilly Assassination, has just confirmed a small
number of dates in Ireland next week as follows:
March 11 - The Roundy - Cork, Ireland
March 12 - Whelans - Dublin,Ireland
March 13 - The Crane - Galway, Ireland
March 15 - The Ross - Killarney, Ireland
Reilly will be heading to Ireland sans
his Assassination, but he hopes to tour with the full band throughout the
U.K. and Ireland later this year.
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| Six
Ounce Gloves Tour |
PR reports: Fresno, CA-based Six Ounce Gloves
may have released its debut album, "Timing Is Everything," last year, but
the band continues to tour extensively throughout the Pacific Northwest
and California, much to the pleasure of its growing fanbase. The band plans
to continue hitting those areas hard and heavy with dates throughout March
and April with shows in California, Washington, and Oregon
3/8 Fresno, CA The Blitz
3/9 Fresno, CA The Crossroads
3/10 Alameda, CA Rooster's Roadhouse
3/14 Klamath Falls, OR Waldos Bar[see
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| In
Theory Kroqed |
PR reports: Sometimes getting kicked out of
religious school can be good for a band's development. Case in point: In
Theory whose debut album, THIS IS IT, is due out June 5 on Shelter From
the Storm Records (distribution by ADA). The first single, "A New Medication,"
is officially being serviced to radio on March 13, although it had its
broadcast premiere on the "Locals Only" show on KROQ-FM in Los Angeles
on Sunday, March 5, helping to give the single an early buzz.[see full
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| Led
Zeppelin: The Montreux Concerts |
PR reports: Formidable publisher and record
label, Crossfire Records, has some ambitious new releases lined-up for
Spring 2007. Crossfire, who has blazed a name in the rock music publishing
field by issuing invaluable documentations on music legends like Frank
Zappa, Jethro Tull, Manfred Mann and The Zombies, are sole distributors
of Led Zeppelin: The Montreux Concerts. Led Zeppelin can be considered
the quintessential rock stars of the 1970s with their special brand of
classic hard rock. Written by Gilles Chateau and Sam Rapallo, the book
explores the band's special relationship with the legendary concert venue,
home of the famous Montreux Jazz Festival. Co-author and photographer of
Led Zeppelin: The Montreux Concerts, Gilles Chateau, shares his incredible
never-before-seen collection of photographs along with insightful interviews,
research and text by Sam Rapallo. A portion of the proceeds from the book's
sales go to two of Jimmy Page's charities - The ABC Trust and Casa Jimmy.
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| Nas
Touring a Dead Horse |
PR reports: After releasing the most controversial
album of his career, the prophetically titled #1 pop/ #1 R&B/ #1 rap
RIAA gold HIP-HOP IS DEAD, Def Jam Recordings artist Nas is ready to embark
on the "Hip-Hop Is Dead" tour of North America. The 26-city tour, one of
the biggest ever undertaken by Nas, opens March 31st at University of Pittsburgh,
and ends May 3rd in San Francisco.
03/31 Pittsburgh, PA University of Pittsburgh
04/2 Cleveland, OH House of Blues
04/3 Baltimore, MD Rams Head Live [see
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| Vh1
Goes All YouTube |
PR reports: VH1, along with executive producers
Jack Black, Dan Harmon and Rob Schrab and the team from Channel 101, have
announced the first step in reforming the runaway user-generated content
movement with the newly formed "Acceptable.TV.". Each week television viewers
will see 6 new three-minute episodes of six proposed TV series - five produced
by the Acceaptable.TV staff, one produced by web users. Viewers will then
be able to vote, via the Web site www.acceptable.tv, for two of those series
to return with a new episode. The four with the least votes are cancelled
and replaced by four new pilots the following week. All shows - acceptable
and unacceptable - will be shown on the Web site. Acceptable.TV Premieres
Friday, March 23 at 10 PM ET/PT[at least it looks more interesting than
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The Vans Warped Tour generation
was treated to an evening of emo's brightest stars on February 23rd .in
the form of Taking Back Sunday, Underoath and Armor for Sleep. The strongest
act of the night, Underoath brought their "A" game and put out one excellent
set.- Read
the full Underoath & Taking Back Sunday Live review
This disc shows KSE moving in
a direction to avoid the death of the genre. The end result is a disc full
of heavy yet melodic songs that should please current KSE fans and might
draw back some people disenfranchised with the genre as well.
(4 stars)
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the full Killswitch Engage - As Daylight Dies review
Perhaps the most tragically
overlooked of the English "B-list" of prog-rockers is Hawkwind. A viewing
of Out of the Shadows will have you wondering just why the band never clicked
like its more famous peers did. (Lemmy's band before Motorhead)
(4 stars)
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The lads have retuned with their
fifth album "Soapbox Heroes". This time the Toronto quintet has added something
new to the album � keyboards played by the fiddle playing lead singer Brian
Buchanan. (4 stars)
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