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Yes 40th Anniversary Tour
PR reports: With a remarkable 40 year career that has time and again redefined the boundaries of rock, musical pioneers YES have announced 2008 tour dates to take place this summer. Launching in early April on VH1Classic.com, VH1 Classic and YES will be looking for talented aspiring rock performers to join the band on stage.

Marking the first national tour for the band in over five years, the 26 date jaunt will bring the iconic band's virtuosic musicianship and exhilarating live shows to amphitheatres and arenas across North America. The tour will kick off July 12th in Quebec City and wrap-up on August 22nd in Los Angeles. Produced by Live Nation, tickets for the "Close to the Edge and Back" tour go on sale beginning March 29th (go to livenation.com not ticketbastards)

A dominant force in rock music for more than four decades, YES has created some of rock's most enduring and compelling hits and has sold more than 30 million albums worldwide. - more on this story

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Egypt Central Join Nonpoint Tour
PR reports: Memphis-based rockers Egypt Central are proud to announce upcoming tour dates with Nonpoint. The tour kicks off April 5 at the Ridglea Theater in Fort Worth, TX.

Egypt Central is currently touring to support their self-titled debut, which hit streets January 15 and was produced by famed knob-twister Josh Abraham (Linkin Park, Korn, Velvet Revolver) on the album. - dates

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The Legion Minus One
antiMusic reports: It appears the Legion is minus a vocalist right now as the work on their new album. Metal Underground has this report: Swedish black/death metallers THE LEGION, who feature in their ranks former MARDUK drummer Emil Dragutinovic, have issued the following update:

"As you might know, we've had our share of difficulties managing the vocal position. And once again we're without a permanent singer. A while ago we and Kjetil [Hektoen] decided to go separate ways. He's been busy with his other bands/projects and simply didn't find the time and devotion required to rehearse with us as much as we wanted. We think it's really sad since we like him both as a person, as well as for his amazing skills vocally. We really wish him all the best for the future and thank him for his time with us and his support in our live performances."

"Regarding the ongoing recording, everything's developing the way we intended. The work pace hasn't been optimal because of the inability to record everything at one occasion (as you normally do). Since none of us are full-time musicians, we've only been able to record a little bit now and then in our spare time. Nevertheless, we have never put this many hours into recording an album before, so it'll sure surpass any of our previous work. As of now, there's only the vocal part left, which we'll handle ourselves this time. And then we're headed for mixing and mastering of course�" - more on this story

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Radiohead vs. fifteen bottles of Southern Comfort?
PR reports: Knoxville, Tennessee's resident laser-fueled, turbo popsters, Royal Bangs, are about to release their debut full-length, We Breed Champions on Audio Eagle, (Gil Mantera's Party Dream, Houseguest, etc) mid-May.

Knoxville Voice compared the band to "Radiohead vs. fifteen bottles of Southern Comfort" while others put them in the presence of Modest Mouse, TV on the Radio, and Architecture in Helsinki. Royal Bangs are constantly reinventing ways to play music and who they play for.

Their venues range from galleries to bars, and backyards to Bonnaroo. The band is on a perpetual tour of the southeast scene. With a wall of beats blasting dueling guitars, sheets of red hot synth and dangerous chorus calls, Royal Bangs are ready for the world to experience their self-described "wizard-fresh" sound. - Check out "Let's Get Even" and see if you can hear what they're talking about.

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Leto Books Live Appearances as John Lennon's Killer
PR reports: Chapter 27 hits NY theaters on March 28 and LA Theaters on April 4 with live appearances from Jared Leto. In preparation of Chapter 27 Jared Leto gained 60 pounds to play the role of John Lennon's assassin, Mark David Chapman.

A little about the film: On December 8, 1980 Mark David Chapman shocked the world by murdering the beloved purveyor of peace, 40-year old musician and activist, John Lennon, outside The Dakota, his New York apartment building. Chapman's motives were fabricated from pure delusion, fueled by an obsession with the fictional character Holden Caulfield and his similar misadventures in J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye. In one instant, an anonymous, mentally unstable 25-year old, socially awkward Beatles fan who had fluctuated between idealizing Lennon and being overcome with a desire to kill him � altered the course of history. - more about the film, appearance dates and a link to the trailer

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Paul Raven Memorial Show Announced
Blabbermouth reports: Saturday, April 12 will see a special gig at he Bridge House 2 in London remembering with fondness Paul Raven, bassist from KILLING JOKE, MINISTRY, PRONG, etc., who died in October of last year.

The special lineup features three bands that all have a close association with Paul � and none more so than GUNDOGS, who feature Paul's brother Dan on bass. Dan said of the event, "I hope that this show and the love that underpins its spirit, will be loud enough to reach Paul at the right hand of God. He would be proud to see so many of his great friends come together in this way."

Also featuring on the bill are OCTOBER FILE, who many will have seen on recent KILLING JOKE tours, and HEADCOUNT, who had their 2004 album "Die Monkey Die" produced by Paul. - more on this story

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Strangers Die Every Day Preview
PR reports: The newest addition to SoCal indie label This Generation Tapes, Strangers Die Every Day traded snow for rain when the band relocated from Boulder, CO to Portland, OR in 2006. In an attempt to grow the instrumental soundscape of their music and continue to expand the elements of rock 'n' roll, Strangers Die Every Day have blended their seemingly conflicted sonic ideals into rock-oriented chamber music. The band's debut full length 'Aperture For Departure' is available now.

Strangers Die Every Day are well suited to represent their genre, calling on hallmark groups like Mogwai, Mono, and Spirit of Versailles, while keeping company with some exciting contemporaries. The band's debut full length Aperture For Departure was released March 4th with a tour planned soon. Previous tours have seen the band share a stage with Thurston Moore, Jello Biafra, Tristeza, Saul Williams, Adrian Belew, Rasputina, The Appleseed Cast, The North Atlantic, The Bad Plus, and many more.

"Everyone in the band comes from different musical backgrounds - we're into everything from classical music to punk rock," says bassist Stirling Myles. "The group does have a string emphasis, but the music is constantly expanding. We're trying to create a defining relationship with strings and rock 'n' roll."
- Grab a taste with this free mp3

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Gossip Live Release
PR reports: Columbia Records / Music With A Twist is set to release "Gossip - Live In Liverpool," a deluxe live CD/DVD combination package from Gossip, America's premier indie pop/soul/experimental trio, on Tuesday, April 15.

Recorded live in concert on July 9, 2007, "Gossip - Live In Liverpool" brilliantly captures and focuses the stunning ferocity, energy and intensity at the heart of Gossip's groundbreaking meld of sound + politics. This incendiary concert showcase breaks out definitive performances of Gossip signature tunes including the band's UK #1 Indie chart-topping smash, "Standing In The Way Of Control"; the UK Top 40 hit, "Listen
Up"; and the #3 UK Indie track, "Jealous Girls" in addition to delightfully provocative covers of Wham!'s "Careless Whisper" and Aaliyah's "Are You That Somebody?"

"Gossip - Live In Liverpool" includes a DVD of the concert, lensed by documentary filmmaker and music video director Lance Bangs (Sonic Youth, Green Day, R.E.M., Death Cab For Cutie, Kanye West, Pavement, Mike Watt and more). - more on this story

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People In Planes To Jupiter
PR reports: People In Planes, will be performing with Jupiter One across the U.S. throughout March and April. People In Planes return in 2008 with a new album, Beyond The Horizon.

The band's debut As Far As The Eye Can See delivered critical acclaim for the young act in the U.S., and firmly built a fan base tens of thousands strong. - dates

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Crowbar Euro Reissues
PR reports: Metal Mind Productions presents the re-release of 3 Crowbar's album: "Crowbar", "Time Heals Nothing" and "Live+1" EP. All titles will be released on 21st April 2008 (in Europe only!).

"Crowbar" - a self-titled second album from 1993 on which Crowbar once again delivers a solid amount of harsh, gloomy material. The album was recorded with a new guitarist, Matt Thomas, and produced by none other than Pantera's Phil Anselmo, who managed to fully bring out all the best that the group had to offer. Each of the ten tracks found on the album reeks with a muddy New Orleans vibe and crushes the listener with an extremely raw and heavy sound. "Crowbar" to this day remains one of the band's best and most honored releases. Songs such as "Holding Nothing", "Existence Is Punishment", "I Have Failed" and the phenomenal cover version of Led Zeppelin's "No Quarter" showcase the sheer essence of doom-core, conjoining slow and heavy music with some truly dark and depressive lyrics by Windstein, who screams them out with genuine grief and pain. New digipak edition is limited to numerated 2000 copies, digitally remastered using 24-Bit process on golden disc. - info on the other two reissues

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America's Next Top Model Goes Pop
PR reports: Arriving in stores April 22nd is the debut album Are You Listening Now? from Sarah VonderHaar. Sarah VonderHaar is a 21 year old singer/songwriter who also appeared as a contestant on "America's Next Top Model".

Sarah VonderHaar is a young and blossoming singer/songwriter, who despite her age has already accomplished more than many of her peers. She has been a contestant on "America's Next Top Model," photographed her first Forbes magazine spread (as the shooter, not the subject) when she was 20, acted in a film and, at 21, has just completed her debut album, Are You Listening Now?

She's about to release its first single, "I Got Sunshine," co-written by fellow Chicagoan Alice Peacock and VonderHaar's producer, Marshall Altman. VonderHaar feels this song expresses her own sunny attitude. The song, she says, "describes how to deal with the troubled world we live in by staying optimistic and reminding yourself of all the wonderful things we have in our lives." - listen to the song here

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Britney Does South Park
Hecklerspray reports: What with everyone banging on about Britney Spears' upcoming appearance on How I Met Your Mother, it's easy to wish that she was going to be in a sitcom that's, you know, funny.

And now she is. Last night Britney Spears squeezed in an appearance on South Park. Well, most of Britney Spears, at least. A large part of Britney's brain was missing at the time, but what's new about that, huh? Huh?

Why are we posting this? 1) Because it's funny, despite the typical South Park sledgehammer sermonising, 2) because it's true and it's taught us that, as media consumers, we're all to blame for Britney's current mental crisis and 3) it's been a couple of days since we last posted a Britney Spears story and we were starting to get shakes. - Anyway, now we've got a special clip of Britney Spears' South Park cameo for you to enjoy.

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Muse Taking Haarp to the Village
PR reports: Muse have just announced the details on their final screening of their new DVD HAARP in NY.

The screening will start at 8pm on April 1st at the Village East Theatre.

NEW YORK, NY
April 1, 2008
8pm doors at 7
Village East Theatre
181 Second Avenue, New York, NY 10003
12th and 2nd Ave. in east village
- link to the theatre info page

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Jorn Explains DVD Delay
antiMusic reports: Morley writes in the intro to his latest MorleyView, "Take all the best elements of Coverdale, Dio and Rodgers and you have one amazing voice. That voice belongs to former Masterplan vocalist Jorn Lande and what a voice it is." Morley's amazing new interview with Jorn has just posted and we wanted to give you a little taste. In this passage Jorn discusses the live DVD that has been in the works for a while and why it has been delayed.

antiMusic: You also have a live record that was released last fall in Europe. I assume it will be over here in the not too distant future. Is it from one show and what can you tell us about that show that made you want to put it on tape? Jorn: Yes, the whole show is actually from [the ProgPower] festival [in Atlanta, Georgia]. I had headlined the gig in 2006. And you know it was just accidental really because all the bands at the festival were offered to have their show recorded since the promoter of the festival would normally have a professional team anyway to both film and record it. And I was thinking, "wow, lets record the show and if it's a potential record or DVD then we'll use it for something." And I think it came out quite good. And we actually played another 45 minutes, almost an hour, longer than what's on the live CD.

antiMusic: Excellent. Can we look forward to DVD release? Jorn: Yeah, well, it's there on the hard disk and I've looked thorough the material already and it looks cool. The footage is good and the band looks half young. (laughs) and it's definitely a great testament, or some kind of biography in a way to have. I would like to release it it's just that we did some covers there as well. You have, there's a Whitesnake medley at the end of the show. And we did a Purple song. And we did a couple of other songs as well. What has been the delay with the DVD so far has been the rights to use those songs. because you see rights to release it as a double cd wasn't really a big problem. But you have something called synchronization rights between sound and picture, which is totally different story. So, the second you�the same show is filmed and the second you want to have it, to put it out on DVD then you get in trouble unless you get the right approval. And what happened there was, I had a little trouble getting those rights for some of those songs, and to make a choice: either delay the whole DVD or take out the covers, or some of the covers, and release it with less material. Or put in some more of the other songs that I had removed to make it a full length DVD. I just felt this was the wrong thing to do. Either we release it as is, same as the double cd, it should be the same concert. If anything should be done it should be added to it instead, not removed. And I think the whole thing for me as an artist, the important thing, especially if you look at America, and Canada and other parts of the world, it's definitely important to me to show the diversity and to show me doing these songs. I think for my career as well, it's important for me as well to have some of those covers there as well. So I decided just to delay everything, and postpone the whole DVD. So what's going to happen right now, I don't know. Maybe it's going to be released by the end of this year. If not, if I can't find a solution to it, then I'll probably wait, and write a new Jorn album because I already have one coming out in May or June.

- Lots of great stuff in this interview, do yourself a favor and click here to read it all.

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.... Jeff Healey - Mess of Blues
Mess of Blues marks Healey's return to recording blues music for the first time in many years. That being said, and certainly not wanting to speak ill of the dead, but these recordings do not seem particularly inspired. (3 stars) - Read the full Jeff Healey - Mess of Blues review

.... MorleyView: Jorn<
Take all the best elements of Coverdale, Dio and Rodgers and you have one amazing voice. That voice belongs to former Masterplan vocalist Jorn Lande and what a voice it is. Check out Morley's amazing interview with this music legend! - Read the full Jorn MorleyView

.... Tulus - Biography Obscene
If people found Khold's atavistic black metal stomp a bit too primal and primitive, Tulus likely offers a reasonable solution. The music on offer here has one foot firmly in the familiar, and another in the avant-garde. This is a fun, quirky gem of an album. - Read the full Tulus - Biography Obscene review

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