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Kitty, Daisy & Lewis Announce US Debut and Coldplay Dates

PR reports: Kitty, Daisy & Lewis are very excited to make their US debut this summer with their international critically acclaimed self-titled debut, set for a US release on August 11th via DH Records / Mercer Street Records.

This multi-instrumental family trio, are a thoroughbred sensation, playing 40's/50's rockabilly and swing, country and western, Hawaiian and rock 'n' roll with a verve, skill and energy that connects them back to the far past and the future.

Beginning July 10th in Portland, Oregon, the teen siblings will join Coldplay for a 6-week North American tour that includes impressive venues such as Washington State's Gorge Amphitheatre and a slot at this year's All Points West Festival in New York, NY.

TOUR DATES:

July 7th The Echo Los Angeles, CA *
July 10th The Amphitheatre @ Clark County Portland, OR
July 11th The Gorge George, WA
July 13th Shoreline Amphitheatre San Francisco, CA
July 14th Sleep Train Amphitheatre Sacramento, CA
July 16th Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre San Diego, CA
July 18th Home Depot Center Los Angeles, CA
July 19th Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre Irvine, CA
July 21st Superpages.com Center Dallas, TX
July 22nd Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion Houston, TX
July 24th Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre Maryland Heights, MO
July 25th Alpine Valley Music Theatre East Troy, WI
July 27th Saratoga Performing Arts Center Saratoga Springs, NY
July 30th Rogers Center Toronto, ON
August 1st Osheaga Festival Musique et Arts Montreal, QC
August 2nd All Points West Festival Jersey City, NJ
August 3rd Comcast Center Mansfield, MA
August 6th Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion Raleigh, NC
August 7th Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre Charlotte, NC
August 9th Ford Amphitheatre Tampa, FL

* Indicates headline date
- more on this story

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Black Stone Cherry Get All Touchy Feely For Fathers Day

PR reports: In conjunction with the launch of their next single, "Things My Father Said" from their second album Folklore & Superstition, Southern rockers Black Stone Cherry have launched a uniquely touching way for fans around the world to celebrate their own fathers.

The band called on fans to submit photos of their dads for the song's video, and are now expanding the concept. With this widget promotion, fans can upload up to four of their own photos and add a personalized greeting before sending the video digitally to their loved ones. "Things My Father Said" will be impacting Rock Radio in mid-July.

Black Stone Cherry is confirmed to open the following shows on the Rock & Rebels Tour with Lynyrd Skynyrd and Kid Rock this summer. - more on this story

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The Big Surprise Tour

PR reports: The Big Surprise Tour is an old fashioned review featuring Old Crow Medicine Show, Dave Rawlings Machine (Feat. Gillian Welch), The Felice Brothers, and Justin Townes Earle

Born out of a deep running comradery built on countless tours and ties between a host of excellent musicians comes The Big Surprise Tour, a traveling show of epic collaboration and good times. Kicking off in Hampton Beach, NH on August 4th, THE BIG SURPRISE TOUR is not your standard up down up down line up. Shows will be composed of two 90-minute sets broken up by an intermission. In a free form ramshackle flow the bands and artists will share the stage, taking part in each other's songs, resurrecting old standards, and playing newly written collaborative material as they go. Each evening is sure to be a unique experience as they all put their many combined years of musicianship and knowledge of song-craft and American music into play for these sessions.

Ketch Secor from Old Crow speaks of the special relationship these bands have and the parts they've played in their own individual journey as musicians. "Seven Years ago when Old Crow first met Dave Rawlings and Gilllian Welch at the Station Inn in Nashville, we stayed up till dawn singing Stan Rogers songs and playing AC/DC licks. Three weeks later we were making a record. They were that rusted sign at the fork in the road showing OCMS just where it was headed." With the Felice Brothers as Secor explains it, "with their rockin' unruliness, we found where we had come from in the first place. Music is a mobius strip, contort all ya want and you'll keep winding up where you started." Justin Townes Earle is "looking forward to being on tour with folks that are kindred spirits. We all have similar influences, which will be reflected in the covers w! e do during the show and our collaborations on stage." For their part, James Felice reminisces that they've "traveled around the country with Justin and Cory (of Justin Townes Earle) playing some pretty bizarre gigs. We couldn't love those guys more." "As for Old Crow�" he says, "they cleaned us out playing dice more than once." Perhaps they'll get a chance to even the score on these dates. - more on this story

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Madder Mortem Set Release

PR reports: Norwegian Progressive Metal veterans, Madder Mortem, will release their highly anticipated album, Eight Ways, in the United States, on June 16th on Peaceville Records. Eight Ways is the follow up to the band's acclaimed 2006 Peaceville release, "Desiderata", as well as the band's fifth studio album since their inception in 1997.

Eight Ways was recorded, produced, and mixed at the band's studio on the Norwegian countryside. Although recording the new album may have taken a bit longer than it had in the past, the extra time allowed Madder to perfect every detail of each song. The result is a record that truly encompasses all the musical splendor that is MADDER MORTEM.

The band comments, "The closer we stick to the Madder Mortem family, the better the result. This time around, we spent our studio budget on equipment, and recorded Eight Ways ourselves. It wasn't a particularly easy or speedy process, but that is entirely irrelevant: We were able to make a record that is exactly what we wanted to make. There is nothing more important than being absolutely true to your own art." - more on this story

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Drive A Map Out Tour

PR reports: It's been a busy year for LA based, punk rock quartet, Drive A. Their Adrenaline Records debut, Loss Of Desire was released May 19th, and the single 'Are You Blind' is gaining airplay each week at rock radio.

The band is fresh off the Alkaline Trio tour which was the latest in a year of nonstop road-work, including kicking the year off on the Alternative Press tour, before jumping on the Red Jumpsuit Apparatus tour and most recently, Alkaline Trio.

Drive A have also played the major music fests around the country, including Bamboozle Left and Right, SXSW and Rock On The Range � sharing the stage with Rise Against, Papa Roach, Billy Talent, and many more. Next up, it's a summer tour with Set Your Goals � kicking off July 30th in Baltimore. - more on this story

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A.A. Bondy Going Soph in September

PR reports: A.A. Bondy's sophomore album, When The Devil's Loose, will be released September 1, 2009 on Fat Possum.

Recorded primarily in Water Valley, MS in April and May, When The Devil's Loose expands upon the stripped-down and haunting sound of his debut album, American Hearts.

A full band now accompanies him on most tracks, lending a full, roomy sound to 10 songs of bluesy Americana carried along by Bondy's lived-in voice. When The Devil's Loose sounds almost from another era, whether it's a quiet, spooky twang ("Oh The Vampyre"), lullaby-like ("On The Moon"), inflected with old-time R&B ("To The Morning"), or colored with traces of '60s pop (the buoyant "I Can See The Pines Are Dancing" and the melancholy, ethereal cadence of "When The Devil's Loose"). - more on this story

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BT Teasing Fans With The Rose Of Jericho

PR reports: Three full years since the release of his critically acclaimed experimental album This Binary Universe, BT makes his highly anticipated return to dancefloors everywhere June 9.

On Tuesday, BT unveils his brand new single, "The Rose Of Jericho," from his forthcoming full-length album due in fall. The composer, technologist and widely renowned pioneer of trance music will be rolling out three remixes of Jericho, exclusively on Beatport. Mixes include: BT's Dues ex Machina Album Mix, Sultan and Ned Shepard Remix and Robbie Rivera New Juicy Music Mix.

"It's been a long time since I've written music that I could feature in one of my Laptop Symphony sets. Not only is this track a floor-filling monster, it really features my current electronic music inspirations - minimal beats with big strong melodic and harmonic content. This track rips the A** off a dance floor. I've played it from Korea to Brazil, and it's the biggest track I've had to play out for years." - more on this story

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Dream Theater's Jordan Rudess Releases Solo CD

PR reports: Critically acclaimed keyboard artist, and Dream Theater band member Jordan Rudess is proud to announce the release of his new solo CD, Notes on a Dream, featuring his unique and innovative piano interpretations of nine of Dream Theater's favorite ballads, and three completely original solo piano instrumentals.

Jordan Rudess first gained national exposure when the readers of Keyboard Magazine voted him 1994's Best New Talent in the Overall Best Keyboardist category after his first solo release Listen.

Steven Wilson of Porcupine Tree calls Notes on a Dream, "Amazingly beautiful. Reminds me of the very best of Keith Jarrett's piano music, and that's about as big compliment as I can give to anything!" - more on this story

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The Judds To Open Museum

Webster and Assoc reports: Not all good things come to an end. The Judds, one of country music's most awarded and beloved duos of our time, are the perfect example. Credited with "single-handedly saving country music" according to Time Magazine, Wynonna and Naomi Judd will pay homage to their fans and their illustrious career by transforming a vacant building - formerly occupied by Gray's Drug Store at 332 Main St in historic downtown Franklin, Tennessee - into a museum highlighting the 25th Anniversary of their career in music.

Opening Thursday, June 11th, through Sunday, June 14th, the museum hours will coincide with the CMA Music Fest (formerly known as "Fan Fair") which officially kicks off Wednesday. The museum will be open from 9am - 6pm on June 11 - 13 and noon - 4pm on June 14.

Wynonna and Naomi will make a special appearance together to sign autographs from 1 - 3pm on Saturday, June 13th. Wristbands will be issued June 11th and 12th to secure a position in the autograph line Saturday afternoon. - more on this story

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.... Road Trip: North By Northeast: Toronto's World of Music

NXNE is a five day event that gives about five hundred musical acts a chance to win new fans (and maybe finagle a recording or management contract too) by showcasing at dozens of nightclubs on or adjacent to Queen Street, Toronto's nighttime party zone. - Read the full North By Northeast: Toronto's World of Music Road Trip article

. Bible of the Devil - Freedom Metal

Who makes up Bible of the Devil? Try four hard-edged rockers that know what stoner metal is all about, and possible prodigies leading this wonderful nature into new grounds of glory and beer, much where it belongs. Freedom Metal lives up to its distinct title - Read the full Bible of the Devil - Freedom Metal review

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