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9/1/2010
Switchfoot has lined up a fall tour, set to kick off October 1st in Lynchberg, Virginia and continue through the end of the month. Pre-sale tickets will be available through the band's fan club beginning today (Wednesday, September 1st), and tickets go on sale to the general public tomorrow (Thursday, September 2nd). Florida rockers, the Almost, will be on the road with Switchfoot.
Switchfoot recently wrapped a a summer tour with Goo Goo Dolls.
The ...
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9/1/2010
Slipknot DJ Sid Wilson is joining the ranks of group members who have ventured into solo projects, according to Billboard.com. Although Wilson has worked before under names like Ratboy and DJ Starscream, he is launching his new project under his own name. Wilson said, "When I see people, whether they're strangers or fans or friends or whatever, everyone is always like, 'Sid!' There's not a lot of people going, 'Hey, DJ Starscream!' . . . ...
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9/1/2010
Linkin Park will perform their new single "The Catalyst" live for the first time at the MTV Video Music Awards, scheduled for September 12th in Los Angeles. Singer Chester Bennington said in a statement, "After two years of working on our new album, we're looking forward to sharing our first live performance of new music with our fans around the world on the MTV Awards." The performance will come just two days before the September ...
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9/1/2010
Green Day is recording shows on its current tour for a live album, according to Punknews.org. At a gig in Denver last Saturday (August 28th), frontman Billie Joe Armstrong announced that the concert was being recorded for a live release, then went on to introduce what he said was a new track.
The song, however, was "Cigarettes & Valentines," which was slated to be the title track of an album Green Day was recording back ...
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9/1/2010
According to CDJapan.co.jp, the 30th anniversary deluxe reissues of Ozzy Osbourne's first two albums -- 1980's Blizzard Of Ozz and 1981's Diary Of A Madman -- have been postponed until next year. While no official release date was ever given for the sets, Sharon Osbourne said at a Toronto press conference in May that they would be out for Thanksgiving 2010. (Blabbermouth)
A song from rapper Jay-Z featuring a guest appearance by Coldplay frontman ...
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8/31/2010
Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland has responded to Internet rumors that he has been either lip-synching or using backing vocal tracks during the band's concerts. The allegations arose after video surfaced of Weiland falling off the stage at a concert last Wednesday (August 25th) in Cincinnati, during which it appeared that his vocals never wavered despite the fact that he fell headfirst and seemed to land heavily.
At STP's August 28th gig in Pittsburgh, ...
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8/31/2010
Papa Roach releases its new half-studio/half-live album, Time For Annihilation...On The Road and On The Record, on Tuesday (August 31st). The band went into the studio earlier this year to record five brand new songs for the set, but frontman Jacoby Shaddix admitted to us that he was having problems staying sober at the time: ["I was kind of out of my mind, partying and drinking and, you know, carrying on like I was for ...
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8/31/2010
Kid Rock's label, Atlantic Records, has confirmed that the singer's new album, Born Free, has been pushed back from a September 7th release to a November 16th arrival. According to a press release, Rock's eighth studio effort is "a transformational album" for the artist, adding, "While there is still the edge, wit, and swagger of previous albums, he doesn't rap, there's no metal -- there isn't even a parental warning sticker."
Rock said, "The catalyst ...
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8/31/2010
Guns N' Roses singer Axl Rose has issued a statement aimed squarely at the promoters of the U.K.'s Reading and Leeds Festivals, which the band headlined on Friday (August 27th) and Sunday (August 29th) respectively. Guns N' Roses came onstage an hour late on Friday and 30 minutes late on Sunday, with both shows cut short due to venue curfews.
Rose wrote at Twitlonger.com, "We allegedly had a deal in place pre-show with the city ...
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8/31/2010
Disturbed releases its fifth studio album on Tuesday (August 31st), titled Asylum. As with its previous effort, 2008's Indestructible, the band produced the disc itself and recorded in its hometown of Chicago. Disturbed frontman David Draiman was going through a rough personal patch while writing the record, but told us that he doesn't necessarily need personal problems to inspire his songs: "I think that there's enough going on in the world that even if in ...
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