According to a posting on OTEP's official web site, OTEP frontwoman Otep Shamaya will perform on this season's "Def Poetry" on HBO. Click here to watch the "Def Poetry" season five trailer. Best described as a performance poetry event, "Def Poetry" features poets who blend hip-hop — poetry's musical cousin — with the ...
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According to a post at SickthingsUK, New West Records has set an August 2 release date for the new ALICE COOPER album, entitled "Dirty Diamonds". The following press release has been issued by the label; After 30 albums and some of the most famous rock songs ever recorded, you'd think Alice Cooper's demons ...
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DEF LEPPARD guitarist Phil Collen recently spoke to Classic Rock Revisited about his side-project MAN-RAZE. An excerpt from the interview follows: Classic Rock Revisited: Where did the name of the band come from? Phil Collen: "At first we were going to call it FAY RAZE — you know, the girl from the King ...
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DEF LEPPARD frontman Joe Elliott has posted the following message at the band's official web site: "Hello, you lovely people!! I thought I'd just give you a quick update on what's going on as we prepare for this summer's tour... First of all, it's true what they say about sitting in front a computer screen ...
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THROWDOWN have completed the video for "Burn", the first single from the band's forthcoming album "Vendetta". The band worked once again with their close friend Christopher Sims, whose recent credits include LAMB OF GOD, AS I LAY DYING, BLEEDING THROUGH and NORMA JEAN. Sims was also responsible for THROWDOWN's "Fight Club"-themed "Forever" video, a staple ...
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DRY KILL LOGIC have been confirmed as the first band on the second stage of this summer's Gigantour, a six-week festival trek co-headlined by MEGADETH and DREAM THEATER. Other main-stage acts include FEAR FACTORY, THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN and NEVERMORE. Additional artists for the second stage will be announced during the coming weeks. Confirmed dates ...
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DEF LEPPARD frontman Joe Elliott makes a guest appearance on the new live DVD from the legendary Ian Hunter (MOTT THE HOOPLE), "Just Another Night - Live At The Astoria", available now on Secret Records. Filmed and recorded at the Astoria in London in 2004, it features an appearance by Joe on the song "All ...
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Eric R. Danton of The Hartford Courant has issued the following report: Consider the rock T-shirt. It's not just a piece of clothing; it's a cultural totem, a tangible memento of personal taste. At least, it was. Once the province of concert merchandise booths, wearing a rock shirt meant that you or someone you know ...
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Launch Radio Networks reports: DEF LEPPARD's latest single, a cover of BADFINGER's "No Matter What", appears on the group's upcoming compilation, "Rock of Ages: The Definitive Collection". But it's also part of a larger project, an all-covers album that the group started working on in 2004. Frontman Joe Elliott tells Launch that while DEF LEPPARD's ...
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CKY have set a June 28 release date through Island Def Jam for their third album, "An Answer Can Be Found". Commented CKY guitarist/vocalist Deron Miller: "Our album is finally completed and all I can say is that it's a masterpiece. We have busted our asses for the last year pushing our abilities and talents ...
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Launch Radio Networks reports: DEF LEPPARD will hit the road this June for a tour of minor league baseball stadiums with BRYAN ADAMS. Frontman Joe Elliott told Launch that he's already in training, working on both his body and his voice to prepare for a summer of singing. "I've seen a lot of people start ...
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On Saturday June 25, the three members of WARGASM, plus assorted members of STEEL ASSASSIN, TRIPHAMMER, MADD HUNTER, EVERY SECOND, and TONGUE & GROOVE will perform at a benefit concert at the Mallard in Brockton, Massachusetts. Three bands consisting of the above-mentioned musicians will be formed specially for this occasion and will perform the music ...
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Trevor Maxwell of Maine's Portland Press Herald is reporting that the failure of audience members at a recent MÖTLEY CRÜE concert to hear a fire alarm is forcing Maine's Cumberland County Civic Center to review its emergency procedures. Dave Graves, a Wells resident who was among roughly 6,000 people at CRÜE's Cumberland County ...
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DEF LEPPARD's official web site has been updated with the following message: "Some two weeks ago, Vivian [Campbell, guitar] finished the recording of his upcoming blues solo album, scheduled for release around August. Next week, photos for the album cover will be shot by Viv's friend and rock photographer Robert Knight, who was also present ...
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A full version of DEF LEPPARD's cover of BADFINGER's "No Matter What" — one of the tracks featured on LEPPARD's forthcoming compilation album, "Rock Of Ages - The Definitive Collection" — is available for listening at AOL Music. "Rock Of Ages - The Definitive Collection" will be released on May 17 on double ...
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The music of OZZY OSBOURNE, KISS, VAN HALEN, DEF LEPPARD, ALICE COOPER, MÖTLEY CRÜE and DEEP PURPLE will be featured as part of the soundtrack to the 16th annual "Thunder Over Louisville" fireworks show, which is scheduled to take place on Saturday (April 23) beginning at 9:30 p.m. Created as the opening ceremonies of the ...
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DEF LEPPARD guitarist Phil Collen has told Billboard.com that the song list for the group's yet-to-be titled all-covers set has yet to be finalized, as the group decided to record more cuts than it originally planned. Collen admits that the idea for the project was first hatched years ago. "Joe [Elliott, vocals] has ...
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In between preparations for their Rock & Roll Double-Header Tour, DEF LEPPARD and BRYAN ADAMS will both make an appearance on NBC's "Tonight Show with Jay Leno" on May 27. While the show itself is being recorded in California, LEPPARD and ADAMS' performances will take place at Rockefeller Plaza in New York. On May 17, ...
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DRY KILL LOGIC have parted ways with bassist Danny Horboychuk and have replaced him with Casey Mahoney. "Casey spent years in New York-based DOWNPORE; aside from being a dominating bass player he is a tremendous guy, and we are looking forward to bringing him on the road with us to experience first-hand the power and ...
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DEF LEPPARD guitarist Phil Collen spoke to RollingStone.com about his new band MAN-RAZE. The group, which formed last summer after Collen returned to London from Southern California to care for his sick father, also features SEX PISTOLS drummer Paul Cook and bassist Simon Laffy, a former bandmate of Collen's from the early Eighties ...
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According to Sheffield Today, DEF LEPPARD bassist Rick Savage found time before jetting off for the band's U.S. tour to meet Sheffield Children's Hospital charity mascots Quackers the Duck and Theo Bear. Rick, a long-time friend of the hospital, added his support to the charity's Duck Race to be staged at Rother Valley ...
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German power metallers PRIMAL FEAR have posted the following message on their official web site: "Randy [Black] has finished his drumparts for the new album and it's guitar time at the House Of Music. Working together with Charlie Bauerfeind [producer] is fantastic and the spirit in the studio is great! "The festival in Spain on ...
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During the second half of June, right after the first leg of the Rock 'N Roll Double-Header Tour with BRYAN ADAMS, DEF LEPPARD will play another 12 shows. Two of these were already announced last week (the Music Midtown and CityStages festivals), and now it has been confirmed that the band will play another 10 ...
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DEF LEPPARD frontman Joe Elliott recently gave an interview to JamesonChronocles regarding his recent "war of words" with MelodicRock.com webmaster Andrew McNeice over McNeice's early review of the band's upcoming "covers" album — a review that Elliott claims was based on an "unfinished," "work-in-progress copy." A couple of excerpts from the ...
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German power metallers PRIMAL FEAR have been confirmed for the Mystic Festival, set to take place May 29 at Stadium Slaski in Chorzow, Poland. The festival billing is shaping up as follows: IRON MAIDEN NIGHTWISH KREATOR BEHEMOTH PRIMAL FEAR FRONTSIDE DRAGONFORCE PRIMAL FEAR are scheduled to begin recording their new album this month at House ...
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On May 17, "Rock Of Ages - The Definitive Collection", DEF LEPPARD's new compilation album, will be released on double CD in North America. While last year's world release of this compilation (under the title "Best Of") contained a new song in the form of "Waterloo Sunset" (originally by THE KINKS), the new song on ...
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Former THE ALMIGHTY frontman Ricky Warwick has uploaded audio samples from his upcoming second solo album, "Love Many Trust Few", at his official web site. Check them out at this location. The follow-up to 2003's "Tattoos and Alibis", "Love Many Trust Few" was produced by Ronan McHugh and DEF LEPPARD frontman Joe Elliott ...
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ABC ePrep is reporting that members of MOTÖRHEAD were on hand Tuesday (April 5) for a press conference announcing the opening of a Las Vegas location for the Sunset Strip's famed Rainbow Bar & Grill. Jason Bonham (UFO) and DEF LEPPARD drummer Rick Allen were supposed to attend the event as well, but Bonham had ...
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In a few months, DEF LEPPARD will be on the road again to tour North America with BRYAN ADAMS (for dates, click here). Just before that, tour rehearsals will take place in Los Angeles for a couple of days during the last week of May, and the Universal Music Store will organize an ...
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DEF LEPPARD guitarist Vivian Campbell wil enter the studio April 11-13 to begin work on his first solo album. The record, which will reportedly contain about a dozen cover songs from blues legends such as Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Rory Gallagher and others, will be released "sometime in 2005" on Sanctuary Records. Recording live, Vivian ...
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