Jennifer Hudson will not sing at Obama inauguration
Tuesday 6th January 2009 Jennifer Hudson will not be performing at the inauguration of Barack Obama in Washington D.C. this month. →Full Story
Glasvegas for New York instore tonight
Tuesday 6th January 2009 Glasvegas are gearing up for an instore appearance in New York City tonight (January 5) with a free gig and signing at Virgin Megastore in Union Square. →Full Story
Femme Metal Records Signs A.D.D. and hAND
Tuesday 6th January 2009 Femme Metal Records has announced the signing of UK gothic metal band hAND as well as Illinois hard rock/metal band A.D.D.
Expect a new EP from hAND late 2009. In the meantime, you can check them out here.
A.D.D. Will be releasing a longer verison of their previously released CD, "Elements of Emptiness," very soon on their new label. Until t... Read More / Post Your Comments →Full Story
Subway to Sally Reveals New Album, "Kreuzfeuer," Details
Tuesday 6th January 2009 German folk metallers SUBWAY TO SALLY have announced the tracklisting for their upcoming album "Kreuzfeuer." The tracklisting is as follows:
1. Aufstieg
2. Judaskuss
3. Besser Du Rennst
4. SoFfern, So Nah
5. Die Jagd
6. Einsam
7. Komm in Meinen Schlaf
8. Angelus
9. Krähenkönig
10. Niemals
11. Versteckt
12. Vater
"Kreuzfeuer" marks ... Read More / Post Your Comments →Full Story
SLIPKNOT Claim 1st US Number One!!!
Thursday 18th September 2008 The Des Moines hard rock band take top placing from The Game after a re-count, while Dragonforce, The Verve and Motorhead score new entries
On Wednesday morning, Billboard’s Chart Alert column was running a story claiming that, in the closest race for number one since SoundScan began tracking Data in 1991, “The Game’s LAX beats Slipknot’s All Hope Is Gone by a mere handful of units.” It went on to say that the former sold 238,285 copies, the latter 238,272. The margin: a mere 13 copies, or 0.005%.
Twelve hours later, the story had been re-written, with Slipknot’s album now adjudged the bigger seller, “barely (winning) out over LAX, moving 239,516 copies...1,134 more than the rapper’s 238,382.
Somewhere along the way, errors were detected in the data, and the chart re-run but the margin for error was small, and the records flipped.
Chart re-runs are nothing new – we have had our own share of them here, the most notorious being in 1976, when Manuel & The Music Of The Mountains’ recording of Rodrigo’s Guitar Concerto was announced as the new number one single, only for the former incumbent, The Four Seasons’ December 1963, to be restored to pole position a few hours later because of a “computer glitch” – but Billboard undoubtedly suffered some embarrassment from the error.
So, it’s a first ever number one for hard rock heroes Slipknot and not the third number one for The Game.
Also new to the Top 10 are a Now! spin-off that hasn’t been tried here – the very first Now! That’s What I Call Country arrives at number seven on sales of 50,000 - and Solange’s Sol-Angel & The Hadley Street Dreams, debuting at number nine on sales of 46,000.
Of 25 new entries in total, three are by British acts. Dragonforce debut at number 18 with Ultra Beatdown on sales of 24,000 copies; The Verve’s Forth debuts at number 23 on sales of 21,000; and Motorhead’s Motorizer earns a number 82 slot from sales of 6,500.
The Verve’s last album, Urban Hymns, is their only previous chart entry, and also reached number 23, in 1997. Metal band Dragonforce have also had just one previous chart entry, reaching number 103 last year with Inhuman Rampage.
Motorhead – actually an Anglo/Swedish alliance these days - have had five previous Top 200 entries, the first being Iron Fist in 1982, the last 1916, confusingly, in 1991. The latter album provided the group’s previous highest placing, reaching number 142.
Coldplay’s Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends continues to be the top UK album, rebounding 11-10 on sales of 44,000, while their Viva La Vida single continues at number seven on the Hot 100.
Leona Lewis’ Spirit – originally listed as a non-mover at number 18 but shuffled down to 19 on the chart re-run - sold 24,000 copies to increase its career tally to 1,042,000.
In the lower regions of the chart, Led Zeppelin’s Mothership makes the most impressive upwards progress, vaulting 142-88 on its 42nd week in the chart. The album, which peaked at number seven last year, has sold 966,000 copies, including 6,000 last week. Its sudden lurch back into the top half of the chart is due to sales of the newly-issued deluxe four LP vinyl version of the set.
On the Hot 100, T.I.’s Whatever You Like continues at number one but faces a tough battle against Pink, whose So What leaps 9-3.
The top UK act on the list is M.I.A., whose Paper Planes glides 6-5, a move fuelled by increased airplay, though its sales are off from 124,000 to 114,000. Leona Lewis’s Better In Time also suffers a minor sales slip but still climbs 22-19 on the download chart and 28-22 on the Hot 100.
Finally, Natasha Bedingfield’s Pocketful Of Sunshine holds at number 30 on the Hot 100, while reversing 39-43 on the download chart – but the 27,000 copies it sold last week bring up its two millionth sale in total. Her album of the same name climbs 72-64, with sales of 8,000 lifting its to-date tally to 404,000. →Full Story
NICKELBACK to release new album!!!
Thursday 18th September 2008 Roadrunner Records announced the upcoming new album from multi-platinum rock powerhouse Nickelback. The band is currently recording the follow-up to 2005’s massively successful All The Right Reasons with famed rock producer Mutt Lange (AC/DC, Def Leppard) in their homebase of Vancouver, B.C. The album is set for release on November 18, 2008. The first single, “If Today Was Your Last Day” will impact at all radio formats on September 30th.
Roadrunner and Nickelback have enjoyed unprecedented success during their ten-year partnership. The band has sold upwards of 26 million records worldwide, with All The Right Reasons accounting for 10 million of that total. In addition, the six singles from the album totaled 9.3 million downloads and 5.5 million ringtones. All proceeds of digital single and video sales for the song “If Everyone Cared” between February 1 and July 31, 2007 were donated to charity, equally distributed between Amnesty International and International Childrens’ Awareness Canada. Each of the five videos from All The Right Reasons has reached #1 on VH1’s playlist: “Photograph,” “Savin’ Me,” “Far Away,” “If Everyone Cared” and “Rockstar.” In 2006 Nickelback was awarded a World Music Award for “World’s Best Rock Group,” a Billboard Touring Award for “Breakthrough Artist,” an American Music Award for “Favorite Pop/Rock Album” and a People’s Choice Award for “Best Rock Group.”
Both Roadrunner and Nickelback are looking forward to the start of a new album cycle and future success together. ‘In 1972, Robert John Mutt Lange produced our first platinum hit, now 36 years later, Mutt Lange produces Roadrunner’s Nickelback, proudly giving us another platinum record.’ says David Gresham, CEO of The David Gresham Record Company. →Full Story
MACHINE HEAD to release special limted edition of 'The Blackening'!!!
Thursday 18th September 2008 On OCTOBER 27TH, MACHINE HEAD will release a VERY limited 2CD/DVD Special Edition of their current album THE BLACKENING. The release, which will feature a bonus DVD as well as additional tracks will be a one time only run of the CD. No more will be manufactured after initial production.
The package will be a 3 panel / 6 page digipak ebossed sleeve, with expanded booklet. The tracklistings will be as follows:
DISC 1
1. Clenching The Fists of Dissent
2. Beautiful Mourning
3. Aesthetics of Hate
4. Now I Lay Thee Down
5. Slanderous
6. Halo
7. Wolves
8. A Farewell To Arms
DISC 2 (B-Sides and rareities):
1. Hallowed Be Thy Name
2. Alan’s On Fire
3. Negative Creep
4. Seasons Wither
5. My Misery
6. House Of Suffering
7. The Possibility Of Life’s Destruction
8. Ten Ton Hammer (Extended Original Mix)
9. Hole In The Sky
10. Colors
11. Hard Times (live in New York)
12. Halo (I Want Your Soul) (demo 2005)
13. Aesthetics Of Hate (Thrash-terpiece) (demo 2005)
The accompanying DVD will feature the following footage (Frontliners, please make sure you are seated...):
- With Full Force 2008 -
1. Clenching The Fists Of Dissent
2. Now I Lay Thee Down
3. Halo
- Rock In Rio 2008 -
4. Aesthetics Of Hate
5. Davidian
- Download 2007 -
6. Imperium
7. Old
- Burn My Eyes 10th Anniversary 2004 -
8. A Thousand Lies
9. The Rage To Overcome
10. Death Church
11. Blood For Blood
Music Videos:
1. Halo
2. Now I Lay Thee Down
3. Aesthetics of Hate
(Plus The Making Of… each video) →Full Story
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V-FESTIVAL coming to SA10/09/08 Richard Branson Plans To Make V Festival Global
Australia, South America and South Africa planned...
Richard Branson has revealed that hes hoping to take the V Festival to more countries around the globe.
The festival has been held in the UK for a number of years and debuted in the US and Canada in 2006.
Now, the multi-millionaire hopes to make it a totally multi-national event.
He 56-year-old told Reuters: "We are also looking at Italy, Spain and South America. We will roll it out.
"The great thing about doing it in more than one country is we can coordinate it and get the bands moving between countries.
"Tours will play a much greater part in the coming years. From a band's point of view, they make more out of playing live than out of music sales."
He added that Australia is also being considered for the music extravaganza.
Branson eyes expanding Virgin music festivals, By Belinda Goldsmith - 14th Sept 2006
(Credit: The Australian)
BRITISH billionaire Richard Branson said overnight he was looking to set up music festivals in several countries, including Australia, as rock stars take to the road to offset dwindling music sales.
Sir Richard, the flamboyant chairman of the Virgin Group, launched V Fest in Britain about 10 years ago, a festival which now runs for two days a year with a list of top-ranking bands and musicians.
This month he branched out into North America, with the first Virgin Festivals in Canada and the United States and he plans to expand to Australia next year.
"We are also looking at Italy, at Spain, and South Africa. We will roll it out," he said.
With CD sales down and corporate ownership tightening radio play lists, concert tours have become the most dependable way for established acts to pay the bills and to give new acts the chance to gain some exposure.
"Tours will play a much greater part in the coming years. From a band's point of view, they make more out of playing live than out of music sales," Sir Richard told Reuters in a telephone interview from Canada.
"The great thing about doing it in more than one country is that we can coordinate it so we get the bands moving around between countries and co-ordinating their schedules."
North American tours generated a record $US3.1 billion (.12b) in 2005, according to online industry watchdog Pollstar and the figure is expected to be higher this year.
This trend has seen the reemergence of some older bands and singers on the concert circuit.
British band The Who kicked off the US leg of their first world tour for more than 20 years this week and will headline the Virgin Festival in Baltimore on September 23 alongside The Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Sir Richard said setting up these festivals was taking Virgin back to its roots - as well as building on the increasingly tight relationship between mobile phone and music companies.
"We have gone into airlines, trains and other areas but our background was always to build a big music company," he said.
V Festival Partners
Virgin Mobile
V Festival isn't just the best thing we do, it's our best weekend of the year. Virgin Mobile is really passionate about V and making it the best possible experience for festival goers. We don't believe in just putting our logo on a banner or a beer cup - we believe in giving music lovers extras that really make a difference to their festival experience.
So, expect to find an army of Virgin Mobile Angels meeting festival goers with wheelbarrows to carry your tent and put it up. Look out for the winner of our Road to V competition opening the festival and make sure that if you are a Virgin Mobile customer that you claim your free beer and kebabs! This is our 7th year now as headline sponsor and with all the exciting new ideas planned for this year, we think it will be the best yet!
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BURN THE BAND 2008 -Early Entry Dates
2008 Burn the Band Competition starts 4 July 2008.
To encourage early entries
bands can enter for a reduced fee in coming months.
Now till to 13 March R100
14 March to 27 March R150
28 March to 10 April R200
11 April to 24 April R250
25 April to 8 May
R300
9 May to 22 May R350
23 May to 5 June R400
6 June to 20 June R450
The draw for slots is done on Friday 27 June and the competition starts
the following Friday. Bands will not be able to use any bought vote
strategy by offering a freebie for a vote.
www.burn.co.za for more info
Issue 4.5:Cover Story: Every Time I Die
Interviews: Wickhead (in the USA) Profiles: Bhora - Win Battle of Tributes for second time. Mind Assult - release album. Reviews, Live reviews, stand-up news, DVD reviews.Features: The Rising End of Hardcore (RSA). Joy Division's Control. Soothsaying on:Slipknot, Biffly Clyro, Enter Shakari, Masterdon, The Cavala Conspiracy & Green Day. Plus more in the magazine.
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