February 2012
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Hard Rock Hell 2012
2012’s Hard Rock Hell Festival will have a special Spaghetti Western theme and take place between Nov 29th - Dec 3rd. The Winter Rock Festival which takes place at Pontins, Prestatyn, N.Wales, will feature Ace Frehley alongside southern veterans Molly Hatchet, Blackfoot and Skinny Molly. The Dogs D’Amour plus LA Guns featuring Phil Lewis and Steve Riley are also set to play....
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MxPx - Plans Without Plans Coming Soon via Flix
Pop-Punk trio MxPx will release their new album ‘Plans Within Plans’ via Flix Records on April 3rd. The band just unveiled the first single ‘Far Away’ as a download single through ITunes & Co. Watch the video here:
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Guns N' Roses UK Tour
Guns N’ Roses have announced a UK and Ireland tour due to take place in May. Dates are:
The O2 Dublin, IE Thu 17/05/12 Capital FM Arena Nottingham Sat 19/05/12 Liverpool Echo Arena Sun 20/05/12 Metro Radio Arena Newcastle Upon Tyne, Wed 23/05/12 SECC Glasgow, Fri 25/05/12 LG Arena Birmingham, Sat 26/05/12 Manchester Arena Tue 29/05/12 The O2 London, Thu 31/05/12
Tickets are available...
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Twenty Twenty Join PledgeMusic
Twenty Twenty have announced that they’ve joined forces with PledgeMusic for their forthcoming album. The band have set up a page at http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/twentytwenty where you can pledge money for signed copies of the album as well as many other delights such as a £10 2012 Christmas card from the band, £10 guitar plectrum or a £10 phone call from the band. There are...
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Phil X - Playing Better Guitar (Masterclass Video)
Masterclass Video is the name of a new company that plans to bring out a series of instructional videos for musicians. Bill Bates, founder of Masterclass Video, has enlisted the help of Phil X (known for his Fretted Americana videos as well as session work and performing) for the first video - ‘Playing Better Guitar’ - which will be released in early March. Bill says:
Phil and I are...
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Tyketto's Danny Vaughan in UK
Tyketto frontman Danny Vaughan will be in the UK in April and May performing in an Eagles tribute band - Ultimate Eagles. Check out the tour dates via the below poster. Prior to the UK the band will be in the rest of Europe - see www.ultimateeagles.com for more info.
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Destine To Release 2nd Album in UK
Destine will be releasing their second album, ‘Illuminate’, on 30th April in the UK via Rude Records/Plastic Head. The album was recorded in Florida, USA by James Paul Wisner, who also previously produced their successful debut album ‘Lightspeed’. Multi-platinum award winning producer David Bendeth (All Time Low/Paramore) was also involved with the mixing of a selection...
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Theory Of A Deadman Opening Band Winners
The winners of the Theory Of A Deadman opening band competition have been announced. The bands that will share the stage with Theory Of A Deadman (and The Crave) are:
22 Feb, Northumbria – My Lost Youth
23 Feb, Glasgow – Constellations
24 Feb, Manchester – The Fallen
26 Feb, Nottingham – DAOR
27 Feb, Birmingham – Octane OK
Congrats boys!
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Sonisphere 2012
Sonisphere 2012 has been announced to take place on July 6th - 8th at Knebworth.
Bands announced so far are:
KISS (EUROPEAN EXCLUSIVE)
QUEEN (FEATURING ADAM LAMBERT)
FAITH NO MORE
EVANESCENCE
MARILYN MANSON
INCUBUS
WITHIN TEMPTATION
WOLFMOTHER
MASTODON
ANDREW W.K.
FLOGGING MOLLY
LACUNA COIL
GOJIRA
SWITCHFOOT
GHOST
KATATONIA
REFUSED
THE DARKNESS
CYPRESS HILL
THE BLACKOUT
FIELDS OF THE NEPHILIM
I...
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The Used UK Tour
The Used will play the following shows in April to support the release of new album ‘Vulnerable’.
April 24th - Glasgow King Tuts Wah Wah Hut
April 25th - Manchester Academy 3
April 26th - Birmingham O2 Academy2
April 27th - London O2 Academy Islington
Tickets can be ordered from HMV - http://www.hmvtickets.com/events/5648 VIP tickets include early entrance and signed CD.
The shows follow...
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Josh Portman Joins Yellowcard
Yellowcard have announced their new bassist will be Josh Portman. The band wrote on their official website:
Hello friends. As you may know, Sean O’Donnell has decided to leave Yellowcard due to personal reasons. You can read a message from him written to you all here. We are all sad to see him go, but we completely understand his need to make this incredibly difficult decision. With that...
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Billy Talent Cancel Groezrock Appearance
Billy Talent have cancelled their appearance at Groezrock Festival in April due to drummer Aaron Solowoniuk recovering from open-heart surgery. Aaron wrote on Facebook:
I never thought I would have to write another letter like this. In March of 2006, I wrote a letter telling you all I have MS. Now I am writing to tell you that I have a problem with my heart that needed to be fixed. On Feb...
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Bullets And Octane cancel UK Tour
Bullets And Octane have announced that they’ve unfortunately had to cancel their forthcoming UK tour that was due to take place next month. They write on facebook:
It is with great sadness and regret that due to unforeseen circumstances, Bullets and Octane will not be able to tour the UK in March this year. We are devastated that a recent turn of events, all of which have been beyond...
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Slam Dunk 2012
Slam Dunk have announced a number of bands that will play in this year’s festival. Held on May 26th at Leeds University and May 27th at the University of Hertfordshire in Hatfield this will be the 7th annual Slam Dunk. Bands currently announced are:
Taking Back Sunday (headliners) Architects Every Time I Die Cancer Bats Set Your Goals Make Do And Mend The King Blues Mayday Parade Forever...
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Rock Am Ring / Rock Im Park 2012
Rock Am Ring / Rock Im Park is looking pretty good for 2012. Bands announced so far include:
Anthrax
As I Lay Dying
Billy Talent
Boyce Avenue
Donots
Dropkick Murphys
Enter Shikari
Evanescence
Halestorm
Kasabian
Killswitch Engage
Lamb Of God
Linkin Park
Lower Than Atlantis
Machine Head
Marilyn Manson
Mastodon
Maximo Park
Metallica
Motörhead
Opeth
Refused...
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A Valentine's Gift From Black Velvet
If you didn’t get any Valentine’s cards or gifts today, fear not, we’re giving you the chance to have a free copy of Black Velvet 71 dropping through your letterbox instead. It won’t get there by today, since it’s today already… but soon!
All you have to do is go to www.facebook.com/blackvelvetmag and tell us why we should send you one (if you haven’t...
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Pledge for Nikki Sixx
Well… your pledge won’t get you Nikki Sixx, but Nikki wants you to pledge money over on Kickstarter.com to fund a movie that he will start in. Called SHOOT’ER, the film ‘explores the fine line between being human and fulfilling your objectives’. It will star Trent Ford who will play Alex, a skilled shooter, and Sarah McNeilly, who flirts her way into his mind. Nikki...
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No Americana - Wax Poetic Video
Check out No Americana’s debut video for ‘Wax Poetic’ below. The video was shot by director Ben Thornley (Fightstar, Young Guns) and his team in a storage facility in a business park in Bolton. A construction of Perspex sheets, which were suspended above and around the band, was assembled ready to rain icy cold water on the band below - resulting in drummer Dan Taylor...
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Bonfire To Release EP in Collaboration with PETA
German rockers Bonfire are releasing a six track EP entitled ‘Cry For Help’. If you pre-order the CD you’ll be in with a chance to win an autographed guitar from Dimavery Claus signed by all Bonfire bandmembers and used at Masters Of Rock in Augsburg. The CD costs 10 Euros and will come autographed. For every CD, 1 Euro goes directly to animal rights organisation PETA.
Order...
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Storm Corrosion Sign To Roadrunner Records
Roadrunner Records have signed Storm Corrosion, a collaboration between Porcupine Tree’s Steven Wilson and Mikael Åkerfeldt of Opeth. The pair have been friends since the late ‘90s, when Wilson co-produced Opeth’s ‘Blackwater Park’ album. Over the years, they’d spoken of working on a project together, but it wasn’t until recently that they managed to make something happen.
A self-titled...
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Open for Theory Of A Deadman
In a band? Win a chance to open for Theory Of A Deadman at a show near you on their UK and European tour.
To enter, head over to http://www.roadrunnerrecords.co.uk/theoryofadeadman/contest/ and fill in the details, giving a link to your band profile and a song, while stating which city you’d like to play.
The full list of tour dates is at the above link and run from Newcastle on February...
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Motley Crue
Today (February 3rd) sees Motley Crue kicking off the first ever hard rock residency at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas. The mayor of Las Vegas has officially declared it Motley Crue Day. The shows will allow fans many ways to interact with the band such as partnering with Crowdstream to offer fans to use their app to post photos and video direct to Motley facebook page. You can get Crowdstream...
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Sean O'Donnell Leaves Yellowcard
Sean O’Donnell has announced his departure from Yellowcard. The bassist writes on the band’s website, Yellowcardrock.com:
In April of 2010, the 5 of us met up in Los Angeles to play some music, hang out, and talk about the future of the band. I felt privileged to be invited to get to do so, and it was an amazing couple of days. Fast forward a year and a half and we’ve put out two...
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Mateo Camargo
Ex-Madina Lake guitarist Mateo Camargo has posted a video of his new band. Called Little Bitter Cubes, the electronic influenced band are a family three-piece that also features Mateo’s singing sister Maria of the band V For Volume.
Check out their song, ‘Sarah’:
The band are on twitter at www.twitter.com/LBC_Official
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Amy Lee To Receive Women Who Care Award
Evanescence’s Amy Lee is to receive the Luella Bennack Award at United Cerebral Palsy’s 11th Annual Women Who Care Luncheon on May 3rd, 2012, at Cipriani in New York. The Women Who Care Luncheon celebrates women who have blazed new paths and inspired others through their professional and charitable endeavours.
Philanthropist Luella Bennack invested over 20 years of her life to helping...
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Dear Superstar Host Free Album Launch Party
Manchester based Dear Superstar are hosting a free album launch party at Manchester’s Apotheca on Sunday February 12th. The party is to celebrate the launch of their new album ‘Damned Religion’ which hits stores on February 6th. The album was mixed by Bob Marlette (Black Sabbath, Marilyn Manson, Atreyu) and produced by David Jones (better known as Johnny Rocker from...
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Slash, Rise Against, Steel Panther & More Added To...
Download Festival have announced 14 more bands to this year’s festival. Joining in the 10 year anniversary event will be Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and Rise Against who will each headline a day on the second stage… Steel Panther who will be on the main stage… Billy Talent, Five Finger Death Punch, Reckless Love, Terrorvision and more. For the full list, check over at...