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Whitesnake signs a deal with Frontiers Records HYPNO5E announces 2nd month of Metal as Art Tour with Starring Janet Leigh (Fallen Martyr) The Vital Might: Red Planet Legendary guitarist and inventor Les Paul dies at the age of 94 His Music Will Live Forever...
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Lynyrd Skynyrd Video Interview & Performance From Berlin - Watch as Lynyrd Skynyrd's Rickey Medlocke and Gary Rossington talk about their latest album God & Guns and play a few tunes off the album acoustic for Berlin's more-metal.com.
Soulfly Video Shoot Set For Poughkeepsie Stop on Tour - As Soulfly continue on their North American tour preceding the release of their upcoming 7th full length Omen, the band has announced that they are filming a video for the new track "Rise of the Fallen" at their stop in Poughkeepsie, NY next week.
The band and crew under the direction of Dale Resteghini will immortalize rabid Soulfly fans already attending the show as they perform the song live at The Chance on Wednesday, March 17th. Get your tickets to this show to be part of the magic right here!
Can't make this one? Then catch Soulfly on their remaining tour dates now and watch bassist Bobby Burns' behind-the-scenes videos from this currerent stint as they unfold right here. Dommin Discuss Love is Gone With The Gauntlet - Los Angeles quartet Dommin have just released their darkly romantic debut album Love is Gone, and it's been a long time coming. In this interview with The Gauntlet, frontman Kristofer Dommin addresses all of that and more.
Says Dommin,  "I find romantic to be a weird word to use considering it isn't a positive spin on love, on this record anyway. In the sense of romantic, as far as super passionate and extremely emotional, I would absolutely agree."
As for the making of the full-length, Kris goes on that, "It's been a long time in the making. The music and the album have been done for over a year now. It's just been a lot of set up time. It was originally supposed to come out in May of 2009 and some things changed with it. It got pushed back for various different reasons. It's actually been a really good thing."
On the album, the band worked with producer Lucas Banker, of which Dommin says, "Lucas is basically the guy who discovered us. He came across a demo that I had. I had been in other bands and I would always pass my demo around in the bands that I was in. Somehow through a weird twist of fate, someone who knew him passed my demo along to him. Ever since we started working together, we started writing songs together."
Continued Kris, "He is probably our biggest fan. In a lot of ways he has seen this whole thing grow and in some ways he has a better idea of what Dommin is more than anybody. When I first met him, I gave him between 70 to 80 demo songs. He already knows the direction we are going and what we are capable of. He has the big picture. A lot of people don't totally understand what Dommin is until they have heard more than just a few songs. The entire first album is not the complete picture. Hopefully, when we put out other records, you are going to see other sides to the band."
Read what else Kris had to say about the making of Love is Gone, and get your copy of the stunning debut RIGHT HERE!
Dommin will be on tour with HIM in the US later this month. Check the tour dates and get your tickets now!Mutiny Within's Story So Far: Episode 5 - Mutiny Within signed their contract with Roadrunner in late 2008, thus beginning their long road to release in 2010. But now that their self-titled debut is out, the band is letting fans in on their journey with these weekly webisodes that were filmed along the way, dubbed The Story So Far.
We met fun-loving keyboardist Drew Stavola last week, but this week, we're watching his alter-ego "Drewl" in action!
Watch the fun below, and don't miss your chance to get the melodic metallers' crushing debut for only $5 RIGHT HERE!
Slipknot's Clown Gets 'Exposure' on Noisecreep - In his recurring series on Noisecreep, Clown Exposure, Slipknot's Shawn "Clown" Crahan showcases his love of the visual arts through photography.
Writes Noisecreep contributor Jon Weiderhorn, "One man's junk is another man's jewelry. That's the premise for this week's 'Clown Exposure' photo by Slipknot percussionist Shawn 'Clown' Crahan. The image is a drainpipe bolted to the cement and rusted over time. The shot is distorted around the edges by Clown's Polaroid manipulation technique, but the picture is pretty much intact. Only where most see a boring drainpipe, the photographer envisions something entirely different."
Clown tells Noisecreep, "I wanted to make it look like this big metal thing is walking... But you got this big brown spots coming from the seams. That's where water is getting through the gutter. Do you know how many years that would take? That's years and years and years of conditioning. Then, I do a little treatment to it. I pull the Polaroid. I got the sun up there in top left. Boom, I have something special to me."
Read the artist's whole account right here. Pop & Rock news by RollingStone:
The Secrets Behind the Rolling Stones' "Exile on Main Street" Reissue -
Mick Jagger and Keith Richards reevaluate their classic 1972 double album
Get the full story on the never-before-heard tracks on the Rolling Stone's upcoming Exile on Main Street reissue in our new issue, on stands now.
In the new issue of Rolling Stone, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards talk about plundering their vaults for the
Spring Music Preview 2010 -
From MGMT to Erykah Badu, a first listen to 2010's hottest albums
From Katy Perry and Stone Temple Pilots to MGMT and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, some of 2010's most anticipated albums are hitting stores this season. Big debuts from Court Yard Hounds and Drake are due, along with eagerly awaited releases by Christina Aguilera, Hole, the Hold Steady and Gaslight Anthem. Read up on 38 of the spring's discs, plus get your first listen to new tunes from Jakob Dylan, Willie Nelson and Peter Wolf, and watch exclusive performances and sneak peeks featuring fre...
Lil Wayne Goes to Jail -
Up all night with hip-hop's unstoppable machine as he prepares to spend the next year behind bars
This story was originally published in February 2010. Since then, Lil Wayne's sentencing has been postponed two times. For the latest on his developing case, click here.
"I don't like to stop," says Lil Wayne. "I believe you stop when you die." The biggest rapper in the world stands 23 floors above Atlanta and five feet six in black Chuck Taylors, his wifebeater tee baring a torso as ink-covered as the pages of a doodler's notebook. It's 8:30 p.m., two days after Christmas, and he will be up...
Post-Paula Depression -
The unthinkable has happened - by losing Paula's craziness, and with Simon heading for the door, "American Idol" feels like it has finally reached the end of its run
How do you replace Paula Abdul? You don't. That's no knock on Ellen DeGeneres — it's just that absurd Hollywood creatures like Paula are rare and precious flukes of the universe, like the Loch Ness monster in sequined capri pants. Without Paula, American Idol loses its crazy factor, the suspenseful thrill that you're never more than a few minutes away from seeing a grade-A display of batshit antics on live TV. And what is American Idol without a dose of crazy?
Sending Ellen in to...
The Yoga Cult -
How a Korean guru has created a fanatical following on college campuses that is part Moonies, part New Age boot camp and pure profit
Read a rebuttal to Rolling Stone's Dahn Yoga story by Joseph Alexander, the Vice President-Communications for Dahn Yoga & Health Centers — plus RS' response.
If you looked at it from a certain perspective, the exercises Amy Shipley did in Dahn Yoga were perfectly normal. Take what she was doing right now. It was near midnight. Amy and seven other devotees of Dahn Yoga — nearly all in their 20s, clad in blue tracksuits and barely functioning on three hours of sleep — were...
General music news by Yahoo:
Pink Floyd wins battle with EMI over online sales
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- AP - In a victory for the concept album, Britain's High Court has ordered record company EMI Group Ltd. to stop selling downloads of Pink Floyd tracks individually rather than as part of the band's original albums.Pink Floyd wins UK court battle with EMI label
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- Reuters - British rock band Pink Floyd on Thursday won a court battle with EMI in a ruling that prevents the record company from selling single downloads on the internet from the group's concept albums.Girlicious band member arrested in Calif.
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-  AP - Police say a member of the pop group Girlicious was arrested after Glendale officers found more than a dozen plastic bags of cocaine in her Gucci purse during a traffic stop.
'Big Mike' draws tears, cheers on 'American Idol'
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-  AP - Michael "Big Mike" Lynche made Kara DioGuardi cry and turned the rest of the "American Idol" judges giddy with a moving performance of "This Woman's Work."
Census campaign targets tech-savvy Hispanic youth
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- AP - Groups pushing for robust Hispanic participation in the 2010 census announced a new campaign Thursday that aims to reach the hard-to-count demographic through its smart-phone-toting youngsters.
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[Miscellaneous Music Industry News]
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