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Welcome to the Monsters of Rock... Kicking Your Ass for 10 Years
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Iron Maiden Storms North America and Europe with Tour |
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Written by Earl Blackheart
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Thursday, 04 March 2010 14:58 |
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From the Iron Maiden website:
 IRON MAIDEN are pleased to announce that their forthcoming new studio album will be called 'THE FINAL FRONTIER', and is expected be released late summer of this year.
The announcement comes with news of a North American Tour with Very Special Guests Dream Theater to open in Dallas, Texas, on 9th June and finish in Washington D.C. on 20th July, making it Maiden's most extensive North American tour in many years. Following these shows in USA and Canada The Final Frontier World Tour will travel back to Europe for a few selected major festival and stadium shows with the band planning to continue to many other countries in 2011 (full currently confirmed dates below). The full Live Nation North America press release for the North American Tour is posted here. An exclusive pre-sale allowing members of the IRON MAIDEN fan club first access to tickets to the North American Maiden Shows will be made available two days prior to them being available to the public. Tickets for the Canadian shows will go on sale to the public on Saturday 13th March at 10am PST (10am EST for Toronto and 12 noon EST Montreal). Exclusive first access to the tickets will be available to IM fan club members on Wednesday 10th March at 10am PST through to Thursday 11th March at 6pm PST (EST for Toronto). Regretfully due to technical reasons an exclusive Pre-Sale in Montreal is not possible. Tickets for the US Shows will go on sale to the public on Saturday 20th March at 10am EST. Exclusive first access to the tickets will be available to IM fan club members on Wednesday 17th March at 10am EST through to Thursday 18th March at 6pm EST As IRON MAIDEN are actively dedicated to ensuring their fans always have access to the best possible tickets at the fairest possible price, without being subject to scalping for good seats, so many North American shows will operate, at least in part, a paperless ticket policy: More information on Ticketmaster Paperless Ticketing can be found here. To give IRON MAIDEN fan club members a privileged insight to their touring world, IMTV will return to www.ironmaiden.com to cover THE FINAL FRONTIER WORLD TOUR. This exclusive footage includes regular video from the live shows, touring, band interviews, insights into our crew and what they do and much much more. The website will also feature exclusive tour diaries, exclusive photographs and anything else that helps the fans get a real insight into the dynamics of a big tour. **THE FINAL FRONTIER 2010 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR** With Very Special Guests Dream Theater June Wed 09 Dallas, TX - Superpages.com Center Fri 11 Houston, TX - Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion Sat 12 San Antonio, TX - AT&T Center Mon 14 Denver, CO - Comfort Dental Amphitheatre Web 16 Albuquerque, NM - The Pavilion Thur 17 Phoenix, AZ - Cricket Wireless Pavilion Sat 19 San Bernardino, CA - San Manuel Amphitheatre Sun 20 Concord, CA - Sleep Train Pavilion Tue 22 Auburn, WA - White River Amphitheatre Thur 24 Vancouver, BC - GM Place Sat 26 Edmonton, AB - Rexall Place Tue 29 Saskatoon, SK - Credit Union Center Wed 30 Winnipeg, MB - MTS Center +
+Dream Theater will not be performing in Winnipeg JULY Sat 03 Toronto, ON - Molson Amphitheatre Wed 07 Montreal, QC - Bell Centre Sun 11 Holmdel, NJ - PNC Mon 12 New York, NY - Madison Square Garden Wed 14 Pittsburgh, PA - First Niagra Pavilion Thur 15Cleveland, OH - Blossom Music Center Sat 17 Detroit, MI - DTE Energy Music Theatre Sun 18 Chicago, IL - First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre Tue 20 Washington D.C. - Jiffy Lube Live
**THE FINAL FRONTIER 2010 EUROPEAN TOUR** AUGUST Thur 05 Germany - Wacken Festival Sat 07 Sweden - Stockholm Stora Skuggan Sonisphere Festival Sun 08 Finland - Helsinki Pori's Kirjurinluoto Sonisphere Festival Wed 11 Norway- Bergen Bergenhus Festning - Koengen
For More information, check out www.ironmaiden.com. |
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Last Updated on Thursday, 04 March 2010 15:14 |
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Alice Cooper and Rob Zombie to Tour Together Starting in April |
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Written by Earl Blackheart
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Monday, 22 February 2010 00:00 |
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It’s a bill that fans of horror and hard rock could only dream of until now: For the first time ever, the “gruesome twosome” - Alice Cooper and Rob Zombie - will play an exclusive limited run of North American tour dates beginning April 26th at the MTS Center in Winnipeg, MB. Rob Zombie commented, “The dream or nightmare comes true! Me and The Coop have been talking about touring together for about 15 years and finally the moment is here. This will be without a doubt a Rock ‘N’ Roll Spooktacular for all the Cool Ghouls”. Alice Cooper added, “I'm looking forward to these concerts with Rob. It's sort of like Dracula vs. Frankenstein, we're like this generation’s classic monsters. When we're not onstage frightening audiences, we'll be backstage trying to scare each other.” Tickets go on sale tomorrow (February 23rd) The Gruesome Twosome Tour dates currently include: - 4/26 - Winnipeg, MB - MTS Centre
- 4/27 - Saskatoon, SK - Credit Union
- 4/28 - Edmonton, AB - Rexall Place
- 4/29 - Calgary, AB - Corral
- 5/1 - Vancouver, BC - Pacific Coliseum
- 5/2 - Kennewick, WA - Toyota Center
- 5/4 - Casper, WY - Casper Events Center
Stay tuned for more dates. |
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 23 February 2010 22:02 |
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Ratt Releases Single from their upcoming CD, "Infestation", Cover Art Revealed. |
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Written by Earl Blackheart
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Wednesday, 03 February 2010 14:43 |
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 Californian hard rock veterans Ratt will release their new album, "Infestation", on April 20 via Loud & Proud/Roadrunner Records.
"Best Of Me", the first single from "Infestation", is available for streaming in its entirety using the player below. The track is available digitally at Amazon.com. Other songtitles set to appear on the CD include "Look Out Below", "A Little Too Much" and "Garden Of Eden".
Ratt vocalist Stephen Pearcy recently told AOL's Noisecreep about "Best Of Me", "You always think the grass is greener on the other side, but in fact it isn't. So you're letting someone know 'you're the best thing I got, but I had to go fuck around to figure it out.' It's one of those you-don't-know-what-you-got-'till-it's-gone kind of things. With me, I go through this shit every day. I'm married one day, then I'm not, but I am."
The band's first studio CD in 10 years, "Infestation" was produced by Michael "Elvis" Baskette, whose credits include Puddle of Mud, Chevelle, Saliva, Limp Bizkit, Alter Bridge and Three Days Grace, to name a few. The effort — which has been described by singer Stephen Pearcy as a cross between 1984's "Out Of The Cellar" and 1985's "Invasion Of Your Privacy" — marked the first time the group had stepped outside of Los Angeles to track a new CD in 20-plus years.
"The best part was having pre-production in Virginia, and getting away from our families and our personal shit and the L.A. scene," Pearcy told AOL's Noisecreep. "While we were recording, we actually all lived in the same compound. It was great. It was the first time we had ever done that. It was almost like when we lived in a one bedroom apartment we called Ratt Mansion West back in the old days."
Regarding the recording process, drummer Bobby Blotzer told Noisecreep, "It was a great experience, but there are always speed bumps in Ratt. It's never an easy job to get to the finish line. We're kind of a dysfunctional bunch in the way that we work. It's not an English tea party. It's more like a pirate ship with a bunch of salty dogs. We work hard, we play hard, and it makes the aggression in the music come out more. But when we finally get where we're going, it makes the ride more rewarding."
On the subject of Carlos Cavazo's (Quiet Riot) addition to Ratt, Pearcy said, "He's perfect for the band. He co-wrote a couple songs and he plays like a motherfucker on this thing. Great live, great guy and great integrity for what he does. And as far as the double solos thing goes, he and Warren (DeMartini) knew exactly what they were doing. It was like the old days."
"Playing together was just like being old friends hanging out," Cavazo said. "Doing the record was fun and very easy. It was one of the easiest records I've recorded in my life. No one was arguing or yelling at each other in the studio. It went really smooth."
You can purchase the single "Best of Me" exclusively at Amazon.com. 
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 03 February 2010 14:48 |
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Hell Freezes Over: George Lynch Says he is back with Dokken -- or NOT--UPDATED |
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Written by Earl Blackheart
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Tuesday, 23 February 2010 21:51 |
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Updated with this statement from George Lynch: Guitarist George Lynch, is in damage control mode these days and wants to retract any of his earlier statements concerning the band Dokken and referencing about them getting back together with all original members. According to George Lynch News, George apologizes for being pre-emptive and just simply misspoke in his excitement. "We are TALKING about a possible reunion for 2011, but it’s still in early stages!", George says. Originally posted Earlier this week: On Sunday February 21st, guitarist George Lynch was interviewed on-air by WSCA 106.1 FM's Turn It Up host Jim Alvino. Topics discussed included the new albums by Souls Of We and Lynch Mob, songwriting, recording with other artists, and the live shows that Lynch Mob was the opener for Dokken. The discussion of songwriting led Lynch to reveal that he has been writing songs for a new Dokken album with the classic 1980s lineup. To dig deeper into how this came together, Alvino asked if the live shows prompted this reunion. Turn It Up: The shows that you did at the end of last year, with Lynch Mob opening for Dokken, and at the end the classic lineup of Dokken playing together again, has that now blown up into that lineup working together again? George Lynch: "Yes, actually it has. And that's something that isn't gonna happen for a little while. We all have our respective commitments, meaning Jeff, Mick, Don and myself are all real busy this year doing other things. But we've all made a commitment to each other to dedicate ourselves to getting back together. We've already got three songs on the table and we're gonna continue to write throughout the year and put the whole business together and probably go in the studio late fall or early winter of this year and then have a record out toward late spring of next year, and then hit the road." There has been no official comment on this as of yet from any of the other original members of Dokken, including Don Dokken. |
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Last Updated on Thursday, 25 February 2010 14:15 |
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Judas Priest and AC/DC Win Grammy's Tonight |
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Written by Earl Blackheart
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Sunday, 31 January 2010 18:27 |
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 Judas Priest was honored with a Grammy in the "Best Metal Performance" category in the pre-telecast ceremony at the 52nd annual Grammy Awards, which are being held tonight (Sunday, January 31) at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Judas Priest was nominated for the track "Dissident Aggressor", from the band's 2009 live album "A Touch of Evil: Live". The band's lead vocalist Rob Halford and drummer Scott Travis accepted the award at the event.
In his acceptance speech, Halford said, "The fifth time is the charm." According to AOL's Noisecreep, he mentioned that Priest have been making metal for 25 years and that they still love what they do. He also remembered to thank all the radio stations and press that have supported the band, and he dedicated the award to all heavy metal fans. AC/DC also won an Grammy for Best Hard Rock Performance for "War Machine", from their cd "Black Ice". |
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 03 February 2010 14:52 |
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