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Even though an official announcement has not been made yet, Norma Jean, Oh, Sleeper, Stray From The Path and Lower Than Atlantis are preparing for a new tour together and will feature support from memphis May Fire and Close Your Eyes.
Initial dates for the run are as follows:
12/02 Austin, TX – Emo’s East
12/03 Corpus Christi, TX – House Of Rock (feat. Close Your Eyes)
12/05 El Paso, TX – Tricky Falls (feat. Close Your Eyes)
12/06 Tempe, AZ – The Clubhouse (feat. Close Your Eyes)
12/07 Lancaster, CA – Industry Theater (feat. Memphis May Fire)
12/09 Fresno, CA – Club Retro (feat. Memphis May Fire)
12/10 Bakersfield, CA – Jerry’s Pizza & Pub (feat. Memphis May Fire)
12/11 West Hollywood, CA – Key Club (feat. Memphis May Fire)
Keep checking back for more dates to come!
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Guns N Roses have made their Canadian touring debut with the announcement of their first Canadian date. Hamilton will play host to GNR on November 28, 2011 @ Copps Coliseum. More dates are most likely to be added, but you can head over to HECFI's website for information regarding this show. Tickets for this event go on sale Saturday @ 10am via Ticketmaster (even though I haven't seen the link for it yet...)
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Sometimes, it really doesn't matter who you know. According to the Michigan Messenger, Anthony Ciccone (older brother of Madonna) has mentioned that he is homeless, living on the streets, being served food by outreach shelters in Traverse City.
“My family turned their back on me, basically, when I was having a hard time. You think I haven’t answered this kind of question a bazillion times — why my sister is a multibazillionarie, and I’m homeless on the street? Never say never. This could happen to anybody.”
“I don’t have any income, I’ve got to go collect bottles and cans, do odd jobs.”
Despite the effort to help the homeless in the community, Ciccone was among several locals who got cold-related injuries last winter.
“They can’t do everything all the time for everybody, they just don’t have the resources,” he said. “These people that run these things are all volunteers, they don’t get paid to do these things.”
Hopefully this was a little insight to the extreme weather of living on the streets, regardless of who you know. Maybe this will be a wake up call for some to give back to the community these coming holidays.
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Chris Cornell will release an acoustic album of his best songs (over various projects) in November. The album titled 'Songbook' will be the accompanying album of the live tour Chris is currently doing around the world.
'Songbook' will feature songs he has been performing, including songs from Soundgarden, Audioslave, Temple of the Dog and his solo records. As well, covers from Led Zeppelin and John Lennon.
The tracklisting is:
1. As Hope and Promise Fade
2. Scar On The Sky
3. Call Me A Dog
4. Ground Zero
5. Can't Change Me
6. I Am The Highway
7. Thank You (Led Zeppelin)
8. Cleaning My Gun
9. Wide Awake
10. Fell On Black Days
11. All Night Thing
12. Doesn't Remind Me
13. Like A Stone
14. Black Hole Sun
15. Imagine (John Lennon)
16. The Keeper
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It don't matter who you are, you will get tackled if you're in the way of this security guard. Last night at the Club Nokia in LA, lead singer Joey Belladonna (Anthrax) was caught in the middle of a take down after a fan rushed on stage during Antrax's performance. You can watch all the action below:
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As if you thought Metallica wasn't big enough, the boys are now planning their new multi media move. Metallica has plans to create and produce a self financed 3D film. The band has reportedly hired producer Charlotte Huggins to assist them with getting the project underway. Huggins has worked on such 3D films as Journey to the Center of the Earth and the sequel Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (completed).
Now all the band is looking for is a director, so big names beware! All other details are still in the early stages but I'm sure more news will surface very soon about this project as LULU starts to wrap up its recording and mastering process.
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Matt Heafy (Trivium) is one of the few young musicians that would have the stones to acoustically cover Iron Maiden. The boys from Trivium did the cover at The Buzz Lounge on October 21, 2011. You can check out the video below:
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Unfortunately for Mayer fans, the singer has had to cancel a slew of dates off his tour and is on doctor's order to have complete vocal rest. Mayer did however have to go under the knife fo the ongoing throat problems.
Mayer was diagnosed with granuloma (throat inflammation) just above his vocal cord last month and has been ordered to take complete vocal rest for at least a month after the surgery.
"I wanted to give you an update on the granuloma just above my vocal cord, I had surgery this afternoon to remove it and am now on complete vocal rest for a month or more. It's been a very long process in waiting to see if time was an alternative to surgery, but even given two weeks' voice rest (along with many other approaches), there was no change for the better." -John Mayer via Tumblr
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Like Moths to Flames dropped their lyric video for "GNF", their latest single off their debut record "When We Don't Exist", due in stores on November 11th, 2011 via Nuclear Blast Records:
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Epica's Simone Simon has recently announced her plans to auction off one of her stage outfits. The proceed will go towards Pink Ribbon, a Dutch organization that supports victims of breast cancer. The auction ends on October 31st. You can follow the eBay link here.
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Winds of Plague dropped their new music video "Refined In The Fire", taken from their latest album "Against The World". You can check out the video below:
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And to end on a happy note, here is a great clip of Elvis Costello jamming with Cookie Monster and Elmo:
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