Music News for Monday, November 28, 2011

Good morning fellow rockers!  I trust and hope the weekend was relaxing for all of you.  Today has proven to be a busy day in the music world.  Here is what has been making [AFGM] headlines over the past few days.

Circle of Contempt has dropped some new material in the form of a lyric video entitled "Entwine The Threads":

Circle of Contempt - Entwine The Threads (Lyric Video)

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Bassist and vocalist of Rush, Geddy Lee, now has a wine scholarship added in his name to Niagara College.

For a lucky and enthusiastic student, Grapes for Humanity Canada has committed $26,500 towards the wine scholarship, which will be matched by the Ontario provincial government ("The income will be used to provide an annual scholarship for a student in the second year of Niagara College’s Wine and Viticulture Technician programme who intends to pursue a career path in winemaking after graduation.")

For a little bit of a hisory lesson, Lee put together two trips for wine lovers to Tawse Winery in Niagara in September, 2009 and to Huff Estate Winery in Prince Edward County last September.  These trips (along with the sale of Rush memorabilia) have raised over CAN$350,000 for Grapes for Humanity Canada.

You can read the rest of the article here.

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Todd Kearns and the Sin City Sinners have also released their first Christmas video, "Rockin Around The Christmas Tree".  Cool piece of info, the video was made entirely on an iPad2:

Sin City Sinners - Rockin Around The Christmas Tree

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Mike Skinner & The Streets said their final goodbyes at The BIG Reunion festival in Skegness, Lincolnshire, UK.  The group had a farewell crowd of just over 7,500 fans as thy played their last tunes of the decade.

The band's front man, Mike Skinner also celebrated his birthday on the same day. It was an emotional farewell as the band and their production team enjoyed a drink on stage with their fans!  Cheers to a decade long career, ending on a high note.

(Dry Your Eyes)

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POD (Payable on Death) is back on the map again with their upcoming LP release, and now a new music video from the track "On Fire":

POD - On Fire

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A great chuckle on a Monday morning here.  Last week, Chris Martin and Coldplay had to stop their song "The Scientist" (during their performance at Mencap’s Little Noise Sessions) when a female fan in the audience decided to join in and play tambourine.  Martin, unfortunately, had to halt the song as the tambourine started to interfere with the performance.

With big as polite as he could, Martin told the female fan, 'I don't mean to be rude, this is not a tambourine song'.

He added, 'don't take this to be some kind of anti-tambourine rally or rant against the tambourine. It's one of my favourite instruments.'

The show continued nonetheless without tambourine.  You can read the full review of the show here.

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So have you heard who will be a headliner for the (possibly) the world's best metal festival?

(drum roll...)

None other than Sweden's own IN FLAMES!

You can head over to WoA's website for all the juicy details, but here is who is set to play alongside In Flames this year:

AMON AMARTH, CORONER, CRADLE OF FILTH, DARK FUNERAL, DIMMU BORGIR (with orchestra), ENDSTILLE, FORBIDDEN, GAMMA RAY, HAMMERFALL, IN EXTREMO, DANKO JONES (*SPOKEN WORD), MACHINE HEAD, MINISTRY, MOONSPELL (with orchestra), NAPALM DEATH, OPETH, PARADISE LOST, AXEL RUDI PELL, HENRY ROLLINS (spoken work engagement), SATURNIAN, SCORPIONS, SICK OF IT ALL, SIX FEET UNDER, SUICIDE SILENCE, U.D.O. (Birthday Party), VOLBEAT, WATAIN, WINTERFYLLETH.

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And as always folks, you can head over to AFGM Facebook for even more news, video, photos, etc.  Cheers!