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Phoenix, AZ pop-rock band Anarbor (www.myspace.com/anarbor) has been canvassing the country with Cute Is What We Aim For, Breathe Carolina, Meg & Dia and Every Avenue, as part of the 2009 Sub City Take Action Tour, Presented by FYE, and as this year’s trek winds down April 1 in Cincinnati, OH the boys [...]

Duff McKagan’s Loaded have just premiered the video for “Flatline,” the first single from their forthcoming album, Sick. The band features McKagan, the former Guns N’ Roses and current Velvet Revolver bassist on vocals and guitar. This clip features the high flying camera work of Director Thomas Mignone, who is [...]

Last weekend at the South By Southwest Festival in Austin, TX, New York rockers BLACK WATER RISING won the High Times Doobie Award for “Best Rock/Alternative Artist,” beating out such tough competition as Staind, Eagles of Death Metal, The Mars Volta, Danko Jones, and Warrior Soul. The award was presented to the band by Doug [...]

Italian hard-rockers LACUNA COIL have just premiered the video for “Spellbound” on www.ArtistDirect.com today. The clip was directed by Saku and filmed at the Dolce & Gabbana Gold restaurant in Milan, Italy.
Cristina Scabbia (vocals) comments: “We had a great time shooting the video for ‘Spellbound’ and it also marks our [...]

Hollywood hair metal dreamers Steel Panther have launched an all out attack on the pop mainstream with their newest video “Death to All But Metal”. Asserting their alpha male dominance with plenty of hairspray, spandex, and sick stage moves, Steel Panther have taken shots against anyone NOT flying the hair metal flag.

It’s not summer until the Vans Warped Tour® Presented by AT&T begins.  The annual punk rock extravaganza celebrates its 15th anniversary this year, and organizers are promising the most memorable jaunt yet for North America’s longest-running touring festival. The 46-date tour commences June 26 in Pomona, CA and finishes August 23 in Carson, CA [...]

Jenny Owen Youngs is back with her second album, Transmitter Failure due May 26. This record is a bold departure from her 2007 release Batten The Hatches, which thrust Youngs into the spotlight (and won her a record deal with Nettwerk) when her song “Fuck Was I” was featured on the [...]

MASTODON will take part in an in-store signing session and performance in Atlanta, Georgia on Tuesday, March 24 at 8:30 p.m. at Criminal Records. The band will be promoting their new album, Crack the Skye, which hits stores this week on Reprise Records.  The set will also be streamed live [...]

Featuring remixes from Acid Girls, CFCF, Pink Skull, Narctrax, and more, these tracks take HEALTH’s ethereal chanting, screeching noise, and gauzy atmosphere and forcefully apply them to the dance floor. The CD also contains an enhanced data portion with even more remixes from The Mae Shi, Captain Ahab, and others.

Denver-based rock trio Single File are set to release Common Struggles, their full length debut, on April 7th. “The title Common Struggles says it all – I’m not pretending that any of what I’ve dealt with is new, it’s just the human condition,” says lead vocalist/guitarist/bassist Sloan Anderson, explaining the [...]